Marty the Zebra I'm ten years old, my life's half over. And I don't even know if I'm black with white stripes or white with black stripes.
Voiced by Chris Rock 
Madagascar (2005) · 126 quotes
Madagascar (2005) · 126 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Madagascar (2005): in 39 of its 126 quotes
Most scenes with: Alex the Lion (28), Melman the Giraffe (24), Gloria the Hippo (21)
Alex, do not interrupt me when I'm daydreaming. If a zebra's in the zone, leave him alone.
More lines from Marty the Zebra
6 quotes Marty the Zebra Marty the Zebra Grand Central Station. It's Grand, and it's Central.
Marty the Zebra (breaking the silence)
It's the man!
Marty the Zebra Dagnabbit! I missed the express! Looks like I have to take the Stamford local.
Marty the Zebra Oh sugar, honey, iced tea!
Marty the Zebra Excuse me. You're biting my butt.
Scenes with Marty the Zebra
32 scenesYou bit the hand, Marty! You bit the hand!
I'm not smiling, it's gas.
They are so cute from a reasonable distance.
Just smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave.
You didn't see anything... RIGHT?
We've been ratted out, boys!
Shame on you, Maurice! Can you not see that you have insulted the freak?
See you later, crocodile! Maurice, my arm is tired. Wave it for me. Faster, you naughty little monkey!
King Julien, what are they? WHAT ARE THEY?!
I say!
Marty The penguins are going so, why can't I?
The penguins are psychotic.
This is a highly refined, type of, food... thing that you do NOT find in the wild.
Marty Do you ever think that there's more to life than just steak, Alex?
[Marty and Alex seem overjoyed to be reunited. They are running towards each other on the beach in slow motion with arms outstretched and Chariots of Fire playing. Their voices are slow and toned to a low key]
Marty!
Marty Alex!
Marty!
Marty Al!
Marty [confused]
Alex?
MARTY!
Marty [turns to run]
Oh sugar, honey, ice tea!
Shame on you, Maurice! Can you not see that you have insulted the freak? [to Alex] You must tell me, who the heck are you?
I'm Alex. THE Alex. And this is Melman, Marty and Gloria.
And where exactly are you giants from, Hmm?
We're from New York, and--
All hail the New York Giants!
[to Marty, Melman and Gloria]
All right, enough is enough. I say we just ask these BOZOS where the people are!
Excuse me? We bozos have the people, of course!
You do? That's good to know.
Hey! The bozos have the people!
They're up there.
[points to some human skeletons hanging from parachutes snagged on the branches of a large tree]
Don't you love the people? Not a very lively bunch though.
Oh. So, do you have any... LIVE people?
Uh, no. Only dead ones.
Man, if we had a lot of live people, it wouldn't be called the wild, would it?
Marty The wild?!
Hold on a second there, fuzzbucket. You mean the live-in-a-mud-hut, wipe-yourself-with-a-leaf type wild?
Who wipes? Ha ha!
Quadruped! Sprechen sie Englisch?
Marty I sprechen.
What continent is this?
Marty Manhattan.
Hoover Dam! We're still in New York! Abort! Dive! Dive! Dive!
Marty Hey, wait! You in the tux! What are you guys doing?
We're digging to Antartica! [Skipper slaps him]
Can you keep a secret, my monochromatic friend? Do you ever see any penguins walking free around New York City? Of course not. We don't belong here, it's just not natural. This is all some kind of whacked-out conspiracy. We're going to the wide open spaces of Antartica. To the wild.
Marty The wild? You can actually go there-- that's sounds great!
You didn't see anything... right?
Marty Yes, sir! I mean no, sir!
Ow, my head! [he bumps his head on the top of his crate] What the-- I'm in a box! Oh no! Not the box! Oh no, they can't transfer ME! NOT ME! I can't breathe, can't breathe! Darkness creeping in. I can't breathe. Walls closing in around me! So alone. So alone--
Marty Alex, are you there?
Marty?
Marty Yeah! Talk to me, bud!
Oh Marty, you're here!
Marty What's going on? Are you okay?
This doesn't look good, Marty.
Alex, Marty, is that you?
Marty Gloria! I am lovin' the sound of your voice!
What is going on?
We're all in crates.
Oh no!
Man, sleeping just knocks me out.
Melman!
Are you okay?
Yeah. I often doze off while I'm getting an MRI.
