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Wild
wild West
President Grant: Mr. West, not every situation requires
your patented approach of shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more and then when
everybody's dead try to ask a question or two.
Artemus
Gordon: She's a breath of fresh ass.
Capt. James West: You know what you just
said? You said "ass."
Artemus Gordon: No I didn't. I said she's
a breast of fresh air.
Dr.
Arliss Loveless: Mister West! How nice of you to join us tonight and add COLOR
to these monochromatic proceedings!
Capt. James West: Well when a fella comes
back from the dead, I find that an occasion to STAND UP and be counted!
Dr.
Arliss Loveless: Miss East informs me that you were expectin' to see General McGrath
here. Well, I knew him years ago, but I haven't seen him in a COON's age!
Capt.
James West: Well, I can see where it'd be difficult for a man of your stature
to keep in touch with even HALF the people you know.
Dr. Arliss Loveless:
Well, perhaps the lovely Miss East will keep you from bein' a SLAVE to your disappointment!
Capt. James West: Well, you know beautiful women; they encourage you one minute,
and CUT THE LEGS OUT from under you the next!
Capt.
James West: Loveless has kidnapped metallurgists, so whatever he's building is
going to be armored. He's kidnapped chemists, so it'll have explosives. And Rita's
father is the biggest expert on hydraulics in the world, so it's going to move.
What could he be building?
Artemus Gordon: A bedside heater.
Capt. James
West: What?
Artemus Gordon: It's rather cold in that stateroom. Rita'll need
a bedside heater.
Dr.
Arliss Loveless: We may have lost the war, but we haven't lost our sense of humor.
Even when we lose a lung, a spleen, a bladder, thirty-five feet of small intestine,
two legs, and our ability to reproduce all in the name of the south, do we EVER
LOSE OUR SENSE OF HUMOR?!
Capt.
James West: Let me tell you something about your beloved art of disguise, Gordon.
That night at Fat Can's, it wasn't a difficult task to tell that you weren't a
woman.
Artemus Gordon: I was propositioned by three men!
[Gordon
produces a notebook and pencil on wrist springs]
Capt. James West: You know,
you could put a gun on that.
Artemus Gordon: Then where would I keep my pencil?
Capt.
James West: I thought I'd go as a government agent who's going to shoot and kill
General Bloodbath McGrath.
Artemus Gordon: An armed Negro cowboy costume in
a room full of white, Southern, former slave-owners. You'll win first prize.
[Gordon
zaps McGrath with his hypno-belt]
McGrath: What's this?
Artemus Gordon:
Why, it's a deep, deep pool. Maybe it's your old swimming hole, General. Are you
feeling sleepy?
McGrath: Yes, I'm sleepy.
Artemus Gordon: Good. Now you're
going to be my little doggy, and when I say "speak" you're going to
tell me everything I want to know. Understand?
McGrath: Woof!
Artemus
Gordon: Good boy. Now, which scientist is that in the next room? Is it Dr. Escobar?
Speak!
McGrath: [panting] Woof! Woof!
Artemus Gordon: You can speak words,
you stupid mutt.
[Chased
by flying, magnetic buzz-saw disks.]
Artemus Gordon: The collars are what's
attracting them! They contain powerful magnets! As long as we can outrun the blades,
we'll be fine!
Capt. James West: Gordon! How long does it take for a magnet
to lose its power?
Artemus Gordon: About four hundred years!
Capt. James
West: Damn!
Artemus
Gordon: I can't be calm! Oh, no, no, no, no, I'm the "Master of the Mechanical
Stuff"! And I have to help you! You, the master of the STUPID STUFF!
[West's
face is magnetically joined to Gordon's crotch]
Capt. James West: Gordon,
when you tell this story to your grandkids, you be sure to leave this part out.
Artemus Gordon: Don't worry.
Artemus
Gordon: Oh, look. My auxiliary tool kit, I forgot all about it. It must have fallen
out of my pocket.
Capt. James West: Your pocket? Why wasn't it on some spring-loaded
contraption that shoots out your ass?
Artemus Gordon: That's the first place
Loveless would have looked.
Coleman:
President thought you boys could use a little looking-after. But I draw the line
at defying gravity, so good luck.
Capt.
James West: I have a telegram for a Dr. Loveless. It's from his mother, Irene.
She's telling him to come on home, stop all this foolishness.
Dr.
Arliss Loveless: We may not have a woodshed on board, but that boy is gonna get
a whuppin' anyway!
Dr.
Arliss Loveless: Why y'all look like you've seen a ghost? It's me, dear friends
-- alive and kicking! Well, alive, anyway. We may have lost the war, but heaven
knows we haven't lost our sense of humor! No, not even when we've lost a lung,
a spleen, a bladder, two legs, thirty-five feet of small intestine, and our ability
to reproduce -- all in the name of the South! -- do we EVER LOSE OUR SENSE OF
HUMOR!
Capt.
James West: Never drum on a white lady's boobies at a redneck dance.
Artemus
Gordon: Jim?
Capt. James West: What now, Artie?
Artemus Gordon: Mind if
I ask you a question?
Capt. James West: Actually, I do, Artie.
Capt.
James West: That's it, no more Mr. Knife guy.
[Artemus
is wearing a bulletproof vest]
Artemus Gordon: I only have one request: that
you aim for my heart, my heart which has loved this country so much.
Dr. Arliss
Loveless: Shoot him in the head.
Artemus
Gordon: We have the element of surprise. What does Loveless have?
[They look
down into a canyon.]
Artemus Gordon: He has his own city.
Capt. James
West: He has an 80-foot tarantula.
Artemus Gordon: I was just coming to that.
McGrath:
[Shouting] You sawed-off sadistic bastard! You've betrayed us!
Dr. Arliss
Loveless: My dear General, having donated half of my physical being to create
a weapon capable of doing this, how did you and General Lee repay my loyalty?
You surrendered at Appomattox! So who betrayed whom?!
Capt.
James West: Let's break it down into two words. First, red. Red is like, fire,
passion. Neck is-- I can't think of anything for neck right now.
Capt.
James West: [Whistles] I'd like to have everyone's attention for a moment. It
seems we have had series of major misunderstandings here tonight. First of all,
the whole "drummin' on the boobies" thing. Now in my native land...
Someone in crowd: Georgia?
Capt. James West: Africa. We use drums to communicate
between villages. And as you can see by this gal, we could communicate all the
way to Baton Rouge. Hell, on a clear night, we might even get Galveston. All I
was saying to the gal was, "Hi, how ya doing? My name's Jim. How's your momma?"
Then there was the whole "Redneck" comment. And I'm sensing that you
took that negatively. But let's break down that word "Redneck". First
word red, color of power, fire, passion. Second word neck.............neck....hey
I can't think of nothing for neck right now, but without that you still got red
and that's something to be proud of.
Dr.
Arliss Loveless: Rita, my dear. Not that I'm ungrateful to providence for bringing
you back, but I have to confess - I'm just a little bit curious as to how you
managed to wind up with them.
Rita Escobar: Well, they seemed so sure that
they could find you, I thought if I stayed with them, they'd bring me back to
all my friends.
[In a low voice]
Rita Escobar: Not to give you a big head,
but, I kind of missed you.
Dr. Arliss Loveless: Well, isn't that a coincidence?
Cos, I kinda miss me too!
Rita
Escobar: He's so impetuous.
Artemus Gordon: Yes, he's an idiot.