Folks! (1992)

Don Ameche: Harry Aldrich

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Quotes 

• Harry : McDonnells!

  [Sounds like McDonald's] 

  Jon : Hungry, Pop?

  Harry : Um, yeah.

• Jon : I wanna tell you something, Pop, I missed you.

  Harry : You know I have to tell you something too. I don't know who the hell you are.

  Jon : Sure you do.

  Harry : No, I don't.

  Jon : Still a kidder, aren't you Dad? It's me, Jon!

  Harry : Jon? Jon! My boy!

• Harry : You sold the shoe store? You sold the shoe store?

  Jon : I'm sorry, Pop, I just couldn't find the right way to tell you.

  Harry : Tell me what?

  Jon : That I sold the shoe store.

  Harry : You sold the shoe store?

  Jon : The neighborhood was changing and it wasn't worth anything!

  Harry : [Showing him a deed]  It's worth half a million dollars. See? McDonnell's!

  Jon : [Thinking he said 'McDonalds']  You hungry again, Pop?

  Harry : Yeah.

• Harry : Don't worry, Lenny, the hook will catch the wire.

• [after an accident, John hads one of his testicles removed] 

  Jon : Thanks, Pop, I got one nut. Thank you very much!

  Harry : You're welcome.

• Harry : [about his Cadillac]  This baby can go! I told your mother how much it cost and she shit a cat! If only she knew how much it really set me back.

• [repeated line] 

  Harry : I'm happy.

• Harry : [as the manager is about to strike Jon, Harry hits him over the head with a shoe]  I told you you're fired!

• Harry : The mafia!

• Jon : [Harry fires a gun, scaring off two mobsters]  The mafia.

  Harry : Nuh-uh.

• Jon : I remember this picture.

  Harry : Oh yeah. Guy on the left had is Tom Hankerman, he flew 37 missions before going down over Okinawa.

  Jon : Pop, you're putting your shorts on backwards.

  Harry : Huh? Oh yeah. That guy there is Lenny Coleman. Lenny ran that little airfield I flew out of after the war.

  Jon : Is that the place you took me to for my first ride?

  Harry : Your mother too. And last ride for her!

  Jon : Pop, you see much of Arlene?

  Harry : Arlene?

  Jon : Your loving daughter.

  Harry : No.

• Jon : What happened to your clothes?

  Harry : The mob stole'em.

• Audrey : [Harry has walked in on Jon and Audrey having sex]  Jon, how long do you think he was watching?

  Harry : I didn't see anything.

• Harry : This is a *Good* shoe!