Tim Lockwood Quotes in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

Tim Lockwood: Not every sardine was meant to swim, son.

Young Flint: I don't understand fishing metaphors!

Tim Lockwood: Can you look me in the eye and tell me you've got this under control and it's not gonna end up in a disaster?

Flint Lockwood: Yes.

[hurriedly, looks in his father's eyes]

Flint Lockwood: I've got this under control, and it's not gonna end up in a disaster!

Tim Lockwood: When it rains... you put on a coat.

Flint Lockwood: Sam.

Sam Sparks: Flint.

Flint Lockwood: Sam.

Sam Sparks: Flint.

Tim Lockwood: Flint.

Flint Lockwood: Dad.

Steve: Steve!

Tim Lockwood: [sighs] Look, when you... when you cast your line... if it's not straight, um...

Sam Sparks: Oh, for crying out loud.

[Sam puts Flint's Monkey Thought Translator on Tim's head]

Tim Lockwood: [in a robotic voice] I'm proud of you, Flint. I'm amazed that someone as ordinary as me could be the father of someone as extraordinary as you. You're talented, you're a total original, and your lab is breathtaking. Your mom, she, uh, always knew you were going to be special. And if she were alive today, she'd tell us both: I told you so. Now, uh, look, when I take this thing off, and... you hear me make a fishing metaphor, just know that fishing metaphor means...

Tim Lockwood: [Tim takes off the Monkey Translator and speaks in a normal voice] I love my son.

Flint Lockwood: I love you too, Dad.

[the crowd applauds]

Tim Lockwood: I don't get vests. What, is it winter in your torso but summer in your arms?

Tim Lockwood: They came here to help you, and so are we. So let us.

[Cut to a leaf of lettuce]

Tim Lockwood: There's a leek in my boat!