Flushed Away (2006)
Ian McKellen: The Toad
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Quotes
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Tadpole : Is it the Glorious Amphibian Dawn, dad?
Toad : Anything for you, my little man.
Tadpole : Can I have a pony?
Toad : No.
Tadpole : A puppy?
Toad : We'll talk about it.
Tadpole : Can we talk about it now?
Toad : No!
[All the tadpoles start asking for puppies]
Toad : No, you can't all have puppies! Please, daddy's working!
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Toad : Huzzah, a man of quality!
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Toad : Where are those idiots!
[talking to his tadpoles]
Toad : It's so hard to get good help these days, my boys.
[speaks baby talk]
Toad : Yes, that's right. Oh, come on out, my lovelies. Cheer your old Dad up. Poor Daddy, surrounded by filthy rats in this joy-less, sun-less void! But don't worry, Daddy will get rid of them all. They'll all be deady-weddy.
[Kisses tadpole tank. Whitey and Spike enter]
Toad : Did you find it?
[still in baby voice]
Spike : Huh?
Toad : [angered] Uh! Did you find it?
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Toad : [to Le Frog] Perhaps you forget that it was a rat who cast me from paradise.
Le Frog : [Rolling his eyes] Oh please not the scrapbook again.
Toad : [pulls a book off a shelf] My memoirs , volume one details the dire and tragic story of my youth.
Le Frog : Oh mon dieu.
Toad : Of all the pets in Buckingham palace , young prince charles fancied me the best , we would frolic day after sunny day in royal abandon sharing that sweet and magical bond between boy and toad.
Le Frog : Your going to make me throw up.
Toad : We were inseparable until... it arrived THAT RAT , while the poor boys head was turned , I was cruelly plunged into a whirlpool of despair.
Le Frog : I know I know you were flushed away down the loo right? boo hoo hoo, it is so dark, so cold, so terrible
[chuckles]
Le Frog : .
Toad : You find my pain funny?
Le Frog : I find everyones pain funny but my own, I'm French.
Toad : [stands up and knocks over a table] Just get that cable.
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[repeated line]
Toad : Good bye, vermin.