The Cocoanuts (1929)
Chico Marx: Chico
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Quotes
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Hammer : Now, look, I'm gonna take you down and show you our cemetery. I've got a waiting list of 50 people at that cemetery just dying to get in. But I like you. You're my friend. I like you and I'm gonna shove you in ahead of all of them.
Chico : I know you like me.
Hammer : I'm gonna see that you get a steady position.
Chico : That's a good.
Hammer : And if I can arrange it, it will be horizontal.
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Hammer : Do you know what a lot is?
Chico : Yeah, too much.
Hammer : I don't mean a whole lot. Just a little lot with nothing on it.
Chico : Any time you gotta too much, you gotta whole lot. Look, I'll explain it to you. Some time you no gotta much; sometimes you gotta whole lot. You know that it's a lot. Somebody else maybe thinka it's too much; it's a whole lot, too. Now, a whole lot is too much; too much is a whole lot; same thing.
Hammer : The next time I see you, remind not to talk to you, will you?
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Hammer : Come over here, I want to see you. Now, listen to me. I'm not going to have that red-headed fellow running around the lobby. If you want to keep him up in the room, you'll have to keep him in a trap.
Chico : You can't catch him.
Hammer : Who is he?
Chico : He's my partner, but he no speak.
Hammer : Oh, that's your silent partner.
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Hammer : Look, Einstein. Here's Cocoanut Manor. No matter what you say, this is Cocoanut Manor. Here's Cocoanut Manor. Here's Cocoanut Heights. That's a swamp - right over where the - where the road forks, that's Cocoanut Junction.
Chico : Where have you got Cocoanut Custard?
Hammer : Why, that's on one of the forks. You probably eat with your knife, so you wouldn't have to worry about that.
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Chico : He say six, I say seven. He say seven, I say eight. He say eight, I say nine. I got plenty a numbers left. When I start, I no stoppa for no-tin'. I go higher, higher, higher, all the time I go higher.
Hammer : Eh, you'll go higher when I get ahold of ya. Sold to Hiawatha for eight hundred dollars.
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Hammer : Now, the first musical number on the program will be a piccolo solo, which we will skip. And, eh, the second number will be Signore Pastrami, the Lithuanian pianist.
[Crowd claps]
Hammer : Signore, for his first selection, will play "A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich and You" from the opera Aida. Signore, allow me to escort you...
Mrs. Potter : Oh, Signore Pastrami, what is the first number?
Chico : Number one!
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Hammer : There it is. There it is, over there, right where that cocoanut tree is. Now what am I offered for lot #21?
Chico : Two hundred dollars
Hammer : Why, my friend, there's more than two hundred dollars worth of milk in those cocoanuts - and *what* milk, milk from contented cow-co-nuts. Who will say 300?