Huckleberry Finn and His Friends (TV Series)

Meet the Grangerfords (1980)

Ian Tracey: Huckleberry Finn

Quotes 

• Huckleberry Finn : [making up a fake family history]  Anyway, things were just goin' all fine and dandy, and the one day, my sister Mary Ann, she ran off with eh, a drummer and it just broke poor old ma's heart. She took to ailing.

  Mrs. Grangerford : Oh, you see girls, you see what happens when a child thinks only of herself?

• Tom Grangerford : What happened to your brother?

  Huckleberry Finn : Well, eh... we, we found out later that he was kicked in the head by a mule. So hard, he died, but we didn't know that, then. That's why my pa sent out my other brother, Mark, to go and find him.

  Sophia Grangerford : Don't tell me he didn't come back either?

  Huckleberry Finn : Oh, he came back all right, ma'am. In a pine box. You see, eh, he was struck by lightning while he was chasing that ornery mule who killed Todd.

• Huckleberry Finn : [narrating]  I was ready to light outta there so fast you wouldn't even see my shadow keepin' up to me. Only I knew I just had to hang around there long enough to find out what happened to Jim, I just had to!

• Huckleberry Finn : [narrating]  I tell ya, anybody who don't believe in bad luck is either just a durn fool, or else he hasn't been dunped into the Mississippi after dark.