The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)

Paul Frees: Crusty

Quotes 

• [Crusty and Limpet are swimming into a sunken ship] 

  Crusty : Hey, don't go moseyin' around in this thing's innards. No wonder this thing died! Look at all the kind of stuff it ate!

• Crusty : Jumping St. Elmo's fire! Who in blue blazes invited you in here?

  Henry Limpet : Huh? Who? What is it?

  Crusty : Slammin' right into my private quarters. Come about and stand by for action, you four-eyed flounder!

• Henry Limpet : Say, you're talking to me.

  Crusty : You bet your binnacle I'm talking to you, matey! Now, hoist your tail and git!

• Crusty : That does it! Put up your fins! I'm gonna swab the ocean floor with you.

• Henry Limpet : I'm a Limpet. Henry Limpet from Brooklyn. You know, Flatbush.

  Crusty : I've seen flat fish, but I've never seen no four-eyed flat bush.

• Henry Limpet : Well, I'm not really a fish. I-I-I'm a man. Or, I was a man until quite recently.

  Crusty : Listen, Flatbush, anything I hate, it's a smart-aleck fish.

• Crusty : Hurricane! Typhoon! Stand by for a blow!

• Crusty : Gotta hand it to you, Flatbush. That whale-bustin' noise of yours is really somethin'! I guess that long-legged blob of shrimp bait'll think twice before he fools with *us* again.

• Crusty : I gotta feelin' I'm gonna be busier than a one-armed octopus with the hives.

• Henry Limpet : I didn't mean to barge in on you, but a shark was chasing me.

  Crusty : Shark! Jumpin' jellyfish! You just swing about and let that shark chase you full speed away from here!

• Crusty : You mean to say that blast came out of you? Why, you loudmouth son of a bellerin' barracudi! That belch of yours like to capsize me in the backwash! If you sound off like that again, I swear I'll - batten your gills and lower the *boom* on ye.

• Henry Limpet : It's only a mirror. It's - me. So, that's what I look like.

  Crusty : Well, swab my scuppers. Another Flatbush!

  Henry Limpet : I'm not a bad-looking fish at that. Really, a pretty unique specimen.

  Crusty : You got a couple of good points, lad, but beauty ain't one of 'em.

  Henry Limpet : Look at that strong gill structure. And did you ever see such a fine dorsal formation? But maybe I'm a freak! Am I gonna be like this for just a little while or always? I'm probably the only one of my kind. Oh, if only there was another fish like me. Even just one! Someone who would understand me.

• Henry Limpet : We're off!

  Crusty : Alright, Flatbush. Let 'er rip!

• Crusty : All I can say is: mush and bilge water!

• Crusty : Hey, what's all this blabberdash about war and 4-F and Stickel's and like that?

• Henry Limpet : I can't ask you to risk your life for me.

  Crusty : Risk my life? Hold everything. Maybe I ought to put on somethin' more torpedi-proof.

• Crusty : Ladyfish, got a message for you from Limpet. He said he loves you and other such mush like that.

  Ladyfish : He loves me? Oh, he loves me!

  [kisses Crusty] 

  Crusty : Yeech! I don't love you, he does! Silly female.

• Crusty : Hate to admit it, but I'm gonna miss him. Had to lose my best buddy to a frilly female.

• Crusty : Alight, cast off. Full speed ahead. No, hard aport. Full reverse. Come about full, then steady as she goes.

• Crusty : Slow down, gosh darn it. I ain't got the hang of steerin' you yet. Woah! Haul up your keel! Dang near shivered your timbers that time. Dagnab it!

• Crusty : Sufferin' swordfish! What kind of sea monster you reckon killed a whopper like that?