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Wilt Chamberlain

Wilton Norman Chamberlain (/ˈtʃeɪmbərlɪn/; August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999) was an American professional basketball player who played as a center, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport's history. He played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played for the University of Kansas and for the Harlem Globetrotters before playing in the NBA. Chamberlain stood 7ft 1in tall.

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 * What's unfortunate is that most people regard the great leapers as being only the short guys who could dunk," said the 7-1 1/16 Wilt Chamberlain. "My sargent [vertical leap] was higher than Michael Jordan's. When I went to Kansas, they had a 12-foot basket in the gym, because Dr. Phog Allen was advocating the 12-foot basket. I used to dunk on that basket. It was an effort, but I could do it.

 * When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro.

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 * Wilt Chamberlain claims that his sargent, during his prime, was "46 to 48 inches, easy."

 * Legends abound of the truly great leapers who could touch the top of the board. Almost always the feat involves money-claims that the player could grab a dollar bill off the top of the board, or could pluck off a quarter and leave two dimes and a nickel change ... "I defy anyone to say they took change off the top of the backboard," Chamberlain said. "I could. Someone would put a quarter up and I'd snatch it down. I've heard stories about Jackie Jackson doing it, but I've never seen anyone (but himself) come close." Sonny Hill, a Philadelphia leaping legend of the '60s, backs Wilt, saying, "The only man that's been to the top, that's Wilt. I asked Kareem if he ever did, and he could jump a little bit. He told me, `Sonny, no.'"

 * When challenged, Wilt could do almost anything he wanted. In 1961 a new star named Walt Bellamy came into the league. Bellamy was 6-foot-11, and was scoring 30 points a game. First time they played against each other, they met at half court. Bellamy said, 'Hello, Mr. Chamberlain. I'm Walter Bellamy.' Chamberlain reached for Bellamy's hand and said, "Hello, Walter. You won't get a shot off in the first half." Wilt then blocked Bellamy's first nine shots. At the start of the second half Wilt said to Bellamy, 'Okay, Walter. Now you can play.'
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 * Of all his memories of Wilt Chamberlain, the one that stood out for Larry Brown happened long after Chamberlain's professional career had ended. On a summer day in the early 1980s, when Brown was coaching at UCLA, Chamberlain showed up at Pauley Pavilion to take part in one of the high-octane pickup games that the arena constantly attracted. "Magic Johnson used to run the games," Brown recalled Tuesday after hearing that Chamberlain, his friend, had died at 63, "and he called a couple of chintzy fouls and a goaltending on Wilt. "So Wilt said: 'There will be no more layups in this gym,' and he blocked every shot after that. That's the truth, I saw it. He didn't let one [of Johnson's] shots get to the rim." Chamberlain would have been in his mid-40s at the time, and he remained in top physical shape until recently

 * In Denver, Nugget Coach Dan Issel said, "As I grew up, Wilt the Stilt was the player. Just the things he was able to do. I guess one year they told him he couldn't make as much money as he wanted because he couldn't pass the ball, so he went out and led the league in assists. "Watching Wilt, you always kind of got the idea he was just playing with people. That he was on cruise control and still 10 times better than anybody else that was playing at that time."

 * "I just remember he was dominating, a scoring machine, unstoppable," Walt Frazier, the Knicks' Hall of Famer, said. "The guy looked indestructible. He was such a physical specimen, I never thought something like this would happen to him at 63. "His legacy is comical. When you read about his records, it makes you laugh. He has records that are just remarkable. I don't care if he was 10 feet tall, the things that he did.

 * Darrall Imhoff, who as a 6-foot-10 rookie center for the New York Knicks had the misfortune of guarding Chamberlain during his 100-point game in 1962, said, "I spent 12 years in his armpits, and I always carried that 100-point game on my shoulders. "After I got my third foul, I said to one of the officials, Willy Smith, 'Why don't you just give him 100 points and we'll all go home?' Well, we did." Two nights later, at Madison Square Garden, Chamberlain tried to go for the century mark again. But Imhoff 'held' him to 54 points. The fans gave Imhoff a standing ovation. "He was an amazing, strong man," Imhoff said. "I always said the greatest record he ever held wasn't 100 points, but his 55 rebounds against Bill Russell. Those two players changed the whole game of basketball. The game just took an entire step up to the next level."

 * Former NBA center and Chicago Bull coach Johnny "Red" Kerr, who played part of one season in Philadelphia with Wilt and against him for six-plus years, said, "He was the NBA. He was the guy on the top. Wilt was the guy you talked about—he and Bill Russell. He was the most dominating center—the best center to ever play in the NBA."

 * Former Celtics guard K.C. Jones remembered his casual run-in with Wilt. "He stopped me dead in my tracks with his arm, hugged me and lifted me off the floor with my feet dangling," Jones said. "It scared the hell out of me. When I went to the free-throw line, my legs were still shaking. Wilt was the strongest guy and best athlete ever to play the game."
 * Goliath's Wonderful Life, Hoop Magazine; May 1999; Chris Ekstrand

 * "One time, when I was with Boston and he was with the Lakers, Happy Hairston and I were about to get in a scrape," said Charlotte Hornets coach Paul Silas, who was a rugged, no-nonsense enforcer. "All of a sudden, I felt an enormous vise around me. I was 6-7, 235, and Wilt had picked me up and turned me around. He said, 'We're not going to have that stuff.' I said, 'Yes sir.'"
 * Goliath's Wonderful Life, Hoop Magazine; May 1999; Chris Ekstrand

 * Several years after Wilt stopped playing, he toyed with the idea of a comeback. On the day he visited the Knicks' offices in Madison Square Garden, he talked to Red Holzman, then strode out to the elevator. When it opened, two deliverymen were struggling with a dolly piled high with boxes of office supplies, mostly letterheads and envelopes. The load was so heavy, the elevator had stopped maybe four inches below the floor level and now the deliverymen were huffing and puffing, but they couldn't raise the dolly high enough to get it on the floor level. After maybe two minutes of the deliverymen's huffing and puffing, Wilt, his biceps bulging in a tank top, peered down at them and intoned, "Gentlemen, maybe I can help." They stepped back, he stepped into the elevator, grabbed each end of the rope slung under the dolly and without much exertion, quickly lifted the dolly onto the floor level. Looking up in awe, the deliverymen said, "Thank you." Wilt said, "You're welcome." Wilt stepped into the elevator and rode down to the street level as another witness followed the two deliverymen toward the Knick offices and asked, "How much does all this weigh?" They quickly surveyed the stack of big boxes of office supplies. "Close to 600 pounds," one said.
 * The Good Natured Giant Wasn't Belligerent, Sports of the Times; Oct 13, 1999; Dave Anderson

 * "On the trip to Russia with the Harlem Globetrotters, we were in Lenin Stadium, and they assigned a dressing room to the team. The players were getting dressed for one of their games. They were in rather close quarters. Remember, these were young kids-Wilt was 23. The others were his age. They were like kittens. You bump me, I'll bump you back. And before you know it, two of the guys set on Wilt. They started playfully pushing and shoving him. And finally one of his teammates hit Wilt a little too hard. He took these two guys, twisted each of their shirts, and lifted both of them off the ground. Each of these guys weighed over 200 pounds. It looked like he had two little crackers in his hands. I thought he was going to hit their heads together. It was an amazing demonstration of strength".
 * Dr. Stan Lorber, team doctor on the Globetrotters' Russian trip

 * (Monte) Johnson recalled that: "Wilt had such unbelievable endurance and speed that, if he took off running, there wasn't any chance that anybody would keep up with him. He glided around the track and had the grace of a deer. I said to the coach, 'It might look like it helps us to chase him, but it may kill us because you can't catch someone who runs that fast.' After practice, he was the only one who wasn't tired. I never saw him tired."
 * Wilt: Larger than Life, Robert Cherry

 * Bill Mayer, then the managing editor of the 'Lawrence Journal-World' recalled on of Wilt's impressive athletic feats: "We played Oklahoma in basketball on a friday night, here in Lawrence(, Kansas), When Oklahoma had one helluva team. And they pounded the living daylights out of Wilt, just beat him to a pulp. I think he got 32 points. This was on a friday, and the finals of the Big Seven indoor track championship were the next night in Kansas city in the Municipal Auditorium. Wilt goes in, and with a minimum of practice during the week-he had just been fiddling around-he sets a school record and ties for the Big Seven championship, jumping 6' 6 3/4""
 * Wilt: Larger than Life, Robert Cherry

