The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999)

Mandy Patinkin: Huxley

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Quotes 

• Huxley : Now get in the cartoonishly evil vehicle and drive!

• Huxley : Maybe if I look at it this way:

  [Huxley puts his hands to his eyes, making a binocular-like gesture, the Pesties shriek] 

  Huxley : I know! I think it's time for Elmo to take a little "trip to the tunnel", if you know what I mean, huh?

  [Huxley chuckles wickedly] 

  Bug : [from the monitor, eating chips]  What'd you say, boss?

  Huxley : Bug, what are you doing?

  Bug : [with his mouth full of chips]  Just having a little snack. Hard to do an evil bidding on an empty stomach.

  Huxley : Oh, sure. Listen, Bug, listen good.

  Bug : Mm-hmm.

  Huxley : Are you listening?

  Bug : Mm-hmm.

  Huxley : [abruptly shouts]  GET BACK TO WORK!

  Bug : [frightened]  Aaah!

  [faints] 

  Bug : Whoa!

• Bug : How about that Elmo? What guts! What spunk! What chutzpah!

  Huxley : You know what, Bug? You are really beginning to bug me.

  Bug : Hmm... That's probably because I'm a bug.

• Bug : You have a very lovely singing voice.

  Huxley : Thank you. I always fancied myself a singer. I was almost in a bus and truck show of West Side Story. They said I wasn't right for Maria. What do they know? I feel pretty.

• Elmo : Elmo wants his Blanket back! NOOOW!

  Huxley : The little piece of macrame lives...

  [Elmo uses a chain as a rope swing to swing to Huxley] 

  Elmo : BLAAANKEEET!

  [grabs his Blanket and swings on to a ledge] 

  Huxley : Pesties? Pesties! Pesties! Don't let him escape with my wooby!

  [the Pesties run toward Elmo] 

  Bug : Uhhh... boss?

  Huxley : What?

  [realizes he is naked] 

  Huxley : OH!

  [covers himself immediately] 

• Huxley : They might save you, you annoying red monster... but they can't save your wooby!

  [rudely snatches Elmo's Blanket away] 

  Elmo : No, wait! That's not a wooby! That's Elmo's Blanket!

  [Suddenly, Elmo's Blanket is sucked up by the vacuum hose on Huxley's helicopter. Immediately, Huxley drops the claw's remote to the floor. The claw swings around and drops the laundry basket, leaving Elmo dangling. The Sesame Street and Grouchland citizens all freeze in horror] 

  Maria : Elmo, be careful!

  Huxley : Ah hahahahahahahaha!

  [Elmo looks down and sees the basket landed on an ironing board] 

  Elmo : That's it!

  [Seizing the opportunity, Elmo lets go of the claw's chains and deliberately falls on the board, catapulting the basket on to Huxley, incapacitating him. The Sesame Street and Grouchland citizens cheer, as Huxley grunts in frustration] 

  Elmo : Wait. Wait. Wait, wait!

  [Everyone stops cheering] 

  Elmo : Where's Elmo's Blanket?

  [as if by coincidence, the hatch opens on Huxley's helicopter, revealing Bug, and he is holding Elmo's Blanket. Elmo and Huxley both misinterpret this] 

  Elmo : [devastated]  No, Blanket...

  Huxley : [cackles with triumph]  That's my Bug. Gimme back my wooby!

  Bug : [in an angry, scolding tone]  No, boss! You're nothing but a "basket-case."

  Huxley : [shocked]  What?

  Bug : And this blanket belongs to Elmo. Hmmph!

  [exits the helicopter] 

  Elmo : [immediately brightens up]  Blanket!

  [rushes to the helicopter] 

• Huxley : Wha...? Bug, I thought we were friends.

  Bug : No! You're a greedy, selfish villain, and nobody likes to be friends with a greedy, selfish villain. Hmmph!

• Huxley : Listen, Bug, I'll give you back every single teddy bear. I'll give you back the sun, and the Earth, and the moon, and the stars, and the...

  Bug : Less talkin', more givin'.

  [turns and walks off] 

  Huxley : Bug? Bug, listen, you're not in your right frame of mind.

  [follows Bug off] 

  Huxley : This isn't when you make it a points decision! Wait, Bug! Bug! Bug, wait, wait, we're not finished yet.

• Pestie : Baloney Sandwich again?

  Huxley : Get Back To Work!

• Pestie : here's your drink boss!

  Huxley : well, thank you