Fantastic Voyage (TV Series)

The Day the Food Disappeared (1968)

Marvin Miller: Busby Birdwell, Guru, The Chief

Quotes 

• Busby Birdwell : What you are watching took place in one afternoon. A few short hours and a thousand acres of wheat destroyed. And this is not the first case we have discovered. Cornfields. Orchards. Vineyards. In other words, the entire food supply of the nation may soon be under attack by whatever is causing those weeds to grow.

  The Chief : [unimpressed]  Ah, somebody's probably just using the wrong fertilizer.

  The Chief : Perhaps this will convince you, Busby:

  [viewscreen shows the inside of a modern home] 

  Busby Birdwell : Hey... that's my apartment!

  [close-up of overgrown weeds in a plantbox] 

  Busby Birdwell : My tomatoes! They're... they're... when do we leave?

• Busby Birdwell : Well, another day, another flower, I always say.

• Guru : The clouds... I sense evil in them.

  Busby Birdwell : Oh brother, now he's a weather man! Why don't you just stick to reading palms?

• Guru : Mr. Kidd, we must not enter the plant while those clouds are present.

  Commander Jonathan Kidd : We've got to, Guru. The orders are final.

  Guru : And so is destruction, Mr. Kidd. For I warn you: that is what awaits us if we follow your orders.