Overboard (1987)
Goldie Hawn: Joanna, Annie
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Quotes
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Annie : Mrs. Burbridge, would you come over here for a moment? Has it escaped your attention that these children have head-to-toe poison oak?
Adele Burbridge : Well, no, I... well, yes, but...
Annie : But what? My children are in need of medical assistance! And you can sit here and smugly lecture me on the importance of tests? Tests which exist to pigeonhole children's potential, a thing which cannot possibly be measured, least of all by anal-compulsive huns! And my husband may be a "large child," but that's none of your business! And my children may be rotten, but they're mine. And I think that they're bright, and sensitive, so I have no doubts whatsoever about their intelligence. I do, however, have serious doubts about yours!
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Annie : I'm a short, fat slut.
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Annie : I don't belong here, I feel it. Don't you think I feel it? I can't do any of these vile things, and I wouldn't want to. Oh, my life is like death. My children are the spawn of hell, and you're the devil. Oh, God...
Dean Proffitt : Baby, we like you.
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Andrew : [Andrew hands Joanna her earrings after they've drank tequila shots below decks with the crew] You best not lose these again, madam.
Joanna : [perplexed] Again?
Andrew : You will forgive me, madam.
[clearly mocking her]
Andrew : "Andrew! I seem to have lost my ruby earrings somewhere between 64th and 68th street, find them."
Joanna : [geniunely contrite] I've behaved so badly. I don't know how you put up with me for so long.
[Andrew raises his eyebrows]
Joanna : You've done so many wonderful things for me and I've never even once said thank you.
[beat]
Joanna : I'm sorry.
Andrew : [embarrassed] Apology accepted, ma'am.
[he turns away and to the sink]
Joanna : [following him] Everyone thinks I'm crazy around here. Do you think they're right?
Andrew : [turning around to face her] Oh no, madam. Oh no. You... most of us go through life with blinders on, madam. Knowing only that one little station to which we were born. But now you, madam, on the other hand, had the... rare privilege of escaping your bonds for just a spell. To see life from an entirely new perspective. How you choose to use that information, madam... is entirely up to you.
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Dean Proffitt : They're making out their Christmas lists
Annie : Oh, already?
Travis Proffitt : How do you spell "Porsche"?
Dean Proffitt : Well, they got me thinkin' though: what can I possibly give you ever that you don't already have?
Annie : [long pause as she thinks] A little girl.
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Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : [on her yacht; she's about to call for caviar when Andrew brings it in] Well! I almost had to wait.
[tastes it and makes a disgusted face]
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : What is this gelatinous muck? Andrew, when I tell you to pack staples, must I specify that you are to pack good caviar and not this $1.99 fish bait? Caviar should be round, and hard, and of adequate size, and should burst in your mouth at precisely the right moment.
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Joey Proffitt : [in Pee-Wee Herman's voice] Hi, Mom. My name's Joe.
Annie : A falsetto child?
Dean Proffitt : Nah. He thinks he's Pee-Wee Herman.
Joey Proffitt : [in Pee-Wee Herman's voice] I love Pee-Wee Herman.
[Pee-Wee's trademark laugh]
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Dr. Norman Korman : Joanna, what motivated you to rise and get the serving tray?
Annie : I thought you might be hungry.
Dr. Norman Korman : That's excellent, excellent!
Grant Stayton : What's excellent about it?
Dr. Norman Korman : I was hungry.
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Annie : Oh, a washing machine! But Dean, it's so expensive.
Dean Proffitt : No, shit!
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Joey Proffitt : Are you gonna leave?
[the other boys stare]
Annie : No, I'm your mommy.
Joey Proffitt : Sometimes moms leave.
Annie : Well I suppose that's true, but I'm not going anywhere.
Joey Proffitt : Good.
[takes a necklace out of his overalls and hands it to her]
Annie : Ooh! Is this a present for me?
Joey Proffitt : Yes, I did it with macaroni.
Annie : I love this, I'll always wear it.
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Annie : Tell me something about my life, Dean, something not horrible.
