George Cochran Quotes in Road to Bali (1952)

[performing for Princess Lala's court as Scottish bagpipers, a humorous homage to her late Scottish father, MacTavish]

Harold Gridley: Say, Haggis!

George Cochran: What is it, MacBaggis?

Harold Gridley: Have you heard the latest about MacTavish?

George Cochran: What's he done now?

Harold Gridley: I heard he's living on the roof!

George Cochran: Why would he be living on the roof?

Harold Gridley: Because he heard someone say, "Drinks are on the house!"

[Harold has been caught in a tree snare, proving the island is inhabited]

George Cochran: I wonder what the locals are like?

Princess Lala: I hope they're not cannibals or headhunters!

Harold Gridley: I hope they're orange pickers, I want to get out of this tree!

George Cochran: Oh, stop squawking, you'll fall off when you're ripe!

[George and Harold are surrounded by beautiful native women. Offstage voice shrieks "A-ough! Oh no!"]

George Cochran: What's that?

Harold Gridley: Oh, that's Errol Flynn. He can't stand it.

[One of the film's many cameos]

Princess Lala: Look!

George Cochran: The African Queen! Humphrey Bogart?

Harold Gridley: Boy, is he lost!

George Cochran: Hey! Hey, Bogie!

[All three run toward Bogart]

Harold Gridley: Hey, jungle fever! That's what we got. That was just a mirage!

George Cochran: Oh yeah? What about this?

[Holding up a trophy]

George Cochran: Humphrey Bogart's Academy Award!

Harold Gridley: An Oscar! Gimme that, you got one. Friends, this is a great occasion, me receiving this Academy Award. And I'd like to say a word...

[roar from offstage]

George Cochran: Run!

Harold Gridley: That's the word!

Harold Gridley: Is that the way all the natives dress on your island?

Shirtless Male Native: Nods

Harold Gridley: Really? George, do you suppose...

George Cochran: Not a chance.

Harold Gridley: Stick around folks, he could be wrong you know.

[a female ape has sat on Harold's lap]

George Cochran: Oh, buster, I don't like the look in her eye!

[the ape swings a paw at George]

Harold Gridley: George, get a rock, a club, anything! Kill one of us!

Princess Lala: [showing a portrait of a woman in regal dress] She was my mother, Queen Tama of Vaatu.

George Cochran: Hm, beautiful.

Princess Lala: [indicating the portrait next to it of a man in a kilt] And he was my father.

George Cochran: Didn't anybody in the family wear the pants?

George Cochran: Let's get the sap out of the tree.

George Cochran: [as he and Harold wander through a flock of sheep] Ya know, for a couple a guys on the lam, we're in pretty good company.