 * "Nobody seems to appreciate what an incredible player Wilt was," Russell said at 1997 All-Star Game when the league named and honored its 50 greatest players. "He was the best player of all time because he dominated the floor like nobody else ever could. To be that big and that athletic was special."
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 * "It was hard for Wilt to put his faith in many people. Being in his position, many people tried to exploit him. I say little in reference to character, not size. There were always those who enjoyed hanging around to pick up the crumbs that might fall off their 7' cake. No matter where we went to play ball, It seemed that he had a thousand cousins who needed tickets to the game-free tickets, that is. One of Wilt's weaknesses was being too big-hearted. He never turned down any of these requests, and very often he was holding the bag. You'd expect a 7' person to have an extra big heart, but his was even out of proportion to his size."
 * Bob Billings in a college English paper that profiled his friend

 * In 1982, when he was 45 and Philadelphia 76er owner Harold Katz was hot after him, the Houston Chronicle's George White asked Elvin Hayes if Chamberlain could still play. "Some things about Wilt, you never forgot," Hayes said. "He was such an awesome physical specimen. To go up under Wilt Chamberlain, to be down there and look up at him when he's towering up over you waiting to dunk, was a terrifying picture. To see him poised up there, knowing he was about to sweep down with that big jam . . . that must be the most frightening sight in sports. The ball goes shooting through the net and you better have your body covered up because he could really hurt someone. I was scared. Everyone was scared when he got that look in his eye, that don't-try-to-stop-this look that he got when he really wanted it. . . . "I think Russell realized there was no way he could have stopped Wilt if he had been fully intent on making it a two-man game. No one who ever put on a uniform could have done it. When I played him, I kept this foremost in my mind: Above all, don't make him mad. Don't embarrass him. You wanted to keep him quiet as long as possible."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Chamberlain

 * Chamberlain played the game the same way Russell did, except he scored so much more. But his teams had to get more points from him. He'd score 45 points and his teams would still lose.

 * Wilt had to fight people's dissatisfaction that his teams didn't win. There he was, this great dominating player, and his teams didn't win championships. Well, Wilt wasn't playing for the right team. As an individual, he was in a class by himself, but his teammates--they were OK, but not the supporting cast Russell had.

 * If you want to get Wilt ticked off or bitter, just mention Bill Russell. You will incite him.
 * Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in an 1998 interview with Playboy magazine

 * You obviously never saw Wilt Chamberlain play who undoubtedly was the greatest scorer this game has ever known. When did MJ ever average 50.4 points per game plus 25.7 rebounds? (Wilt in the 1962 season when blocked shot statistics were not kept). We will never accurately know how many shots Wilt blocked. Oh, by the way in 1967 and 68, Wilt was a league leader in assists. Did MJ ever score 100 points in a game? How many times did MJ score more than 60 points in a game? MJ led the league in scoring in consecutive seasons for 10 years but he did this in an NBA that eventually expanded into 30 teams vs. when Wilt played and there were only 8 teams.
 * Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in an open letter to Scottie Pippen after Scottie Pippen referred to Michael Jordan and Lebron James as the greatest scorer and greatest player, respectively.

Pop Culture

 * In Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, the narrator attempts to describe a Whooping Crane in 25 words or less. One attempt at the description reads Imagine Wilt Chamberlain in a red yarmulke and snowy feathers... The narrator cuts off the attempt with the explanation You're assuming that the reader knows who Wilt Chamberlain is. Many people don't follow basketball and wouldn't understand that Wilt signifies size and strength and arrogance made palatable by grace.

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Quotes taken from the talk page of Wilt's article. Seems to be legit stuff. Onomatopoeia 07:56, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Yep, they're all legit — I've got all of the original articles archived. But they're sourced anyhow, so there should be no problem for you to procure them on your own if you want to validate them. Myasuda 04:26, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Trimming
Some of the quotes in this article are in need of trimming. Wikiquote quotes should by pithy, not only to get to the essence of the ideas expressed, but also to avoid copyright violations. In particular, the Connie Hawkins text isn't a quote, it's an entire story, and seems like to be a copyvio of NBA.com material. I ask the editors here to trim these quotes down to essences. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 07:03, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Bulls 1999 season
MJ SHOULD HAVE PLAYED, WAS ALMOST IN HIS PRIME AT 36, BUT KUKOC & PIPEN WERE DA BOMBS, BULLS COULD HAVE EASILY WON 7TH HEAVEN, BUT SEASON SHOULD HAVE CONSISTED OF 42 GAMES NOT 50 2long4agin TEAM, THIS WAY EACH CONFERENCE PLAYS EACH OTHER TWICE + ONCE OPPOSITE CONFERENCE, PHILADELPHIA SHOULD HAVE HOSTED ALL STARS BUT NBA FOLKS SAID SEASON TOO SHORT, SHUT UP! COULD HAVE FINISHED 35-7! THUS JORDAN RETIRES WITH 972GAMES! THEN COMES BACK FOR 15TH SEASON FOR 30 GAMES & HAS OVER 1000!

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Frisky Dingo

Frisky Dingo is an American animated cartoon series created by Adam Reed and Matt Thompson for Adult Swim. The series revolved around the conflict between a supervillain named Killface and a superhero named Awesome X, alias billionaire Xander Crews, and much of the show's humor focuses on parodying superhero and action movie clichés.

Meet Killface

 * [Killface is holding Brent by his legs at the top of the Annihilatrix, threatening to drop him]
 * Killface: [sighs] You see, Brent? We all have jobs to do.
 * Brent: Great, there goes my pen! Great!
 * Killface: My job is to complete the Annihilatrix and destroy mankind by driving this vile planet straight into the Sun [Brent interrupts].
 * Brent: Wait! I have another idea! Listen...
 * Killface: And your job is to market it.
 * Brent: Listen! No listen!  We can get... Jason Alexander!
 * Killface: Great!
 * Brent: Yeah!
 * Killface: You can call him when you hit the ground!
 * Brent: Nooo! Wait, wait!  I got another idea!  Better than Jason Alexander!  I got, uh...
 * Killface: Don't say David Arquette to me!
 * Brent: I wo... well now that you say that I'm not going to.

 * [Killface is examining Annihilatrix DVD]
 * Brent: ...Any standard DVD player.
 * Killface: Or any uhh... "PC", it says here?
 * Brent: Yes, any Personal Computer with DVD capabiliti-
 * Killface: GREAT SCOTT!!
 * Valerie: [Screams out in panic]
 * Brent: What?
 * Killface: [Laughs], "PC"...
 * Brent: What?
 * Killface: ...Stands for "Personal Computer"... I just this moment got that... VALERIE!!!
 * Valerie: [Screams in panic again]
 * Killface: It's alright if you want to laugh.
 * [All three are silent]
 * Valerie: [Nervous laugh]
 * Killface: Good girl.

Meet Awesome X

 * Stan: Five million dollars?!
 * Xander: Well, I had to pay her off. I can't have some blabbity-mouth hooker running around with my secret identity!  That's the first thing they teach you.
 * Stan: Nobody cares about your secret identity!
 * Xander: It's to protect my loved ones.
 * Stan: You don't have any loved ones!
 * Xander: [gasp] Stan!
 * Stan: What, who? That girlfriend you treat like dirt? Your murdered parents?
 * [Quick shot of pictures of Xander's parents]
 * Stan: And you can say good-bye to the X-tacles.
 * Xander: Wh--What?
 * Stan: What what? You just spent their entire salary for the year.
 * Xander: See, I knew you were going to trick me into doing this!
 * Stan: Me?! You're the one who paid five million dollars for a blowjob!
 * Xander: I...it was a half-and-half, first of all; second of all...okay I'm going.

 * [Xander, as Awesome-X, has a conversation with the Xtacles.]
 * Xander: ...but the Crew Company funds the entire Awesome X operation. So, you know, take it up with Xander Crews.
 * Xtacle #1: Let's kill that son of a bitch!
 * Xtacles: Yeah!
 * Xander: No, no, let's don't--he's a good guy. We don't kill good guys. We kill bad guys, come on. It's in our charter
 * Xtacle #1: So, what's up with our 401(k)?
 * [Xander just turns his head and groans]
 * Xtacle #2: What--that's my nest egg! We're still gonna have health insurance, right?
 * Xtacle #1: Oh my God! Health insurance, I need that.
 * [Xander just clears his throat]
 * Xtacles: What?!
 * Xtacle #3: Are we at least eligible for COBRA?
 * Xander: What, the little... the G. I. Joe dolls?
 * Xtacle #2: No, not the G. I. Joe dolls.

