Arnold
Helga
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Arnold! What an annoying little goody two-shoes. What a dopey little dreamer. What a corny little cornball. Always walking around trying to get everyone to look on the bright side and do the right thing. How I despise him. And yet... I love him! I love him! I love his unerring sense of right and wrong. I love his insistence on the needs of the many over the needs of the few. But most of all I love how his hair smells up close, then he looks at me and I make an excuse for being so close. Then I insult him to cover up the secret, adoring feelings which I have so long and painfully harbored. Oh, Arnold!
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Oh, Arnold, another moral dilemma... Stick with Big Bob and get rich or find some way to help you, my beloved, noble Arnold, whom I have so long adored. If only I knew what to do. If only I had a sign.
(Pigeon poops on her) Perfect.
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You heard me, pal. I love you.
Love you! Who else do you think has been stalking you night and day, building shrines to you in a closet, filling volumes of books with poems about you? I love you, Arnold! I’ve always loved you! Ever since I first laid eyes on your stupid football head! From that moment and every moment since, I’ve lived and dreamed for you, dreamed of the moment I could finally tell you my secret feelings and grab you and kiss you and...Oh, come here, you big lug!
[Grabs Arnold and kisses him passionately] Scheck
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[phones Nick] Nick, that football headed kid and his little pals have a copy of the document on videotape and they're headed uptown right now with it on city bus #13. Get 'em!
Dialogue
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Gerald: I'm telling you Arnold. Your ball is flat.
Arnold: It's not flat, it just has little air.
[ball pops]
Gerald: Like what I said, your ball is flat.
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Arnold: What's wrong with old things? Some old things are great.
Harold: Yeah, like Mrs. Vitello.
Mrs. Vitello:
[hitting Harold] Whippersnapper!
Harold: OW! (No offense!)
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Stinky:
[about Scheck] He sure gives me the willies.
Gerald: Yeah, but he looks good in a suit.
Arnold:
[annoyed] Gerald...
Gerald: I know, I know. I'm just saying.
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Eugene [singing]:
This is our neighborhood!
How can they tear it down?!
How can they turn our smile into a frown?!
We may be just a few, but if me and you and you—
Arnold:
[turns off the stereo] No. No singing, Eugene.
Eugene: But the occasion called for it.
[starts to sing again] When maybe just a few–
Arnold: No, this is serious.
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Helga: Well, I was just wondering if this whole "tear down the neighborhood" Future Tech thing is really necessary.
Bob: Of course, it's necessary. It's more than necessary. It's progress. You can't have progress without a little pain. No pain, no gain.
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Arnold: Grandma!
Ernie: She's still in jail.
Arnold: (What, why?) I thought they were keeping her 1 night.
Ernie: She keeps trying to escape, like she thinks it's a game. 4th time they've brought her back in.
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Arnold: Von Scheck?
Grandpa: I wonder if he's realted…?
[Telling about the Tomato Incident] Anyway, Von Scheck's men attacked the neighborhood, but the locals used guerrilla warfare. They made a barricade of turned vegetable carts and fought with whatever they had. They had lots of tomatoes. They were British tomatoes, which were small and hard and really hurt if you got hit with one. That did it. The redcoats were in full, ignominious retreat. That's why we eat American tomatoes, Arnold. Although I had one recently from Chile. Very juicy.
Arnold: Grandpa, did that actually happen?
Grandpa Of course. I sliced it up and put it in a sandwich.
Arnold: No. Don't you see? This is our answer.
Grandpa Yes. Yes, Arnold! Juicy tomatoes from Chile! Why didn't I think of that?
Arnold: No, the Tomato Incident. If that battle took place right in the boarding house, this whole neighborhood should be a national landmark.
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Arnold:
[to the bus driver] You're going up to the peninsula?
Bus driver: Don't talk to the driver while the bus is in motion.
Gerald: But the bus isn't in motion.
Bus driver:
[starts the bus] Now it is. Get behind the yellow line.
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Bridget: Who'd touched my button?
[Arnold and Gerald are smiling in a slightly perverse way]
Arnold and Gerald:
[in unison] Me! Share this quote on facebook
Gerald:
[choosing spy equipment] Do these belts come in any other color?
