Folks! (1992)

Tom Selleck: Jon Aldrich

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Quotes 

• Harry : McDonnells!

  [Sounds like McDonald's] 

  Jon : Hungry, Pop?

  Harry : Um, yeah.

• Jon : This morning he named every member of his fighter squad like it was yesterday.

  Mildred : 1943 he remembers like it was yesterday. It's yesterday he can't remember like it was yesterday.

• [in a hospital] 

  Jon : You let your patients smoke in here?

  Head Nurse : Honey, they all gonna die of something sooner or later.

• Jon : I wanna tell you something, Pop, I missed you.

  Harry : You know I have to tell you something too. I don't know who the hell you are.

  Jon : Sure you do.

  Harry : No, I don't.

  Jon : Still a kidder, aren't you Dad? It's me, Jon!

  Harry : Jon? Jon! My boy!

• Harry : You sold the shoe store? You sold the shoe store?

  Jon : I'm sorry, Pop, I just couldn't find the right way to tell you.

  Harry : Tell me what?

  Jon : That I sold the shoe store.

  Harry : You sold the shoe store?

  Jon : The neighborhood was changing and it wasn't worth anything!

  Harry : [Showing him a deed]  It's worth half a million dollars. See? McDonnell's!

  Jon : [Thinking he said 'McDonalds']  You hungry again, Pop?

  Harry : Yeah.

• Arlene : I'm 35 years old, Jon!

  Jon : You're not 35 years old, I'm 40 and you're older than I am!

  Arlene : I'm 35! I'm got two obnoxious teenage boys and no husband. I have to compete with firm young women and there's only so much plastic surgery can do for me.

• [after an accident, John hads one of his testicles removed] 

  Jon : Thanks, Pop, I got one nut. Thank you very much!

  Harry : You're welcome.

• Jon : I'm perfect if anybody wants a one-balled, deaf, blind, unemployed vagrant with a limp.

• Dr. Aviano : Lucky those cops saw you. There wasn't any time to waste, I felt we should operate.

  Jon : Operate?

  Dr. Aviano : Lot's of men only have one testicle.

  Jon : Did you say I have only one testicle?

  Dr. Aviano : That's right.

  Jon : Nope, nope.

  [Looks under sheet] 

  Jon : Oh no!

  Dr. Aviano : Don't be upset, one is all you need. The other is just sort of a back up. It won't affect your sex life.

• Officer : This whole experience must really be trying.

  Jon : Yes, I feel horrible.

  Officer : I meant for them.

  Jon : Oh yeah, them too.

• Valet : Who are you here to see?

  Jon : Arlene Setters.

  Valet : Ah yes, the bitch. 907.

• Jon : [Is smashing a wire he was told to wear]  This is special agent Jon Aldrich reporting.

  [Smashes microphone] 

  Jon : This is Jon Aldrich to J. Edgar, come in, big guy.

  [Smashes] 

  Jon : Hello, Ed, can you hear me?

  [Smashes] 

• Jon : You're not gonna kill yourself. I'll kill you if you kill yourself.

• Jon : [Harry fires a gun, scaring off two mobsters]  The mafia.

  Harry : Nuh-uh.

• Jon : I remember this picture.

  Harry : Oh yeah. Guy on the left had is Tom Hankerman, he flew 37 missions before going down over Okinawa.

  Jon : Pop, you're putting your shorts on backwards.

  Harry : Huh? Oh yeah. That guy there is Lenny Coleman. Lenny ran that little airfield I flew out of after the war.

  Jon : Is that the place you took me to for my first ride?

  Harry : Your mother too. And last ride for her!

  Jon : Pop, you see much of Arlene?

  Harry : Arlene?

  Jon : Your loving daughter.

  Harry : No.

• [after being rescued by an accident in which Jon let his father drive the car] 

  Retired Doctor : How'd you say this happened?

  Jon : My father accidentally put the car in the wrong gear and then he accidentally got his foot stuck on the accelerator.

• Jon : You work too hard, Ed. Get a girl.

• Ed : Look, this is tough on me too.

  Jon : Well gee, I feel sorry for you, you back-stabbing pig!

• Jon : What happened to your clothes?

  Harry : The mob stole'em.

• Audrey : What about your sister?

  Jon : The bitch?

• Jon : [His father is driving the car at full speed in reverse]  Pop, I've got a good idea: STOP THE CAR!

• Jon : That's it, Arlene, I am retiring as executioner!

• Mildred : You're so much nicer than Jon's first wife.

  Audrey : You were married before?

  Jon : Um...

  Audrey : You were married before and you didn't tell me?

  Jon : Didn't I tell you? I thought I told you. I told somebody. Ha ha.

• Jon : Oh, Pop.