- Capt. Rork: Colonel, what does this mean?
- Col. Cluttz: It means you have captured three imposters, you dunderhead!
- [shows the real professor]
- Col. Cluttz: *This* is Professor Sneed.
- General: Yes, and unless you give us that formula at once, you, your daughter, and your friends all will be shot!
- Prof. Sneed: I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I can't help you.
- Hazel Sneed: You see, General, my father has a very poor memory.
- Shemp: I've got a little booklet here - "How to Train Your Memory in Five Easy Lessons"!
- Moe: [to Leon] Pardon me...
- [takes Leon's gun and hits Shemp with it]
- Larry: Say, I beg your pardon. Do you have any idea what we're doing?
- Moe: Now that you mention it, no.
- Shemp: [to Moe] Why don't you tell the General he ain't Professor Sneed? He couldn't invent the rocket fuel in a million years!
- Larry: [to Shemp] I beg your pardon!
- Moe: Wait a minute, you ignoramuses! If they find out we're only carpet layers; they'll go back and grab the real professor... not only that, they'll shoot us!
- [Larry and Shemp are horrified]
- Moe: Now we gotta fool them, savvy?
- Larry: You're right. It's our duty to posterior!
- Moe: [Shemp dazedly pours chemical liquid down a funnel into Moe's sleeve] You don't know my sleeve from a jug, you jughead!