The Penguins of Madagascar (TV Series)

Cat's Cradle/Monkey Love (2009)

Tom McGrath: Skipper

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Quotes 

• Skipper : Eyes on the prize, Kowalski. Crack the new habitat security code, and we'll be swimming in all the fish we can stomach.

  Rico : Fiiish! Ha-ha-ha!

  Kowalski : I'm trying, but this is the most advanced encryption I've ever seen. It's got sudoku with fractions!

  Skipper : Have you tried the master code?

  Kowalski : One, two, three, four, five. Darn! Nothing!

  Skipper : Now try it backwards.

  Kowalski : Five, four, three, two, one. Aah!

  Skipper : Now start at three...

  Rico : Fiiiish!

  [Spits out a chainsaw and cuts through the computer] 

  Kowalski : Wow. We're in!

  Skipper : Way to hack that mainframe, Rico!

• Private : Skipper, there's a scary man!

  Skipper : Well, gentlemen, it looks like they finally found me. Those Danes really know how to hold a grudge.

• Skipper : Private, options.

  Kowalski : Hello? I'm the options guy!

  Skipper : But not when it comes to matters of the heart. That's where young Private here shines.

  Kowalski : True, I have trouble understanding emotions, and feelings, and... women.

  Skipper : Yeah. Duh. Private, you're on!

  Private : Well, let's see...

  Marlene : Come on, Private. You know what to do. Moonlight, guitar, oysters!

  Private : Sorry, Marlene, but I was thinking that Phil could show off his machismo.

  Skipper : Machismo! Español! I like it!

• Skipper : How many enemy agents are we talking here? Because if it's more than a baker's dozen, we may need the jumbo brass knuckles... and knuckles.

• Skipper : Reach for the skies, chimps!

  Lulu : What...?

  Mason : Egad, penguin desperados, and they've got sticks!

  Kowalski : Aargh! That's right, matey, and ooh, argh! Shiver me timbers, and orgh, eergh, argh!

  Private : Kowalski, we're supposed to be desperados, not pirates.

  Kowalski : Really?

  [Rico sighs and leaps forward to attack] 

  Kowalski : The point is, we want all your bananas!

  Private : And there's no one here tough enough to stop us!

  Skipper : [Pointing at Mason]  Certainly not this milksop.

  Lulu : Hold on now. Mason may not be tough, but me... I'm from Hoboken!

  [Beats up penguins] 

• Skipper : I know it's risky, but so is love. Look at what happened to Manfredi and Johnson when they fell hard for those Chinstrap sisters. They lost their hearts, a lung, and fifteen feet of intestine.

• Skipper : One human? That's not combat, that's a playdate.

• Skipper : Moon cat!

  Max : It's Max, and I'm not really from the moon.

  Skipper : Yeah, but the name just works.

• Mason : Egad, Phil! Don't be rash!

  Private : What is it?

  Mason : Phil is going to... speak to her.

  Skipper : Biscuits and gravy! We didn't run a scenario for that!

• Skipper : Kowalski, options.

  Kowalski : A strategic retreat, Skipper?

  Skipper : Explain.

  Kowalski : It's like running away but manlier.

  Skipper : Execute.

• Max : It's Animal Control! They're after me! Do you have any idea what those maniacs do to stray cats? Do you?

  Rico : Uh-uh.

  Max : Me neither.

  Skipper : Well, you're not finding out tonight.

• Officer X : Pure kitty. No buts about it.

  [Private snickers] 

  Officer X : I let the trail fall behind. They must have shaken my tail, sneaked out the backside and taken a rear exit.

  [Private snickers some more] 

  Officer X : This ends here.

  [Private laughs so hard he falls backwards] 

  Skipper : What's wrong with Private? I haven't seen him like this since our mission to Butztown, Pa.

• Max : I can't thank you enough, you guys.

  Skipper : Consider it a debt repaid, old friend.

  Max : But isn't the outside wall still surrounded by Sergeant Psycho's booby traps?

  Skipper : Not to worry. We've got a man on it.

  Mort : [Bouncing from trap to trap]  I'm expendable! Yay!

• Skipper : Marlene, don't bring all your sappy emotions into this. This is love!

• Mason : I don't know, Marlene, but I don't think that's quite the way to capture a chimp's heart.

  [Suddenly the penguins pop out of a grate] 

  Skipper : You heard the chimp, men! We need a way to capture the lady chimp's heart. Kowalski, you...

  Marlene : Hello? Mason came to me for advice, therefore it's my mission, not yours.

  Kowalski : Ah, but use of the word "capture" automatically makes this a penguin operation.

  Private : Sorry, Marlene. Those are the rules.