Who Done It? (1942)
Lou Costello: Mervin Q. Milgrim, Voice of Himself on Radio
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Quotes
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Mervin Q. Milgrim : [nauseous] I gotta go back upstairs and get something...
Chick Larkin : What have you gotta get?
Mervin Q. Milgrim : My stomach...
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Customer : What happened to my strawberry sundae?
Mervin Q. Milgrim : What's today?
Customer : Friday.
Mervin Q. Milgrim : You've got two more days to wait.
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Mervin Q. Milgrim : [Mervin and Chick and performing their radio play for Juliet, Mervin's holding a gun on Chick] Bang! Ow! Bang! Ow! Bang! Ow!
Juliet Collins : Wait a minute, if you're shooting at him
[Chick]
Juliet Collins : , then why are you yelling?
Mervin Q. Milgrim : I'm holding the gun backwards!
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Chick Larkin : [talking about Juliet Collins] She's only got a couple of buck teeth.
Mervin Q. Milgrim : Why do I care what she paid for them?
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Mervin Q. Milgrim : Operator! Give me Alexander two two, two two!
Telephone operator : The line is busy!
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Mervin Q. Milgrim : I've seen better heads on malted milks.
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Mervin Q. Milgrim : Hello! Give me Alexander 2222, please. Please give it to me. It's only over here on the other side of the street.
Telephone operator : The line is busy. Number, please.
Mervin Q. Milgrim : Alexander 2222!
Telephone operator : I can't hear you.
Mervin Q. Milgrim : Alexander 2222!
Telephone operator : Louder, please.
Mervin Q. Milgrim : If I talk any louder, I won't have to call them! They'll hear me!
Telephone operator : I'm sorry, sir, but you are all wet.
Mervin Q. Milgrim : Who's all wet? I'm all wet? Hold the line! Hold the line!
[He picks up spritzer bottle and sprays it into the phone. The spritzer comes out on the other end of the phone line, all over the operator]
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Mervin Q. Milgrim : I don't mind getting shot; I don't mind getting stabbed; but this here guy, insulted me!
[starts record playing]
Mervin Q. Milgrim : What was that crack about halitosis?
Voice on record : What are you going to do about it?
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Mervin Q. Milgrim : [repeat several times] Get me Alexander 2222.
Telephone operator : The line is busy.
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Mervin Q. Milgrim : Don't call me Blimp!
Detective Brannigan : Why not?
Mervin Q. Milgrim : What makes a blimp go up?
Detective Brannigan : Hot air.
Mervin Q. Milgrim : What's holding you down?