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* When James brings up his plan to use seagulls to make the peach fly, he also states they'll need bird bait. The Earthworm wonders where they're going to find bird bait...as the other bugs creep up behind him. Ms. Ladybug pulls out a cowbell.

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* When James brings up his plan to use seagulls to make the peach fly, he also states they'll need bird bait. The Earthworm wonders where they're going to find bird bait...as the other bugs creep up behind him. Ms.Mrs. Ladybug pulls out a cowbell.
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** Given how James was able to release the Miss Spider and have a long conversation with the old man before the aunts come out looking for him, one can easily make the assumption that they spent several minutes arguing offscreen.

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** Given how James was able to release the Miss Spider and have a long conversation with the old man before the aunts come out looking for him, one can easily make the assumption that they spent several minutes arguing offscreen.
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-->'''Earthworm:''' Oh no...no, no...have you lost your minds? ''(GilliganCut to Earthworm with the bell on)'' They've lost their minds! Anything but birds!

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-->'''Earthworm:''' Oh no...no, no...have you lost your minds? ''(GilliganCut to Earthworm with the bell on)'' They've lost their minds! [[AnythingButThat Anything but birds!birds!]]
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'''Grasshopper:''' [[SophisticatedAsHell You, sir, are an asp!]]

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'''Grasshopper:''' [[SophisticatedAsHell You, sir, are an asp!]]ass!]]
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'''Grasshopper:''' [[SophisticatedAsHell You, sir, are an ass!]]

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'''Grasshopper:''' [[SophisticatedAsHell You, sir, are an ass!]]asp!]]

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** Given how James was able to release the Miss Spider and have a long conversation with the old man before the aunts come out looking for him, one can easily make the assumption that they spent several minutes arguing offscreen.



'''Sponge:''' The boy?\\

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'''Sponge:''' [[OhCrap The boy?\\boy?]]\\


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** Aunt Sponge pointing out that [[CaptainObvious the peach is still growing]] only for Spiker to snap at her.
-->'''Sponge:''' Look, Spiker! It's still growing!\\
'''Spiker:''' I'm not blind you dolt, I can see it myself!


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* After James is rescued from the top of the Empire State Building, he asks the man helping him if he's seen any "big bugs" in the city where we get this gem.
-->'''Worker:''' Big bugs?! How big?
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* The New Yorkers getting hit by large dripping peach juice.

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* The New Yorkers getting York City police officer got hit by large dripping peach juice.

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-->'''Sponge:''' [[NarratingTheObvious You hit me in the face! You hit me in the face!]]\\

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-->'''Sponge:''' (Has a flyswatter bruise on her face.) [[NarratingTheObvious You hit me in the face! You hit me in the face!]]\\


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The aunts started arguing as James sneaks out by using the front door.
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'''Grasshopper:''' [[SophisticatedAsHell You, sir, are an arse!]]

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'''Grasshopper:''' [[SophisticatedAsHell You, sir, are an arse!]]ass!]]
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'''Grasshopper:''' [[SophisticatedAsHell You, sir, are an asp!]]

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'''Grasshopper:''' [[SophisticatedAsHell You, sir, are an asp!]]arse!]]
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--> We could wind up in Jersey!

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--> We could wind up in Jersey![[PlaceWorseThanDeath Jersey]]!

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* Miss Spider jumps off Sponge's face just before Spiker swats it with a flyswatter.
-->'''Sponge:''' [[NarratingTheObvious You hit me in the face! You hit me in the face!]]\\
'''Spiker:''' Oh, do shut up!
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'''Centipede:''' Sorry. Thought you were the spider.\\

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'''Centipede:''' Sorry. Thought you were the spider.Spider.\\



'''Miss Spider:''' Excuse me. I thought you were the Centipede.

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'''Miss Spider:''' Excuse me. Excuse, I thought you were the Centipede.

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* This exchange from the aunts:
-->'''Spiker:''' It's... it's growing!\\
'''Sponge:''' The boy?\\
'''Spiker:''' No! The peach, you idiot!
* As the aunts charge people to view the peach.
-->'''Spiker:''' Sorry Father, but it will cost you double.\\
'''Priest:''' May God forgive you.\\
'''Spiker:''' [[InsultBackfire Thank you, Father]].
** One onlooker takes pictures of the peach. The aunts offer to pose for snapshots before confiscating the camera.
* This gem before they discover that they landed in the ocean.
-->'''Earthworm:''' ''(Centipede pinches him)'' OW! Somebody pinched me!\\
'''Centipede:''' Sorry. Thought you were the spider.\\
''(Miss Spider gasps indignantly and accidentally smacks Grasshopper.)''\\
'''Grasshopper:''' Ouch! What was that?\\
'''Miss Spider:''' Excuse me. I thought you were the Centipede.



