Live Wires (1946)

Leo Gorcey: Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney

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• Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : [Sach and Slip inside an ice cream parlor noticing a crowd gathering around someone out in the street]  Looks more like somebody's trying to incite a riot.

  'Sach' Jones : What do you mean inside? The guys outside.

  Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : [Slip turns to Sach]  Whoever said "Ignorance is bliss" must have been talking to you first.

• Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : [hawking a stain remover]  I have here the most contemptible invention ever deceived by the mind of obscure Man. It is the most scientrificly and gastly... gastric, gast, uh, gast... I tell you what I'm gonna do.

  Bobby : You better do SOMETHIN' or I can tell you what this crowd is gonna do.

  Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : Step back, boy, and let the alley cats through.

• Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : Whadda ya think? Everybody can speak English as good as we do?

• Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : All I wanna know is, does it really work - W-O-I-K?

• Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : Do you wanna know somethin'? After a few days of sellin' this stuff, our families will see us as we really are.

  'Sach' Jones : Certainly, on visitors' day.

• Mabel : [checking out the menu at the High Hat Club]  Gee, the prices!

  Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : Don't worry about dat. Money is no objection.

• Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : I can see it all now: "Slip Mahoney, the woman's home companion." Housewives all over the country will put me up on a pedestrian.

• [Slip turns on the radio to drown out Mary's complaints] 

  Mary Mahoney : Stop that noise! How can anyone talk with all that racket?

  Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : You ain't doin' bad!

• Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : That's the trouble with you, always jumpin' to seclusions.

• Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, for your edification, laughin' boy, this Patsy Clark may be a gun moll. It's just possible that some of the slot machine operators or bookies in town may know where she hangs out, so I'm gonna make a long list of names and pursue them in order, what you call a process of illumination.

• Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : [home early from work]  I just decided that deliverin' flowers was no job for a guy with brains, so I quit.

  Mary Mahoney : You quit. Who did you hit THIS time?

  Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : [objecting, but she knows him too well]  What makes you think... Nobody important.

• Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : S'not your type. Better be a little more elaborate about choosing your friends.

• Mary Mahoney : Kind of a jam are you in now?

  Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : There you go. Always ready to think the worst. You're nothin' but a pacifist.

  Mary Mahoney : You mean pessimist.

  Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : I was usin' the past tense.

• Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : [riding along]  I don't wanna sound depreciative, but, uh, I know a few tricks of my own.

  Jeanette : [behind the wheel]  This is so sudden.

  Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : And safe.

  Jeanette : Safe?

  Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : Certainly. Heretofore, the guy would drive along, one arm on the wheel and one on the girl, subsequently running up a telephone pole and killin' everybody in the car, besides gettin' a traffic ticke,; but with this new and approved method passed by the city council, a guy lets a doll do the drivin' and leavin' himself two perfectly free arms to attend to the impertinent business at hand.

• Mary Mahoney : What's the twentieth century problem child cooked up now?

  Terrence 'Slip' Mahoney : Mary, I just made the best investment of my life. This is gigantic. it's-it's colossal. I might even say it's mediocre.