The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father (1996 TV Movie)

Lloyd Owen: Professor Henry Jones, Sr.

Quotes 

• Anna Jones : [scolding their son]  Henry, we are guests in this house.

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : Guests, Junior. Not rampaging barbarians.

• Indiana Jones : Father, I don't think that he understand your ancient Greek.

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : Well he should have understood it.

• Indiana Jones : Father, I really doubt if a bus is even gonna come and if it does, there's probably only one a day and, and it's probably already gone!

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : Junior, you are now being cynical.

  Indiana Jones : [beneath his breath]  Yes sir.

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : See, after skepticism comes cynicism.

• Indiana Jones : [Indy and his father are splashing around in a lake]  I didn't even know you could swim.

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : There's a lot you don't know about me, Junior.

  [splashes water at his son] 

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : When I was five years old, I used to go swimming in a loch. Now that was cold!

• Indiana Jones : [Indy and his father are splashing around in a lake]  Father!

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : What?

  Indiana Jones : You know how you said that we should let ourselves be consumed by nature?

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : Yes.

  Indiana Jones : Well, nature is consuming our clothes.

• Artistotle : Hey, are you interested in politics?

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : No not much.

  Artistotle : Ah, then you're an idiot.

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : [brief pause]  Thank you, Aristotle.

  Artistotle : My pleasure.

  [laughs] 

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : No, he's right, Junior. Our word 'idiot' comes from a Greek word which means 'one who is not interested in politics'.

  Indiana Jones : Yeah, I, I'll remember that.

• Indiana Jones : A ladder is made of wood, right?

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : Yes.

  Indiana Jones : This cage is made out of wood.

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : So?

  Indiana Jones : Ergo, our cage is a ladder.

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : That's not what I call Aristotlian logic.

  Indiana Jones : We need a ladder, father. Let's turn our cage into a ladder.

• Indiana Jones : I'm bored.

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : Bored? Bored? We're sitting in one of the most fascinating libraries in this part of the world and you're bored?

  Indiana Jones : It's also the only library.

  Prof. Henry Jones, Sr. : I will not have you bored.