* During the introduction of the bugs to New York City:
-->'''James:''' ... and the Glow-worm!
-->'''Glow-worm [facing the wrong way]:''' God bless the colonies!



* This gem before they discover that they landed in the ocean.
-->'''Earthworm:''' ''(Centipede pinches him)'' OW! Somebody pinched me!\\
'''Centipede:''' Sorry. Thought you were the spider.\\
''(Miss Spider gasps indignantly and accidentally smacks Grasshopper.)''\\
'''Grasshopper:''' Ouch! What was that?\\
'''Miss Spider:''' Excuse me. I thought you were the Centipede.
* This exchange between Grasshopper and Centipede when they wind up in the Arctic:
-->'''Grasshopper:''' '''''THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!''''' You're a disgrace to your phylum, class, order, genus, and species!\\
'''Centipede:''' Say it in English!\\
'''Grasshopper:''' [[SophisticatedAsHell You, sir, are an asp!]]

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* This gem before they discover that they landed in After James and co. hear the ocean.
-->'''Earthworm:''' ''(Centipede pinches him)'' OW! Somebody pinched me!\\
'''Centipede:''' Sorry. Thought you were
sound of the spider.\\
''(Miss Spider gasps indignantly and accidentally smacks Grasshopper.)''\\
mechanical shark for the first time:
-->'''James:''' ''(Audibly frightened)'' Sounds like a rhinoceros!\\
'''Grasshopper:''' Ouch! What was that?\\
'''Miss Spider:''' Excuse me. I thought you were
In the Centipede.
* This exchange between Grasshopper and Centipede when they wind up in the Arctic:
-->'''Grasshopper:''' '''''THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!''''' You're a disgrace to your phylum, class, order, genus, and species!\\
'''Centipede:''' Say it in English!\\
'''Grasshopper:''' [[SophisticatedAsHell You, sir, are an asp!]]
ocean? Scientifically impossible!



* This exchange from the aunts:
-->'''Spiker:''' It's... it's growing!\\
'''Sponge:''' The boy?\\
'''Spiker:''' No! The peach, you idiot!
* As the aunts charge people to view the peach.
-->'''Spiker:''' Sorry Father, but it will cost you double.\\
'''Priest:''' May God forgive you.\\
'''Spiker:''' [[InsultBackfire Thank you, Father]].
** One onlooker takes pictures of the peach. The aunts offer to pose for snapshots before confiscating the camera.



* After James wakes up in the Arctic, the camera pans up to the Gloworm shivering and trying to warm up her hands by hovering them over her glowing tail!
* This exchange between Grasshopper and Centipede when they wind up in the Arctic:
-->'''Grasshopper:''' '''''THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!''''' You're a disgrace to your phylum, class, order, genus, and species!\\
'''Centipede:''' Say it in English!\\
'''Grasshopper:''' [[SophisticatedAsHell You, sir, are an asp!]]



* Centipede getting tied down and then stretched by the pirates:
-->'''Centipede:''' ''(Sees a hulking undead pirate approaching him with a massive axe)'' It's Paul Bunyan, coming to cut me some slack! [[DullSurprise Whoa, hey pal, you're aiming a little low.]] '''[[OhCrap HE'S GONNA CUT ME IN HALF!]]'''
** The fact that two of the pirates are played by Jack Skellington and Donald Duck.
* After James wakes up in the Arctic, the camera pans up to the Gloworm shivering and trying to warm up her hands by hovering them over her glowing tail!
* The New Yorkers getting hit by large dripping peach juice.



* After James and co. hear the sound of the mechanical shark for the first time:
-->'''James:''' ''(Audibly frightened)'' Sounds like a rhinoceros!\\
'''Grasshopper:''' In the ocean? Scientifically impossible!

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* After James and co. hear The New Yorkers getting hit by large dripping peach juice.
* During
the sound introduction of the mechanical shark for bugs to New York City:
-->'''James:''' ... and
the first time:
-->'''James:''' ''(Audibly frightened)'' Sounds like a rhinoceros!\\
'''Grasshopper:''' In
Glow-worm!
-->'''Glow-worm [facing
the ocean? Scientifically impossible!wrong way]:''' God bless the colonies!
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--> "It'll never come off," the Earthworm said brightly. "Our Centipede will never move again. He will turn into a statue and we shall be able to put him in the middle of the lawn with a bird-bath on the top of his head."