Pimp My Revenue

 * Sinn: If he always throws his food on the floor, how is he so fat?
 * Simon: [gasps and runs off]
 * Killface: No, son... [to Sinn] Now look what you've done!
 * Sinn: Sire, I'm sorry!
 * Killface: Apologize to his self-esteem! Now we've talked about the chubby cycle.  One snarky comment like that and he's back in the cupboard!  And he was doing so well! Three pounds this week!
 * Sinn: Yes sire.
 * Killface: Shut up. Just shut up and eat the cereal.
 * Sinn: It's got glass in it!
 * [glares at her until she gets on the floor and begins eating the cereal]]

 * Killface: [on climbing machine] ...then find me that printer so I can cut his arms off.
 * Valerie: But you signed off on...
 * Killface: Mention those proofs again and just see what happens, Valerie.
 * Valerie: Look, bad grammar aside, forty million people just saw your postcard.
 * Killface: [stopping exercise] Bugger me! They poll those numbers?
 * Valerie: It's the highest-rated daytime show ever.
 * Killface: Ugh, I hate America.
 * Valerie: [leading] And their booker owes me a favor.
 * Killface: No, she doesn't. Valerie, if you could get me on Live With Mitzi and Verl, I'd...I'd want two segments--not the one after Verl monologue, that's garbage time--but the next two, after the break.  Valerie, you get me on there, you just name your reward.
 * Valerie: I'd like for you to let me go.
 * Killface: [resuming exercise] Well, you know...except for that.

XPO

 * Awesome X: Just a damn minute, Mr. man, are you even Asian?
 * [Mao wipes away glasses and fake eyebrows]
 * Mao: Yeah, see, I kinda got this minority business loan.
 * [X-tacles cock and point guns at Mao]
 * Awesome X: Those loans are for non-threatening educated women of color.
 * Xtacle #1: Yeah, like maybe she wants to go into real estate.
 * Xtacle #2: Or maybe open up a beauty salon.
 * Xander: Screw it, shoot him.
 * Mao: Hey. Hey, whoa.  Can't we work something out here.  [slips him a postcard]
 * Xander: More. More.  More, like a whole box more.  And the villabouts of the whereain Kelly.
 * Xtacle #1: Whereabouts of the villain killface.
 * Xander: Did I say the villabouts of the whereain Kelly?
 * Xtacle #1: Yeah
 * Xander: 'Cause I've been doing that a lot lately. I wonder if it's a tumor.
 * Xtacle #1: I know a good cancer doctor.

 * Killface: Sinn, meet Mr Watley. But don't get too friendly.  I'm afraid he's one of our competitors.
 * Sinn: Charmed
 * [the two stare deeply in each other's eyes]
 * Watley: [strains as a plopping sound is heard]
 * Killface: Did you just... lay a clutch of eggs?
 * Watley: Well, I gotta go. You should get those in some sand.  [runs off embarassed]
 * Killface: That's... something you don't see every day... one hopes.

Kidnapped!

 * Xander: Looking back, Operation Snooperfax was a little...convoluted. Convoluted.
 * Stan: Convoluted? Damn it, you just about used up all of our operating capital.
 * Xander: Do we still have enough to pay for Train Island?
 * Stan: Yes, your little choo-choos are safe.
 * Xander: Nice!
 * Stan: Only because I had to make some pretty deep cuts in...elsewhere.
 * [The X-tacles receive their drastically deducted paychecks]
 * X-tacle #1: Guess I'll call Jan and tell her we're not going to Orlando.
 * X-tacle #2: Orlando? Dude, this won't even cover my mortgage.

 * Sinn: You didn't kill the taxi driver?
 * Killface: You know, I was, but I think it's hard enough on the Arabs in this beastly country right now.
 * Sinn: I don't think he's Arab.
 * Phil: No, I'm pretty sure that guy is Filipino.
 * Killface: Well then. [Shoots the taxi driver] London calling.
 * Grace: Oh my God! Yes! THAT is exactly the kind of bloodlust that makes for a phenomenal interview.  Hi.  Grace Ryan, Force 10 News.
 * Killface: And you must be Killface. What am I saying?  Of course you're not Killface, not with a face like that; no one in their right mind would think to call you...I'm Killface...if anybody is.

Emergency Room

 * Killface: Fetch the minivan. We're off to murder that wretch Xander Crews.
 * Grace: Don't you dare hurt him!
 * Sinn: Sire, Phil has cancer!
 * Killface: First of all, he's obviously not that into you.
 * [Grace gasps]
 * Killface: Phil, given your strict forcemeats-and-cheese regimen, the only real surprise is you're not dead already.
 * Phil: Phil, grappling with the cold reality of death, has no pithy rejoinder.

 * Grace: Oh my God, Xander, where are you?
 * Killface: Well, wherever he is, I'm sure he's laughing his fat face off.
 * [Aboard the Xcalibur, Xander is tied to a chair getting punched by the Xtacles]
 * X-tacle #1: Who's laughing now, Crews?
 * Xander: I wasn't laughing before. ''[Punch]]
 * X-tacle #2: I'm gonna punch him so friggin' hard.
 * X-tacle #3: I'm gonna smash his face in!
 * X-tacle #4: I'm gonna blow him. [Everybody looks at him] UP!  Wh... [Walks off] Queers!

Meet Antagone

 * [sitar Music Plays]
 * Phil: Ohn-Naa. Ohn-Naa.
 * Killface: No no no no! Stop that! Stop that Mantra!
 * Phil: Oh Hi, and a blessed day to you.
 * Killface: [annoyed] mm?
 * Phil: [Optimistic] Mm!
 * Killface: mm?
 * Phil: Mm! Ohn-Naa.
 * [Killface shoots through Phil's Speakers, ending the Sitar Music]
 * Killface: Get the hell out of Here!
 * Phil: Mm, I can't. Lorraine kicked me out when she found out I had cancer.
 * Killface: That fat slag!
 * Phil: Enh!
 * Killface: Surely this town has a Y, Philip?
 * Phil: No, I'm getting a pretty nice Healing Vibe here. Good for my Chakra.
 * Killface: No, No, Cancer's a bad influence on Simon! Worse than Sinn and that Prawn and...whatever happend to Val?
 * [The eyes of Mrs Killface's Portrait slide back, revealing Valerie's eyes, looking shifty; the original eyes are replaced.]
 * Killface: Anyway, get your candles and your, white cells or whatever and just pop on down to the Y, hm?
 * Phil: Ohmmmmy lawyers say the Annihilatrix caused my cancer.
 * Killface: What lawyers?
 * Phil: It's all here in the lawsuit.
 * Killface: ... ...My God, the stones on you.

 * Killface: [Unable to get his money out of the bank after Phil spends the money he received from suing Killface] Ridiculous! A hundred and eighty dollars for snake oil?
 * Phillip: Shark oil, and some of that was for the bath salts and add... the luffa.
 * Killface: Oh damn your luffa... [Starts pounding the machine] and damn Xander Crews and damn his snotty back!
 * Phillip: Yeah, why do you bank here anyway?
 * Killface: [Temporarily with a happier tone] Checking with interest. [Starts pounding the machine again, breaking it] But now this blasted machine tells me my checking account can't be accessed!!
 * Phillip: Wow, already?
 * Killface: I d- I beg your pardon?
 * Phillip: Well, we had to freeze your assets. [Killface tries to suppress his anger with a deep breath] Come on, its common sense. I'm sorry, you want some walking around money?
 * Killface: No, I want to go you to the car and get some plasma charges and blow Xander Crews' crummy, little bank to-

(The bank explodes, knocking Killface and Phillip away)
 * Phillip: My loofah, where's my loofah?!
 * Killface: Shut up, Phil.

Blind Faith

 * Grace: [rapidly, holding stolen gems] Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.
 * Xander: Grace! Open the damn door, it's Xander!
 * Grace: [tone of Antagone, eyes glowing green] Xander Crews?
 * Xander: Yes, idiot!
 * [Grace/Antagone growls]
 * [Antagone opens door]
 * Xander Hey fun bags, where's my idiot girlfriend?
 * [Xander gets knocked out]

 * Xander: [Xander has hit the blind Killface with his car] Hey, hey, no no man, don't move, man. I think you got a concussion.
 * Killface: Ow! What happened?
 * Xander: Hit... hit... hit... and... and they ran... hit and run, plateless gang car.
 * Killface: Oh! On a blind man! Crap! Yes, riding dirty, no doubt... With their... Bubba Kush. Well I, sir, am Killface. And you are in my debt... I'm in your debt.
 * Xander: Yeah, you have a house.
 * Killface: Yes, let's go to my house. take Naps. Where's my food?
 * Xander: Yeah, here...
 * Killface: My head... kills.
 * Xander: Um... this is actually just full of rocks.
 * Killface: Oh, that guy!
 * Xander: Yeah. [Laughs] ChickParm does that to blind people all the time.
 * Killface: Oh, I hate them!
 * Xander: Yeah, my girlfriend even did a thing on the news about it-
 * Killface: Is your girlfriend on the news?
 * Xander: My... what?
 * Killface: Grace Ryan? Wait a minute. Who are you? Shhhhh. You smell that? I smell crickets.
 * Xander: We should go to your house.
 * Killface: Yes, let's go to my house. Take naps. And y... what's your name? I don't even know your name.
 * Xander: Um... uh... mmm... Barnaby Jones.
 * Killface: [Beat] Barnaby Jones!
 * Xander: Yeah.
 * Killface: [Singing] People, let me tell ya 'bout my new best friend, Barnaby Jones! [Long pause] ...Nap.