Melman, you're not getting an MRI!
CAT scan?
No! No CAT scan! It's a zoo transfer!
ZOO TRANSFER?! No, I can't be transferred. I have an appointment with Dr. Goldberg at 5:00. There are prescriptions that have to be filled! No other zoo can afford my medical care, and I am NOT going HMO!
Marty Take it easy, Melman. We are gonna be o-kiz-ay!
No Marty, we're not gonna be o-kiz-ay. Now, because of you, we're ruined!
Marty Excuse me, I fail to see how this is my fault.
You're kidding, right Marty?
You ticked off the people! You bit the hand, Marty! You bit the hand! "I don't know who I am! I don't know who I am? I gotta go find myself in the WILD!"
Marty Yeah, but I didn't ask you to come after me.
He does have a point. I did say we should have stayed at the zoo but, you guys--
Melman, just shut it! You're the one who gave him this idea in in the first place!
Alex, would you just leave Melman out of this, please!
Thank you, Gloria. Besides, it's not my fault that we were TRANSFERRED!
Melman, shut it. Does anyone feel nauseous?
I feel nauseous.
Melman, you always feel nauseous.
I just saw 26 blatant health code violations.
Marty I'm lovin' San Diego. This place is off the chizain.
Twenty-seven!
[In the beginning, the island of Madagascar appears in a zebra's daydream. A zebra he named Marty yells like Tarzan and jumps out of the vine after swinging on it. The choir penguins in their black bowties sing Born Free by John Barry, and they fly. He runs and jumps to the water in slow motion. A lion he named Alex appears, sneaking towards the zebra as if almost in the middle of a dream; he jumps up, snapping him out of his dream, and the music stops.]
Marty [screams, slips from treadmill, tumbles and hits into a fence]
Alex! Do not interrupt me when I'm daydreaming! When a zebra's in the zone, leave him alone.
Come on, Marty. Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday!
Marty [chuckles]
Hey, man, thanks!
[expresses pain on the right side of his jaw]
Oh! Ah! Oh! Hey, um... I got s – I got something stuck in my teeth. It's driving me crazy! Can you help me out here? Please?
Marty Ah! You came to the right place, my friend. Doctor Marty, D.D.S., is in the house! Please hop on top of my sterilized examination table, if you may. [Alex opens the mouth but can't see anything because it's dark] I don't see anything.
Marty Ow!
Marty OK, just don't talk with your mouth full. [Alex nods] Aha! Right here. What the heck is this doing in there?
Happy birthday!
Marty Aww! Hey, thanks, man! You put it in behind the tooth. You all right?
These aren't even on the shelf yet. Here! Check it out. Check it out! Look at that. Ooh! Look at that! Ooh!
Marty Look at that. It's snowing.
10 years old, huh? A decade. Double digits. The big 1-O! You don't like it?
Marty No, no, it's great!
You hate it. Ugh! I should've gotten you the Alex alarm clock. That's the one. That's the big seller.
Marty No, no! No. The present's great, really. It's just that another year's come and gone, and I'm still doing the same old thing. "Stand over here. Trot over there. Eat some grass. Walk back over here."
I see your problem.
Marty Maybe I should go to law school.
You just need to break out of that boring routine.
Marty How?
Throw out the old act. Get out there! Who knows what you're gonna do? Make it up as you go along. Ad-lib, improvise, on the fly. Boom, boom, boom!
Marty Really?
You know, make it fresh.
Marty Fresh, huh? OK. I could do fresh.
Works for me.
Ahhh… what a day. I mean, just really, really, I mean, I tell you, it just doesn't get any better than this, you know? [short pause, Alex sees a star] Ooh! It just did. Even the star's out. Not going to find a star like that in the wild.
Marty Helicopter. [A star, which turns out to be a helicopter, flies away.]
Marty. Buddy. Listen. Everybody has days when they think the grass might be greener somewhere else.
Marty Alex. Look at me. I'm 10 years old. My life is half over. And I don't even know if I'm black with white stripes... or white with black stripes.
Marty. I'm thinking of a song.
Marty Alex. Please. Not now.
Oh, yes. It's a wonderful song. I think you're familiar with it. [scatting]
Marty Oh, no. Oh, no, you don't. No, no, no. I'm not listening! Lalalalalalalalalalala!
♪ Start spreadin' the news ♪
Marty I don't know you!
