Dirty Work (1933)

Samuel Adams: Jessup

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Quotes 

• Oliver : Now, where is the fireplace?

  Jessup : In that room. You'll find it standing against the wall.

• Professor Noodle : Three drops of frinacka...

  Jessup : Fahlootuhhh!

  Professor Noodle : [pouring in a good measure each time instead of just a "drop"]  One... two... three!

• Jessup : [in a cold voice of barely restrained fury at having the whole chimney-full of ashes dumped all over him]  SOMEwhere - an ELECTRIC CHAIR is WAITING!

  Stan : [in his typical naïve, innocent tone]  What did he mean by that?

  Oliver : [with disgusted pomposity]  I still have nothing tooo SAY!

• Oliver : [loudly calling to the butler as he enters the foyer]  Hey!

  Stan : [naively]  What?

  Oliver : [Stan quietly comes up behind Oliver and startles him]  I don't mean you.

  [to the butler] 

  Oliver : How'd ya get on the roof?

  Jessup : The uh skylight is in the closet at the top of the stairs. You'll know which is the closet - it has a door on it.

  [Oliver and Stan look perplexed at the odd and redundant remark] 

• [first lines] 

  Professor Noodle : [while pouring a beaker full of special liquid into another beaker and experimenting at his laboratory table]  Ahhhhh, at last! Haha! Well, it won't be long now.

  Jessup : Shouldn't be, you've been at it twenty years.

  Professor Noodle : True my boy, but remember, Rome wasn't built in a day. And if this test of mine proves successful, it'll be the greatest scientific discovery of the age - something the world's been waiting for: rejuvenation! Just think, with a few drops of this solution, I could make you thirty years younger! Hahahaha!

  [as if on cue, the cuckoo clock chimes, alluding to the fact that the professor is perhaps 'cuckoo' himself - and Jessup nods in agreement with it]