The Odd Couple

 * Stan: [as Awesome X through transmission] How did he even escape anyway?
 * X-tacle #1: We're...dealing with that internally, X.
 * Stan: Inte...I'll deal with you internally!
 * [The X-tacles gasp as Stan holds up a remote.]
 * Stan: Yes, you'd better gasp collectively, because until you find Xander Crews, I'm gonna blow one of your heads off every hour. [1 X-tacle's head axplodes] Starting now
 * [Transmission ends]
 * X-tacle #1: Oh my f-ing God...
 * X-tacle #2: Every hour? What are we going to do?
 * X-tacle #3: First of all, maybe we shouldn't have agreed to have remote-controlled explosives put in our necks.
 * X-tacle #1: Well where were you at contract time?
 * X-tacle #3: Your mom's house. [X-tacle #1 points gun at #3] Cleaning! Dude I was only cleaning.
 * X-tacle #1: [holstering gun] Yeah, that's what I thought.
 * X-tacle #3: [pointing his own gun] Her vagina!

 * X-tacle #2: What's that supposed to be?
 * X-tacle #3: A little ashtray.
 * X-tacle #2: For who?
 * X-tacle #3: It's...it's for my mom.
 * X-tacle #2: Wh--Diane still smokes?
 * X-tacle #3: Yeah, right in the...you know... [points at neck] the little neckhole.
 * X-tacle #4: Dude!
 * X-tacle #3: Dude I know... It's My mom

Flowers for Nearl

 * X-tacle #1: Okay, got the tuxedo shirt.
 * X-tacle #2: Uhh...what is that?
 * Nearl: Everybody is Ken!
 * X-tacle #1: What is what?
 * X-tacle #2: That!
 * X-tacle #1: It's the shirt.
 * X-tacle #2: Really. And is it me, or is it 1987? A winged collar.  Are you...doing this?
 * X-tacle #3: What are...what's everybody doing?
 * X-tacle #2: No, that's great. Maybe you and Nearl...
 * Nearl: I'm Nearl!
 * X-tacle #2: ...your f*cking prom date can borrow your dad's f*cking time machine...
 * X-tacle #3: Please don't do this.
 * X-tacle #2: ...and fly it into the gym down there at I'm-a-jackoff High School...
 * Nearl: Everybody!
 * X-tacle #2: ...and slow dance to Lisa Lisa and motherf*cking Cult Jam!
 * Nearl: Lisa Lisa, the one I adore!
 * X-tacle #4: [running in] I think it's the Cult Jam.
 * X-tacle #1: [as Ed McMahon] You are correct, sir.
 * X-tacle #2: No, he isn't, nor is that collar!
 * X-tacle #3: Can we just fix the collar?
 * X-tacle #5: [at sewing machine] Oh, sure, why not? I'll just do it tonight while I'm missing another recital.

 * X-tacle #1: So...who's read Flowers for Algernon?
 * Nearl: Ken!
 * X-tacle #2: Oooh, about the kid with all the chains, and the goggles, and at the end he gets killed with a shotgun?
 * Xtacles #2, #3, #4: Boosh!!
 * X-tacle #1: That's Harrison Bergeron.
 * Xtacles #2, #3, #4: Hollywood Squares!
 * X-tacle #1: That's Tom Bergeron.
 * X-tacle #2: Brother of Menelaus!
 * X-tacle #1: Damn it, that's Agamemnon!

The Grate Escape

 * Killface: Barnaby, listen.
 * Xander Crews: What?
 * Killface: I thought I heard something. [Xander Crews screams and presses against Killface]
 * Xander Crews: I bet it's a chud.
 * Killface: We really need to get you some pants.
 * Xander Crews: Yeah, that's not a pickle.
 * Killface: I know. It's your penis.
 * Xander Crews: My penis? [deepens voice] My penis.
 * Killface: Barnaby...
 * Xander Crews: Scrinching back!

 * [Old Spice, Xander and Killface navigate the Torpedo Vegas sewers]
 * Killface: All right, tell Old Spice thanks for helping us escape… uh the map… Oh! And thanks for these new eyes!
 * Xander: [in Mandarin] Thanks for your help. And the eyes.
 * Old Spice: [in Mandarin] The glasses are only temporary.
 * Xander: Neat!
 * Killface: Oh, this bag of radishes.
 * Xander: [in Mandarin] Also, thanks for the radishes!
 * Killface: Move over bananas, I found a new source of potassium.
 * Old Spice: [in Mandarin] There should also be a turnip.
 * Killface: Oh, and tell him… [looks at Xander] you know, you’re really dead handsome.
 * Xander: [in Mandarin] He says you’re very handsome.
 * Old Spice: [looks nonplussed at Killface then Xander. In Mandarin] Tell him I have a wife. In China.
 * Xander: Uh… he says he has a car, in China.
 * Killface: Well, I don’t care about his car!
 * Xander: Well, I’m not gonna tell him that!
 * Killface: No, do tell him! Tell him that verbatim.
 * Xander: Owning a car in China has got to be, like, a huge deal! Of course he’s proud!
 * Killface: Barnaby.
 * Xander: Think how many rags he had to pick!
 * Killface: Time’s a bit of a factor here.
 * Xander: TELL HIM YOU’RE PROUD OF HIS CAR!
 * Killface: What does it matter what I say?
 * Xander: Well, he speaks English.
 * Killface: [to Old Spice] You speak English?
 * Old Spice: Yes.
 * Killface: [walks away] Mm-hmm.

 * Killface: Then I'll face off with Torpedo Vegas mano-a-mano. Probably with katanas. [Killface slashes at Vegas with a katana]
 * Torpedo Vegas: You win this round... Killface... [the top half of his torso begins to slide off.]
 * Killface: Then I'll have a tearful reunion with Simon and we can all go home. Bing bong bing.
 * Xander Crews: Yeah. My part's kinda gay.
 * Killface: Hah! Wait til you hear Plan B!
 * Xander Crews: Uh...what's Plan B?
 * [They Round a corner and are faced with a dozen gun-wileding guards]
 * Guard: Fleeze, douche bags!
 * Killface: I don't actually have one.

Penultimate Fighting

 * Torpedo Vegas: He's like a kid in a candy shop, and that candy is... success. And I'm that friendly man at this cash register with a handle bar mustache *chuckles*
 * Xander Crews/Barnaby Jones: What?
 * Killface: I think I'm missing the key reference.
 * Torpedo Vegas: I can't have people sneaking in here leaking dooky water on my rugs. That's unacceptable.
 * Xander Crews/Barnaby Jones: I HAVE PATTY HEARST SYNDROME!
 * Killface: Barnaby just-
 * Torpedo Vegas: I'm getting furious at you, you don't even have any pants on.
 * Xander Crews/Barnaby Jones: Neither does he!
 * Torpedo Vegas: Well he doesn't have a penis! As far as I can tell...
 * Killface: I - uh -
 * Xander Crews / Barnaby Jones: Yeah, what is the story on that?
 * Killface: Oh, like you can talk.
 * Xander Crews: Hey, my penis fills an entire tall-boy.
 * [Quick cut to Xander, as Awesome X, dancing in front of the X-ticles, naked except for a beercan covering his groin and shouting "Master Cylinder!" through a megaphone. Cut back to Torpedo Jones' lair]
 * Torpedo Jones: [Scoffing] I'm sure it doesn't fill it.

 * Xander Crews/Barnaby Jones: Oh, you're fuckin' dead.
 * Killface: Yes, that's the spirit, Barnaby. [Xander smashes Killface in the face] Oh you're really selling it.
 * Xander Crews/Barnaby Jones: Oh, what's that? I obviously can't hear you.
 * Killface: Okay, Barnaby?
 * Xander Crews/Barnaby Jones: Hey, I'm Killface, and I have a plan! Let me shoot your fuckin' eyes out! And then, let's wander around a fuckin' sewer our whole lives, looking for my fat ass, weirdo kid!
 * Killface: Hey-
 * Xander Crews/Barnaby Jones: Who just happens to be-
 * Killface: Barnaby-
 * Xander Crews/Barnaby Jones: The world's fattest fucking pussy! [Killface yells and bashes Xander to the ground]
 * Killface: You made me do that! [Steps on Xander's neck]
 * Xander Crews/Barnaby Jones: Well, your kid's still a pussy.
 * Killface: Barnaby-
 * Xander Crews/Barnaby Jones: 'Cause you are a failure as a parent.

