Lionel Jeffries credited as playing...
Grandpa Potts
- Caracticus Potts: How was India?
- Grandpa: India? I'll tell you something. I got up this morning and I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
- Caracticus Potts, Grandpa, Jemima, Jeremy: How he ever got in my pajamas, I shall never know.
- Grandpa: You've heard it before.
- [they all laugh]
- Baron Bomburst: [talking over a comical-looking gramophone-style "morning-glory horn" loudspeaker that he lowers down to Grandpa Potts on a long scissor-link extension arm] Good morning. Thiz is your captain speaking. We hope you had a pleasant trip. In a few moments we will be landing in Vulgaria.
- Grandpa: Where?
- Baron Bomburst: Vul-GARE-ee-ah.
- Grandpa: Oh.
- Baron Bomburst: So, please fasten your seatbelt, and no-o-o-o smoking. Thank you!
- [starts to raise the speaker back up again]
- Grandpa: Thank YOU.
- Baron Bomburst: [obligingly lowering the loudspeaker again] You aaarrrre WELcome!
- Caracticus Potts: Do you think Coggins might do a deal, so much a week?
- Grandpa: Coggins? What, him down the road? Sure. He's so mean he wouldn't light your pipe if his house was on fire.
- Grandpa: [reading a book out loud] And the big brown bear came lolloping over the mountain. 'No, no!' the princess cried.
- Grandpa: Well, he's a bit of an eccentric, sir. A genius, of course. But definitely an eccentric. Can't imagine where he gets it from.
- Grandpa: [the baron has just commissioned Grandpa to make a car and has threatened his life] Heh. Proper card he is. Odd sense of humor. Stuff me head with sauerkraut.
- [Grandpa chuckles]
- Inventor: The Baron never makes jokes.
- Inventor: Look at us; we've been here for years and years!
- Inventor: I came here to repair the telephone; that was 24 years ago.
- Inventor: They have terrible tortures: the thumbscrew and rack!
- Inventor: They stretch you and stretch you!
- Inventor: When I first came here, I was a midget.
- Grandpa: Come on. Me! A floating car! Why, that's impossible!
- Inventor: Nothing is impossible.
- Grandpa: Now, that's what my son's always saying!
- Inventor: We'll help you, won't we lads?
- [they all agree]
- Inventor: Nil desperandum! We'll succeed, you'll see!
- Grandpa: Caractacus, please, my boy, listen. It's time you woke up. Now, when I was your age, I did a day's work for...
- Caracticus Potts: -- a day's pay. Polishing the colonel's boots.
- Grandpa: I was the smartest batman in the British army.
- Caracticus Potts: You've been telling me.
- Grandpa: When my brigadier went into action, the Fuzzy Wuzzies were so blinded by the shine on his boots, they couldn't see to fight.
- Grandpa: [singing] I'm on my way to far away, Ta-ta and toodle-loo, And fare thee well and bon voyage, Arrivederci too...
- Grandpa: [singing] This is living, this is style, This is elegance by the mile, Oh, the posh, posh traveling life, The traveling life for me...