Bud quotes from The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)

Sylvia

Everyone's just so petite.

Bud

No, Tom Cruise is petite, these guys are short! What's the deal?

Scott

Have you ever been to this part of Canada?

Bud

We got as far as Rochester in upstate New York to see Syliva's sister in '67, but no.

Scott

They can't help the way they look up here. It's a bit rude to make fun of an entire country, don't you think?

Sylvia

What a quaint little village. Everyone's just so petite.

Bud

No, Tom Cruise is petite, these guys are short! What's the deal?

Scott

Who? What? Um...Oh, uh...Have you ever been to this part of Canada?

Bud

No, it's too far. We got as far as Rochester in upstate New York to see Sylvia's sister in '67, but no.

Scott

Very lovely place. But it's not Canada, is it?

Bud

No.

Scott

Well, this is...this is what Canadians look like.

Bud

Ah.

Bud

What's the matter with you people? Don't you realize you were an inch away from Armageddon?

Jack

I'll get a mop!

Sylvia

Oh, honey.

Scott

Honey, I think maybe I can fix that. I know you're upset.

Bud

Oh, you picked up on that, did you?

Scott

Bud, what is that supposed to mean?

Bud

Well, maybe if you weren't working all the time, you would know.

Scott

Well, maybe you don't understand the pressure I'm under!

Bud

Well, maybe it's not as bad as being ripped away from your family and told you can't see them anymore!

Carol

Dad.

Scott

Well, maybe that's why I invited you up here, Bud. So Carol can be surrounded by her family for love and support, while I try to do things you can't even imagine. But rather than try to make things work, it seems like you're trying to make things worse.

Bud

That's it. We're leaving.

Carol

What?

Sylvia

Maybe we shouldn't have come.

Scott

Maybe you're right. Maybe you shouldn't have come.

Carol

Maybe I should never have come either.

Jack

Don't say anything, you'll regret. [Carol leaves to sit down] I think we all need to cool down for a second. Huh? [to Scott] Why don't you and I take a walk? Come on. Let's go. Let's just go. [leaves with Scott]

Sylvia

Oh, sweetheart.

Scott

It's over. I thought I had a second chance at having a family, but I blew it again.

Jack

Hey. There's no one I know who could possibly hold this all together but you.

Scott

But I didn't. My in-laws resent me, Christmas is a disaster, and my pregnant wife wishes that she never had met me.

Jack

You know, I-I was gonna wait until tomorrow to give you this, but, uh, heh, I-I think you need a bit of a pick-me-up now. [pulls up his present to Scott]

Scott

I can't.

Jack

Come on. Open it.

Scott

I don't feel like it, Jack.

Jack

Oh, come on. Go ahead, it'll make you feel better.

Scott

I don't feel like it, Jack.

Jack

Come on, you just open it, please.

Scott

Thanks. [takes the present]

Jack

So are there times when you wonder...

Scott

Wonder what?

Jack

If this was even...

Scott

Worth it? [scoffs] More than you know.

Jack

Tonight's one of these times, huh?

Scott

Wish I'd never put that red coat on.

Jack

So...you wish you'd never become Santa at all?

Scott

I wish I'd never become Santa.

Jack

At all?

Scott

At all. At all. [opens his present] Yeah, at all. I wished I'd never been Santa at all. Happy? [notices he's holding his snow globe which starts to glow]

Jack

I am now.

Bud

They're elves! They're not little Canadians, they're really elves!