Thrust Issues

 * [After Simon attempts to re-hang a portrait of his mother up]
 * Killface: So just leave Lady Mom on the floor as a painful remainder of everyone I clutch to my bosom in friendship, only to feel the icy pang of betrayal as they sink their serpent's teeth into my... y'know... my bosom!
 * [Phillip enters, wearing a tuxedo and carrying a basket of pickles]
 * Phillip: [Cheerfully] Well, my ears are burnin'.
 * Killface: Wha... Phillip?!
 * Phillip: Ta-daaa!
 * [Icy pause]
 * Killface: [Stand-offish] Eager to know why you're here.
 * Killface: Have you come to gloat?
 * Phillip: That, and I think I might have left my Zune here. Have ya seen it?
 * Killface: I don't know.
 * Phillip: No? It's a...
 * Killface: No, nothing here but a profound sense of betrayal.
 * Phillip: ... little Zune, it's got Mp3s on it...
 * Killface: Oh, and back knives.
 * Phillip: Ah, it's no biggie, I'll just buy a new one. I'm a billionaire now, you know.
 * Killface: Yes, I can tell by the tuxedo.
 * Phillip: Yep, that's what we wear. Y'know.
 * Killface: ZZ Top would be proud.
 * Phillip: Chompa chompa.
 * Phillip: Chompa chompa.

 * [Arranging to swap the $20 billion check for the Annihilatrix key]
 * Xander Crews: We threw 'em! We throw 'em on three!
 * Killface: No, I-I think it's windy for...
 * Xander Crews: [Yelling quickly] One two three!
 * [Startled, Killface throws the check; it is caught by the wind before Xander (who didn't throw the key) can catch it]
 * Xander Crews: [Beat]... what the fuck, dude?!
 * Killface: You said throw it!
 * Xander Crews: Why?!... did I say that?!
 * Killface: 'Cause you're an idiot! And a liar! You didn't even throw yours!
 * [Pause]
 * Xander Crews: I was gonna keep them both!
 * Killface: You - Well, serves you right then!

Behold a Dark Horse

 * Mr. Ford: Well... bad is a relative term.
 * (On the phone at his office)
 * Mr. Ford: I said, what you think about global warming? Huh?  Well, get a job, you damn hippie!  Huh?  Aww, fuck you.
 * (Back to documentary interview)
 * Mr. Ford: Basically, I just make stuff up and fax it over there.
 * (cut from Mr. Ford's fax machine to Killface's)
 * Killface: Oh! Ooh!  There's a fax coming!
 * (Back to documentary interview)
 * Mr. Ford: Some weeks he doin' good, other weeks, he's not doin'... he's not doin' any good.

 * Killface: (campaign stop at A.M.E. Zion Church, dressed like Michael Vick) Hello, African Zionists. Pleasure to be here, and how about that Jesus Christ, hmm? He's one bad mother--
 * Churchgoer: You Hush your mouth!
 * Killface: I'm just talkin' 'bout Christ.
 * (At apartment)
 * Killface: We should send them a pie basket.
 * Dottie: They don't eat pie.
 * Killface: Yes, they do.
 * Dottie: Have you ever actually met a black person?
 * Killface: Of course! Sinn was black.
 * Dottie: I don't think a servant...
 * Killface: Indentured servant...technically
 * Dottie: How did you ever win the primary?
 * (Shot of Killface on top of bus in ticker-tape parade, banner reading "Thanks Killface. Global Warming Cured")
 * Killface: Duh.

The Opposition

 * Xander: Can you even be gay for a robot? [in robot tone] Beep-beep, I am a gay-bot!
 * Xtacle: ..Y-..you think we're robots?!
 * Xander: [in robot tone] May I offer you a robot blowjob?
 * Xtacle: ..this-this is just armor! [clanks helmet]
 * Xander: Power down gay robot; that is an an earthman order!
 * Xtacle: Okay, hang on...
 * [Xtacle takes off helmet, revealing a human head.]
 * Xander: [Gasp]
 * Xander: Oh my... god...
 * Xtacle: That's what I've been saying.
 * Xander: You look.. so... real!
 * Xtacle: [exhasperated sigh] Look-
 * Xander: Can I... touch you?
 * Xtacle: Kinda prefer you didn't.
 * Xander: Just be still.
 * Xtacle: No, hey, come on!
 * Xander: Feel my touch.
 * [Xander sucker punches the Xtacle in the face, knocking him unconscious]

 * Xander: So, what's this whole movie deal about Killface?
 * Camera Man: Actually, he's running for president.
 * Xander: He's what?! How?!
 * Camera Man: Yeah, cause when he activated the Anihalatrix, he cured Global Warming.
 * Xander: Wait, no, I turned it on!
 * Camera Man: Well, he says he did.
 * Xander: Son of a BITCH!
 * Cmaera Man: Yeah, so do cabs ever come by here?
 * Xander: Well, you know what? If he's running for President, then so am I!
 * Camera Man: Well, it takes, like, tons and tons of money to run for president.
 * Xander: [Holds up check containing his billions.] Well, is that enough? Ka-kow!
 * Camera Man: Hey, when did you get the check back?
 * Xander: Oh, just right after that whole incident with it blowing away.
 * [Flashback, Xander comes down from Annihilatrix in elevator]
 * Xander: Yeah, have fun getting the shit stomped outta you by the Xtacles when I go back to my house to get my Awesome X gear from that hooker who was living there the last time I... [check blows into his face] ...checked.
 * Xander: Apparently, it's been here the whole time...SUCKERS!!

The Issues

 * Xander: I need somebody who gets me, and also somebody who's a fighter, Stan. Just a tenacious smashin' bastard.
 * Stan: Yep.
 * Xander: He may be a little older...
 * Stan: Mm-hmmm.
 * Xander: Maybe a little balder...
 * Stan: Well...
 * Xander: But he's still the only player in NFL history to get two safeties in a single game.
 * Stan: [pause] I'm sorry?
 * Xander: Yes, Stan--two-time Pro Bowler Fred Dryer!
 * Stan: You mean, TV's Hunter?
 * Xander: He was Hunter?!

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 * Xander: You, Grace, do the roar.
 * Grace: What?
 * Xander: Roar like the "Team Jaguar" jaguar. [Grace roars quietly] Damn it, you're an apex predator. [Grace roars louder] Yeah! That's how she sounds when I'm bangin' her.
 * [Talking head]
 * Grace: I know, I just...can't stay mad at him. I'm gonna have his babies. [Holds up vial labelled "Xander Crews"]
 * Camera Man: Is that...?
 * Grace: Uh-huh.
 * Camera Man: Shouldn't that be in a freezer?
 * Grace: Sometimes I like to hold them.

The Image Problem

 * Xander: You think they're looking for us?
 * Killface: Both presidential candidates lost in a...duck bog? They must be.
 * [In Killface's apartment, Dottie and Taqu'il watch a NASCAR race]
 * Taqu'il: Man, I can't believe this.
 * Dottie: Well, it's not like we can stay out there all night.
 * Taqu'il: No, I can't believe I've been missing out on this white-knuckle thrill ride. Lookit, Junior's makin' a move!
 * Dottie: God love him.
 * Stan: All right, who's ready for another Tom Collins?
 * Dottie: See, now he gets me.

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 * Killface: It's the international, you know, cry for help in the wilderness, bang bang bang, three quick shots.
 * Xander: Where'd you hear that?
 * Killface: It was in...oh, God, what was it? There was this whacking great bear...
 * Xander: Oh, was it that movie The Bear?
 * Killface: Shut up, no, it was...
 * Xander: B.J. and the Bear?
 * Killface: Tony Hopkins was in it.
 * Xander: Oh, God, is he great?
 * Killface: I could watch him read the phone book.
 * Xander: And pay money to see it.
 * Killface: I'd like to just smell his hair.

The Miracle

 * Dottie: ...and, as you know, American voters insist on a Christian president.
 * Killface: That's me. I'm Christian in spades!
 * Dottie: But you have to be subtle about it.
 * Killface: I'm subtle in spades!
 * Taqu'il: They also don't want you to use the word "spades" all the damn time.

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 * Xander: (on headline outing Simon) BOOSH! Dude, we have got to jump on this with both feet.
 * Stan: Nope.
 * Xander: I want WebTV, I want Bluetube...
 * Stan: Nope, we leave this one alone.
 * Xander: Why?
 * Stan: Because two words: John Kerry.
 * Xander: Who?
 * Stan: Exactly.
 * Xander: [Beat] ...He some sort of famous gay dude?

The Middle

 * Xander: I do have shortlist of four tentative maybes.
 * Stan: [grabbing list]] Let's see here...
 * Xander: Okay, Snatch-mo.
 * Stan: [reading] Roxanne, the Real Roxanne, Roxanne Shanté, and Salman Rushdie.
 * Xander: Which...I think it's actually "Salmon."

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 * [Fifty minutes after the computer goes down]
 * Stan: No, what are the last three digits?
 * Xander: I don't even see the I.P. address.
 * Stan: It's right up...
 * Xander: Now I'm thinking of I.P Freely. Now I'm thinking of Ace Frehley. Stan, Ace Frehley...
 * Stan: Oh, for fuck's sake...
 * Xander: Put him in on list.
 * Stan: Why is the damn thing turned off?
 * Xander: You said shut down.
 * Stan: Momentarily, a half an hour ago!
 * Xander: Well, I didn't go to computer academy!
 * Stan: Oh, shut the fuck up!

