The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

Ken Berry: Frank

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Quotes 

• Jake - voice : My name is Zunar J 5 Slash 9 Doric 4 7.

  Frank : Uh, Z-Zunar...

  Jake - voice : ...Let's just stick with 'Jake', okay?

• Earnest Ernie : Wait a minute, wait a minute! Are you seriously serious?

  Frank : You're not thinking of welshing are you?

  Earnest Ernie : But I thought you was putting me on.

  Honest Harry : Ernest Ernie, it would not do your reputation any credit if word was to circulate that you reneged on a wager duly offered and accepted.

• Frank : The Artichoke! I was right.

• [after speaking with Liz, Jake speaks to Frank telepathically for the first time] 

  Jake - voice : I think she digs you.

  Frank : I sure hope so.

  [there's nobody else in the room] 

  Frank : Who said that?

  Jake - voice : I did. And Frank we'd better get down to business. Sit down. We've gotta talk. I'm running out of time and it looks like you're the only one I can depend on to help me.

  Frank : [realizing the voice is coming from the cat]  It... it's you?

  Jake - voice : It's not the mouse. Now sit down.

  Frank : But your lips aren't moving. You're not speaking.

  Jake - voice : Through transference. Nothing exceptional where I come from. Now, sit.

  [Using telekinesis generated through his collar, Jake pulls a chair behind Frank forward and he collapses into it] 

  Jake - voice : My name is Zunar-J-5/9 Doric-4-7.

  Frank : [struggling]  Zunar...

  Jake - voice : Why don't we stay with Jake, okay? Frank, last night, at 03 hours plus 13, I made an emergency landing in a spaceship from another galaxy. That so-called "artichoke", it's from my craft.

  Frank : But... you're a cat.

  Jake - voice : Granted. But you see, Frank, in our civilization, that's as far as we needed to evolve. We developed our brain to a fine point. Now, man, on the other hand, rose off his four legs and developed tools, machinery, agriculture, and a chronic pain in his lower back. We developed tools for the mind. This collar here, it amplifies brain power.

• [Dr. Frank Wilson has been brought in to view the artifact removed from the flying saucer] 

  Frank : It's beautiful.

  General Stilton : Don't you have any other observations?

  Frank : Only that it looks like an artichoke, sir.

  General Stilton : We know it looks like an artichoke, Wilson. What makes it tick?

  Frank : Mayonnaise?

  General Stilton : Negative.

  Frank : No, no, I was only joking, sir. I do have a theory, sir. Actually in line with the work I've been doing. I have a hunch it's tapping the primal mainstream, General.

  General Stilton : The "primal mainstream"?

  Frank : The primal mainstream, yes. It's everywhere, General. Only on different frequencies. The whole electromagnetic spectrum. Cosmic, gamma, X-rays, ultraviolet, visible light, infrared, radio waves... and do you know how much we finite human beings can possibly tune into? With our senses? Less than five percent. The universe makes it own energy, General. We even make it ourselves. Yes, take biofeedback, for instance. Why, if I taped terminals to your head, General, your brain could run an electric train.

  General Stilton : [incredulous]  Electric train?

  Frank : [realizing he's messed up]  I'm sorry, General, I thought... Perhaps electric train wasn't the most apt...

  Dr. Heffel : [wheeling him out of the room]  That'll be all, Wilson. Thank you very much.

  Frank : You let me have that for a couple of months, General. And I promise you...

  Dr. Heffel : [throwing him out of the room]  Thank you.

  General Stilton : A couple of months? Dr. Heffel?

  Dr. Heffel : Yes, General?

  General Stilton : I WANT ACTION!

• [Link catches up to Frank -- in disguise as General Stilton -- helping Jake get the spaceship out of an airplane hanger] 

  Frank : Link! What are you doing here?

  Link : Frank, it's a nightmare. Liz has been captured by Stallwood.

  Frank : What? Have you been hitting the beer? Stallwood of supplies and purchasing?

  Link : He's an agent, Frank! For some guy named Olympus, a power-crazed creep who's trying to -- Frank, he's holding her for ransom!

  Jake - voice : Lucybelle, too?

  Link : Yeah, he wants that collar, Jake. It's the collar or Liz.

  Frank : Are they out of their minds? Where is she?

  Jake - voice : I'm going with you, Frank.

  Frank : No, no, no, you don't want to get stuck here on Earth. And you've got a responsibility to your mission.

  Jake - voice : But I'm the reason for the mess they're in.

  Frank : Do you know where they've taken her?

  Link : Yeah, to some place called Dailey's Airport.

  Frank : Do you know where it is?

  Link : Yeah.

  Jake - voice : Let's go.

  Link : Frank...

  Frank : [sternly]  Jake, you're going home.

  [softening] 

  Frank : Now get in there. So long, buddy.

  Jake - voice : [resigning]  Yeah.

  Frank : [to Link]  Let's go.

  [Frank and Link get into the General's Jeep and watch as the saucer begins liftoff] 

  Mother Ship : Five, four, three, two. Ignite.

  [the saucer takes off from the base] 

  Frank : Bye, Jake.

  Link : Drop us a card.

  [Suddenly, Jake materializes in between the two] 

  Jake - voice : Okay, you clowns. Let's move it. Let's go!

  Frank : [incredulous]  Jake! Jake, this is insane. You're here forever, on Earth!

  Jake - voice : You're wasting time! The airport!