♪ I'm leaving today! We are a great big part of it ♪
Marty [laughs]
He's funny. Who is that?
Come on. You know you know the words. Two little words.
Marty New York.
Both
♪ New York! ♪
Bird
Shut up, shut up, shut up!! Hey, I'm sleeping here! We're not all nocturnal, you know!!
Marty Hey, I'll knock your "turnal" right off, pal.
Snake
Yeah, you and what army, stripes?
You mess with him, you mess with me, Howard!
Marty Ah ha ha ha!
Unknown Animal
You're a bigmouth lion!
See? Mr. Grumpy Stripes! We make a great team, the two of us.
Marty We sure do. No doubt about it.
So, what are you going to do? Just go running off to the wild by yourself?
Marty No.
Good.
Marty You and me. Let's go.
What?
Marty The wild. Come on. You and me together. It's a straight shot down Fifth Avenue to Grand Central. We'll grab a train; we'll head north. We can be back by morning. No one will ever know.
Marty [chuckles]
Yeah. I'm joking. Of course I'm joking. Give me a break. Like we're going to get a train.
Marty [yawning]
Oh, well. I guess I'll hit the sack.
Yeah, me too. I'll need to rest my voice for tomorrow. It's Seniors' Day, you know. Have to roar extra loud. Give them a little jolt! You know what I’m talking about?
Marty Good night, Ally Al.
[sighs and claps twice to turn on the red light and hears a bird]
Oh. They forgot to turn off the ambience again!
Marty Don't worry. It's cool. You know, I got it. [kicks the speaker, shooing the bird away as it now turns to the sounds of the Police]
Ah. Much better. [2 hours later; sleep talking] Come on now, baby. My little filet. My little filet mignon with a little fat around the edges. I like that. I like a little fat on my steak. My sweet, juicy steak. You are a rare delicacy.
Alex. Alex. Alex? Alex. Alex!
You suck your thumb?
Okay, okay. [sighs] You know how I have that bladder infection, and I have to get up every two hours? Well, I got up to pee, um, and I looked over at Marty's pen, which, you know, I usually don't do. I don't know why, but I did. And this time I looked over and...
What, Melman? What's going on?
It's Marty. He's gone.
Gone?! [hits his head] Agh! What do you mean "gone"?!
How long has he been working on this?! [looks into the hole the penguins dug] Marty!! Marty!!!
[tries to look for Marty in the haystacks, noticing that he isn't there]
Marty? Marty?! Marty!! Marty!!!
This doesn't make any sense. Where would he go?
He wouldn't.
Oh, no! What are we going to do? We gotta-- we gotta-- I mean, we gotta-- we gotta-- we gotta call somebody!
[Gasps as he runs to a payphone and dials 911]
Hello?! Get me Missing Animals!! And hurry! We've got a lost zebra probably on the way to Connecticut by now, and we're gonna need...!!
911 Operator
[Cut to 911 dispatch office; the operator only hears Alex roaring on speaker.] [takes off headset in confusion]
Hello? [cut to zoo; on speaker] Hello?
911 Operator
What the…?!
[hangs up, then nervously looks at the phone booth for a second before ripping it out and throwing it on the ground]
They'll be really mad! It'll get Marty transferred for good. You don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Mm-hmm. I know that's right.
We got to go after him.
Go after him?
He's not thinking straight. We got to stop him from making the biggest mistake of his life. He's probably out there lost and cold, confused. [sighs; sadly] Poor little guy.
Police Horse What you got to do is go straight back down West 42nd.
Marty Uh-huh.
Police Horse It's on your left after Vanderbilt.
Marty Okay.
Police Horse If you hit the Chrysler Building, you've gone too far.
Marty Uh-huh. Thanks a lot, officer. [walks]
Police Horse Hey! [Marty looks back] Wait for the light! [Marty walks backwards a bit while realizing his mistake] Freak.
Police radio
Did you say "zebra"?
Police Officer Yeah, yeah, that's right. A zebra. Right in front of me. Can I shoot it?
Police radio
Negative.
Police Officer Then I'm going to need some backup.
Marty I hear it now!
Where there's music, there's people.
We’ll go right to the head honcho.
A sidewalk would be nice.
Yeah, what a dump.
They should call it the San Di-lame-o Zoo. First, they tell you, "Hey! We got this great open-plan thing. Let the animals run wild!" Next thing you know, it’s flowers in your hair. Everybody's hugging everybody!
