In Old Caliente (1939)

George 'Gabby' Hayes: Gabby Whitaker

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• Gabby : You two ought to get along just like that span of mules over there. They've been wearing the same harness for eleven years.

• Gabby : How are you gonna argue with a female when she's made up her mind?

• Jean : I suppose you're going to see that young man that you've been bragging about ever since we left?

  Gabby : Well, why shouldn't I brag about Roy Rogers? I brung him out here in '46...

  Gabby , Jean : And I learned him everything he knows.

  Gabby : Well, I did. Now, he's the top rider of the whole durn hacienda.

• Gabby : I told you I'd git you through to California without no trouble and by cranky I done it.

• Gabby : You know, your affection has spoiled the best bloodhound I ever owned.

• Roy Rogers : Gabby, you old porch swing!

  Gabby : Why, you young maverick. You've sprouted like a toad stool.

  Roy Rogers : You're just as ornery as ever.

• Roy Rogers : What are you doin' in California, Gabby?

  Gabby : Oh, fetchin' out another herd of greenhorns in their covered wagons.

• Gabby : Ay, it always takes a female to spoil the fun.

• Gabby : Why you walleyed weasel.

• Gabby : We got to get him away from some high falutin Spanish gal, though.

  Jean : Oh.

  Gabby : You better git all rigged up in your best bib and tucker. You know, that nice one you brang all the way from I-o-way.

• Jean : Uncle Gabby, where's Roy?

  Gabby : I can't tell ye.

  Jean : Why?

  Gabby : Why, he'd skin me alive if he knowed I was here.

• Jean : You're going to take me with you.

  Gabby : I can't do it.

  Jean : Oh, Uncle Gabby, please. You saddle a horse while I get a basket of food.

  Gabby : I can't do it, I tell ye!

  Jean : Oh, please, Uncle Gabby.

  Gabby : Oh, all right. Get a wiggle on ye.

• Roy Rogers : Go ahead, Gabby.

  Gabby : No, sir! I ain't gonna leave you alone with this here female.

• Roy Rogers : What'll I do Gabby? She's fainted!

  Gabby : Figure it out for yourself, son. I'm hungry.