Wake Me When It's Over (1960)

Dick Shawn: Gus Brubaker

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• Hap Cosgrove : Welcome to Shima.

  Gus Brubaker : Oh, thank you.

  Hap Cosgrove : How d'ya like it?

  Gus Brubaker : Well, I'm not too sure yet.

  Hap Cosgrove : I'll save ya the trouble. You heard of hell? Well, when it first got started it was a new idea, so they hadda test it out. This here island is the place they picked.

• Gus Brubaker : In the meantime, is there anyone in the village who speaks English?

  Capt. Charlie Stark : Nah, them little guys got the wrong kind of bridgework.

  Gus Brubaker : Well, we're gonna need a Japanese to front for us at the desk.

  Capt. Charlie Stark : I got it! Harigawa.

  [calling] 

  Capt. Charlie Stark : Hey, Mushy! Mushy! Mushy, you're gonna be the desk clerk.

  Gus Brubaker : There's nothing to it! You just greet the guests in Japanese.

  Pvt. Jim Harigawa : What's from this Japanese? I don't know none.

  Capt. Charlie Stark : Well, what's the use of being Japanese if you can't say any Japanese?

  Pvt. Jim Harigawa : I'm from Brooklyn! I don't know nothin' about this cockamamie language. So how about a little Yiddish?

• Gus Brubaker : Look, Marge, seven years ago the Air Force and I got what's called a friendly divorce - nothing sentimental, we just shook hands and promised not to write. Now I'd like to leave it that way - please!

• Gus Brubaker : All right, so I'm a schnook. Just let it go at that, huh?

  Marge Brubaker : What's that? Some army saying?

  Gus Brubaker : No, a schnook is what I am. A fella' who does a favor, only it backfires. Not once or twice - every single time. A schnook is when you answer the door, and some kid wants to mow the lawn for 50 cents. The lawn doesn't need mowing, but you let him do it anyway. That night they arrest you for breaking the child labor law. That's me - - registered schnook.

• Presiding Officer at the Court-Martial : [upon the conclusion of the trial]  Dr. Farrington, I'd like to thank you for your courtesy and good sense. Brubaker?

  Gus Brubaker : Yes, sir?

  Presiding Officer at the Court-Martial : I'd like to commend you for what you've done for our Air Force. I can think of only one other man who has matched your record... I refer, of course, to Baron von Richtofen.