Terry and the Pirates (TV Series)

Extra Cargo (1953)

Jack Reitzen: Chopstick Joe

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Chopstick Joe : What gives with you guys? Plane's been ready to take off for 15 minutes. I loaded cargo myself. It's just routine flight to Singapore. I loaded cargo myself. Come on, Terry, get going. Hit the sky!

  Terry Lee : A five-letter word meaning necessity of life...

  Chopstick Joe : Look, Terry, this is no time to be working on crossword puzzles. There's money involved.

  Terry Lee : Money! That's it, Chops! Five letters, necessity of life - it fits. I would have thought of it myself, but I haven't seen any for so long.

• Chopstick Joe : Look, Terry, I promised this load of raw silk would be in Singapore by tomorrow morning. With Chopsticks Joe, a promise is a promise.

  [Hotshot coughs violently] 

  Hotshot Charlie : Please, Chops, not while I'm eating.

• Chopstick Joe : Okay, so you're backing out on me just when I need you most and you won't even tell me why!

  Hotshot Charlie : You hear that, T. Lee? He thinks we're pilots.

  Terry Lee : I wonder where he got that idea?

  Hotshot Charlie : The way I hear it, pilots get paid for flappin' their wings.

  Terry Lee : And we haven't been paid a buck for two months.

  Hotshot Charlie : So if you don't get paid, you're not pilots.

  Terry Lee : If we're not pilots, we can't jockey a plane to Singapore - right, Chaz?

  Hotshot Charlie : Right, T. Lee.

• Chopstick Joe : If you two won't take that crate up, I'll fly it myself.

  Hotshot Charlie : Suicide will get you nowhere, Chops.