Charlotte's Web (1973)
Agnes Moorehead: The Goose
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Quotes
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[at the meeting, Charlotte is looking for a new message to write in her web]
Lamb : How about "Pig Supreme"?
Charlotte : Mmmm... no good. It sounds like a rich dessert.
[Templeton walks past with an apple core towards the trough, and Charlotte glares at Templeton]
Goose : How about terrific, terrific, terrific?
Charlotte : Cut that down to *one* terrific, and it will do nicely. I think "terrific" will impress Zuckerman.
Wilbur : But Charlotte, I'm not terrific.
Charlotte : You're terrific, as far as I am concerned.
[Templeton, while holding an orange peel in his mouth, smacks Wilbur's face with his tail and walks off to the trough]
Charlotte : [after glaring at Templeton] And does anybody know how to spell it?
Goose : I think it's T, double-E, double-R, double-R, double-I, double-F, double-I, double-C, C, C!
Charlotte : [Charlotte's remark, from shock back to the goose] What kind of acrobat do you think I am? It would take me all night to write that.
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Goose : [to Templeton] You'll worry, all right, when winter comes. If Wilbur is killed and his trough stands empty, then you'll grow so thin we can look right through your stomach and see objects on the other side!
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[after the goose's eggs have hatched]
Wilbur : Congratulations! How many are there?
Goose : There are seven.
Charlotte : Seven is a lucky number.
Goose : Luck has nothing to do with it! It was good management and hard work!
Templeton : [looking at a solitary unhatched egg] Why didn't, uh, this one hatch?
Goose : [gloomily] It's a dud, I guess.
Templeton : What are you going to do with it?
Goose : [sternly] You can have it. Roll it away and add it to that nasty collection of yours! Be careful - a rotten egg can be a regular stink bomb!
Templeton : [patting the egg] I know what I'm doing. I handle stuff like this all the time.
[Templeton rolls the egg away and buries it in his hole]
