The Twelve Chairs (1970)
Mel Brooks: Tikon
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Quotes
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Tikon : [remembering his former master Vorobyaninov] I loved him... he hardly ever beat us!
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Ostap Bender : Listen, tell me. Tell me. Who lived here in the old days?
Tikon : Oh, in the old days was my master: Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov. He was a Marshal of the nobility. I loved him. He hardly ever beat us.
Ostap Bender : Ah, and whatever became of your "lovable master"?
Tikon : One night about ten years ago was a fearful noise. It was bombs and cannons and soldiers shooting. It was terrible, terrible!
Ostap Bender : Oh, yes, I think it was called "The Revolution".
Tikon : That was it: The Revolution... You're smart! You're smart and you're gorgeous. You're okay. Anyways... they all run away.
Ostap Bender : Well, come on, old boy. Let us see how drunk two Russians can get on one ruble.
Tikon : I like that: two Russians, one ruble!
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Ostap Bender : Tell me... eh, what goes on in this great house?
Tikon : Mostly dying.
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Tikon : [Ostap has just addressed him as "comrade"] Comrade! Comrade! Everybody calls me comrade! Everybody in the new Soviet Union is a comrade! People you don't know, strangers, everybody says comrade! Oh, I miss Russia!
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Tikon : [to Ostap Bender] You're smart and you're gorgeous. You're okay!