Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

Flip Wilson: The Reverend

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• The Reverend : Now I should like, at this time, to remind those of you attending our church picnic next Sunday that buses will depart from the front of the church after the service. Now, we want to take a moment also to ask the weak among you to refrain from bringing brown paper bags to the picnic. We're gonna have enough brown paper bags with the lunch in them. You know what I mean? I mean, after all, we are having a church social and not a fraternity boat ride. Now, I repeat, there will be *no* - there will be no joy juice allowed!

• The Reverend : A lot of the people in this church have been going around... spreading falsehoods, lies, and rumors, trying to ruin the reputation... of a lot of other people in this church. They go around trying to rock somebody else's cradle... trying to get a piece of somebody else's pie. Trying to covet somebody else's mate for their own.

• The Reverend : Friends, I fought temptation and that's what we gonna have to learn to do. When we get the temptation to let our loose lips loose, fight it! We got to learn to get off the wrong foot and step out on the good foot. Feel good. When you feel good, you look good, and you want to do good things. You want to make other people happy 'cause it makes you happy yourself.

• The Reverend : The saying that comes back into my mind from that war was, "Loose lips sink ships." Said that, Second World War, 'cause they wanted people to keep their mouths shut and listen a little more. Loose lips sink ships! And the looser the lips are, the faster the ship sinks. And some of the lips in this congregation done sunk aircraft carriers.

• The Reverend : Friends, we need more romance and less hot pants! Run some water on the hot pants. Put your sprinkler on and run through, you want to cool your hot pants off. We need more midnight sleepin' and less midnight creepin'!

• The Reverend : You all know I'm talking about the loose lips that go around kissing on lips that don't belong to them. That go around lying on folks that make young girls make promises they know their bodies can't stand. That's the kind of lips I'm talking about. We got to learn to control them lips, tighten up them ears a little tighter! We got to learn to call on the Lord and ask him to teach us some discipline!