Jasper Blubber Quotes in The Cheap Detective (1978)

Jasper Blubber: The murderer is a Rumanian sailor by the name of Vladimir Tserijemiwtz.

Lou Peckinpaugh: Can you say that again?

Jasper Blubber: Not without spitting. - Well, sir, I have spent sixteen years, and every penny I have, sir, tracking this man down, and at last I have found him! He is here in San Francisco, just as sure as you're sitting there. He's changed his name by making an anagram out of his original name. Seven years I've tried to unscramble it, to no avail.

Jasper Blubber: We should leave separately. Makes more sense if I go first.

Lou Peckinpaugh: Why is that?

Jasper Blubber: Then I don't get stuck with the check.

Jasper Blubber: And what is the charge, may I ask?

Lieutenant DiMaggio: The murder of Floyd Merkle and five unimportant people.

Jasper Blubber: You drink, of course?

Lou Peckinpaugh: Why not?

Jasper Blubber: One gin sling!

Lou Peckinpaugh: I'd rather have a brandy.

Jasper Blubber: Won Jin Sling is the *waiter*. One brandy, Won Jin Sling.

Lou Peckinpaugh: This is a gin sling!

Jasper Blubber: It is? I was wrong - the waiter's name is Brandy.