Income Tax Sappy (1954)

Shemp Howard: Shemp

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Quotes 

• Shemp : [after Moe had crunched Larry's nose with scissors]  Looks like a V8!

• Moe : You nitwit! You ruined my trophy! Now help me pick up the pieces so I can repair it.

  Shemp : [holding up a piece]  Here's a nice big piece.

  Moe : Let me have it.

  Shemp : With pleasure.

  [Shemp bonks Moe on the head] 

• Moe : Say, Shemp, how much you gonna deduct for dependents?

  Shemp : Forty-four hundred dollars.

  Larry : That's eleven dependents! Who are they?

  Shemp : My ex-wife and ten bartenders.

  Moe : Why don't you quit kidding?

  Shemp : Who's kidding?

  Moe : Why, you...

  [Moe moves to punch Shemp, but he ducks and Moe punches Larry] 

• Moe : Say Shemp, I need some more deductions. Got any ideas?

  Shemp : Have you any bad debts?

  Moe : Yeah, I owe Uncle Jack $1500.

  Shemp : Then deduct it from your income tax.

  Moe : How can I? I owe him.

  Shemp : Do you expect to pay it?

  Moe : No.

  Shemp : Then it's a bad debt.

  Moe : Smart thinkin', boy, smart.