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Big Mama: Tod, that Copper is going to come back a hunting dog, a real killer.
Young Tod: Oh no, not my friend Copper. He won't ever change.
Big Mama: I hope you're right.
Young Tod: And we'll keep on being friends forever. Right, Big Mama?
Big Mama: Darling, forever is a long, long time, and time has a way of changing things.
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Big Mama: Listen good, Tod, 'cause it's either education or elimination.
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Young Tod: Copper, you're my best friend.
Young Copper: And you're mine too, Tod.
Young Tod: And we'll always be friends forever. Won't we?
Young Copper: Yeah, forever.
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[Chief has a busted leg and is whimpering loudly]
Amos Slade: Chief, get back in there before I break your other leg.
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Young Tod: What are you smelling?
Young Copper: I'm on the trail of something.
Young Tod: Trail of... what?
Young Copper: I don't know yet.
[sniffs Tod]
Young Copper: Why it's... it's you.
[howls]
Young Tod: What'd you do that for?
Young Copper: We're supposed to do that when we find what we've been tracking.
Young Tod: I'm a fox. My name's Tod. What's your name kid?
Young Copper: Mine's Copper. I'm a hound dog.
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Young Tod: A worm for breakfast? Yuck!
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Widow Tweed: Amos Slade, you trigger-happy lunatic! Give me that gun!
[Tweed takes the gun, then shoots Amos' radiator]
Amos Slade: My radiator! Why, you blasted female...
Widow Tweed: [pointing the gun at Amos] Hold it, right there.
Amos Slade: Watch it, that thing's loaded.
[Tweed shoots the gun in the air]
Widow Tweed: Now it ain't loaded.
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Big Mama: Oh boy, these old wings ain't what they used to be. Big Mama, you better lose a few pounds.
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Adult Tod: We're still friends, right?
Adult Copper: Tod, those days are over. I'm a hunting dog now.
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Chief: Well, well. Company has come to see the invalid.
[Amos and Copper pass by without paying attention to Chief]
Chief: How do you like that? They didn't even ask how I'm feeling.
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Widow Tweed: Amos Slade, that temper of yours is going to get you into a lot of trouble someday.
Amos Slade: [turns red in the face] Temper? Temper? Woman, you ain't seen my temper! If I ever catch that fox in my property again, I'll blast him, and next time I won't miss!
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Boomer: Oh, shucks! I think I bent my b-b-b-beak.
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Young Tod: [about Chief] His ears are almost as big as yours.
Young Copper: That's not the part you gotta worry about.
Young Tod: Gosh, look at those teeth.
Young Copper: That's the part you gotta worry about!
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Adult Copper: I think I did a good job tracking down those varmints for ya.
Chief: Trackin' an' smellin' ain't enough. You gotta think nasty.
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Young Copper: If you give me a headstart I can beat you.
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Widow Tweed: We met it seems, such a short time ago. You looked at me, needing me so. Yet from your sadness, our happiness grew. Then I found out, I need you, too. I remember how we used to play. I recall those rainy days, the fires glowed, that kept us warm. And now I find, we're both alone. Goodbye may seem forever, farewell is like the end. But in my heart's a memory, and there you'll always be.
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Adult Copper: Tod... I don't want to see you get killed.
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Young Tod: I bet you'd be good at playing Hide and Seek! Wanna try it, Copper?
Young Copper: Can I use my nose?
Young Tod: Sure. Okay, now go ahead and close your eyes and count.
[Copper turns around and covers his eyes]
Young Copper: One, two, three...
[Copper looks over his shoulder]
Young Tod: No, Copper! You can't peek!
Young Copper: Oh.
Young Tod: Now, try again.
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Adult Copper: [to Tod] I'll let you go this one time.
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Adult Copper: Tod, if it's the last thing I do, I'll get you for this!
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Big Mama: [to Tod] Now, if you're so foxy, and old Chief's so dumb, then why does that hound get the fox on the run? 'Cause he's got the hunter, and the hunter's got the gun. Kablaam! Elimination. Lack of education.
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[in trying to catch the caterpillar on an electric wire, Dinky and Boomer get zapped]
Boomer: [wheezes] Holy...
Dinky: ...smoke!
[coughs]
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Young Tod: Oh, Big Mama, I know Copper would never track on me down. Why, Copper, he's my very best friend.
Big Mama: Ho-ho, your best friend! Now Copper's gonna do what he's been told. Supposed to chase the little fox in the old fox hole. And along comes the hunter with a buckshot load.
Boomer: [pretending to shoot a gun] K-K-Kabaam!
[Dinky pretends to get shot and falls off the tree]
Big Mama: Elimination.
Dinky: [lying on the ground] Lack of education.
Big Mama: You better believe it, Tod, yes siree.
Young Tod: You mean Copper is gonna be my enemy?
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Badger: [Tod has just been left in the forest, and he darts into a burrow. He quickly backs out. A badger appears]
[angry]
Badger: Hold it, sonny! Back off! Consarnit! Wh-where do you think you're goin'?
Adult Tod: [nervous] Oh. Oh excuse me! I-I-I was just trying to..
Badger: You barge in on somebody's house like you own it! Tarry hootin' around the woods! Wakin' up folks in the middle of the night!
Adult Tod: I honestly didn't know anybody lived here. And I...
Badger: Well, you know it now! Now get of my property! Go on! Beat it!
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Badger: [Tod finds himself sitting on an entrance to a burrow. Something pushes him off. It's the badger. The badger looks around in anger and sees Tod] So! It's you again! You've barged in on me last night! And now you...
Adult Tod: I... I didn't mean to!
Badger: Just look at the mess you made.
[Tod looks. The entrance collapses]
Badger: [angrily] DAD GRANIT! YOU CLUMSY BONEHEAD!
[the badger furiously pushes Tod into a ditch]
Adult Tod: [apologetic] Sorry! It was an accident!
Badger: [refusing to accept] Excuses. Excuses.
Porcupine: [defending Tod] Mr. Digger, sir. It was so too an accident.
Badger: [the badger turns to the porcupine, refusing to be spoken to this way] You keep out of this, you walking pin cushion!
Porcupine: [the porcupine flinches. Then he frowns]
[severely]
Porcupine: Uh. You shouldn't be so grumpy to someone who's new in the neighborhood!
Badger: A stranger, eh?
[the badger turns to Tod]
Badger: Why don't you go back where you came from?
Adult Tod: [Tod pauses and frowns] Wha...
[He stops. He then rolls his eyes. He turns around and starts to leave. He then pauses and looks back for a moment]
Badger: Well go on! Get goin'! Get!
[Tod sadly continues on his way. The porcupine sighs sadly and shakes his head]
The Fox and the Hound Quotes
Extended Reading
Director: Richard Rich, Wolfgang Reitherman
Language: English Release date: July 10, 1981