Offbeat Comments: The Answers!

Courtesy of Ms. Elizabeth Fox from Lizzie's Home Page, I now can present the answers to yesterday's trivia quiz:

"I'm going in the back to make an Old Fashioned." "But what if something goes wrong?" "What could POSSIBLY go wrong with an Old Fashioned?"
Jim Backus in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Hot 'n' hearty 'n' plump as you please
Zap Comics, Robert Crumb

Hey, let's all stop playing ego games!
Zap Comics, Robert Crumb

Snap it, Frenchy.
Frank Zappa, "Dirty Love"

"Kiss me, Hardy."
Supposedly Admiral Nelson's last words, after he was shot by a sniper at the Battle of Trafagar

"Hey! The missing evidence in the Kelner case! My God, he really was innocent!" "He went to the chair two years ago, Frank."
The Naked Gun

"Hold me closer...closer..." "If I stand any closer I'll be in back of you!"
A Day at the Races, Marx Brothers

"Ipecac or syrup of squill, I don't care."
It's a Gift, W. C. Fields

"You use ALL THE GLUE - ON PURPOSE."
A Christmas Story, after the leg lamp gets broken

And they knew not their ass from a hole in the ground.
"Everything You Know Is Wrong", Firesign Theater

Botch Casually and the Some Dunce Kid
Mad magazine. I can see the Mort Drucker drawing in my mind's eye

Merkle's Boner
Fielding error commited in 1908 by Fred Merkle that kept the Giants from going to the World Series (and Pat reminds me I should have included Snodgrass's Muff, another legendary Giants error)

"Jesus Palomino, a Nazi. I knew it, you're all in cahoots. Well let me tell you something, Mr. Heinie Kraut, I fought your kind in the great war, and we kicked the living shit out of you!"
the inimitable Slim Pickins in 1941

Rumble rumble rumble, mutiny
Stan Freberg's "United States of America"

"This boy is Ignorance, this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased."
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens. This is fun to say to the cats.

"There were people sufferin' in pain and hunger. Some people their tongues were hangin' out of their mouths."
Days of Heaven

"You can't fight in here, this is the war room."
Dr. Strangelove, or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb

"What have you done with Dr. Millmoss?"
James Thurber cartoon