Marty This place kind of grows on you. This way, guys! Come on!
[gets hit in the mouth by a branch]
OW!! Ooh! [screams then cries in his hands] Aah! [his foot hits a rock] Oh, oh! AAH!!! [his foot pricks a thorn] Aah! What the...? [jumps through spider webs] Oh! Aah! Ew! Ew! [sputters as he tries to get the webs off himself, then knocks down a tree on himself] OH, NO!! AAAHH!!!
[Meanwhile on Madagascar island...]
Well, since I'm doomed to die on this forsaken island, I, Melman Mankiewicz, being of sound mind and unsound body, have divided my estate equally among the three of you. [Right before he could finish his sentence, a wave came in and go rid of it] Oh… Sorry, Alex.
Marty Hey! A latrine. Nice work, Melman. Outdoor plumbing.
No, it's not a latrine. It's a grave! You sent Melman to his grave. Are you happy?
Marty Aw, come on. This isn't the end. This is a whole new beginning. This could be the best thing that's ever happened to us.
No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No! This is not the best thing that's ever happened to us!
Yeah! You abused the power of the birthday wish and brought this bad luck on all of us. So why'd you tell your wish? You're not supposed to do that.
Marty Wait a minute. I didn't wanna tell you. Remember? You guys made me tell you.
Oh, OK.
Marty [As Marty talks, Alex has grabbed a tree and drawn a line over the beach.]
Besides, this isn't bad luck. This is good luck. Look around. There's no fences, no schedules. This place is beautiful. Baby, we were born to be here.
OK. OK. I've had enough of this. This is your side of the island, and this is our side of the island. That is the bad side, where you can prance and skip around like a magical pixie horse! And do whatever the heck you wanna do all day long. And this, this is the good side of the island for those who love New York and care about going home.
Marty Come on.
No, no. Back! Back! Back! Back!
You know what? This isn't good.
Marty OK! You all have your side, and I'll have mine! And if you need me, I'll be over here, on the fun side of the island, having a good old time! A gay old time! A yay old time!
[quietly]
That’s not the fun side. [loudly] This is the fun side! This is the fun side, where we're gonna have a great time surviving until we go home. Whoo! I love this side. This side's the best. That side stinks! You're on the Jersey side of this cesspool!!
Marty WILMA!!!!!!!!
Well, now what do we do?
Don't worry, Melman. I have a plan to get us rescued.
Marty [And in the meantime, at the beach, Alex makes the sign of "Help!", waiting for the boat that was hijacked by the penguins. And Marty tries to cheer up Alex with an apology]
Yo, Al. Melman and Gloria are over there having a good time. There's room on the fun side for one more.
No, thanks.
Marty Look, I've been thinking. Maybe if you gave this place a chance, I don't know, you might even enjoy yourself.
Marty, I'm tired. I'm hungry. I just want to go home.
Marty Could you just give it a chance? Think about it. It really isn't the fun side without you. [Leaves away from Alex, The P breaks and falls apart, which now says "Hell".]
Everyone (sans Alex)
[Alex comes to Marty's, sign says "No Soliciting"] [laughing]
I know. And then... [Alex knocks on the door] Shh. Shh. It's him.
Marty Who is it?
It's the pizza man. Who the heck do you think it is?
Marty [opens the slot door and sees Alex's eye]
Yes? Can I help you?
Can I come to the fun side?
Marty [closes the slot door; opens the door a little bit which is locked]
Beg your pardon?
You know, I've been kind of a jerk, Marty. But I've been thinking about what you said, and... I'm sorry.
Marty [Closes the door. But then unlocks and opens the door!]
Welcome to Casa del Wild! Take a load off. Hey, hey, wipe your feet.
Alex!
Marty [In Spanish]
Mi casa is su casa.
Very impressive.
Marty Hey, have a drink. It's on the house.
[Drinks the water from the coconut shell, but it's seawater instead of potable water and he spits it out!]
This is seawater.
Marty Oh, you don't swallow it. It's just temporary till the plumbing's done. Hey, y'all look hungry. How would you like some of nature's goodness?
You have food?
Marty The Fun Side Special, coming up. Seaweed on a stick.
Seaweed?
Marty On a stick. Don't love it till you try it.
That's unbelievable!
Mmm… So good.
