Quotes
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Abu Hassan : [toying around] Look, look, look, see!
Popeye : Huh?
[With a laugh, Abu Hassan steals Popeye's belt]
Popeye : Hey, give me back me belt, I paid a good price for that!... Okay, watch this one. Abba-dabba-dabba!
[Popeye pulls out Abu Hassan's underwear]
Popeye : Abu Hassan got them anymore!
Abu Hassan : You want to make fool from me, eh?
Popeye : Ah, nature beat me to it!
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[first lines]
[Abu Hassan and his forty thieves ride across the desert]
Abu Hassan : [singing] You better lock up your doors today / 'cause Abu Hassan is on his way / Go in hiding, when I go riding / Just me and the 40 thieves! / Your wives and children, and money too / I'll steal them from you before I'm through / I'm out gunning, so start running / From me and the forty thieves! Abu Hassan!
Thieves : Abu Hassan!
Abu Hassan : My game's the toughest / But I'm the roughest / and that's how I'm / Abu Hassan!
Thieves : Abu Hassan!
Abu Hassan : You've got to hand it, to this bad bandit / Cause I'm a terrible guy!
Thieves : Abu Hassan! Abu Hassan!
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[riding to the citadel]
Abu Hassan : [singing] Abu Hassan!
Thieves : Abu Hassan!
Abu Hassan : When things get quiet, I start a riot / As I go by / Abu Hassan!
Thieves' Horses : [snorting] Abu Hassan!
Abu Hassan : And you'll discover, and run for cover / That I'm a terrible guy!
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Abu Hassan : Oh, you little tough, eh?
Popeye : [flattered] I make a pretty good model, huh? Take me home for a dollar ninety-eight, for half the price. How good is that?
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Abu Hassan : Open sesame!
Popeye : [hidden, waiting for Abu Hassan] Open what?
[a secret door opens and Abu and his thieves go in]
Popeye : [rushing up] Wait for me! Wait for me!
Abu Hassan : Close sesame!
[the door shuts just as Popeye reaches it]
Popeye : I wonder what that word was he used when he opened this door? Open sissy! Open sayso! Ah, that can't be it.
[charges at the door, but it won't budge]
Popeye : It's givin' way, it's givin' way! No, that was me givin' way.
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Abu Hassan : Giddup horsy!
[charges at Popeye]
Popeye : [fists up] Come on!
Abu Hassan : Hat!
[steals Popeye's hat as he passes by him]
Popeye : [disoriented] There must be a gale wind blowing through here someplace...
Abu Hassan : Shirt!
[passes by Popeye again, and takes his shirt off him]
Popeye : Shirt?... SHIRT! Hey, gimme back me shirt! What's the big idea? Stop, in the name of the Coast Guard!
[grabs Abu Hassan, pulls him off his horse and gets back his hat and shirt]
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[making a getaway]
Abu Hassan : [singing] Abu Hassan! Abu Hassan! Now make no error / I'm all the terror / of every village and town!