Alice's Restaurant (1969)

William Obanhein: Officer Obie

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• Officer Obie : Want your wallets and your belts. Put everything on the desk.

  Arlo : I can understand you wanting our wallets, so we don't have any money to spend in the cell, but what do you want our belts for?

  Officer Obie : Kid, we don't want any hanging.

  Arlo : [pause]  Obie, do you think we're gonna hang ourselves for littering?

• Alice : Take off those handcuffs!

  Officer Obie : You're interfering in the performance of my duties.

  Alice : You're a meathead - haven't you play-acted cop enough for one day?

  Officer Obie : This side is reserved for officers of the law and criminals.

  Alice : Pig-eyed idiot!

  Officer Obie : Alice, I've had enough garbage for one day, yours and theirs.

  Alice : Stupid bastard!

  Officer Obie : Alice...

  Alice : Cradle hopper!

  Officer Obie : Alice!

  Alice : Turkey raper!

• Arlo : Obie, when do we get our bread and water?

  Officer Obie : Shut up, kid.

• Officer Obie : Kid, we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of garbage. Just wanted to know if you had any information about it?

  Arlo : Oh, yes sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie. I put that envelope under that garbage.

• Officer Obie : If he comes bustin' up the town again, I'm gonna bust him. Get the whole book on him. Possession. Pushing. The whole rap. So, keep him down here on the freak farm where he belongs. You understand?