The 'Burbs (1989) quotes

30 total quotes

Art Weingartner – Rick Ducommun
Mark Rumsfield – Bruce Dern
Ray Peterson – Tom Hanks
Ricky Butler – Corey Feldman

View Quote Mark: Art!
Bonnie: Your wife's home!
Mark: And your house is on fire!
Art: [horrified] MY WIFE IS HOME?!

View Quote Mark: Klopek, what is that Slavic?
Reuben: NO!!!
Mark: 'Bout a nine on the tension scale, Reub.

View Quote Ray: [chanting] I'm not going to listen to this, I'm not going to hear this now.
Art: Ray! Ray! You're chanting! [points to book] Ray, unconscious chanting! You're chanting!
[Ray continues chanting with fingers in ears]
Art: [chants] I want to kill everyone. Satan is good. Satan is our pal. Ray, Ray, you're chanting! Hey, once they get in here... [points to Ray's head] ...it's over, pal.

View Quote [about the Klopeks, after burning their home and getting Ray injured in the process] They may think they're off the hook, but they're not. No, no, they're not. Are they, Ray? No, go ahead, tell 'em. Tell 'em. We got the goods on 'em, don't we? Oh yeah, y'know? You know, someday they're gonna dig up the back of that yard and they're gonna find the rest of the skeleton to go with that femur. Oh, it might not be Walter, but it's gonna be some poor tortured bast-- [is cut off as Ray starts ranting at him]

View Quote [last lines] God I love this street.

View Quote A Soldiers way saves the day

View Quote About a 9 on the tension scale, Rube.

View Quote Gentleman, we are on alert!

View Quote Here you go, sonny - a little something for the old sweet tooth.

View Quote Hey! Pinocchio! Where are you going? Don't you make a move, sonny! I was eighteen months in the bush, and I could snap your neck in a heartbeat.

View Quote I can see the news report now. "They were a quiet family, kept pretty much to themselves, No one would have ever suspected them of foul play."

View Quote I can't walk anywhere without you asking me where I'm going - I'm going to Paris, France, okay? I'm going to Banff, Canada, alright? That's where I'm going.

View Quote I think the message to, uh, psychos, fanatics, murderers, nutcases all over the world is, uh, "do NOT mess with suburbanites". Because, uh, frankly we're just not gonna take it any more. Ya know, we're not gonna be content to look after our lawns and wax our cars, paint out houses. We're out to get them, Don, we are out to get them.

View Quote I want to kill everyone, Satan is good, Satan is our pal.

View Quote I'm going to go do something productive. I'm gonna go watch television.