The Debate, Part One

 * Wendell: So, yeah. This is, uh...  I'm undercover.
 * Killface: Undercover for what?
 * Dottie: Uh, aiy... Wendell's volunteered to look into some new fundraising avenues.
 * Wendell: Yeeeep! Commence Operation: Meth Nazi!
 * Killface: Operation WHAT?
 * [Wendell drives off on moped, crashing into glass]
 * Killface: Wendell!
 * Wendell: Oi!
 * Killface: I...don't have a great feeling about this.
 * Dottie: Oh, grow up. Do you know how many American politicians are funded by the Neo-Nazis?
 * Killface: Wh...shut up.
 * Dottie: My God, there's Congressman [bleep], and Senator [bleep], not to mention Vice-[bleep] [bleep].
 * [Cut to talking head]
 * Killface: Going to bleep those, I hope.

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 * Awesome X: [flying through air with Ronnie on his back] Quit grinding your fucking dick on me!
 * Ronnie: I cannot find comfort.
 * Awesome X: How about finding Killface's house?
 * Ronnie: Okay, but first, guess what.
 * Awesome X: What?
 * Ronnie: I feel like hobbit...on eagle.
 * Awesome X: Well, that's great, Ronnie...
 * Ronnie: Oh, Bilbo Baggins.
 * Awesome X: [fuel gauge on wrist reads empty] ...because now you guess what. [Both plummet to ground]

The Debate, Part Two

 * Clerk: You wanna watch while I call the police?
 * Wendell: No, wait, I got some money down here in my sock.
 * Xander: See, he's got sock money.
 * Wendell: But...
 * Ronnie: [with ice cream] Here, you lick...with tongue.
 * Wendell: [with Awesome X mask and gun] You got change for a .38?! [Shoots clerk five times]
 * Xander: What the fuck, Wendell?!
 * Wendell: Wendell X.

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 * Carter: First question, both candidates--Article Two of the Constitution.
 * Xander: The what?
 * Killface: Um... [Lamont quacks]
 * Xander: Why does he get a spirit animal? I think my buzzer's broken!
 * Killface: Is that the one about tariffs?
 * Carter: No, it's the one that says you have to be at least 35 years old and a US citizen in order to be President.
 * Killface: Well, that can't be right. I'm not even a legal resident.
 * Xander: And I'm only 33.
 * Carter: So, follow-up--why are you idiots wasting everybody's time when you can't even be elected?

A Take on Hooper

 * Doctor: So listen. I can't give you an okay to...
 * Xander: Stand those pants up.
 * Doctor: ...go battle a cadre of supervillains on top of a giant doomsday device.
 * Xander: Well, not with that attitude!
 * Doctor: Remember when Killface punched you with a penguin at the Haggar Pants Presidential Debate (Turns on X-ray of Xander's spine)
 * Xander: Uh, vaguely, yeah.
 * Doctor: Well, that cracked your C3 and C4 vertebrae, so... you ever see Hooper?
 * Xander: Yeah, that robot with the big tits!
 * Doctor: No, but that sounds awesome.
 * Xander: It is!
 * Doctor: I meant the Burt Reynolds movie where he's a hard-living stuntman.
 * Xander: That sounds awesome.
 * Doctor: It is. Anyway, one more impact to the neck, and you'll be paralyzed.
 * Xander: My third-greatest fear!
 * Doctor: Same basic plot as in the movie.
 * Xander: God, that sounds awesome.
 * Doctor: It is.
 * Xander: But who's gonna stop Hooper?
 * Doctor: Well, it's already out on DVD.
 * Xander: No, I mean the robot with the big tits.
 * Doctor: Really sounds awesome.
 * Xander: It is.
 * Doctor: Anyway...
 * (Wendell, dressed in Awesome X top, delivers a flying kick to the Doctor)
 * Wendell: I actually have some thoughts on that.
 * Doctor: Oh my God, now my neck's broken!

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 * Wendell: What! How could you even say that? I'm a freakin' force of nature here. Pew! Pew! Pew! Pew--
 * Xander: Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! ::crash::
 * Wendell: Oh...I'll get you a new lamp.
 * Xander: Yeah, that was actually a sconce.
 * Wendell: Still though...
 * Xander: Yeah, it's just...I kind of spent a lot of time developing the Awesome X brand.
 * Wendell: Totally, yeah and it's understandable, you know, you're protective of it.
 * Xander: And I hate for you to go up there and...
 * Wendell: I get it.
 * Xander: ...get your fat ass handed to you.
 * Wendell: Wow.
 * Xander: Yeah.
 * Wendell: You just, ah...went ahead and put it out there.
 * Xander: Well...
 * Wendell: Muffin Top X!
 * Xander: Well...
 * Wendell: Just so you know, this armor does not protect my feelings.
 * Xander: Ok, you know what? Yeah, do it.
 * Wendell: Really?
 * Xander: Yeah, because either your dumb ass dies or you somehow manage to kill the unspeakable horror about to spew forth from my ex-girlfriend's womb.
 * Wendell: Um...
 * Xander: Cause ah, you know, big picture, child support...
 * Wendell: You gonna...
 * Xander: I'm not saying perform an abortion...
 * Wendell: Oh my god...
 * Xander: But, let's see if you can't stab that thing while it's still in her belly.
 * Wendell: Could maybe stab her in the belly if I had a machete.
 * Xander: Well...your words.

Wendell Goes Undercover Again

 * [baby kicks in Antagone's womb]
 * Deceptatacle #1: Whoa! Oh my god, that is adorable!
 * Antagone: He's really getting worked up!
 * Deceptatacle #2: Oh yeah, definitely some activity down here.
 * Antagone: Can you see him, is he crowning?
 * Deceptatacle #2: I don't know or care what that means.
 * Antagone: He's gonna come soon, I can feel it!
 * Deceptatacle #2: You can feel that?

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 * Xander: Mmm, yeah I'm gonna pass... on that... because it is retarded! Wendell!
 * Wendell: Yes?
 * Xander: Go kill that baby, buddy.
 * Scientist: Now there's a movie I haven't seen.
 * Xander: Uhh Vera Drake?
 * Scientist: Didn't see it.
 * Xander: It's... for an abortion movie? Pretty funny.
 * Scientist: Let's rent it.
 * Xander: Done! All abort! Toot toot!

Cody Gains a Namesake

 * Deceptacle #1: All right, let me get this straight. You're saying that Steve guy and the crab-man killed Sinn.
 * Val: Yeah, then put me in her armor to make it look like I did it...
 * Deceptacle #2: Damn, that Steve's crafty.
 * Val: ...then took off with the bug-lady to give birth in a secret location.
 * Deceptacle #1: They're probably starting an ant-baby machete-squad splinter group! (All Decepticles gasp)
 * Val: Steve mentioned that.

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 * Wendell: Big push, big push! Wait, wait, wait, stop, stop, stop!
 * Antagone: What?!
 * Wendell: I'm gonna throw up. (Hovers to bathroom)
 * Antagone: Get back here!
 * Wendell: (in bathroom, having vomited) Do you have any Scope?
 * Antagone: Get your fat ass back here!

Differences Are Put Slightly Aside

 * Killface: What on earth are you wearing?
 * Xander: It's a halo, idiot! Not grab bars.
 * Killface: Are those underoos?
 * Xander: I'm Awesome X!
 * Killface: Oh...
 * Xander: Ta-da.
 * Killface: I don't...know if I ever knew that. (Simon mumbles) Oh, you don't even know if you're gay or not.
 * Xander: Snip-snap.
 * Killface: Snip-snap, indeed.

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 * Deceptacle #1: Aw yeah, get 'em in there! (Kicks barrel of mini-cobs into pool) Can't have a clambake without corn.
 * Deceptacle #2: Can we have one without clams?
 * Deceptacle #1: Okay, uh...this is now Lowcountry boil.
 * Deceptacle #2: Yeah, I still think that has clams.
 * Deceptacle #1: Well, I'm sorry the prison food truck didn't have a fresh load of quahogs, but let's still give it up to Curtis for lettin' us hijack it!

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PT 109 (film)

PT 109 is a 1963 biographical which depicts the actions of John F. Kennedy in command of Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 as an officer of the United States Navy during World War II. The movie was adapted by Vincent Flaherty and Howard Sheehan from the book PT 109: John F. Kennedy in World War II by Robert J. Donovan. Cliff Robertson stars as Kennedy. Most men would have given up...But not the crew of PT 109.taglines

Dialogue

 * Edmund Drewitch: [reading a brief on Kennedy] Seems like all he ever did was go to school. He's had no sea duty. Says here he wrote a book.
 * Leon Drawdy: Sounds like he oughta be in charge of a library.
 * Charles 'Bucky' Harris: What's the name of the book?
 * Edmund Drewitch: 'Why England Slept.'
 * Charles 'Bucky' Harris: [around a cigar stub] Got any pictures in it?
 * Edmund Drewitch: Pigeons?
 * Charles 'Bucky' Harris: Pictures, idiot!
 * Edmund Drewitch: He's lookin' for pictures and I'm an idiot.

