Gene Hackman credited as playing...
MacArthur Stern
- Mac: Mr. Gutterman come out of recovery yet?
- Nurse: Mr. Gutterman? Oh, you mean the whale from hell?
- Harry 'The Hippo' Gutterman: Nurse!
- Nurse: Right on cue. Room 116. Help yourself.
- Harry 'The Hippo' Gutterman: Help!
- Mac: Aren't you going to go in and see what's wrong with him?
- Nurse: I'd rather set my head on fire and have it put out with a sledgehammer.
- Harry 'The Hippo' Gutterman: Nurse!
- Mac: I'd like to see that actually.
- Mac: [Closing scene, at the hospital] I know you were looking forward to being partners, and so was I really. Riva recruited Harry and I to be secret agents with the Israeli government. You know, the Mossad.
- Ellis Fielding: Yeah.
- Mac: Naturally, I have to convert to Judaism. I'm gonna be bar mitzvahed tomorrow. We leave for Tel Aviv the next day to train at a secret site in the Sinai Desert.
- Ellis Fielding: Really?
- Mac: Yeah. The only thing I'm worried about is, I have to be circumcised.
- Ellis Fielding: Circumcised? You're kidding.
- Mac: Yeah.
- Ellis Fielding: [Realizing it was all a joke] Oh, Mac. Mac, Mac, Mac. You know why we make such good partners?
- Mac: No. Why?
- Ellis Fielding: Because technically, you're crazier than I am.
- Mac: I knew that.