Marty Well, thanks. It does kind of hit the spot, doesn't it? [Without roasting it, Alex coughs up seaweed, because he wants steak as a carnivore.] Well, maybe it could use a little lemon.
No, it's great. It's really great. Doesn't get any better than this.
Marty Oh, but it does. Check this out.
[He pulls down a lever, opening up the roof to show a view of the stars.]
Wow! Would you look at that?
It's like billions and billions of helicopters.
Marty It's a shooting star. Make a wish. Quick!
Ooh! How about a thick, juicy steak?
Marty You know what, Alex? I promise you I'm going to find you a steak tomorrow if it kills me.
Thanks, Marty.
I think I'm gonna hit the sack too. Sweet dreams, everyone.
Marty [Alex dreams of licking steak] [echoes]
Alex. [Alex is surprised; accidentally licks Marty as the others are shocked and confused] What are you doing?
27, 28, 29, 30. Hmm. 30. 30 black and only 29 white. Looks like you're black with white stripes after all. Dilemma solved. Good night. [Fakes sleeping.]
[Cut to black of the next morning]
Wake up, Mr. Alex. Wake up, Mr. Alex. Rise and shining. Wakey-waking, Mr. Alex! [Loudly] WAKE UP!!!! ALEX!!!!! [Alex muffled gasp] You suck your thumb?
AHH!
Everyone (sans Alex)
AHH!!!
Everyone
AAHHHH!!!!
Take it easy.
What is this?
Who built a forest?
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Don't be alarmed, giant freaks! While you were asleep, we simply took you to our little corner of heaven. Welcome to Madagascar.
Marty Mada-who-ah?!
What?
No, not who-ah, ascar.
Marty It's just like my mural back at the zoo.
Oh, no, fella, that is the real deal right there.
Look at that, that's not a bad view.
I mean, that's the thing that you were always looking at, but it's actually there. I mean, that's like the real version of your...
Marty Hey, how about once around the park? Let's get our blood pumping, get those lungs breathing all this fresh air! Who's with me?!
Ah, naw. I really, I don't think I could... You're it!
Marty Hey! Want to play around? Ho! Hey!
Ha-ha! Oof!
Marty Got you there! Ha-ha!
Come here! Ha-ha-ha!
Marty You're it.
Marty Hey, stop that! Hey, you’re crazy!
OK, Marty, I'm it. I'm it. I'm it. You win. [Groans in exhaustion]
Marty Come on, Alex, get in the groove.
I haven't eaten in two days. My blood sugar's real low. I just don't have the energy.
Marty I don't think that's your problem. First of all, that's not how you run in the wild. Let's go, man. Put the rubber to the road! You just have to let out that inner lion. Now, who's the cat?
Marty, I really don't...
Marty You are; that's who. Come on! Here we go! That's it. Now let's build up some steam!
Alright.
Marty You the cat.
Who's the cat?
Marty You the cat.
[Marty went up ahead whooping as Alex kept repeating "Who's the cat?" over and over again. His eyes lean close to Marty, and his eyes dilate.]
I'M THE CAT!!
[Marty sprints through the gorgeous landscape, elation on his face. He's running just like he did in his fantasy back at the zoo. Behind him, Alex catches up and zooms past Marty with blazing speed.]
Surprise!
Marty Yahhh!!
[Marty crashes to Alex until they both tumble to a stop. Alex pops to his feet adrenaline surging.]
Hoo! You're it! You're it! Can't juke the cat. Cat's too quick! Whoo! Hoo-ha! Ooh, yeah! Hoo-ha! I feel like a mile-high pastrami on rye on the fly from the deli in the sky! ROWW! Let's go wild!
Marty Now you're talking!
[Alex and Marty are now doing the Tarzan Yell as they enter the wild party.]
Whoo! Man! I feel... [laughing] different! Noogie, noogie, noogie. Noogie, noogie, noogie! Whoo! Kind of charged up or something. Hoo!
Ah, Marty, Marty, Marty! Like you said, baby.
It's Crack-a-lacking. Ain't that right, Melman? Whoo!
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm in heaven.
You see, Maurice, Alex is now our friend and the fossas are nowhere to be seen. It could be said that my plan is working in a very good working kind of way.
Yeah!
Marty Alex. You got to try some of this.
Marty Yeah! You should see his act. Come on, Alex. Why don't you show him some of your act?
