The Ren & Stimpy Show (TV Series)

A Visit to Anthony (1993)

Randy Quaid: Anthony's Dad

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Quotes 

• Anthony's Dad : Oh... you guys are BIG SHOTS. Ha ha. Big shots from HOLLYWOOD. Is that what makes you feel BIG? HUH? Pushing little boys around? You feel like BIG MEN playing with little boys' feelings, huh? You Hollywood types make me SICK! You think because you come from HOLLYWOOD, you can push decent people around! People who WORK for a living! I work my fingers to the BONE to feed my wife and... my boy, Anthony.

  [buries head in hands] 

  Anthony's Dad : Anthony, you've got to pull through!

  [sobs] 

  Anthony's Dad : I bet you wussies never worked a stinkin' day in your stinkin' little lives! Show me your hands.

  [Ren and Stimpy nervously extend their hands, which are sparkly clean] 

  Anthony's Dad : Just as I thought. Soft as a baby's head. Well look at THESE hands!

  [Anthony's dad extends his hands, which have literal stalagmites growing out of them] 

  Anthony's Dad : These are the hands of a working man! What'd you ever do for society, anyway? Just what do you DO to earn your KEEP?

  Stimpy : Well, we make people laugh.

  Anthony's Dad : REAL hard work. Making people laugh. Did you go to SCHOOL to make people laugh? Listen. I make people laugh, TOO! But nobody gives ME money! You wanna hear a joke?

  [chuckles] 

  Stimpy : Well, I...

  Anthony's Dad : I'll tell ya a joke. And you're gonna LAUGH! All right, here's the joke. Ya ready? Why did they bury the fireman...

  [chuckles] 

  Anthony's Dad : behind the hill? Come on, funny guys, huh? Huh, huh? Why?

  Stimpy , Ren Höek : [nervously]  We don't know why they buried the fireman behind the hill!

  Anthony's Dad : I'll tell ya why...

  [chuckles] 

  Anthony's Dad : Because he was DEAD!

  Stimpy : [after a beat of silence, Stimpy laughs]  That's pretty good, huh, Ren? Maybe we can use that.

  [Ren slaps him] 

  Anthony's Dad : All right, funny guys... I wanna know somethin'.

  [puts his left arm around Ren and Stimpy] 

  Anthony's Dad : I just wanna know ONE thing. Just ONE THING FROM YOU!

  [calmly] 

  Anthony's Dad : So what makes you guys move, anyway?

  [Ren and Stimpy deflate]