Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

Tony Randall: Brain Gremlin

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• Grandpa Fred : [interviewing Brain Gremlin]  Creature what is it that you want?

  Brain Gremlin : Fred, what we want is, I think, what everyone wants, and what you and your viewers have: civilization.

  Grandpa Fred : Yes, but what sort of civilization are you speaking of?

  Brain Gremlin : The niceties, Fred. The fine points: diplomacy, compassion, standards, manners, tradition... that's what we're reaching toward. Oh, we may stumble along the way, but civilization, yes. The Geneva Convention, chamber music, Susan Sontag. Everything your society has worked so hard to accomplish over the centuries, that's what we aspire to; we want to be civilized.

  [a Gremlin with a beanie cap acts goofy next to Brain] 

  Brain Gremlin : You take a look at this fellow here.

  [Brain shoots the Gremlin in the head. The Gremlins in the bar laugh. Grandpa Fred and Kujitsu leave] 

  Brain Gremlin : Now, was that civilized? No, clearly not. Fun, but in no sense civilized. Now, bear in mind, none of us has been in New York before. There are the Broadway shows - we'll have to find out how to get tickets. There's also a lot of street crime, but I believe we can watch that for free. We want the essentials. Dinettes. Complete bedroom groups. Convenient credit, even though we've been turned down in the past.

• Gremlin #1 : [repeated phrase while on telephone in stock exchange]  BUY! BUY! BUY!

  Gremlin #2 : [repeated phrase while on telephone in stock exchange]  SELL! SELL! SELL!

  Brain Gremlin : [on telephone]  Yes, I'd say it's a full scale panic. Are you having a run on the banks there yet? Well, it's rather brutal here. We're advising our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns.

• Brain Gremlin : The city so nice they named it twice! See it one time, won't you?

• Brain Gremlin : I wanna talk a little bit about what's going on in this room. Because, I think there's some fascinating ramifications here for the future when you introduce genetic material of research quality to a life form such as ours, which is possessed of a sort of, I hesitate to use the word - "atavism", but let us say an aggressive nature.

• Brain Gremlin : [on the phone]  Yes, I'd say it's a full-scale panic. Are you having a run on the banks there yet? Well, it's rather brutal here. We're advising our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns.

• Brain Gremlin : Is everybody here? All right, then.

  [singing] 

  Brain Gremlin : Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today, I want to be a part of it, New York, New York, Yes, sir! These vagabond shoes, Are longing to stray, And step around the heart of it, New York, New York...