Extended Reading

Fantastic Mr. Fox quotes

  • Kristofferson: Uh, do you mind if I slide my bed roll slightly out from under the train set? It's hard to sleep in that corkscrew position.

    Ash: [in the top bunk] There's a lot of attitudes going on around here. Don't let me get one.

    Kristofferson: No, it's only just my spinal cord getting...

    Ash: Sleep wherever you want, man. Here, take my bed! I'll just uh... I'll crawl under the bookcase! Who cares if I get splinters in my ears?

    Kristofferson: Never mind.

    Ash: Oh, you gonna pout about it? 'Cuz I've had it up to HERE

    [gestures with his hand]

    Ash: with the "sad houseguest" routine.

    [Ash turns off the light and continues to read his White Cape comic in bed]

    Kristofferson: Good night.

    [he lies down under the train set and begins to quietly sob; Ash comes down, turns on the train, Kris gets up and they watch it]

  • Beaver's Son: [lays down a box of supplies during a Science lab class] Why's your cousin such a wet sandwich?

    Kristofferson: I beg your pardon?

    Beaver's Son: What's that mean?

    Kristofferson: That means that I don't understand what you just said. A wet sandwich?

    Beaver's Son: Yeah! A wet sandwich. He's too short, he dresses like a girl, he's

    [makes a motion with his hands]

    Beaver's Son: different.

    Kristofferson: Are you a bully? You're starting to sound like a bully.

    Beaver's Son: Watch this.

    [he takes a spoonful of yellow powder and drops it into the bubbling liquid over a Bunsen burner; it explodes and covers both of them in the yellow substance]

    Kristofferson: That's... you just destroyed the whole experiment. We'd better extinguish this magnesium.

    [they raise their safety goggles]

    Kristofferson: Stand back.

    [Kris sprays the fire with an extinguisher]

    Agnes: [watching from a few feet away] Wow.

    Kristofferson: [whistles] Whew!

    Agnes: [to Kris] Hmm. I like your ears.

    [gestures to her own]

    Kristofferson: M... Mine?

    Agnes: Mmhmm.

    Kristofferson: Thank you! I like your... spots.

    Agnes: Really? I used to cover them up, but, you know...

    Ash: Ugh.

    [scoffs]

    Agnes: Hmm?

    Ash: You're supposed to be *my* lab partner.

    Agnes: I am!

    Ash: No you're not. You're disloyal.