Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Je suis Marxiste, tendance groucho.

 

* Starring *
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Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly, President of Freedonia
Margaret Dumont as Mrs Teasdale, Rich Widow financing the country
and
Chico Marx as Chicolini, the Spy!

(President's office, discussing the threat from Sylvania)

Groucho : We need more money to fight Sylvania.
Margaret : Oh.. we have spent all of my dead husbands fortune already..
Groucho : You couldnt have asked him to work harder, you old nag!
Margaret : Maybe we could plunder some treasure from the Incas..
Chico : At'sa okay. I got some Incas at home..
Groucho : Really?
Chico : Some blue inca and some black inca, you tella what you want?
Groucho : You know it pains me to see cannibals go hungry while you're around.

Groucho : Maybe we should go to the mountains to search for treasure.
Chico : No, no ,no. It'sa too dangerous.
Groucho : Why is it dangerous? (lifts eyebrow)
Chico : Mountain there'sa snow, abyss..
Groucho : Golly! thats where the abyssinnians live.
Chico : Avalanche..
Groucho : Its too early for me.
Chico : Avalanche!
Groucho : Okay, don't shout. I'll have some lobster.
Chico : Oh, you are too shellfish..
Groucho : Say, can you eat an electric eel? 1
Chico : Only if you ground it.

Margaret : (running in) Freedonia has been attacked from air!
Groucho : (going over to the telephone) Get me the secretary's underarms. I mean the Under-Secretary of Arms.
Groucho : (on the phone) I would like to order five Gnats, ten Mosquitoes and ten Stingers for the airforce. Mash them well, and go easy on the sauce.
Margaret : (wringing hands, agitated) The peasants! They are fighting!
Groucho : Oh, don't be chicken..
Margaret : But the peasants are revolting!
Groucho : I agree, and it would do you well to take a bath too. Chicolini, send a scoop of trouts to investigate, the spooner the better.

Groucho : (looking out of the window) You know, they have a drink named after the man who conquered that mountain.
Margaret : A drink?
Groucho : Sherbet Tenzing.

3 comments:

Aadil said...

1. c : ameya

Natasha M said...

Welcome back, aadil!

I always suspected your Marxist leanings- i now have proof!

Aadil said...

heh heh!
That was an attempt to mimic the style of the greatest marx who ever lived.

I would recommend 'Animal Crackers' & 'Duck Soup' to anyone who hasn't been initiated into Marx brothers movies.

"We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed, but we're going back again in a couple of weeks." - Captain Spaulding, Animal Crackers