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  • In Who Done It?, there's a performing circus act called The Flying Bordellos.
  • In Ride Em Cowboy:
    Costello: (after a knife is thrown at the wall next to him) They got me! They got me!
    Abbott: Where?
    Costello: (the knife is stuck in the crotch of a hanging pair of pants) Right in the middle of all the excitement.
  • This exchange in Lost In Alaska:
    Rosette: Do you know what'll happen if I marry you?
    Nugget Joe: No, but I have a pretty good idea.
  • In Hold That Ghost:
    Costello: I play games. I play post office.
    Camille: That's a kid's game.
    Costello: Not the way I play it!
    • A couple of Three Stooges shorts (Three Little Pigskins and Quiz Whizz) also used that gag.
    • Towards the beginning of the same film, a young woman is on a date with a much older man, who is implied to be her sugar daddy.
  • In Lost in a Harem Abbott tells Costello "You wouldn't make it to first base with a girl like that."
  • The "Tree of Truth" scene in Pardon My Sarong where Coconut Meets Cranium if you tell a lie under said tree. Costello repeatedly tries to tell Traveling Salesman jokes, with Abbott constantly interrupting him and telling him that these stories are inappropriate. When The Chief's Daughter asks him what the man in the story wanted when he went to the farmhouse, Costello replies "He wanted a glass of milk", causing dozens of coconuts to fall on him.
  • The "You're 40, she's 10" routine. As Costello puts it, "Now, I'm goin' around with a 10-year-old girl. I got a fine idea where I'm gonna wind up!"
  • While in Algiers in Foreign Legion, Abbott warns Costello that it's illegal in this country to get intimate with women. Costello notices a woman with lots of kids and says "Boy, is that woman in the wrong country!"
    • That movie is full of Radar moments, especially when Costello drives a Jeep through a woman's bath tent.
  • Visiting a shipyard:
    Costello: What's that over there?
    Abbot: That's a hull of a ship.
    Costello: You're telling me!
  • In the subplot of Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll is in love with his own niece.
  • From Meet Frankenstein:
    Talbot: In half an hour the moon will rise, and I'll turn into a wolf.
    Costello: You and twenty million other guys!

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