Dean Proffitt : Well uh... yeah, there was that time you were working at Burger Boy, and this kid started choking on a French fry, and everybody in the place panicked, including me, except you, you knew exactly what to do. You ran over to the kid and you gave him that Heimlech, you know,
[grunts]
Dean Proffitt : and puh! The kid puked up the fry and they named you Burger Boy employee of the month. They put your picture above the cash register and everything.
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Grant Stayton : [to Annie] I suppose we're on our way back to the jungles of Oregon?
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : I want to go back, Grant.
Grant Stayton : To him.
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Yes. I'm sorry.
Grant Stayton : You haven't begun to be sorry, you hillbilly harlot!
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Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : These gnats keep landing on my wet nail polish. I guess I'm supposed to walk around with their little corpses stuck to my fingers, is that it?... It's easy for you to say. You don't have to sit out here in the brine with your perm frizzing to oblivion. I look like a bushman.
Andrew : [who's been painting her toenails] ... I've finished, madam. Would you like me to put your jewelry back on you?
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : No, I'm still tacky.
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Joanna : Well, the entire civilized world knows that ALL closets are made of CEDAR.
Dean Proffitt : [in a backwoods accent] Well up here in Elk Snout ma'am see we don't know 'bout them closets, nor bathrooms neither. Shit woman, you're lucky I am house broke.
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Annie : I just... ate a bug!
Dean Proffitt : Keep your mouth closed, there's a lot of things flying around out here!
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Dean Proffitt : [sees his sons gathered in a group whispering excitedly] What's this?
Annie : Travis found a girlfriend.
Joey Proffitt : Hey, Trav, don't knock her up!
Annie : [sarcastically] Very funny!
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Capt. Karl : What're you doing?
Annie : I'm turning the boat around.
Capt. Karl : Why?
Annie : I'm going home.
Capt. Karl : You're turning that wheel around too fast!
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[to Dr. Korman]
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Grant's having another nervous breakdown, he thinks he's God. Keep him busy.
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Dean Proffitt : I can't talk to you with you pulled away from me. Will you please get your head out of there and look at me?
Annie : No.
Dean Proffitt : Why?
Annie : [turns over, covered in Calamie lotion] Because I'm so ugly, I got poison oak too.
[cries]
Dean Proffitt : Nobody cares what you look like, normally you look really pretty, you just don't now.
Annie : [continue sobbing] I dont even have a wedding ring.
Dean Proffitt : What?
Annie : I lost my wedding ring in the sea.
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Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : I'm not a bitch.
[pauses]
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Andrew! Are you going to bring me my lemon, or do I have to squeeze it from my hat?
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Dean Proffitt : Hey hey hey, guys, look who's home!
Greg Proffitt : Hi Mom!
Travis Proffitt : Hi Mom!
Charlie Proffitt : [in a raspy voice] Hi Mom!
Greg Proffitt : [pretending to cry] Gee Mom, we really missed you, we're so glad you're baaaaaack!
[Dean sticks his hand out to tell the boys to stop the dramatics]
Annie : They aren't mine...
Dean Proffitt : Oh I was sure you'd remember them!
Annie : I think I'd remember if I had 3 children...
Dean Proffitt : Four, honey, don't forget little Joe!
[Joe sticks his head out the window and waves; Annie faints after believing she had four sons with Dean]
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Dean Proffitt : You jumped my bones the first night we met!
Annie : We did it on the first date?
Dean Proffitt : Couldn't call it a date really, we just did it in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven
Annie : I'm a slut
Dean Proffitt : What did you say?
Annie : Nothing
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Billy Pratt : Annie, those are my underwear.
Annie : Yours?
Billy Pratt : I don't mean I wear 'em or anything. They belong to a girlfriend of mine.
Annie : But what about Gertie?
Billy Pratt : I strayed. See, I got lucky with this phone sex girl and I found one that takes personal checks; my truck doesn't have a backseat so I borrowed yours. Dean doesn't want you to tell Gertie so he's covering for me.
Dean Proffitt : [comes up to them] What's going on?
