Exterminator Jeff Quotes in The Borrowers (1997)

Police Officer Steady: Well, I've had reports that an Ice Cream Vendor...

Exterminator Jeff: Pest Control Operative.

Police Officer Steady: Oh, sorry.

Exterminator Jeff: That's all right, happens all the time.

Police Officer Steady: A Pest Control Operative...

[looks at Jeff]

Police Officer Steady: ...and a rather large man...

[eyes Ocious P. Potter for a moment]

Police Officer Steady: Well, that could be you, couldn't it, sir? Were seen arguing outside this house.

Exterminator Jeff: [look at the objects by the floorboards] Borrowers!

Ocious P. Potter: You've seen this before?

Exterminator Jeff: No, but I've heard the stories, but that's what I thought they were, just stories: the fly with the human head, the poker-playing rats, the giant radioactive cockroaches.

Ocious P. Potter: Spare me the folklore, will you? Can you kill them or not?

Exterminator Jeff: Yes. Extermination is my middle name. But why do you want me to exterminate the Borrowers?

Ocious P. Potter: Because those little rats stole something very important from me. AND NOBODY STEALS FROM OCIOUS P. POTTER!

Exterminator Jeff: You mean borrowed, don't you?

Ocious P. Potter: What?

Exterminator Jeff: Oh, well, they're Borrowers. They don't steal, they...

[Potter gives him a disapproved look]

Exterminator Jeff: [goes serious] Right!

Ocious P. Potter: Well, what are you waiting for?

Exterminator Jeff: [amazed] Incredible! Amazing! Tiny little people, moving on the landing!

Ocious P. Potter: [impatiently] WOULD YOU PLEASE GET UP HERE AND DO SOMETHING TO HELP ME!

Exterminator Jeff: [Introducing His Dog who is used for sniffing out Pests] Say Hello to Smelly... I suspect You wonder how He got His Name.

Ocious P. Potter: Well, I wasn't actually...

[the Dog passes gas]

Ocious P. Potter: Whoa, that's awful, what do You feed that thing?

Exterminator Jeff: I feed Him on cheese!