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--> ---> "It'll never come off," the Earthworm said brightly. "Our Centipede will never move again. He will turn into a statue and we shall be able to put him in the middle of the lawn with a bird-bath on the top of his head."



--> "Now if he suck out his tongue," the Earthworm said, [[WhenHeSmiles smiling a little]] [[PerpetualFrowner for perhaps the first time in his life,]] "if he stuck it out really far, then we could all catch hold of it and [[TongueTrauma start pulling.]] And if we pulled hard enough, we could [[BodyHorror turn him inside out]] and he would have a new skin!"

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--> ---> "Now if he suck out his tongue," the Earthworm said, [[WhenHeSmiles smiling a little]] [[PerpetualFrowner for perhaps the first time in his life,]] "if he stuck it out really far, then we could all catch hold of it and [[TongueTrauma start pulling.]] And if we pulled hard enough, we could [[BodyHorror turn him inside out]] and he would have a new skin!"
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'''Grasshopper:''' [[SophisticatedAsHell You, sir, are an ass!]]

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'''Grasshopper:''' [[SophisticatedAsHell You, sir, are an ass!]]asp!]]
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--> We could wind up in Jersey!

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--> We could wind up in Jersey!Jersey!
* After James and co. hear the sound of the mechanical shark for the first time:
-->'''James:''' ''(Audibly frightened)'' Sounds like a rhinoceros!\\
'''Grasshopper:''' In the ocean? Scientifically impossible!
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** His other suggestion for removing the paint is just as funny.
--> "Now if he suck out his tongue," the Earthworm said, [[WhenHeSmiles smiling a little]] [[PerpetualFrowner for perhaps the first time in his life,]] "if he stuck it out really far, then we could all catch hold of it and [[TongueTrauma start pulling.]] And if we pulled hard enough, we could [[BodyHorror turn him inside out]] and he would have a new skin!"
** The fact that they genuinely consider doing this only adds to the comedy.

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* [[SophisticatedAsHell "You, sir, are an ass!"]]

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* This exchange between Grasshopper and Centipede when they wind up in the Arctic:
-->'''Grasshopper:''' '''''THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!!''''' You're a disgrace to your phylum, class, order, genus, and species!\\
'''Centipede:''' Say it in English!\\
'''Grasshopper:'''
[[SophisticatedAsHell "You, You, sir, are an ass!"]]ass!]]
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-->'''Centipede:''' "We are not lost!"
-->'''Grasshopper:''' "Then where are we?"
-->'''Centipede:''' "Somewhere north!" ({{Beat}}) "Or, possibly, very, very far south."

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-->'''Centipede:''' "We We are not lost!"
lost!
-->'''Grasshopper:''' "Then Then where are we?"
we?
-->'''Centipede:''' "Somewhere north!" Somewhere north! ({{Beat}}) "Or, Or, possibly, very, very far south."
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'''Miss Spider:''' Excuse. I thought you were the Centipede.

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'''Miss Spider:''' Excuse.Excuse me. I thought you were the Centipede.
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* The New Yorkers getting hit by large dripping peach juice.

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* The New Yorkers getting hit by large dripping peach juice.juice.
* Even when he's in mortal peril (when [[AStormIsComing the storm caused by]] [[AnimalisticAbomination the Rhino]] blows away the compass), Centipede can't resist making [[TakeThat this wisecrack]]:
--> We could wind up in Jersey!

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'''Spiker:''' Thank you, Father.

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'''Spiker:''' [[InsultBackfire Thank you, Father.Father]].
** One onlooker takes pictures of the peach. The aunts offer to pose for snapshots before confiscating the camera.
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* "COME AND GET IT! GET YOUR NICE HOT WEENIE!"

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* "COME AND GET IT! GET YOUR NICE FRESH HOT WEENIE!"
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("Small wonder," said a Fireman, "they're no longer on the throne.")\\

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("Small wonder," said a Fireman, "they're no longer on the throne.")\\
")[[note]] The book was written while Francisco Franco was still in power in Spain; the restoration of the monarchy was still a decade and a half away.[[/note]]



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** The fact that two of the pirates are played by Jack Skellington and Donald Duck.
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\n* The Centipede mocking the Cloud Men as they prepare for winter during summer.
-->"Idiots! Nincompoops! Blunder-heads! Half-wits! Asses! What on earth do you think you're doing over there?"

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