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Mrs. Teasdale:
As chairman of the reception committee, I welcome you with open arms.
Rufus T. Firefly: Is that so? How late do you stay open?
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Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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Mrs. Teasdale:
As chairwoman of the reception committee, I extend the wishes of every man, woman, and child of Freedonia.
Rufus T. Firefly: Never mind that stuff. [He takes out a deck of cards] Rufus T. Firefly: Take a card. Mrs. Teasdale: [as she takes one] Card? What will I do with the card? Rufus T. Firefly: You can keep it. I've got fifty-one left. Now what were you saying?
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Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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Mrs. Teasdale:
Your Excellency, I thought you'd left!
Chicolini: Oh no, I no leave. Mrs. Teasdale: But I saw you with my own eyes! Chicolini: Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?
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Chico Marx
(as Chicolini)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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Minister of Finance:
Here is the Treasury Department's report, sir. I hope you'll find it clear.
Rufus T. Firefly: Clear? Huh. Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. [to Bob Roland] Rufus T. Firefly: Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.
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Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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[answering the phone in Firefly's office]
Chicolini: Hello? No, not yet. All right, I tell him. Good-a-bye. [He hangs up] Chicolini: That was for you again. Rufus T. Firefly: I wonder whatever became of me? I should have been back here a long time ago.
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Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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[Firefly and Mrs. Teasdale hear music coming from downstairs]
Mrs. Teasdale: What's that? Rufus T. Firefly: Sounds to me like mice. Mrs. Teasdale: Mice? Mice don't play music. Rufus T. Firefly: No? How about the old maestro?
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Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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[Firefly emerges from a vase that has been stuck on his head]
Rufus T. Firefly: Any mail for me while I was gone?
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Groucho Marx
(as Rufus T. Firefly)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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[reporting on shadowing Firefly]
Chicolini: Monday we watch-a Firefly's house, but he no come he wasn't home. Tuesday we go to the ball game, but he fool us: he no show up. Wednesday HE go to the ball game, but we fool him, WE no show up. Thursday it was a double-header, nobody show up. Friday it rained all day, there was no ball game, so we stayed home, we listen to it over the radio.
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Chico Marx
(as Chicolini)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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Ambassador Trentino:
Have you been trailing Firefly?
Chicolini: Have we been trailing Firefly? Why, my partner, he's got a nose just like a bloodhound. Ambassador Trentino: Oh really? Chicolini: Yeah, and the rest of his face don't look so good either.
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Chico Marx
(as Chicolini)
in
Duck Soup
(1933)
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