Bridget: Black or pink?
Gerald: Uh, we'll take black.
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[Trying to think up a way to save the neighborhood.]
Oskar: Maybe we could paint the house with vanishing cream. Then it would be invisible.
Ernie: That is the stupidest idea I ever heard. What if it rains? Ding-dong! You ever think about that, Kokoshka? It'll wash the vanishing cream off, and then everyone'll see us.
Oskar: Oh boy, you're right.
Ernie: What we gotta do is build a dummy neighborhood one block over.
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Ernie: Yeah? Just 1 little detail, Gramps. Where you gonna get the explosives?
Grandpa: From you, of course. Just go down to your job site and lift a couple hundred pounds of explosives when no one's looking, huh?
Ernie: That's the craziest thing I ever heard, especially considering I got twice that much under my bed.
[The rest of the boarders look at him incredulously] What? Hey, we all got our little peccadilloes.
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Murray [continuous quote]: I drive 25 miles per hour. No exceptions, no discussion.
Gerald:
[about the bus driver] I wonder what bee got in his boxers.
Murray: Hey, you'd have a bee in your boxers too if you were in my moccasins. My girlfriend left me 2 weeks ago. Her name is Mona, she said she wanted a
whole man.
Gerald: "A whole man"? What's that mean?
Murray:
[shows them his prosthetic leg] I lost the real one in the war.
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[Somebody bangs the door. Vermicelli wakes up, staggers over to the door and opens it. It's Big Bob and he's furious]
Bob: WAKE UP, YOU WEASEL! I just read the fine print! So, it's gonna be
Scheck's Super Beeper Emporium, is it? You were trying to double-cross me!
Nick Vermicelli: I don't know what you're talkin' about, Bob.
Bob: I READ THE CONTRACT, PALLY! I GET A NEW BEEPER EMPORIUM, BUT SCHECK GETS 51% OF MY COMPANY!
Nick: Okay, okay. So it's true, but you signed a contract, so there's nothing you can do about it. The ink's dry.
Bob: YOU WERE IN ON IT THE WHOLE TIME! YOU
KNEW HE WAS GONNA SHAFT ME!
Vermicelli: Yeah, so what if i did? It's a free country.
Bob: REALLY? WELL, THEN IF IT'S A FREE COUNTRY, I GUESS I'M FREE
TO BEAT THE LIVIN' SNOT OUTTA YA!
Vermicelli:
[nervously] Now, Bob. Don't get crazy!
Bob: TOO LATE!
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Arnold:
[to Murray driving really fast] Is there anything we can do?
Murray: Yeah, you can get on your knees and pray this hunk of junk holds together long enough to get us uptown in one piece!
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Arnold: Don't you wanna save all those people's homes?
Murray: Not my problem, kid.
Arnold: Don't you care that every building from 33rd to 39th Street is going to be demolished?
Murray: (No, I–)
[eyes widen] (Wait, hold on. What did you say?) "33rd to 39th Street"?
Arnold: That's right. (Why?)
Murray: Hey, that's where Mona lives.
[yanks a lever switching the bus from "Uptown" to "Express" mode, then pulls the gear shift] Hang on to your goodies, kids! We've got a neighborhood to save!
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Scheck: Is the overpass wired?
Vermicelli: Yes.
Scheck: Blow it.
Vermicelli: Ehm, just so it would have been straight, boss. This is pretty serious.
Scheck: Serious?
Vermicelli: Yeah, you know, as in 15 to life.
Scheck:
[angry] Just do it, you incompentent moron!
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Bob:
[discovering the trench the boarders have made] Hey, what's goin' on? 286-DX plunger, high-gauge wire, C-47 tubing. I know what you're up to - you're planning to blow the street up, make a hole big enough to stop the bulldozers from knocking down the neighborhood. You could do serious jail time for that.
Grandpa: Well, I...
Bob: You need any help?
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Arnold: You didn't really mean all that, did you? You don't really love me, right?
Helga: Right.
Arnold: You were caught up in the heat of the moment, right.
Helga: Right!
Arnold: You actually hate me, don't you?
Helga: Of course, I hate you, you stupid football head, and don't you ever forget it…
ever!