A character in The Last Detail (1973)

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows quotes from The Last Detail (1973)

Randy Quaid

Most-quoted character in The Last Detail (1973): in 8 of its 15 quotes

Scenes with Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

8 scenes
Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall

We'd better catch that train.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

We still got time for a beer.

Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall

Now wait a minute, man...

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

I ain't old enough.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

Ain't old enough for what?

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

For a beer.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

Everybody's old enough for a beer. Ain't that right, Mule?

Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall

Yeah.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

I am the mother**** shore patrol, mother****er! I am the mother**** shore patrol! Give this man a beer.

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

I don't want a beer.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

You're gonna have a ****in' beer!

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

Hey, you guys mind if I say somethin'? That guy at the bar, why did you get so mad at him? I don't blame him not givin' me a beer.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

Hey, don't you never get mad at nobody?

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

Well, sure I do, yeah.

Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall

Who do you get mad at?

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

Not at somebody who's doing their job.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

Who, then?

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

Injustice.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

Bullshit! You never get mad at nobody. You're just a pussy!

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

I do too get mad.

Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall

Did you ever get mad at the old man for what he done to you?

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

Well, he was just...

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

...doin' his job. Hey, they're gonna take eight years outta your life, man.

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

Six years. You said six!

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

Hey, what the **** difference does it make? You don't even care about it.

Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall

Come on, Badass, that don't help him.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

**** help, **** fair! **** injustice! Don't you ever just wanna ****in' whomp and stomp on someone, bite off their ear, just to do it...? I mean just to do it, just to get it out of your system?

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows
[looking at porn]

Are they really doing that when they take that picture?

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky
[pause]

Well kid, there's more things in this life than you can possibly imagine. I knew a whore once in Wilmington. She had a glass eye... used to take it out and wink people off for a dollar.

A woman hears Meadows chanting and invites him to a party.

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

Drop your socks and grab your ****, we're going to a party.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

If this kid gets pussy out of this, I'll eat my **** flat hat, man.

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

If you're Catholic, do you think it's, uh, sacrilegious to chant?

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

Did it get you laid?

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

No.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

Then Meadows, what the **** do you want to go on chanting for?

Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall

Chant your ass off, kid. But any pussy you get in this world, you gonna have to pay for, one way or another.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

Hallelujah!

Young Whore

Jesus Christ! That's what I call quick.
'Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows has just prematurely ejaculated.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

You wanna try it again, kid?

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

Yeah.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky
[to prostitute]

Okay, honey.

Gunner's Mate First Class Richard "Mule" Mulhall

Don't worry about it, kid... plenty more where that came from.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

We got all night, kid.

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

After... after... well maybe it was an act for her. I mean I know she was a whore. B ut I think she liked me.

Signalman First Class Billy L. "Badass" Buddusky

They got feelings just like everybody else, kid; she probably did.

Seaman Laurence M. "Larry" Meadows

Well, it was real for me. That's what counts.

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