Whoops Apocalypse (1986)

Loretta Swit: President Barbara Adams

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• William Kubert (US Defense Secretary) : I guess we just sit tight now and pray he doesn't do anything rash.

  President Barbara Adams : ...The man just held a public crucifixion at Wembley Stadium!

  William Kubert (US Defense Secretary) : Well, he certainly has moved to the right politically.

• President Barbara Adams : So Mr. President - how's life?

  Jack 'Kill the Commies' Preston : Oh... still serving it!

  President Barbara Adams : [laughs]  Umm, Mister President; I don't know if they let you see newspapers here, but we've been having some problems down in the Caribbean.

  Jack 'Kill the Commies' Preston : I heard about that - sure.

  President Barbara Adams : Up till now our support from Mosquera has been ironclad.

  Jack 'Kill the Commies' Preston : Oh, he eats commies for breakfast, right?

  President Barbara Adams : At the same time, Britain is our oldest ally in the world.

  Jack 'Kill the Commies' Preston : Sure, sure. Listen - in my estimation, this is a whole dish of worms that could squeal antsy in the long ticket. We need to hump out wide and hype up the squeak bag before they screw down the jam box.

  President Barbara Adams : [stunned]  ... excuse me?

  Jack 'Kill the Commies' Preston : Always fox the grease monkeys - they won't tango till you crack down the fish pot. You can't risk hell shit with a buncha LULU PINKSUCKERS!

  President Barbara Adams : So, to give our support to be Britain would be entirely...

  Jack 'Kill the Commies' Preston : ...the only solution.

  President Barbara Adams : ...the only solution. Right.

  Jack 'Kill the Commies' Preston : You see, you can't empty your dish pan till the heat's off the mugwumps. Always take down the gizmo and caveat the cranker before...

  President Barbara Adams : Mr. President, it's... been an education.

  Jack 'Kill the Commies' Preston : A pleasure, madam.

• President Barbara Adams : Our support for Sir Mortimer Chris remains unequivocal. When the Prime Minister talks of uh... "pixies", he is clearly using the term in a metaphorical sense to denote disruptive elements within British industry.

  White House reporter : How do you explain the fact that he has just set up an Anti-Goblin unit to "bait them with gingerbread traps"?

  [uneasy pause] 

  President Barbara Adams : I think that's enough questions for today, gentlemen!

• President Barbara Adams : Where is the sanity in vaporizing millions of totally innocent people?

  Sir Mortimer Chris : Well it shut Japan up, didn't it!

• President Barbara Adams : Let me see if I have this straight here: you're telling me that the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the man who has his finger on Britain's nuclear trigger, the man to whom we have promised complete unconditional support in anything he says or does... is clinically insane?

  Secret Service agent : From what the foreign secretary has told us, and from our own intelligence, there appears to be little doubt.

  President Barbara Adams : You're telling me that the entire population of Great Britain went and elected a deranged psychotic to the highest office of the land?

  [pause] 

  President Barbara Adams : Again?

• Virgil Grodd (American Intelligence) : As I comprehend it, you want me to eliminate the Prime Minister of...

  President Barbara Adams : Mr. Grodd, I as President of the United States have no knowledge whatsoever of whatever it is I've called you in to do.

  Virgil Grodd (American Intelligence) : Naturally madam, I fully understand.

• President Barbara Adams : Surely you can see that nobody's life, not even that of a member of the royal family, is worth a global holocaust?

  Sir Mortimer Chris : Well, I'm sorry you feel about it that way Barbara. I never took you for a pinko.

• Virgil Grodd (American Intelligence) : [begins lowering his trousers]  I can place my genitalia into a burning candle flame without flinching once.

  President Barbara Adams : That's a... very... useful discipline I'm sure, Mr. Grodd but I don't think we need to uh...

  Virgil Grodd (American Intelligence) : I have a candle here if you'd like to see me...

  President Barbara Adams : No, Mr. Grodd - perhaps we should concentrate on the reason for which I called you in...

• President Barbara Adams : One hundred and fifty-seven warships I would call a slight overreaction to the problem, Marv!