- The Bookworm: Now the fact is that our bats have flown the belfry, unaccountably still squeaking.
- Lydia Limpet: Gee, and us with our super crime not pulled yet.
- Batman: [Gordon has just informed Batman on the Bat-phone that stately Wayne Manor has been burgled] Well was anyone in the Wayne household hurt?
- Commissioner Gordon: [on other line] Fortunately, no one.
- Batman: Goodbye, Commissioner. Ill be at Wayne Manor faster than anyone can imagine.
- Batman: Batman to Gotham City police, Batman to Gotham City police! Red alert, red alert! We are trapped inside a cookbook at 5th & Cedar!
- Batman: [using the Bat-bullhorn] Take cover in the side streets! The recipes in this book could be explosive!
- Commissioner Gordon: [Batman and Robin are being cooked in a giant cookbook] Who's the best safecracker in our files?
- Chief O'Hara: Eh... The Riddler!
- Commissioner Gordon: Well, send a helicopter to the State Penitentiary and have him brought here at once.
- Lydia Limpet: "Best laid plans of mice and men". I don't know where it's from, but I know it's true!
- The Bookworm: Inconceivable, but true: the Precocious Pest has escaped us!
- Lydia Limpet, Printer's Devil, Pressman, Typesetter: How could he?
- The Bookworm: I cannot conceive, but from "Gil Blas", translated by Tobias Smollett, Book Ten, Chapter 3, quote: "Facts are stubborn things", unquote.
- Lydia Limpet: "The best laid plans of mice and men." I don't know where it's from, but I know it's true!
- The Bookworm: Schemes. Schemes. Schemes. "The best laid *schemes*." Robert Burns, To A Mouse, Stanza 7. Schemes. You are graded C-minus.