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Rufus T. Firefly:
I'll see you at the opera tonight. I'll hold your seat till you get there. After you get there you're on your own.
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Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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Rufus T. Firefly:
I'm in a hurry! To the House of Representatives! Ride like fury! If you run out of gas, get ethyl. If Ethel runs out, get Mabel! Now step on it!
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Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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Rufus T. Firefly:
Just for that, you don't get the job I was going to give you.
Chicolini: What job? Rufus T. Firefly: Secretary of War. Chicolini: All right, I take it. Rufus T. Firefly: Sold.
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Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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Rufus T. Firefly:
Lieutenant, why weren't the original indictment papers placed in my portfolio?
Bob Roland: Why, uh, I didn't think those papers were important at this time, your excellency. Rufus T. Firefly: You didn't think they were important? Do you realize I had my dessert wrapped in those papers?
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Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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Rufus T. Firefly:
Look at Chicolini. He sits there alone, an abject figure...
Chicolini: [immediately] I abject!
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Chico Marx
(as Chicolini)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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Rufus T. Firefly:
Married. I can see you right now in the kitchen, bending over a hot stove. But I can't see the stove.
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Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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Rufus T. Firefly:
Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?
Chicolini: Well, I tell you what I think, I think we should have a standing army. Rufus T. Firefly: Why should we have a standing army? Chicolini: Because then we save money on chairs.
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Chico Marx
(as Chicolini)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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Rufus T. Firefly:
Now, what is it that has four pairs of pants, lives in Philadelphia, and it never rains but it pours?
Chicolini: Atsa good one. I give you three guesses. Rufus T. Firefly: Now let me see. Has four pair of pants, lives in Philadelphia... Is it male or female? Chicolini: No, I no think so. Rufus T. Firefly: Is he dead? Chicolini: Who? Rufus T. Firefly: I don't know. I give up. Chicolini: I give up, too.
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Chico Marx
(as Chicolini)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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Rufus T. Firefly:
Oh, I'm sick of messages from the front. Don't we ever get a message from the side? - What is it?
Bob Roland: General Smith reports a gas attack. He wants to know what to do. Rufus T. Firefly: Tell him to take a teaspoonful of bicarbonate of soda and a half a glass of water.
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Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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Rufus T. Firefly:
Oh, uh, I suppose you would think me a sentimental old fluff, but, uh, would you mind giving me lock of your hair?
Mrs. Teasdale: A lock of my hair? Wh-why, I had no idea. Rufus T. Firefly: I'm letting you off easy: I was going to ask for the whole wig.
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Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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