The Dish (2000)
Kevin Harrington: Mitch
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Quotes
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Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : That's bullshit. You just bullshitted NASA!
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Glenn Latham : Computer. 20 seconds it does what it used to take me 5 hours on a slide rule.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : And a basketball.
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Newspaper Reporter : No offence, but NASA spends fifteen years, hundreds of millions of dollars so that we can watch man walk on the moon and in the end it falls to you blokes! I mean, how do you feel about that?
Ross "Mitch" Mitchell : A lot better before you opened your trap!
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Al Burnett : Not everyone at NASA is a hotshot college genius. The guy I most admire is from a one-horse town in Ohio.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : And what's he do?
Al Burnett : Tomorrow he's gonna walk on the moon.
Glenn Latham : ...Who's the guy?
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Al Burnett : The Ambassador's coming. Space nut. Knows everything about Apollo 11.
Ross "Mitch" Mitchell : Does he know where it is?
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[explaining to Janine how the prime receiving stations work]
Glenn Latham : Imagine the earth as a basketball.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : This'll be good.
Glenn Latham : And on top of the basketball there's...
[to Mitch and Cliff]
Glenn Latham : What's the name of the thing you put the pump into?
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : A hole.
Glenn Latham : Yeah but it's got a name.
[Mitch shrugs his shoulders]
Glenn Latham : The valve! Imagine on top there's a valve, and on the bottom there's another valve and...
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : You know, basketballs only have one valve, Glenn.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : Well, what's something that has two valves?
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : Tuba?
Glenn Latham : It's gotta be round.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : Tamborine?
Glenn Latham : That doesn't have valves!
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : Coconut!
Cliff Buxton : Mitch!
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Al Burnett : I stand corrected.
Ross "Mitch" Mitchell : No, you're WRONG!
Al Burnett : Do we have a problem?
Ross "Mitch" Mitchell : Yeah! You treat us like a pack of galahs!
Glenn Latham : That's a type of parrot.
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Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : [Al and Cliff return from the mayor's house] How was lunch?
Cliff Buxton : Actually, it was wonderful.
Al Burnett : I think we ate an entire sheep.
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Rudi Kellerman : What's with the alarm?
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : Lets us know it's windy.
Rudi Kellerman : Oh, well I could'a told you that, it's blowin' a bloody gale out there!
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Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : You treat us like a pack of galahs!
Glenn Latham : [Al is nonplussed] That's a kind of parrot.
Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell : Just because I don't wear a tie and I don't spend all day with my head buried in a manual, that doesn't mean I'm a drongo!
Glenn Latham : That's a hopeless horse.
Al Burnett : Yeah, I get the idea, Glenn.