Rueben Soady Quotes in Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001)

Jimmer Negamanee: Shay, Reubensh.

Rueben Soady: Yea?

Jimmer Negamanee: Shince you ain't sherving shashties, I'd sure shike shome of those sherman shlapjakcs.

[laughs]

Jimmer Negamanee: I could eat shlapjacks every day of the weeksh, eh.

Rueben Soady: Oh, I know you could, Jimmer.

Remnar Soady: No, not flapjacks.

Jimmer Negamanee: Ya'll don't like the shlapjacks?

Remnar Soady: Macaroni and cheese, tank you very much.

Albert Soady: With spam.

Remnar Soady: With spam.

Jimmer Negamanee: How'sh about shlapjacks with spam?

Rueben Soady: Uh, fellas.

Albert Soady: J-just spam for me.

Remnar Soady: Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.

Rueben Soady: No flapjacks, no macaroni and cheese, and no spam.

Albert Soady: No spam?

Rueben Soady: Boys you are not only going to eat like kings, but that 2o bucks you was going to throw into the kiddie for pasties, keep it. I am about to feed the whole camp for all week for absolutely free.

Remnar Soady: We've known each other since we was kids, Reuben.

Rueben Soady: We're brothers, Remnar

Remnar Soady: Hear me out.

Rueben Soady: [after drinking some of Albert Soady's sweet sap whiskey] Little heavy on the sap.

Albert Soady: A little what?

Rueben Soady: On the sap, it's a little heavy on the sap.

Albert Soady: The saps what makes it.

Rueben Soady: Yeah, well that may be, but if I didn't know better I'd say I just drunk from a bottle of maple syrup.

Albert Soady: Gimme the damn jar back!

[gets up from chair]

Rueben Soady: Alright, sa

[gets interrupted]

Albert Soady: A man who can't look another man in the hairy eyeball and tell him he's heavy on the sap ain't much of a man.