Doctor James Atherton Quotes in Arachnophobia (1990)

[Flicks ant off of Manley's knee]

Doctor James Atherton: 24 hour ant.

Jerry Manley: They bite?

Doctor James Atherton: They kill, Mr. Manley, in sufficient numbers.

Doctor James Atherton: In this first generation, the original male also produced a queen, and together they will construct a primary nest which the queen will guard. But eventually, she will create reproductive offspring of her own. And when that happens, this town is dead... and the next town... and the next town... and the next one, and so on.

Jerry Manley: So how long will it take us to get back to camp?

Doctor James Atherton: What's the matter? You still worried about dinosaurs?

Sheriff Lloyd Parsons: [introducing Delbert to Doctor Atherton] Excuse me. Professor? This is our town exterminator.

Delbert McClintock: Delbert McClintock, infestation management. Always nice to meet a collegue.

Sheriff Lloyd Parsons: Now, he believes he came across one of the offending spiders a couple of hours ago.

Doctor James Atherton: Might you have brought it with you?

Delbert McClintock: Actually, he's probably still at the bottom of my shoe. You really can't tell what it is anymore.

Doctor James Atherton: I think this is a new species of butterfly... we could call it Potius Manliae

[Atherton being goofy making in inside joke to Jerry Manley after all the bugs fall from the tree]

[last lines]

Doctor James Atherton: [while drawing out the general spider] Suppers ready! Come and get it

[said general spider screeches and leaps onto his neck sinking it's fangs into his throat]

Delbert McClintock: [minutes later cries out as James drops from the rafters, cocooned and covered in spiders] They got the professor!

Doctor James Atherton: What's your specialty, Manley?

Jerry Manley: Football.

Doctor James Atherton: Well that could be the good news.

Doctor James Atherton: [the spiders die soon after biting the victim]

Milt Briggs: Now let's discuss the bad.

Doctor James Atherton: In its original habitat it was confined by geography that isn't true here.

[the General spider is not from Canima]