Mr. Wise Guy (1942)

Huntz Hall: Glimpy Stone

Quotes 

• Jed Miller - Abusive Reformatory Guard : [reading]  Ethelbert McGinnis.

  [no response] 

  Jed Miller - Abusive Reformatory Guard : Ethelbert McGinnis!

  Glimpy Stone : "Ethelbert?" Can you imagine a guy with a moniker like that?

  Jed Miller - Abusive Reformatory Guard : Which one of you is Ethelbert McGinnis?

  Glimpy Stone : Ethelbert? We got a McGinnis, but no Ethelbert.

  Jed Miller - Abusive Reformatory Guard : Oh, yes, you have. Now which one of you is it?

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : [waking from a nap, hearing the name, sheepishly answers]  Oh! What a terrible t'ing. Uhh... I'm... Ethelbert.

  Glimpy Stone : [stunned]  You? Now I'm completely disillusioned!

  Jed Miller - Abusive Reformatory Guard : So you're Ethelbert McGinnis.

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : It's kind of a... name, you know? It's been in the family for a long time. Uh, you might call it a skeleton in the family closet. It'd kinda make me very happy if we just kind o'... left it dere and forgot about it.

  Jed Miller - Abusive Reformatory Guard : [slowly and cruelly]  All right, Ethelbert.

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : I wouldn't use that name if I was you. Because my fadda made a mistake don't mean you have to do de same thing.

  Jed Miller - Abusive Reformatory Guard : Oh, a little wise guy, ay?

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : "Wise Guy." That's it. Call me Mr. Wise Guy.

• Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : I know what you are! You're a premeditated killer!

  Knobby : I never killed nobody! I'm a bank robber!

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Bank robber? Well, of course that ain't so bad.

  Peewee : You gonna hang by the neck until dead!

  Knobby : I don't hang around no place!

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Why don't you confess and save all this confusion?

  Knobby : There's no confusion... confessing! I know my rights! I'm an American citizen!

  Glimpy Stone : Did you ever vote?

  Knobby : No! Who's running?

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : You didn't vote, you're not an American! You're a man without a country!

  Knobby : I am too! I live in Brooklyn!

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Well, that's the same thing!

• Glimpy Stone : [with Muggs up at bat]  Strike!

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Strike? Did you ever try seein' an opto-metrist?

  Glimpy Stone : I never had no trouble with my feet.

• [last lines] 

  Glimpy Stone : Take it easy, Ethelbert! May I call you Ethel for short?

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Ethel? I'll...

  [a fight breaks out] 

• [first lines] 

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Now, listen. You're kinda new in dis neighborhood, so I'm gonna wise ya up. I'm Muggs McGinnis, the leader of this gang. Now if ya wanna take any of these boys out, ya gotta have 'em in by t'ree o'clock in the afternoon, and no smokin', drinkin' or hopscotch because we're all in trainin'. Now I'm gonna introduce you to the fellas in their physical order: This is Danny, my left-hand man.

  Danny Collins : How do you do?

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : This is Glimpy, my right-hand man.

  Glimpy Stone : Hello, Matilda.

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : Peewee, my yes man.

  Peewee : Hi ya.

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : And Skinny, my no man.

  Skinny : Hi.

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : And last but not least there's Scruno. He's our blackout warden.

  Scruno : Hi.

• Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : You're quite a discoverer. You should be with Columbus.

  Glimpy Stone : He's dead.

  Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis : That's what I said.