Roy Scheider credited as playing...
Murphy
- [Braddock and Murphy have watched Blue Thunder perform a selective firepower demonstration]
- Icelan: [33:08] Well, look at that, all the red dummies are blown to hell.
- Frank Murphy: And a few white ones!
- Fletcher: One civilian dead for every ten terrorists. That's an acceptable ratio.
- Frank Murphy: [Leaning closer to Braddock] Unless you're one of the civilians!
- Frank Murphy: [35:48] Finally made Colonel, eh?
- Col. F.E. Cochrane: If you're a nice guy, nice things happen to you.
- Frank Murphy: I'll try to remember that!
- Frank Murphy: That's Cochrane, F.E., US Army.
- Lymangood: Cochrane, F.E. What's the "F.E." stand for?
- Frank Murphy: "Fuck Everybody."
- Frank Murphy: What's the sensitivity of those mikes?
- Sgt. Short: You can hear a mouse fart at 2000 ft!
- [Murphy is looking over Blue Thunder's cockpit after the demonstration]
- Col. F.E. Cochrane: Could have used this in 'Nam.
- Frank Murphy: Could have used something.
- [Murphy walks out to the pad]
- Jack Braddock: Well Murph, feeling any pressure?
- Frank Murphy: Yeah. About 15 pounds per square inch at sea level.
- [after the demonstration, Murphy and Braddock walk over to meet Blue Thunder's pilot]
- Frank Murphy: [recognizes Cochrane as the pilot]
- [35:27]
- Frank Murphy: Well, what do you know!
- Jack Braddock: Friend of yours?
- Frank Murphy: [smiling ruefully, imitating Cochrane's British accent] An old war buddy. Bastard tried to have me court-martialed once.
- Jack Braddock: Oh. Sorry I brought it up.
- Frank Murphy: Lymangood, Lymangood. What brings you to Air Support?
- Lymangood: Oh, I don't know, I just... I just put in for Observer. I kind of like the idea of it. no guns, no kicking in doors - quiet!
- Frank Murphy: [Glancing upwards with a pleading look] Oh, yeah!
- Jack Braddock: [26:16] I've been trying to get you all night. Why don't you answer your fucking beeper?
- Frank Murphy: I just wanna tell you, Jack, that the next time I'm suspended, so is my fucking beeper!
- Jack Braddock: Feel better?
- Frank Murphy: Yeah. A little.
- Jack Braddock: Well then get your ass on down here. We just came up with a hot mince pie under each arm.
- [Murphy and Lymangood are on patrol]
- Lymangood: All those people. What do you suppose they're all doing down there?
- Frank Murphy: Well, according to the latest statistics, about 1 million, 775 thousand of them are... getting it on!
- Lymangood: That many, eh!
- Frank Murphy: The rest are waiting for 'Laverne and Shirley'!
- Frank Murphy: [reading off a monitor, incredulous] File under repair?
- Lymangood: Did you break your file?
- [laughs]
- Lymangood: Big Brother: on or off?
- Frank Murphy: What's Big Brother?
- Lymangood: The cabin mike. It records everything we say.
- Frank Murphy: I think we can lose that.