Billy Pratt : I confess. The jig is up!
Dean Proffitt : The jig IS up, Billy, I'm finally trying to tell her the truth.
Billy Pratt : I just did. See, I didn't get the name Bad Billy Pratt for nothing. I'm sorry, Annie, I got horny, do you hate me?
Annie : [smiles] No, no
[hugs him]
Annie : I'm glad you're Bad Billy Pratt!
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Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : [Grant has just arrived at the hospital; Joanna doesn't know he's right outside, behind a one-way mirror] You mean to tell me that I have no medical recourse...?
Grant Stayton : Can she see us?
Cop at Hospital : Not unless she's Superwoman.
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Well, what DO you know? Extend your brain a teensy little bit, if possible!
Doctor at Hospital : You seem to be suffering from a temporary amnesia, either from the bump against the garbage scow, or the shock of the cold water.
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : How temporary is it?
Doctor at Hospital : We don't know. Other than that, you seem to be in excellent physical shape.
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Listen to me, medical people. As of now, I have a life history of a dirty garbage scow and a breakfast of extremely runny eggs over-easy. Now, I refuse - REFUSE
[angrily tosses a cup against the wall]
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : - to be incarcerated in this semi-private room -
[turns to the only other patient in the room]
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : You snore! - while there are no efforts being made by anyone to try and locate...!
Cop at Hospital : [lowers the outside speaker volume, then turns to Grant] Is that her?
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : I demand you do something! Do you hear me?
Grant Stayton : [to the cop] Nooo, I never saw her before in my life.
[leaves the hospital; later, back on the yacht]
Grant Stayton : Mrs. Stayton has decided to leave me. Let's celebrate!
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Doctor at Hospital : Now, Miss X... we have a safer, more comfortable, private room... where you'll be a lot more comfortable, and we'll all be a lot safer.
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Well, I'm glad you've finally come to your senses. I was prepared to sue you. I don't know who I am, but I'm sure I have a lawyer.
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Joanna : Thank you Dean! Thank you for bringing me here and making a wife, and a mother and WHY DID YOU DO THAT?
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Andrew : Champagne for everyone.
Joanna : Andrew, I'd like a beer.
Edith Mintz : A beer?
Joanna : [takes a swig from a bottle] Mmmmm, good stuff.
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Annie : Joey, don't, honey. Don't, don't get that near your eyes, sweetie. Look, I want you to read this; you see what it says? "Don't get near your eyes". Read on.
[Joey looks at the bottle for a few seconds, then tosses it aside and goes to bed]
Annie : What's this all about?
Charlie Proffitt : He's embarrassed 'cause he doesn't know how to read.
Annie : Well, he's a small child.
Travis Proffitt : He can't read for a small child, either.
Greg Proffitt : The teacher makes fun of him.
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Annie : You're not leaving me here alone tonight, the kids are sick.
Dean Proffitt : Yeah and they've got Calamine lotion all over them. What do you want me to do?
Annie : I want you to take on some of your grownup responsibility.
Dean Proffitt : I earn the money, that's my grownup responsibility.
Annie : Are you aware that Joey can't read? And Travis only reads smut magazines? I can't get him out of the bathroom.
Dean Proffitt : Honey he's 13 years old! I'll build you another bathroom.
Annie : They don't need another bathroom, they need guidance from you.
Dean Proffitt : Hey hey hey, don't you worry about me and my boys, okay? We're pals.
Annie : They have enough pals, they need a father.
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Annie : [seeing the counterfeit photos that supposedly depict her wedding to Dean, but which are actually just expertly "merged" images which combine her gloomy "amnesia-state" photos with Dean's deceased wife's wedding photos] It's my wedding day, why do I look so annoyed?
Dean Proffitt : [thinking fast] Oh, well, your dad showed up shit-faced. He threw potato salad all over my mom. It was horrible, we had to throw him out.
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Dean Proffitt : [home from work] Hey guys, what's going on?
Greg Proffitt : [stops playing piano] I got the part of Tiny Tim in the school play!
