Ghost Chasers (1951)

Leo Gorcey: Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney

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Quotes 

• Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : What about me?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : You stay here. If ya get in any trouble, whistle.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : How do you whistle?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Just pucker your lips and... I'll bash dem in.

• Madame Zola : I run my own business! I take orders from no one!

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : [mimicking]  "I run my own business; I take order from no one."

  [goes to the phone] 

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, maybe you'd like to take orders from the D.A.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : [slips a $100 into Mrs. Parelli's apron pocket snd takes it out]  So you told her you couldn't get the money, huh? Well, um... what's this, cold sausage?

• Madame Zola : Oh, don't turn me in. I... I'm just a poor old lady trying to make a living.

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well that makes us even. I'm just a poor old man tryin' to make a livin'.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : All right, boys, let's disintegrate.

• [first lines] 

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : You gotta remember, Cynthia, dat your voibal denunciation must be in accordance with your facial destruction. Foidamore, you must applicate pear-shaped tones.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Hmm. So dis is where de great Margo makes her habitute.

  Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : Exactly.

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Remember, Louie, if Margo asks you what side of the cardiac you was born under, tell her you're a Sagentaria.

• Louie Dumbrowsky : [as Slip decides to look into the spiritualism racket]  You think you could make him talk from wherever he is?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : I don't know. If your thought waves are synthetic with his, I think it can be done - dat is if you were born on the right bicuspid.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Well, if you don't wanna get in touch with your old poor Uncle Jake, dat's your business, but my female institution tells me that he could steer you into a fortune. Maybe a million. Oh, well, let's forget the whole thing.

  Louie Dumbrowsky : Slip, how can I forget "the whole thing" when you put the state of doubt in me?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : You mean you'll submit to a see-ance?

  Louie Dumbrowsky : In my financial condition, I'll submit to ANYTHING - except... a tax investigation.

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Okay, boys, let's go into the inner sanction and set up the see-ance equipment!

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Mama, that's absolutely pre-prosperous. You can't talk to people that are... well, uh... dead - dat is, not unless they've been... re-incarcerated.

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : [as the gang tries to revive Louie]  Maybe you oughta give him a little artificial perspiration!

• Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : Stop wastin' time. And don't try no prestidigitarianism.

• [Louie lies unconscious] 

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : What'd you do to Louie?

  Chuck : Nothin', Slip. We were only playin' a little joke on Whitey.

  Butch : Just tryin' a little experiment in spiritualism.

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : For a minute I thought maybe you paid him the money we owed him.

• Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : I got a lighter but it's outta fluid.

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : I think your brain is outta fluid.

• Horace Debussy 'Sach' Jones : HI ya, Chief. Whatta ya doin'?

  Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney : I was just givin' Cynthia her electrocution lessons.