Quotes for Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney (Character) from Spook Busters (1946)
Jail Busters (1955)
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: SHADDUP! [mocking the psychiatrist’s words] Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: ‘In and though, 1 and 2’, I think you got a loose screw!
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: [during a conjugal visit] I can’t see you so good, Louie, stand up. Louie Dumbrowsky: I *am* standing up!
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: [to the guard issuing prison suits] I know you don’t have any say on the color, but I do need a 21 inch waist. Horace Debussy ‘Sach’ Jones: He means a 21 inch neck!
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: With all we know about this place, if we ever get out of here alive, heads are going to roll like bowling balls. Horace Debussy ‘Sach’ Jones: Except that Jenkins, his head is flat!
Horace Debussy ‘Sach’ Jones: Oh boy! This reminds me of my kindergarten days! It was so long ago! Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: So long ago? It was only last year. Horace Debussy ‘Sach’ Jones: How time flies.
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: The maniac’s got the mic! He’s really gonna be in trouble now!
Horace Debussy ‘Sach’ Jones: How about an extra set of muffs for me incase you snore? Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: It just so happens that I do not snore. I know because I stayed awake all one night to see if I snored, and I didn’t.
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: [Dr. Derek goes to the gorilla’s cage] Peek-a-boo! Have a banana on me! [throws it in Dr. Derek’s eye]
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: [into the microphone] Calling all police cars, or calling any kind of car. There’s a big monkey here in the Gravesend mansion! Over! Over! Before I’m under!
Lucky Losers (1950)
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’: I’m going to powder my nose. Horace Debussy ‘Sach’: Your nose ain’t shiney. Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’: Your head’s going to be shiney if you don’t shut up!
Horace Debussy ‘Sach’: I lost my button. Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’: You lost your buttons a long time ago!
Horace Debussy ‘Sach’: Sorry I didn’t get you any cigarettes, but I put a quarter in the machine and quarters came out of it. Ain’t I stupid? Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’: If you get smart, I’ll never talk to you again.
Spook Busters (1946)
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: Louis’s in trouble, his mouse just had puppies!
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: We need to know the width of the mouse. Louis Xavier ‘Louie’Dumbrowski: About one mouse wide.
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: [seeing Gaby’s French wife] Viva la-Viva la-Viva la French! Horace Debussy ‘Sach’ Jones: Hubba-hubba-hubba. Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: That’s what I just said.
Ghost Chasers (1951)
Horace Debussy ‘Sach’ Jones: I got a lighter but it’s outta fluid. Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: I think your head is outta fluid.
Margo the Medium: I take orders from no one. Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: [goes to the phone] Oh yeah? Well maybe you’ll take orders from the D.A. Margo the Medium: No, wait, I’m just a poor old woman trying to make a living. Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: Well that makes us even lady, I’m just a poor old man trying to make a living.
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: [slips a $100 into Mrs. Parelli’s apron pocket snd takes it out] You don’t have anymore money, eh? Then what’s this, old sausage?
Angels’ Alley (1948)
Sach ‘Turkey’ Horace Debussy Jones: You want to hit me with your hat? Terence ‘Slip’ Mahoney: I don’t feel like it right now.
Terence ‘Slip’ Mahoney: I’m just watching my suit rubbing elbows with the wrong people.
Bowery Buckaroos (1947)
Bobby: Somebody’s moving in the bushes! Who’s there? Slip’ Mahoney, aka ‘Dead-Eye Dan McGurke: It’s just Whitey, he’s having one of his somnambulism attacks. Horace Debussy ‘Sach’ Jones: No he’s not, he’s walking in his sleep.
Horace Debussy ‘Sach’ Jones: I had a wonderful dream. Louie, you were a free man, and you guys had $5,000, and you Gabe, you had a beautiful girl, and you Slip, you had a pile of gold. Louie, aka Louie the Lout: I was a free man? Horace Debussy ‘Sach’ Jones: Yeah. Whitey, Chuck and Bobby: And we had $5,000? Horace Debussy ‘Sach’ Jones: Yeah. Gabe, aka The Klondike Kid: And I had a beautiful girl? Horace Debussy ‘Sach’ Jones: Yeah. Slip’ Mahoney, aka ‘Dead-Eye Dan McGurke: And I had a pile of gold? Horace Debussy ‘Sach’ Jones: Yeah, wasn’t it a wonderful dream? Slip’ Mahoney, aka ‘Dead-Eye Dan McGurke: It sure was. [hits Sach with his hat] Horace Debussy ‘Sach’ Jones: What was that for? All: For waking up! Go back to sleep!
Trouble Makers (1948)
Slip Mahoney: We’re going to go un-indentify that body.
Slip Mahoney: Sach, if you drop me I’ll never call you my friend again.
Angels in Disguise (1949)
Mr. Slip Mahoney: Let me get my implement of destruction.
Mr. Slip Mahoney: [being cared for by a beautiful nurse] I’m gonna break a leg every day from now on!
Fighting Fools (1949)
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: Would it satisfy me? It would positively inebriate me!
Sach: I wish I was in the ring, I’d fracture that guy. Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: You couldn’t fracture a toy balloon.
Hard Boiled Mahoney (1947)
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: [Bobby gets thrown out of a psychic office] Did you learn anything? Bobby: Yeah, I learned I can bounce!
Smugglers’ Cove (1948)
Terrence ‘Slip’ Mahoney: Sach, take these kids back to their room and rock them to sleep. Sach: I ain’t got a rock. Terrence ‘Slip’ Mahoney: Well then hammer them to sleep!
Master Minds (1949)
Slip Mahoney: What happened to your tooth, melon head? Sach, aka Ali Ben Sachmo: I swallowed it!
Feudin’ Fools (1952)
Terence Aloysius ‘Slip’ Mahoney: Ellie Mae, it’s been an extinct pleasure.
Hold That Baby! (1949)
Slip Mahoney: I’m a victim of my own verbacity, and I don’t even know what that is.
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