Charlie Proffitt : [looks up from homework] I got an A in English!
Travis Proffitt : [looks up from homework] I'm flunking math.
Dean Proffitt : Yeah well we'll work on the math after dinner.
Annie : [teaching Joey to read with comic books] You're just in time, Dr. Death's on the rampage.
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Joanna : Captain Karl?
Capt. Karl : Yes madam?
Joanna : We've never really had time to talk.
Capt. Karl : No, we haven't.
Joanna : Well, there's no time now.
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Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : [aboard her yacht, Joanna is on the phone] I know it will cost me, but it's the cutest little painting. I simply must have it. You'll do the bidding for me at the auction? $1,700,000.
[gunshots]
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Grant, I'm on the phone!
Grant Stayton : I can't hear you, Tea Rose! I'm shooting skeet!
[goes back to firing]
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Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Try to understand,Grant, I don't love you anymore.
Grant Stayton : What's love got to do with marriage?
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Annie : I speak French! Do I know what I said? Yes I do. I must've learned in Paris. When was I in Paris? In the Navy.
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Dean Proffitt : I can't believe you did that.
Annie : Oh! I saw you jump so I jumped...
Dean Proffitt : No I don't mean that. I can't believe you gave all that up just for me.
Annie : I didn't.
Dean Proffitt : What? What do you mean?
Annie : Well the truth of the matter is it's all mine, the boat, the money, everything is all mine.
[Dean faints]
Annie : Dean! Dean, it's okay!
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[Annie is looking for proof of her marriage to Dean and sees him in front of the closet wearing the same shirt and doing the same pose in their initial encounter which slowly triggers her memory]
Annie : The closet... ..and you!
Dean Proffitt : That's right. This is me and I'm standing in front of the closet
Annie : Something's familiar.
Dean Proffitt : Yeah, well... that's 'cause we used to do it in the closet.
Annie : Oh stop with the sex stories.
Dean Proffitt : Now you're getting grumpy and it's because you've been busy. I want you to stop everything, go in here, take a bath...
[yells to his sons]
Dean Proffitt : Hey, guys, get the turtle out of the bathtub!...
[returns to his conversation with Annie]
Dean Proffitt : ... and I'm gonna look for the pictures first thing in the morning, okay?
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Dean Proffitt : [finds Annie near catatonic] What's wrong with her?
Charlie Proffitt : She's been like that for an hour now!
Travis Proffitt : She's getting better though.
Dean Proffitt : Better?
Charlie Proffitt : Yeah she's not going
Charlie Proffitt , Travis Proffitt , Greg Proffitt , Joey Proffitt : Bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo.
Dean Proffitt : Why'd she do that?
Travis Proffitt : She destroyed the scarecrow, Dad, she ripped that sucker's head off!
Joey Proffitt : [in a Pee Wee Herman voice] I like when she goes bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo.
Dean Proffitt : [waves hand in front of her eyes] Hey, baby doll? What's for dinner?
Annie : [distantly] Bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo.
Dean Proffitt : Alright, I got it from here. Get upstairs.
[picks Annie up]
Charlie Proffitt : Dad, will you trade her in for a new one?
Dean Proffitt : Nah, she'll be alright.
[takes her out to the rain barrel and dunks her in]
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Annie : Dean, was it always like this?
Dean Proffitt : Every time with you is like the first time.
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Annie : [getting her memory back] Oh God, I have money! I have lots of money! I even have some in Switzerland!
Grant Stayton : Switzerland?
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Joanna : What's my name?
Dean Proffitt : Mrs. Annie Proffitt
Joanna : Well what's my maiden name?
Dean Proffitt : [thinking fast] Annie... Goolihy
Joanna : [in disbelief] Annie Goolihy? Where in God's name did I grow up, Dogpatch?
Dean Proffitt : No, no, not there. Over in Goober, Idaho. But it's a nuclear waste dump.
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Annie : Where are you going?
Dean Proffitt : Out... I go out every night after dinner and meet the boys at the bowling alley for a couple of beers.
