Michael McPhee Quotes in Max Dugan Returns (1983)

Michael McPhee: Can you make money from philosophy?

Max Dugan: Yeah, if you have the right one.

Michael McPhee: He's gonna go into philosophy.

Nora McPhee: Why?

Michael McPhee: 'Cause that's what he wanted.

Nora McPhee: Who told you that?

Michael McPhee: Mr. Wittgenstein.

Nora McPhee: Who's Mr. Wittgenstein?

Michael McPhee: Mr. Parker.

Nora McPhee: Mr. Parker is Mr. Wittgenstein?

[doorbell rings]

Nora McPhee: Umm... oh... what did he tell you?... Look, don't go into uhh, what's his name's room. I think there's something severely wrong with him!

[doorbell again]

Max Dugan: Uh, do you want me to get that?

Nora McPhee: It's the police!

Max Dugan: Nevermind.

Michael McPhee: [looking at the new refrigerator] It has an ice crusher!

Nora McPhee: Don't crush ice! Don't crush anything! It's a mistake! It doesn't belong to us!

Max Dugan: My name isn't Parker.

Michael McPhee: Its not?

Max Dugan: No. Its Wittgenstein.

Michael McPhee: Wittgenstein?

Max Dugan: Gus Wittgenstein.

Max Dugan: [Mike points the camcorder at Max] No, Mike, not me.

Michael McPhee: Why not?

Max Dugan: Well, certain primitive tribes believe that pictures steal your soul, and I don't have too much soul.

Max Dugan: You won it.

Nora McPhee: What?

Max Dugan: On a TV show.

Nora McPhee: I was never on a TV show!

Max Dugan: It was one of those TV shows you don't have to be on. I was finishing up the breakfast dishes when there's a knock at the door , and in comes a lawyer with a blue suit...

Nora McPhee: No.

Max Dugan: No?

Nora McPhee: No, no. I don't think I won this, I never won anything in my life. This is a mistake!

Max Dugan: But it had your name and address on the invoice. I signed for you. Now, she'll probably have to go down and do a few publicity pictures but the stuff is yours.

Michael McPhee: Maybe it's on the six o'clock news!

Nora McPhee: It's not on the six o'clock news, just turn that off and put everything down... a man with a blue suit, huh?

[last lines]

Michael McPhee: [seeing the Mercedes drive by] It that?

Nora McPhee: My God, he's gonna drive to Brazil.

Nora McPhee: [waving] So long pop...