Lost in Space (TV Series)

The Space Croppers (1966)

Sherry Jackson: Effra

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Quotes 

• Dr. Zachary Smith : Give your dear mother my kindest regards. I did so much enjoy meeting her.

  Effra : Didn't LOOK like you enjoyed it.

• [Loud drumming and chanting attracts the Robinsons to their new neighbors midnight planting] 

  Effra : You shouldn't outta come. Earthly folks got no business here!

  Maureen Robinson : We heard the chanting and we thought you wouldn't mind if we dropped in.

  Sybilla : [sternly]  We wouldn't mind if you DROPPED OUT the same way you dropped in.

  Dr. Zachary Smith : May I compliment you on your singing, madam? Glorious! Glorious!

  Sybilla : [obviously affected by Smith's remark, but nonetheless... to the Robinsons]  What do you want?

  Prof. John Robinson : We're interested in your planting methods, curious about your crop.

  Sybilla : Your curiosity has no business here.

  Effra : You'll find out soon enough, I reckon.

  Maj. Don West : What does that mean?

  Effra : Uh, how bad do you wanna know?

  Sybilla : [low and threatening]  I'll burn your tongue out. What we do - on our land - is exclusively OUR affair.

  Prof. John Robinson : Agreed, but...

  Sybilla : No "buts." "Buts" invariably lead to explanations, which I do not choose to give. Now we'll have no more talk, and no more VISITING.

• Dr. Zachary Smith : And, uh, that remarkable contraption is your means of transportation?

  Effra : There ain't NOTHIN' wrong with it. It gits us places, all over the Pleiades AND the constellation of the big dog AND the constellation of the southern fish. And we even was to Earth, once.

  Dr. Zachary Smith : Earth?

  Effra : Yeah, only I, uh, didn't like it because there was too many people like YOU.

• Sybilla , Effra : [chanting in unison]  Saaay-la! Naaay-la! Saaay-la! Daaay-la! Raaay-la! Naaay-la! Saaay-la!

  Sybilla : Gro-ow and mullll-ti-ply.

  Effra : Flourrr-ish, and provide.

• Sybilla : Where's your brother Keel?

  Effra : Oh, he's still out there. He hasn't finished his howlin' yet.

  Dr. Zachary Smith : [alarmed and hearing a distant howl]  Did she say "howling?"

  Sybilla : Mm-hmm, but you won't have to worry about that, Zachary, now that you're one of the family. Just keep an eye on him at the time of the full moon, and the rest of the time he's quite easy to handle, once you get the hang of it - but Efra... Efra can be a trial at times, a real problem child, but I know you'll be masterful enough to handle her, too. Besides, she only practices her little tricks of witchcraft when she's bored or irritated, and then she does some pretty spooky things.

  Dr. Zachary Smith : She does?

  Sybilla : Hmm. Of course, she inherited those powers from her father and not from me. "My darling little witch child" he used to call her. She absolutely gets carried away when the plants are eating. She may ask you to hover in the sky. She may suspend you up there, but if she does you just outsmart her. You hang up there and close your eyes. It's better not to look while the plants are eating. It gets very messy.

  Dr. Zachary Smith : What... do the plants do, Sybila?

  Sybilla : They consume, Zachary. Ah... They consume EVERYTHING until there's not a living thing left. Not a stick. Not a THING. Now, aren't you glad that you proposed to me and I accepted you? You're safe with us.

  Dr. Zachary Smith : Am I, Sybila?

• Sybilla : Effra, I won't have it! Conversing with strangers, again. Now, you get back to the brew.

  Effra : All right, Ma.

  Sybilla : It's "Mother," not "Ma."