If a Body Meets a Body (1945)

Curly Howard: Curly Q. Link (Q for cuff)

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Quotes 

• Moe Pink : Didn't you say you had an uncle?

  Curly Q. Link : Yeah, uncle Bob O. Link, but the family didn't speak to him. He had millions.

  Moe Pink : That's it! We're rich.

  Larry Mink : We're filthy with dough!

  Moe Pink : You're filthy without it.

• Curly Q. Link : Pardon me, I...

  Detective : Who're you?

  Curly Q. Link : [indignantly]  I'm Curly Q. Link!

  Detective : Oh, you're the missing Link!

  Curly Q. Link : No, I'm da found Link! Nyuk nyuk nyuk!

• Moe Pink : [finds a horseshoe in his soup]  Why you numbskull, we sent you to the butcher shop for meat, not the glue factory.

  [hits Curly with the horseshoe] 

  Larry Mink : He's trying to poison us, that's what.

  Moe Pink : You get out of this house before I split your throat from ear to ear you Lucrezia Borgia.

  Curly Q. Link : If that means what I think it does...

  Moe Pink : So what?

  Curly Q. Link : So I'll go.

• Moe Pink : Hark, who goes there?

  Curly Q. Link : Friend or enemy?

  Larry Mink : Give us the countersign.

  Moe Pink , Curly Q. Link , Larry Mink : [Detective slaps all three of them]  Pass, friend.

• Moe Pink : Blow out the candle.

  Curly Q. Link : Oh, no. Then it'll be dark in here. I'm scared. I might see a ghost.

  Moe Pink : Blow it out, I said, or I'll blow out your brains. Or a reasonable facsimile thereof.

  Curly Q. Link : A reasonable facsimile of...? All right.

• Curly Q. Link : [reading his uncle's will]  "To my niece, Elisa Link, I leave one million, two hundred fifty thousand dollars. To my nephew, Curly Q. Link..." That's me! That's me!

  Larry Mink : Yes! Yes!

  Moe Pink : How much. How much?

  Curly Q. Link : "To my nephew, Curly Q. Link, I leave a sum total of sixty seven cents, net."

  Moe Pink : [in despair]  Sixty seven cents!

  Curly Q. Link : Sixty seven cents!

  Larry Mink : Sixty seven cents!

  [they hit each other, pull out their own hair and say it over and over again until fade out] 

• Larry Mink : Here's one. "Wanted: Gravediggers."

  Moe Pink : No, no, too morbid.

  Curly Q. Link : Da morbid, da merrier! Nyuk nyuk nyuk!

• Curly Q. Link : You know my name is Curly Q. Link!

  Larry Mink : What's the "Q" stand for? Quincy?

  Curly Q. Link : No.

  Moe Pink : Quillip?

  Curly Q. Link : No.

  Moe Pink : What does the "Q" stand for?

  Curly Q. Link : Cuff.

  Larry Mink : Oh, Cuff Link!

• Moe Pink : Didn't you say you were born in Oxford?

  Curly Q. Link : I can't remember. I was born awfully young.

• Curly Q. Link : Suppose the murderer comes back again?

  Moe Pink : Shut up! You got nothing to worry about. If he stabs you in the head, he'll wreck his knife.

• Curly Q. Link : It's dark in here!

  Moe Pink : I can see the darkness!

  [finds Curly standing on his and Larry's shoulders] 

  Moe Pink : Oh it's you! Boy will you come on?

  Curly Q. Link : [gets down]  I don't like darkness!