Marty What have I done? This is a nightmare! And it's all my fault. Now, because of me, we've lost Alex.
Well, what are we going to do?
We'll find a way to help him. That's what we'll do.
Oh! OK.
Come on, we are New Yorkers, right?
Marty Yeah.
We're tough. We're gritty.
Marty Yeah!
We're adaptable!
Marty Yeah!!
And we are not going to lay down like a bunch of Melmans!
No, we're not. [horn blaring] Oh. Gloria.
That was not me, OK? That was the boat. The boat!
Marty The boat? The boat's come back for us! Come on, guys, we got to flag it down.
Marty [Marty, Melman, and Gloria race to the beach where they saw the boat, blaring harder and louder]
There it is!
Hey, over here!
Over here!
Marty Over here! Over here! Yo! Yo! Yo!
Melman, give me a lift. Hurry up! Lift me up!
Marty Help! Help! Help!
Oh, my neck. My neck. My neck. You guys. Over here!
Over here! Melman! Steady. This way!
Marty Over here!
You have no idea how much this hurts.
Marty Hey, boat! We're over here! [the three zoo animals are thuds]
Look! It's turning! It's coming back! IT'S COMING BACK! IT'S COMING BACK!!
Yes! This way! Come on! Come on, baby! WHOO!! Yes, you guys!
Marty You guys flag down that boat. I’ll go get Alex.
Marty Aw, come on. I know Alex. He hears we're rescued; he'll snap right out of it.
The people are coming. They can help us.
Melman's right. The people will know what to do. Now, come on. We got to flag down that boat.
[The boat already approaches near the beach with a horn blaring to knock back the trees. And finally, the anchor crashes onto the sand as the penguins land on the beach.]
Now, this is more like it.
You?! Oh, ma-- Where are the people?!
We killed them and ate their livers. [Gloria looks horrified] Gotcha, didn't I? Just kidding, doll, the people are fine. They're on a slow boat to China. Hey! I know you two. Where's that psychotic lion, and our monochromatic friend?
[He and Gloria look back to see Marty missing]
Marty? He's ri... Where'd he go? I thought he was right behind us.
Well, boys, our monochromatic friend's in danger. Looks like we have a job to do. [Private brings out a notebook and a red crayon] Captain's log: Embarking into a hostile environment. Kowalski, we'll need to win the hearts and minds of the natives. Rico, we'll need special tactical equipment. We're going to face extreme peril. Private probably won't survive. [a red crayon snaps, Private looks horrified]
Marty Alex! Come out, Alex! The boat's here! We can go home!
Kids
[The fossa see Marty, as if they are going to eat him; The dream appears to have many steaks, Alex wants them and his claws show up] [chanting]
Alex! Alex! Alex! Alex! Alex! Alex! Alex! Alex! Alex! Alex! Alex! Alex! Alex! Alex! Alex! Alex!
Marty [Alex's eyes change like he's going to go crazy again, fearing that he will continue injuring his friends, retreats to foosa territory in isolation. Marty searches for him, excited.]
Alex! Alex.
Marty?
Marty Snap out of it, Alex. The boat came back. We can get out of here. We can go back to civilization, and everything will be just like it used to be.
Stay back. Please. I'm a monster.
Marty Alex, you're no monster. You're my friend. We're a team. You and me, remember?
[Alex tried to attack Marty, but the zebra scuttled back away from the crazed lion.]
I don't want to hurt you.
Marty Alex. I ain't leaving without you. Alex? I'm thinking of a song. It's a wonderful song. I'm sure you're familiar with it. ♪Start spreadin' the news. I'm leaving today. We are a great big part of it!♪ Come on, you know the words. Two little words. Please don't make me sing this by myself. [go back to Alex's normal eyes again] You really don't want to hear me sing this by myself. [The fossa appear from above the rocks] Uh, Alex? Could you come out here for a minute? Hey, Alex, a l-l-little help? AAH!!! HELP ME!! ALEX!!! HEEEEELLLLP!!!!!!!
[Hearing his best friend's screams, a look of determination appears on his face as his eyes dilate.]
Marty [Marty runs for his life as the fossa chase after him.]
Help me!! Anybody, help me!! Somebody!! [Marty turns to see two Fossas riding on his butt and dumping salt and lemon juice on him] Ah! [Marty throws the Fossa off of him] HEEEEELLLLP!!!!!!!
