'Way Out (TV Series)

The Croaker (1961)

John McGiver: Mr. Rana

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Quotes 

• Mr. Rana : Do you always go around breaking into people's houses without knocking?

  Jeremy Keeler : Sure! Otherwise nobody would let me in. People don't like me much.

• Mr. Rana : Listen, boy, when you grow up - if you grow up - you'll be exposed to all the idiotic theories of that monumental fraud called Darwin. According to him, mankind developed out of something like this and then he said it evolved up through the jellyfish, the flatworm, the fishes past the amphibians to the birds and the reptiles.

  Jeremy Keeler : Reptiles? You mean like snakes? They're cool!

  Mr. Rana : They're the greatest abomination on Earth, boy. The mortal enemy of frogs! They're not even entitled to a place in evolution.

• Mr. Rana : All things beyond the frog are just mutations of the frog. Look here, how can you improve upon perfection.

• Cora Tench : He had just told me that you had transformed Fred into a frog.

  Mr. Rana : Oh, he did, did he?

  Cora Tench : Imagine that. With a wave of your magic wand... or don't they use those anymore?

  Mr. Rana : Oh, quite obsolete, quite obsolete, Cora. Now days, we would use a chemical decoction; something colorless, tasteless, with perhaps just a faint odor of pond water, but disguised in the heavier scent of, say, whiskey.