This has been floating the internet for years so if you've been on Facebook for any period of time you probably have seen it. This clip has been extremely popular among conservatives but it's worth another look--and listen on Halloween. This is from Bob Hope's 1940 movie The Ghost Breakers. No matter the media, I love great one-liners even if it's the only thing I remember--or even like--about the film, TV show, play or whatever. Some of my favorites over the years have been in the TV show Mr. Ed which was about a talking horse--sort of a spinoff from the series of movies in the 1950s Francis the Talking Mule. Now the mule and/or horse talks only to their "master." In one episode of Francis he breaks his silence to an attorney who shockingly says, "He can talk!" To which Francis replies, "Gee...he's a lawyer and is surprised at a talking jackass!" I can't remember a single episode of Mr. Ed except the one where he and his master, Wilbur, have a falling out and Mr. Ed decides to run away from home. After getting a few hundred miles away he starts getting homesick and starts back realizing that it's going to be a long walk back. As luck would have it, Mr. Ed sees a line of cows getting on a cattle train and gets in line with them. When he gets to the entrance the rail car, the stock boss taking the inventory looks up and as his eyes get wide, Mr. Ed says, "MOO!" The look on the guy's face is priceless. One other example was in the Mary Tyler Moore Show when Mary starts working on a project with a priest. One afternoon the priest comes up to the news room at the television station where Mary works to talk with her about the project. He is in regular civilian clothes wasn't wearing his clerical either. In the series, Betty White played a oversexed flirt named Sue Ann Nivens. The priest in this episode was played by a wonderful character actor named Ed Flanders. In the newsroom scene Sue Ann walks in and spots Flanders' character having no idea he's a priest and starts to put the "make" on him and after politely putting off her advances, the frustrated Sue Ann finally says, "Oh..I know your type...dark corner, candlelight, a little wine--I'll bet that's how you operate." To which the priest replies, chuckling, "As a matter of fact I do!'' Well, in each of those classic one-liners I'm in hysterics darn near falling off the couch. The brilliance is admired and appreciated.
It's been so long since I got this on my Facebook page I can't remember how long it's been, at least 10 or 12 years but this scene is classic. I was not familiar with the film then or now and have never watched it but this is classic and wanted to share with you. Happy Halloween!