The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

Edgar Kennedy: Jake the Bartender

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• Jake : [when asked to prepare Harold's very first alcoholic beverage]  You arouse the artist in me.

• Jake : Well, crown my kittens, this is quite a moment.

• Jake : It has always seemed to me that the cocktail should approach us on tip-toe, like a young girl, whose first appeal - is innocence.

  Wormy : What a poet!

  Jake : Here's to innocence!

  Wormy : Bottoms up!

  Harold Diddlebock : Over your ears!

• Jake : [Fixing Harold's first alcoholic drink]  Now, just a couple of technical questions. Would you like it frappé or flambé?

  Harold Diddlebock : How?

  Jake : Do you like ice skating or Turkish baths?

  Harold Diddlebock : I used to skate, a little.

  Jake : Frappé!

• Harold Diddlebock : A Diddlebock isn't really a drink.

  Mike the Cop : A what?

  Jake : It's just a little thing I invented in Brother Diddlebock's honor.

  Harold Diddlebock : It's more like fruit cup, really. A fruit cup with - sex appeal.

• Jake the Bartender : [Fixing Harold's first alcoholic drink]  Do you prefer showers or sitz baths?

  Harold Diddlebock : Well, we have a shower over the tub, but there's always the danger of stepping on the soap.

  Jake the Bartender : Vodka!

  Harold Diddlebock : What?

  Jake the Bartender : With vodka, you don't care WHAT you step on!

  Wormy : You can step on snakes!

• Jake : This calls for a little celebration, Mr., eh...

  Harold Diddlebock : Diddlebock. Harold Diddlebock.

  Jake : Diddle what?

  Harold Diddlebock : Diddlebock. Bock - as in beer.

  Jake : Oh, I thought you said, Diddlebuck - as in buckwheat cakes.

  Harold Diddlebock : No, I didn't

  Wormy : Brother Diddlebuck, eh, back, eh, bu, eh, what's the matter with me?

  Harold Diddlebock : Bock.

• Wormy : [Deciding what to fix for Harold's first drink - ever]  I was thinking of a Texas Tornado.

  Jake : Oh, not for an occasion like this, Wormy. To me, it is a perfectly reliable commercial drink for conventions and hangovers and things like that. But this, this is almost, eh, is the word: vestal? I mean it ought to have organ music. I mean opportunities like this come along all too rarely for a man with his heart in his work.