 * Charles 'Bucky' Harris: Good afternoon, sir. Crew's compartment ready for inspection. Harris, Gunner's Mate Second, standing by.
 * Cmdr. C.R. Ritchie: Good afternoon.
 * [He looks around, and then opens one of the lockers. On the inside of the door is a picture of a luscious pin-up girl]
 * Cmdr. C.R. Ritchie: Somebody's kid sister?
 * Charles 'Bucky' Harris: Sorry, sir.
 * Lt. John F. Kennedy: He's very sorry, sir.
 * Cmdr. C.R. Ritchie: Oh, no, no. Don't apologize... the most seaworthy thing I've seen on this boat.

Taglines

 * Most men would have given up...But not the crew of PT 109
 * "The Story you wouldn't believe happened...but it did!"
 * The true story of Lt. John F. Kennedy's incredible adventure in the South Pacific!
 * A band of men left for dead in a flaming sea and their epic heroism and survival!

Cast

 * Cliff Robertson - LTJG John F. Kennedy
 * Ty Hardin - ENS Leonard J. Thom
 * James Gregory as CDR C.R. Ritchie
 * Robert Culp - ENS George "Barney" Ross
 * Grant Williams - LT Alvin Cluster
 * Lew Gallo - Yeoman Rogers
 * Errol John - Benjamin Kevu
 * Michael Pate - Lieutenant Reginald Evans, RANVR
 * Robert Blake - Charles "Bucky" Harris
 * William Douglas - Gerard Zinser
 * Biff Elliot - Edgar E. Mauer
 * Norman Fell - Edmund Drewitch
 * Sam Gilman - Raymond Starkey
 * Clyde Howdy - Leon Drawdy
 * Buzz Martin - Maurice Kowal
 * James McCallion - Pat McMahon
 * Joseph Gallison - Harold Marney
 * Sammy Reese - Andrew Kirksey
 * Glenn Sipes - William Johnson
 * John Ward - John Maguire
 * David Whorf - Raymond Albert
 * Andrew Duggan - narrator (uncredited)
 * George Takei - Helmsman of Japanese destroyer (uncredited)

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Stafford Cripps

Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, and diplomat. He served as British Ambassador to the Soviet Union at the beginning of World War II, and later joined Prime Minister Winston Churchill's war cabinet. He later served as President of the Board of Trade and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister Clement Attlee.

Backbench MP

 * Unless during the first five years so great a degree of change has been accomplished as to deprive Capitalism of its power, it is unlikely that a Socialist Party will be able to maintain its position of control without adopting some exceptional means, such as the prolongation of the life of Parliament for a further term without an election.
 * Can Socialism come by Constitutional Methods? (1933), p. 2, quoted in Hugh Dalton, The Fateful Years. Memoirs 1931-1945 (1957), p. 151

 * The [Labour] Government's first step will be to call Parliament together at the earliest moment and place before it an Emergency Powers Bill to be passed through in all its stages on the first day. This Bill will be wide enough in its terms to allow all that will be immediately necessary to be done by ministerial orders. These orders must be incapable of challenge in the Courts or in any way except in the House of Commons.
 * Can Socialism come by Constitutional Methods? (1933), p. 4, quoted in Hugh Dalton, The Fateful Years. Memoirs 1931-1945 (1957), p. 151

 * In 1919 we pledged our honour as a country that we would disarm as soon as possible, and other countries did the same. In the face of that Germany accepted the Treaty of Versailles. We had done nothing. We had offered a Disarmament Conference which might well make the gods laugh if they desired the destruction of the human race. We had got to realize the extraordinary gravity of the European situation—the pass to which the National Government had brought the world. The worst Foreign Secretary for 200 years had led this country into folly after folly in the international field. They ought to warn the Government that in no circumstances would they break any of the pacts they had made not to go to war. There was only one effective way in which they could make that threat effective...and that was to call a general strike. It was for the people of this country, in answer to that call, to put themselves behind the trade unions and to compel the trade unions to draw up plans immediately for that great resistance.
 * Speech in Bristol (28 October 1933), quoted in The Times (30 October 1933), p. 14

 * I do not believe in private armies but if the Fascists started a private army it might be for the Socialist and Communist Parties to do the same. When the Labour Party come into power they must act rapidly, and it will be necessary to deal with the House of Lords and the influence of the City of London. There is no doubt that we shall have to overcome opposition from Buckingham Palace and other places as well...There must not be time to allow the forces outside to gather and to exercise their influence upon the Legislature before the key-points of capitalism have been transferred to the control of the State, and I look upon these two key-points myself as being the land and finance. If other people become revolutionary, then the Socialist Government, like any other Government, must take steps to stamp out the revolution. The Socialist Government must not be mealy-mouthed about saying what they mean. They must make it perfectly clear that it is their intention to carry out the mandate they have been given by the people.
 * Speech to the annual conference of the University Labour Federation in Nottingham (6 January 1934), quoted in The Times (8 January 1934), p. 14

 * The problem of dealing with the armed forces of the Crown is the most difficult one we will have to face when we do get into power. The Labour Party will have to face the fact that it is a class Party...It has to be prepared to take steps more forceful than even the steps taken at the time of the Ulster Rebellion.
 * The Manchester Guardian (28 May 1934), quoted in Hugh Dalton, The Fateful Years. Memoirs 1931-1945 (1957), p. 150

 * But it is a fallacy, if one is examining the methods by which security can be attained, to start upon the assumption, as so many hon. Members do, that we get security by an increase of air armaments or an increase of any other form of armaments.
 * Hansard, House of Commons, 5th Series, vol. 292, col. 2425.
 * Speech in the House of Commons opposing the National Government's decision to expand the Royal Air Force (30 July 1934)

 * I cannot imagine the Labour Party coming into power without a first-rate financial crisis. That is why we ask for full emergency measures.
 * The Manchester Guardian (5 November 1934), quoted in Hugh Dalton, The Fateful Years. Memoirs 1931-1945 (1957), p. 150

 * It must be the duty of the next Labour Government in power to make an immediate challenge to the capitalist system and take the banks and the land into the custody of the people. The time had come to drop all hesitancy and to be bold. If they returned a Socialist Government next time, it was going to "do things," whatever it cost.
 * Speech in Canning Town (26 June 1935), quoted in The Times (28 June 1935), p. 13

 * We will have nothing to do with Imperialist or capitalist wars. If the time comes, as we hope it will, when the workers of this country own England as they do not own England to-day; if their policy is a policy of international socialism, then it may be that we may have to defend the system and the country against the marauders of some capitalist Power...the majority of the workers would be prepared to defend the system, but so long as they were being asked to defend something with which they profoundly disagreed, something which they believed to lie at the root of the dangers of the world to-day, then it was their duty to say that they would have nothing to do with the armed forces or with war. It was no exaggeration to say that to-day we were far more in danger of a holocaust than we were in 1913...in 1931 Lombard Street determined that it was time to finish the life of the Labour Government. It was finished not by the traditional method of a hostile vote in the Commons, but by means which [I] dared to mention in Nottingham—and caused a considerable uproar in the Press—the Buckingham Palace influence.
 * Speech to the Socialist League in Nottingham (6 July 1935), quoted in The Times (8 July 1935), p. 21

 * You have only got to look at the pages of British imperial history to hide your head in shame that you are British.
 * Speech in Bristol (20 October 1935), quoted in Quintin Hogg, The Left was Never Right (1945), p. 109

 * It is fundamental to Socialism that we should liquidate the British Empire as soon as we can.
 * Hull Daily Mail (2 March 1936), quoted in Quintin Hogg, The Left was Never Right (1945), p. 109

 * The National Government's only remedy for a difficult national problem was to arm and arm and arm, regardless of the lessons of history and the proved fact that armament racing could only end in war. ... If we are plunged in war I devoutly hope that the workers of this country will use it for the purpose of revolution. I hope that the present government can be made to understand that that will happen. It will be a very healthy thought for them to have in the back of their mind.
 * Speech in Leeds (1 October 1936), quoted in The Times (2 October 1936), p. 11

 * Every possible effort should be made to stop recruiting for the Armed Forces. This may, and probably would, lead to some form of conscription being proposed or introduced. Thus would be provided a most favourable political platform upon which to fight the National Government.
 * Forward (3 October 1936), quoted in Talus, Your Alternative Government (1945), p. 36

