Duck Soup (1933)

Charles Middleton: Prosecutor

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• Prosecutor : Something must be done! War would mean a prohibitive increase in our taxes.

  Chicolini : Hey, I got an uncle lives in Taxes.

  Prosecutor : No, I'm talking about taxes - money, dollars!

  Chicolini : Dollars! There's-a where my uncle lives! Dollars, Taxes!

• Chicolini : Now I aska you one. What has a trunk, but no key, weighs 2,000 pounds and lives in a circus?

  Prosecutor : That's irrelevant.

  Chicolini : Irrelephant? Hey, that'sa that answer. There's a whole lot of irrelephants in the circus.

• Prosecutor : Chicolini, when were you born?

  Chicolini : I don't-a remember. I was just a little baby.

  Prosecutor : Isn't it true you tried to sell Freedonia's secret war code and plans?

  Chicolini : Sure, I sold a code and two pair of plans.

• Prosecutor : Chicolini, you're charged with high treason, and if found guilty, you'll be shot.

  Chicolini : I object.

  Prosecutor : You object? On what grounds?

  Chicolini : I couldn't think of anything else to say.

  Rufus T. Firefly : Objection sustained.

  Prosecutor : Your Excellency, you sustain the objection?

  Rufus T. Firefly : Sure, I couldn't think of anything else to say either. Why don't you object?