Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Bill Murray: Badger

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Quotes 

• Badger : In summation, I think you just got to not do it, man. That's all.

  Mr. Fox : I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.

  Badger : The cuss you are.

  Mr. Fox : The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?

  Badger : No, you cussing with me?

  Mr. Fox : Don't cussing point at me!

  Badger : If you're gonna cuss with somebody, you're not gonna cuss with me, you little cuss!

  Mr. Fox : You're not gonna cuss with me!

  [Both start snarling at each other, and then settle down] 

  Mr. Fox : Just buy the tree.

  Badger : Okay.

• Mr. Fox : [after animals have dug through the wall]  You scared the cuss out of us!

  Badger : A lot of good animals...

  [starts screaming] 

  Badger : ... are probably going to die, because of you! We've been digging in circles for three days! Half the woods have been obliterated, nobody can get out! Right now, my wife is at the bottom of a flint mine with no food, no water, and 27 starving animal brats!

• Badger : [opens letter from Boggis,Bunce and Bean]  Why did they write this in letters cut out of magazines?

  Kylie : To protect their identities. Oh, right, but then why did they sign their names? Plus, we already know who they are, because they're trying to kill us.

• Badger : Don't buy this tree, Foxy. You're borrowing at nine and a half with no fixed rate, plus moving into the most dangerous neighborhood in the country for someone of your type of species.

  Mr. Fox : You're exaggerating, Badger.

  Badger : [chuckles]  I'm sugar-coating it, man. This is Boggis, Bunce, and Bean, three of the meanest, nastiest, ugliest farmers in the history of this valley.

  Mr. Fox : Really? Tell me about them.

  Badger : All right. Walt Boggis is a chicken farmer, probably the most successful in the world. He weighs the same as a young rhinoceros. He eats three chickens every day for breakfast, lunch, supper, and dessert. That's twelve in total per diem. Nate Bunce is a duck and goose farmer. He's approximately the size of a pot-bellied dwarf, and his chin would be underwater in the shallow end of any swimming pool on the planet. His food is home-made donuts with smashed-up goose livers injected into them. Frank Bean is a turkey and apple farmer. He invented his own species of each. He lives on a liquid diet of strong alcoholic cider, which he makes from his apples. He's as skinny as a pencil, as smart as a whip, and possibly the scariest man currently living. The local human children sing a kind of... eerie little rhyme about them. Here, listen to this.

  [turns on the radio] 

  Children's Song : [singing]  Boggis, Bunce, and Bean / One fat, one short, one lean / Those horrible crooks, so different in looks / were nonetheless equally mean.

• Rabbit : There's only one way out of this sewer. But the manhole cover's closed... and there's a station wagon parked on it. Which means we're permanently stuck down here.

  Badger : You still think we beat them, Foxy?

• Mr. Fox : Alright, let's start planning. Who knows shorthand?

  [Linda raises her hand] 

  Mr. Fox : Great! Linda! Lutra Lutra - you got some dry paper?

  [she holds up some paper] 

  Mr. Fox : Here we go. Mole! Talpa Europea! What d'you got?

  Mole : I can see in the dark.

  Mr. Fox : That's incredible! We can use that! Linda?

  Linda Otter : Got it.

  Mr. Fox : Rabbit! Oryctolagus Cuniculus!

  Rabbit : I'm fast.

  Mr. Fox : You bet you are. Linda?

  Linda Otter : Got it.

  Mr. Fox : Beaver! Castor Fiber!

  Beaver : I can chew through wood.

  Mr. Fox : Amazing! Linda!

  Linda Otter : Got it.

  Mr. Fox : Badger! Meles Meles!

  Badger : Demolitions expert.

  Mr. Fox : What? Since when?

  Badger : Explosions! Flames! Burning things!

  Mr. Fox : Demolitions expert! OK! Linda?

  Linda Otter : Got it.

  Mr. Fox : [grabs Weasel]  WEASEL! MUSTELA NIVALIS!

  Weasel : Stop yelling!

  Mr. Fox : Ha! Ha-ha! Whoo! Okay. Ash, you and Agnes team up with these little kids and form some KP unit to keep this sewer clean. It's good for morale.

  Ash : Done.

  [turns to Agnes] 

  Ash : What's KP?

  Agnes : I think it means janitors.

  [Ash spits] 

  Field Mouse : Hey-hey! I wanna go with you! I wanna fight!

  Mr. Fox : Good, fabulous! Microtus pennsylvanicus!

  [the field mouse laughs] 

• Badger : Mr. Fox having resolved a new plan, Badger says "Well, I guess we should, ah, probably split into a certain number of groups, and start doing something. Right?

• Badger : I just intercepted this Radio Transmission on the Tin Can!