A character in Rock-a-Doodle (1991)

Hunch quotes from Rock-a-Doodle (1991)

Charles Nelson Reilly
A line from Hunch [Repeated line]

Uncle Dukey!

Scenes with Hunch

1 scene
Edmond
[after he realizes he is now a kitten]

Jeepers! I'm all furry!

Grand Duke

If I killed my nephew, would that be murder or charity?

Hunch
[repeated line]

Uncle Dukey!

Pinky
[a phone conversation]

Yeah? Oh, howdy, boss. How are you? Uh-huh. Huh? You say a cat, a dog, a bird and a mouse? What is this? Some kind of joke, huh?

Grand Duke
[talking on the phone]

Oh, well, I don't think it's funny, Pinky. They want to bring Chanticleer back to the farm. You don't want that, he makes you lots of money; I don't want that, he makes me miserable

Pinky

Right, boss, and what should I do about it?

Grand Duke

Your chicken thinks they don't want him on the farm. Well, that's good. All you have to do is make sure he keeps thinking that. It is not good that the kitty and his friends should talk to your chicken. Capisce?

Pinky

Yeah, thanks a million. This has been most enlightening.

Edmond
[the Grand Duke arrives in Edmond's live-action bedroom]

Chanticleer?

Grand Duke

No... it's not Chanticleer.

Edmond

Who-who are you?

Grand Duke

You put your finger in the Duke's face, remember? These are expensive, you little brat! [throws his broken monocle on the floor] But that is not why the Duke is going to eat you.

Edmond

Eat me?

Grand Duke

Oh dear, now I've gone and spoiled the surprise. Always doing that. But you see, we creatures of the night have worked very hard to make absolutely sure that that bird does not return. And you... you, with no regard for the feelings of others, have the nerve to call him back here by name! And besides, I positively loathe rock 'n' roll. [laughs]

Edmond

You're not gonna eat me!

Narrator

And that's when the Duke hit the ceiling. [the Duke literally hits the ceiling] If Edmond wanted to bring Chanticleer back to raise the sun, the Duke was going to have something to say about it.

Grand Duke

Kittens are more digestible.

Narrator

Young Edmond was about to have the most amazing adventure he'd ever dreamed of.

Snipes
[The Duke transforms Edmond into an animated kitten and his live-action bedroom into a cartoon one]

Girls, they think they know everything! Why don't you run home, be a "mousewife", make cheese?

Peepers

Snipes, you think you're so superior.

Snipes

"Thuperior"; nice lisp!

Peepers

My lisp isolates and elevates me, and makes me a rare specimen.

Hunch

I got 'em! I really got 'em! No more kitty, Sir! Mission... [snickers] accomplished!

Grand Duke

And the dog?

Hunch

Gone, wiped out, sir!

Hunch
[The Duke laughs wickedly at this]

Total and complete annihilation!

Grand Duke

Annihilation! Yes... h-h-h-how did you do it?

Hunch

Adequately.

Grand Duke
[confused]

Uh, "ade-ade-ade..."? Wh-what's that supposed to mean?

Hunch

Well, Uncle, we sucked them into an adequate pipe.

Grand Duke

A what?

Hunch

That's what it said. "Danger: Adequate Pipe."

Grand Duke
[with forced calm]

Oh ho ho, Hunch... come to Uncle. [Hunch approaches; the Duke turns him into a green chicken-type thing] YOU IMBECILE! That's not an "Adequate Pipe" - it's an AQUEDUCT PIPE! It leads straight into the city! [turns Hunch back to normal] The Duke gives you one last chance, Hunch! Them, or you! [throws a meat cleaver down right next to him] Now get to the city!

Hunch

Oh, not the city, sir! Oh, no! It's too bright! I'll go blind!

Grand Duke

Oh, say it isn't so. [hands him a pair of sunglasses]

Narrator
[first lines]

Once upon a time, back before I knew how to tie my shoes, the sun came up. Now, I know an everyday sunrise may not seem like such a big deal to some folks. But, imagine for a moment: if instead of rising up- like this- one morning where you lived, she took a look around and decided to go back to sleep. It happened once to us. Let me tell you all about it.

Patou

Chanticleer, you've gotta crow, and you gotta crow now!

Edmond

Ahem. Excuse me, ma'am?

Goldie
[is startled, accidentally sprays Edmond with perfume]

Aah! Oh, who are you?

Edmond

Ma'am, I... I... [starts sneezing]

Goldie

Oh, my goodness! Oh, you poor thing. [hands him a tissue] There. Now, what are you doing in my dressing room?

Edmond

Please, ma'am! You're the only one who can help us! We have to talk to Chanticleer... I mean the King. [Goldie gasps] If he doesn't come home and crow...

Goldie

Wait a minute, wait a minute! You're the "bad little kitty" Pinky told me about!

Edmond

Bad? Me? I'm not bad.

Goldie
[picks up a sundae cup]

You go away or I'll scream!

Edmond
[She starts screaming and throwing things around. Edmond flees the trailer and hurries back to his friends]

What happened?

Snipes

Ehh, she's a woman!

Pinky
[Pinky's guards have Chanticleer in a stranglehold]

Don't hurt him, boys. He's got a movie to make.

Chanticleer

I ain't makin' nothin' with you!

Pinky

Oh, but King, I got a lot of money tied up in this picture. I don't wanna lose my money, and you don't wanna lose your friends.

Chanticleer

That's blackmail!

Pinky

That's showbiz! MAKE-UP!

Narrator

Now, I got to admit as bad guys go, the Duke's nephew Hunch was more a hoot than he was horrible. But still, he was a nuisance and as we were tied up at the moment, we weren't all that happy to see him.

Grand Duke
[After the Grand Duke is turned into a tiny owl, he is surrounded by a mouse and a chick, who frighten him as he falls into the water. Hunch catches him] [in a squeaky voice]

Hunch! It's me, Uncle Dukey!

Hunch

Uncle Dukey? [laughs as he holds a fly swatter behind his back] Come here, (Uncle Dukey)!

Grand Duke
[Hunch tries to strike the Grand Duke with it] [last words before his presumed death]

Hunch, no!

Hunch
[Hunch chases him with the fly swatter as they get into the clouds]

Animation, it's music to my ears. Hold still, you little twerp! Aggravation, abomination, alienation.

Peepers
[They both disappear into the clouds]

He's claustrophobic. Teeny weeny tiny places make him very very nervous. Huh?!

Edmond

Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

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