Funny movie quotes from Buck Privates Come Home – Abbott and Costello’s sequel to their blockbuster movie, “Buck Privates” – here they’re returning home after World War II, trying to smuggle Evie, a war orphan
Funny movie quotes from Abbott and Costello’s Buck Privates Come Home
Herbie Brown (Lou Costello): [explaining their situation with Evie] We’ve been like a mama and a papa to her.
Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott): Leave me out of this.
Herbie Brown (Lou Costello): Okay, Papa.
Man: What’s the boy’s name?
Herbie Brown (Lou Costello): Pat.
Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott): Mike.
Herbie Brown (Lou Costello): Mike.
Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott): Pat.
Man: [to Evie, who’s dressed up like a boy] What’s your name?
Herbie Brown (Lou Costello): [leaning in to Evie] Don’t you tell him, Evie.
Man: Evie?
Herbie Brown (Lou Costello): Evie … E.V., that’s her name, Edward Vincent.
Man: HER name?
Man: Where does this little girl live?
Herbie Brown (Lou Costello): Paris.
Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott): Marseilles.
Herbie Brown (Lou Costello): Marseilles.
Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott): Paris.
Man: Paris and Marseilles?
Herbie Brown (Lou Costello): Her mother is a traveling salesman.
Sylvia Hunter: You love your uncle Herbie, don’t you?
Yvonne “Evie” LeBrec: Oh yes, I’d marry him if I was a little bigger and he was a little littler.
Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott): Don’t be silly. Have you every heard of somebody marrying a man?
Herbie Brown (Lou Costello): Yessir.
Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott): Who?
Herbie Brown (Lou Costello): My mother.
Slicker Smith: [referring to Bill and his car] He races midgets.
Herbie Brown: Midgets? Why don’t he race somebody his own size?
Herbie Brown: I did all my fightin’ with a knife!
Slicker Smith: With a knife?
Herbie Brown: I had 6,382 to my credit.
Slicker Smith: Enemies?
Herbie Brown: No, potatoes.
Bill Gregory (Tom Brown): That’s my car, hey Slick, who’s racing my car?
Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott): I don’t know, I’ll ask Herbie … Herbie? Herbie can’t drive!
Read the review of Buck Privates Come Home