Quotes from Shovel Off to Buffalo


"Hey, Jake, wanna be my wife?" -Becker
"Not even if meant gettin' my sight back." -Jake
"I just thought you might like to get out of town for a couple days." -Becker
"Well, thanks, John, but y'know I got this thing I... well, you see I'm supposed to... Aw, hell, I just don't wanna go." -Jake
"Bob would like to go away." -Bob
"Good, go away." -Becker "I'll take the ticket, Becker. I've got this old girlfriend in Chicago and I'd love to see her." -Reggie
"Okay." -Becker
"That's it, no argument?" -Reggie
"Nope." -Becker
"Why?" -Reggie
"Well, 'cause somewhere in this city some moron is packing his bag preparing to sit in the seat next to me and tell me his pathetic life story. I already know yours." -Becker

"Oh, look, look at that cloud. It looks like a duck." -Becker

"Bob, give it up, Reggie can't stand you." -Jake
"No, see, that was the old Bob, the cocky Bob. This is the new Bob, the humble Bob." -Bob
"You know what I think she'd really love? The dead Bob." -Jake

"What is this, a brownie, or do we use it to break a window in case of an emergency?" -Reggie

"Valium wear off?" -Reggie
"Get your elbow off my side." -Becker

"The captain say it'll be about another fifteen minutes." -stewardess
"Don't give me the fifteen minutes routine. I'm a doctor, I invented fifteen minutes." -Becker

"Hey, get your claws off my husband and get me my damn nuts!" -Reggie
"I want a divorce." -Becker

"Bob's a great cook. Bob's wife said that's the only reason she kept him around. On the plus side, when she was eating she couldn't talk." -Bob

"I love airline magazines. Everything you ever wanted to know about everything you never wanted to know about." -Becker

"Hey, Tom, it's John Becker, don't hang up." -Becker
"Oh, you just have friends everywhere, don't you." -Reggie


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