Bud Abbott: Bud Alexander
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Quotes
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Lou Francis : [about graduating] This is the greatest thing that ever happened to me, how did I ever graduate?
Bud Alexander : [whispering] I slipped the guy twenty bucks. Now keep quiet.
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Bud Alexander : I told you not to get smart, didn't I?
[Taking his coat off]
Bud Alexander : Now, I'll show you who is the boss.
Tommy Nelson : [Putting Bud's coat back on] No, I'll show you who's boss.
Bud Alexander : [Looking around] Who said that?
Lou Francis : The voice is familiar; but, I can't quite place the face.
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Bud Alexander : [grabbed by the invisible man] Oh no! It's Tommy Nelson, Lou, he's here!
[grabs the air]
Bud Alexander : I touched him!
[gets slapped]
Lou Francis : I think he touched you back.
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Bud Alexander : [a motorcycle cop comes up on the car Tommy's driving] I hope he has his license.
Lou Francis : I hope he's in the car!
Officer : [at the back window] Pull over to the side!
Lou Francis : [points to the front seat] Tell him, he's driving!
Officer : [moves up, looks at the empty driver seat] I said pull over to the...
[stops in a daze, cut to him on the psychiatrist couch looking at the doctor's watch]
Dr. James C. Turner, Police Psychiatrist : Now tell us again what you saw.
Officer : I told you three times already.
Det. Roberts : Well tell it to him again.
Officer : I saw a car with nobody driving somebody.
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[Following graduation, Bud and Lou have set up a detective's office. Lou is shown with a pipe in his mouth and wearing a deerstalker cap. He hangs his diploma on the wall before looking at it with a magnifying glass]
Bud Alexander : Hey, you've been seeing too many Sherlock Holmes pictures lately, take off that cap. A detective has to dress so he won't attract much attention.
[Lou looks at his magnifying glass before he suddenly puts it in his mouth and starts licking it]
Bud Alexander : Come on, put that down, that is not a lollipop!
[Lou stops licking the magnifying glass]
Bud Alexander : Look, turn on the police calls. Hurry up! Might tip us off to something.
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[Last lines]
[after briefly turning invisible, Lou reappears with his legs on backwards. As he tries to comprehend what's going on, Bud happens to notice him]
Bud Alexander : That's just like you, you get everything backwards! Come on!
[Lou tries to run towards him, but because of how his legs are on backwards, he ends up running away from him. He proceeds to crash through a door]
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[Bud and Lou have just exited a car, the latter has a flashlight in hand]
Lou Francis : [struggling with the flashlight] I can't see a thing.
Bud Alexander : [grabs the flashlight] Turn it around!
[Lou turns on the flashlight to see something fluttering ominously]
Lou Francis : [frightened] Bud... oh look!
Bud Alexander : What?
[Bud takes the flashlight and looks to see a moth fluttering inside]
Bud Alexander : Ah, it's only a moth!
[Bud puts the flashlight back in the car]
Bud Alexander : Come on!
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Lou Francis : Hey, she called him Tommy. That's Tommy Nelson, the escaped killer.
Bud Alexander : Oh, stop jumping at conclusions. What would an escaped killer want two private detectives for?
Lou Francis : So he can catch himself?
Bud Alexander : So he can...
[Bud stops as he realizes what he just heard. With that, he grabs Lou and drags him into a room]
Bud Alexander : [grumbling] Oh, come on...