Annie : [begging Dean not to leave her at home alone with his sons] Don't leave me alone with them
Dean Proffitt : Oh come on, honey, that's not fair. You know we live like this. It never bothered you before. It's just the way it is. I think you better get used to it.
Annie : Well, when are you going to be home?
Dean Proffitt : When I feel like it, it just depends how drunk I get.
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Joanna : You know forks were invented so that man could at least make a pretense of separating himself from the apes.
Dean Proffitt : So were thumbs.
Joanna : What did you say?
Dean Proffitt : Nothing. It was... my stomach.
Joanna : Well try to control your bodily noises so I can hear myself think.
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Annie : Hey Mister, what was I doing in the ocean?
Dean Proffitt : That's something you like to do, go dive for oysters at night, you step away from the shore and well, that undertow!
Annie : Oysters in a cold ocean at night? That doesn't sound like me!
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Dean Proffitt : You know, I let the water routine slide by the other day, but let's not push it, okay?
Annie : I'll admit, I got a little carried away with the hose, but this is serious.
Dean Proffitt : OK, fine. What's on your mind, sugarlips?
Annie : Stop calling me sugarlips, I have a name. Call me Annie.
Dean Proffitt : Get to the point, Annie. I got things to do. Billy and the guys are waitin' for me.
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Annie : My mother's a lush?
Dean Proffitt : Was, honey... cirrhosis.
Annie : And what about my father?
Dean Proffitt : Oh, he's alive and well. He's due for parole in what? 2 years!
Annie : Oh God, I don't want to hear anymore.
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Annie : Go back to New York, Dr. Korman.
Dr. Norman Korman : Really? Thank you.
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Grant Stayton : [in bed, aboard the yacht] Joanna, I want you tonight - How can you have your period every week?
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : [Grant is glued to "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"] Must you watch that thing incessantly?
Grant Stayton : Yes, I must. It has a tawdry, escapist quality that soothes my nerves.
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : What you have to escape from, I can't possibly imagine
[notices she's not wearing her wedding ring]
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Grant, I left my wedding ring on the deck.
Grant Stayton : Well, what can I do?
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : Go and get it.
Grant Stayton : It's after midnight.
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : I don't care what time it is. I want it now.
Grant Stayton : I just want to see who's in the top ten yachts.
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : [sighs in disgust] I'll get it!
Grant Stayton : Okay.
[continues watching TV as Joanna leaves to get her ring]
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Edith Mintz : [from her NYC penthouse] He called you a what? Joanna, why are you so upset? What do you care what some carpenter from Elk Snout thinks of you?
Joanna Stayton/Annie Proffitt : I'm sure I'm just premenstrual.
Edith Mintz : Well then, you must go right back to bed for at least two days...
Edith Mintz : [to her maid, who's been feeding Edith's small dog] Inga! You don't shove the food down Shitake's throat. You place it on her tongue. Don't they have dogs in Sweden?
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Annie : Get up, go to the bathroom, do what you normally do.
Travis Proffitt : Will you squirt us with the hose again?
Annie : That's up to you.
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Edith Mintz : Cigarette, darling?
Annie : I don't smoke, Mother.
[to Grant]
Annie : Do I?
Grant Stayton : Of course you smoke. You've always smoked.
Edith Mintz : I smoke.
Dr. Norman Korman : Why don't we all smoke?
Grant Stayton : Well, why do I have to smoke? I never smoked. I get sick when I smoke. Why is everyone always trying to make me do what I don't want to do?
Edith Mintz : Grant, we are not interested in your therapy.
Grant Stayton : I had my nervous breakdown and I didn't have therapy. I never had therapy!
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Annie : How could you go hunting on an important day like today?
Billy Pratt : Easy, the pheasants don't play miniature golf!
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Annie Proffitt : [confused as she is sticking a chicken in a pot of water] I prepared and handled raw food?
Dean Proffitt : I hunt it!...... you cook it!
Annie Proffitt : You shot a chicken?
Dean Proffitt : Come on honey! Save the jokes, we're starving here!