Marty [As the Fossa make a dog pile to eat Marty, Melman is swinging on a vine while doing a Tarzan Yell to save Marty.]
Melman?
That's right, baby. [Both crash into the rock]
Marty What's the plan?
This is the plan!
Foosa hungry. Foosa eat.
Marty This is the plan?!
Close those eyes.
Why do I have to close my eyes?
Do it.
Yeah. They're closed.
Tighter.
Yes, sir.
No peeking.
Alright. They're closed.
Rico.
[takes the fish; Does a karate chop with two knives; carves; slaps the bottom of the fish turns into 12 sushi fish and drops]
Hai. [the tail drops on his head; the knife takes a sushi fish]
Open that hatch.
Aah…
[the sushi fish puts inside Alex's mouth]
Fire in the hole. [closes the Alex's mouth and chews] Now chew. Chew like you mean it! Savor it.
Mmm… Mmm.
Marty And?
Well?
Pretty good, right?
There's always Plan B. [Mort laughs]
Mmm… Mmm. This is better than steak. I love it! I love it!
The kitty loves the fishy. [Kowalski and Private got a high-5 as everyone cheers]
Marty Well, I propose a toast. Now, he may be a pain in the butt at times... And trust me, I know. But this cat proved to me without a doubt that his heart is bigger than his stomach. To Alex.
Everyone
To Alex!
Marty Well, what do you guys think? Should we head back to New York?
I don't know, Marty. I mean, this is your dream. You sure you want to leave?
Marty I don't care where we are. As long as we're together, it doesn't matter to me.
Well, in that case... [turns to Rico] Yo. Rico. I'll take 300 orders to go!
Hai.
Yes, yes. But before you leave, I have an announcement to make. So shut up, everyone, please. Thank you. After much deep and profound brain things inside my head, I have decided to thank you for bringing peace to our home. [presents Alex with his crown] And to make you feel good, I'm gonna give you this lovely parting gift.
Oh, no, really. I can't take your crown.
That's OK, I've got a bigger crown! It's got a gecko on it! Look at him shake! Go, Stevie, go!
Marty [Alex groans.]
Alex, are you there?
Marty?
Marty Yeah! Talk to me, buddy.
Oh, Marty! You're here!
Marty What's going on? Are you OK?
Alex? Marty, is that you?
Marty Gloria!
You're here, too!
Marty I am loving the sound of your voice!
What is going on?
Come on! Melman, Melman, Melman! Melman, Melman, Melman! Wake up!
Marty Is that Melman?
Are you OK?
Yeah. No, I’m fine.
Marty. I'm thinking of a song.
Marty Alex. Please. Not now.
Oh, yes. It's a wonderful song. I think you're familiar with it. [scatting]
Marty Oh, no. Oh, no, you don't. No, no, no. I'm not listening! Lalalalalalalalalalala!
♪ Start spreadin' the news ♪
Marty I don't know you!
♪ I'm leaving today! We are a great big part of it ♪
Marty [laughs]
He's funny. Who is that?
Come on. You know you know the words.
Marty New York.
Both
♪ New York! ♪
See? Mr. Grumpy Stripes! We make a great team.
Yeah, here we are. White sandy beaches, cleverly simulated natural environment, wide-open enclosures. I'm telling you, this could be the San Diego Zoo.
San Diego? What could be worse than San Diego?
Marty I don't know. This place is crackalackin'! Oh, I could hang here. I could hang here.
We're just going to find the people, get checked in and have this mess straightened out.
Oh, great. This is just great. San Diego. Now I'll have to compete with Shamu and his smug little grin. I can't top that? Can't top it!
Marty Maybe I should go to law school.
Marty [walks to an island while making fart noises with his armpits]
Yeah!
Other characters in Madagascar
Alex the Lion
Ben Stiller
Gloria the Hippo
Jada Pinkett Smith
Melman the Giraffe
David Schwimmer
Mason the Chimp
Conrad Vernon
Julien
Sacha Baron Cohen
King Julian the Lemur
Skipper the Penguin
Tom McGrath
Maurice the Aye-Aye
Cedric the Entertainer
Mort the Cute Lemur
Andy Richter
Kowalski
Chris Miller
Lemurs
David P. Smith
Private
Christopher Knights
Announcer
Eric Darnell
Fossa
Rico
Jeffrey Katzenberg