 * I do not believe it would be a bad thing for the British working-class if Germany defeated us. It would be a disaster for the profit-makers and capitalists, but not necessarily for the working-class.
 * Speech in Stockport (14 November 1936), The Manchester Guardian (15 November 1936), quoted in Hugh Dalton, The Fateful Years. Memoirs 1931-1945 (1957), p. 151

 * All sorts of excuses were being given why we should uphold rearmament, including the old-fashioned "For God, King and Country" patriotism, assisted by all the tomfoolery of jubilees and coronations.
 * Speech in Bristol (13 February 1937), quoted in The Times (15 February 1937), p. 14

 * The reactionaries of our Movement are keen to prevent Socialists from coming into it. The last thing anyone should do is to pander to the reactionaries by staying out. James Maxton and Harry Pollitt should be the Leaders of the Labour Movement today
 * Speech in Bristol (13 February 1937), The Manchester Guardian (15 February 1937), quoted in Hugh Dalton, The Fateful Years. Memoirs 1931-1945 (1957), p. 151

 * Money cannot make armaments. Armaments can only be made by the skill of the British working class, and it is the British working class who would be called upon to use them. To-day you have the most glorious opportunity that the workers have ever had if you will only use the necessity of capitalism in order to get power yourselves. The capitalists are in your hands. Refuse to make munitions, refuse to make armaments, and they are helpless. They would have to hand the control of the country over to you.
 * Speech at Eastleigh, Hampshire (14 March 1937), quoted in The Times (15 March 1937), p. 21

 * The workers must now make it clear beyond all doubt that they will not support the Government or its armaments in its mad policy which it is now pursuing.
 * Speech on 23 May 1938, quoted in Talus, Your Alternative Government (1945), p. 45

 * I want to see the end of the British Empire in the world.
 * Speech in Bristol (18 September 1938), quoted in Quintin Hogg, The Left was Never Right (1945), p. 109

President of the Board of Trade

 * Emphatically no, and I never have been.
 * Asked by Peter Howard whether he favoured the use of any measure of force to establish Socialism, quoted in Peter Howard, Men on Trial (1945), p. 69

 * ...we must avoid a competitive raising of wages and conditions in a scarce labour market, which raises prices. ... If we allow prices to rise because of internal costs rising, we shall lose and not gain our overseas markets, or at least not be able to gain new ones in the competition. Therefore, incentives must be strictly limited to increased production so that more earnings mean more production. We cannot in any circumstances afford to pay more for the same or less production. We must await the further raising of the levels of earnings until we can provide the goods upon which those earnings can be spent. In the same way, let me point out, that large profits drawn from industry today are just as inimical because they, too, raise the price levels and, furthermore, they offer an immediate temptation for the demand for greater salaries.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (7 August 1947)

 * We must bring home to the people the seriousness of the country's present plight and the future problems that we face. We must convince them of their power to overcome all difficulties by common effort. We must draw out from people that courage and determination which have always been the hallmarks of the British character.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (7 August 1947)

 * Production, and production alone, can find us relief in our immediate situation. It is no part of the British character to resign ourselves to such difficulties or to fail to take the measures, however hard, to overcome them. It has been truly said that by our faith we can move mountains. It is by our faith in ourselves, in our country, in the free democratic traditions for which the people of this country have for centuries fought and battled, and for which they must fight again as willingly on the economic front as upon the oceans, on the land and in the air, it is by our faith in the deep spiritual values that we acknowledge in our Christian faith, that we shall be enabled and inspired to move the present mountains of our difficulties, and so emerge into that new and fertile plain of prosperity which we shall travel in happiness only as the result of our own efforts and our own vision.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (7 August 1947)

Chancellor of the Exchequer

 * ...we do not contemplate taking any action to alter the rate of sterling in relation to other currencies, as we do not believe that this will be rendered necessary or advisable.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (26 January 1948)

 * [In the case of sterling devaluation was] neither necessary nor will it take place.
 * Press conference in Rome (1 May 1949), quoted in The Times (2 May 1949), p. 3

 * Though we have achieved considerable success in our policy of increasing production and maintaining full employment, this has been accompanied by constant pressure for higher wages resulting in higher prices. We have not yet found out how we can maintain full employment in combination with stable or decreasing costs and prices.
 * Memorandum, 'The Dollar Situation: Forthcoming Discussions with U.S.A. and Canada' (4 July 1949), quoted in Correlli Barnett, The Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities: 1945–1950 (1996), p. 353

 * His Majesty's Government have not the slightest intention of devaluing the pound.
 * Speech in the House of Commons (6 July 1949)

 * The Government decided...to reduce the dollar exchange value of the pound sterling. In the last few days we have settled what the new rate should be and now I have to tell you of that decision; it is that in place of the present rate, fixed in 1946, of $4 3c. for the pound the rate will in future be $2 80c. to the pound.
 * Broadcast (18 September 1949), quoted in The Times (19 September 1949), p. 4

 * Our position is such that we could not 'integrate' our economy into that of Europe in any manner that would prejudice the full discharge of these other responsibilities. At the same time, Britain regarded herself as bound up in western Europe, not only in economic, strategic and political interests, but in our culture and indeed in our participation in the heritage of Christian civilization.
 * Speech to the Council of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation in Paris (1 November 1949) rejecting Paul Hoffman's proposals for European integration, quoted in The Times (2 November 1949), p. 4

Quotes about Cripps

 * He was a man the greatness of whose intellectual and practical abilities was matched by his nobility of character and high idealism. ... I believe he did immense service to this country.
 * Clement Attlee, speech in the House of Commons (22 April 1952)

 * As one who has been a nationalist leader and worker for India's independence, though now my activity is no longer in the political but in the spiritual field, I wish to express my appreciation of all you have done to bring about this offer. I welcome it as an opportunity given to India to determine for herself, and organise in all liberty of choice, her freedom and unity, and take an effective place among the world's free nations. I hope that it will be accepted, and right use made of it, putting aside all discords and divisions.... I offer my public adhesion, in case it can be of any help in your work.
 * The British government sent Sir Stafford Cripps to India in March, 1942, with a proposal for dominion status after the war. Sri Aurobindo sent Cripps this message. The next day, on April 1, Cripps replied with the following telegram: I am most touched and gratified by your kind message allowing me to inform India that you who occupy unique position in imagination of Indian youth, are convinced that declaration of His Majesty's Government substantially confers that freedom for which Indian Nationalism has so long struggled.
 * Sri Aurobindo, March 31, 1942, quoted from Sri Aurobindo, ., Nahar, S., Aurobindo, ., & Institut de recherches évolutives (Paris). India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches. Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. 3rd Edition (2000).

 * He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
 * Winston Churchill.

 * There, but for the grace of God, goes God.
 * Winston Churchill.

 * Stafford Cripps was a man of force and fire. His intellectual and moral passions were so strong that they not only inspired but not seldom dominated his actions. They were strengthened and also governed by the workings of a powerful, lucid intelligence, and by a deep and lively Christian faith. He strode through life with a remarkable indifference to material satisfactions or worldly advantages. I suppose there are few hon. Members in any part of the House who have not differed violently from him at this time or that, and yet there is none who did not regard him with respect and with admiration, not only for his abilities, but for his character.
 * Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons (22 April 1952)

 * Cripps seems quite unable to see the argument that he is damaging the party electorally. It is all ‘misreporting’, or picking sentences out of their context. He has become very vain and seems to think that only he and his cronies know what Socialism is or how it should be preached. His gaffes cover an immense range – Buckingham Palace – League of Nations – ‘compelling’ Unions to declare a General Strike – prolonging Parliament beyond five years...‘seize land, finance and industry’ (without compensation?) – Emergency Powers Bill in one day, giving ‘all necessary powers’...I make a violent – perhaps too violent – speech asking that this stream of oratorical ineptitudes should now cease...It is the number of these gaffes which is so appalling. Our candidates are being stabbed in the back and pushed onto the defensive. Tory HQ regard him as their greatest electoral asset...Attlee says I am like a pedagogue addressing a pupil. I wish the pupil were a bit brighter.
 * Hugh Dalton, diary entry (January 1934), quoted in David Marquand, "Maximum Embarrassment", London Review of Books Vol. 9 No. 9 (7 May 1987).

 * We mourn today the passing of a fine Christian knight, a dauntless spirit, a devoted public servant, a noble character whose life, whose integrity, and whose work are an example and an inspiration to us all, whose shining faith never faltered in the face of difficulties, however mountainous.
 * Clement Davies, speech in the House of Commons (22 April 1952)

 * Cripps, a man without roots, a demagogue and a liar, would pursue his sick fancies although the Empire were to crack at every corner. Moreover, this theoretician devoid of humanity lacks contact with the mass that's grouped behind the Labour Party, and he'll never succeed in understanding the problems that occupy the minds of the lower classes.
 * Adolf Hitler, Hitler's Table Talk, 1941-1944.

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