Wylie Burp [repeated lines]
It's too tough, kid. Get out while you still can.
2nd most-quoted character in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991): in 12 of its 46 quotes
Most scenes with: Fievel (5), Tiger (3)
Let this sleeping dog lie, son. Dog-gone it, I'm dog tired. I'm tired of leading the dog's life and fighting likes cats and dogs against cats and dogs. A young pup's dogging my trail trying to become top dog. I'm going to the dogs in a dog-eat-dog world, son. I'm so far over the hill, I'm on the bottom of the other side.
More lines from Wylie Burp
6 quotes Wylie Burp Wylie Burp [inspecting Tiger]
So you're the frivolous feline I've got to whip into shape? Oi, I've got my work cut out for me.
Wylie Burp No self-respecting dog fetches anything, unless he's good and feels like it.
Wylie Burp Maybe a real hero is the last one to hear about it.
Wylie Burp [last lines]
Just remember, Fievel. One man's sunset is another man's dawn. I don't know what's out there beyond those hills. But if you ride yonder, head up, eyes steady, heart open...I think one day you'll find that you're the hero you've been looking for.
Wylie Burp Oh, l-look out behind ya, kid!
Scenes with Wylie Burp
5 scenes
Wylie Burp It's too tough, kid. Get out while you still can.
If yer bitin' the dust, I'm goin' down with ya!
Wylie Burp You saved my life. I'll never forget this, kid. Here, son, I want youto have one of these. Look out behind you.
Wylie Burp [Wylie Burp, Fievel and Tiger are standing on a tall mesa]
Now, let me see you walk. [Tiger takes three steps across the mesa and three steps back to Wylie, where squeaking is heard at each step] You-You're wigglin' like a French poodle. Now get down on all fours and get a snoot full of Mother Earth.
Oh, that goes against my brain. [Wylie kicks Tiger onto the ground]
Wylie Burp Now roll, you varmint. Roll. [Tiger starts to roll around the mesa] Give yourself a dirt bath. Now you're getting it.
Come on, Tiger! We're rooting for you!
Wylie Burp Get up. [Tiger does so] Suck in your ponch, boy! [Tiger puffs up his chest] Okay. Now, sander on out there, one leg in front of the other, slow and easy.
[Tiger starts to walk; every time he steps, flatulence can be heard; Tiger then falls off the mesa and then flies around like a deflating balloon until he falls to the ground]
I hurt myself.
Wylie Burp It's too tough, kid. Get out while you still can.
Okay! Toodle-oo!
[Fievel grabs him by the tail]
Hey, Tiger, give them the laaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy eye!
[Tiger smiles with Fievel's idea and he, Wylie Burp, and Fievel do the Lazy Eye sending the cats running and screaming]
[After Tiger tosses all the cats onto the mousetrap he confronts Chula holding Miss Kitty hostage]
If you harm one patch of fur on her again, and I'll tear you apart... [Chula shoots a web at Tiger, but Tiger grabs it.] ...one leg at a time! [he twirls Chula's web as a lasso with him trapped in it, and he throws Chula onto Cat R. Waul's head and Miss Kitty falls from the building, but Tiger catches her just in time before she hits the ground.]
Ooh!
Okay, Wylie!
Wylie Burp Let 'em rip, kid!
Yes, Sir, Mr. Burp, Sir! [adjusts the giant gun, jumps off, and it fires, cutting the ribbon which flings Cat R. Waul and his men into the sky. Fievel, Wylie Burp, Miss Kitty, Tiger, Red, Micheal, the Mousekewitzes, and the other mice watch as they land in a mail bag near the train tracks.]
And now-- [before he can finish his sentence, a train grabs the mail bag, knocking over the water tower in the process.] REVENGE!
Woman
Oh, Pussypoos!
Oh, no!
Woman
Come to Mommy, darling! [She dresses him up in baby clothes and hugs him tightly.] Mommy's going to take care of you forever, and ever and ever! [Laughs]
Wylie Burp [last lines]
Here, son. I-I want you to have one of these. [gives Fievel his Sheriff badge]
I can't. I'm not a hero like you. Well, [chuckles] not really.
Wylie Burp Well, maybe not. Maybe a real hero's the last one to hear about it. But you, you pulled me out of a gutter, and for that, I owe you some thanks. Just-Just remember, Fievel: One man's sunset is another man's dawn. I don't know what's out there beyond those hills, but if you ride yonder, head up, eyes steady, heart open, I think one day you'll find that you're the hero you've been lookin' for. [NOTE: These were last lines from James Stewart in his acting occupation, as he retired from acting after finishing this film, prior to his death in 1997. Wylie does not return in "Fievel's American Tails" because of Stewart's retirement.]
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