Earl Bassett [repeated line]
Pardon my French!
Played by Fred Ward 
Tremors (1990) · 52 quotes
Tremors (1990) · 52 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Tremors (1990): in 23 of its 52 quotes
Most scenes with: Valentine McKee (15), Rhonda LeBeck (3)
You little asswipe! You don't knock it off you're gonna be shittin' this basketball... pardon my French!
More lines from Earl Bassett
6 quotes Earl Bassett Earl Bassett Damn it Valentine, you never plan ahead, you never take the long view, I mean here it is Monday and I'm already thinking of Wednesday... It is Monday right?
Earl Bassett Well, there sure as hell ain't nothing to stop us now... everybody we know between here and Bixby's already dead.
Earl Bassett [To Val]
Here's the plan. We don't even stop. Ride like hell. Tonight we keep right on going. We'll walk the horses.
Earl Bassett Melvin! One of these days someone's gonna kick your ass!
Earl Bassett Run for it? Running's not a plan! Running's what you do once a plan fails!
Scenes with Earl Bassett
16 scenes
STAMPEDE! Stampede, Earl! Get out of the way, get out of the way!
Earl Bassett [waking up]
You dumb shit. I was in a stampede once. Five hundred head, all hell-bent for the horizon.
Now, exactly how many cattle are required for a stampede, Earl? Is it three or more? Is there a minimum to 'pede?
Earl Bassett I wish they'd stampede up your ass.
Earl Bassett [pricks his hand while setting up a fence]
I ask ya: Is this a job for an intelligent man?
Well, show me one. I'll ask him.
Earl Bassett Dammit, Valentine! You never go for any girl unless she fits that stupid list of yours from top to bottom.
Well, sure.
Earl Bassett Yeah, and it's dumber than my hind end! Like that Bobbie Lynn Dexter.
Tammy Lynn Baxter!
Earl Bassett Doesn't matter. They're all the same: dead weight. "Ooh, I broke a nail!" Ugh! Makes my skin crawl.
I'm a victim of circumstance.
Earl Bassett I thought you called it your pecker?
Earl Bassett No breakfast?
I did it yesterday. It was baloney and beans.
Earl Bassett No, it was eggs. I made eggs. Over easy.
The hell you did! Baloney and beans. It's your turn!
[they go through a quick game of rock-paper-scissors, which Valentine loses]
Well, I guess when I'm your age, I'll forget what I eat, too.
Earl Bassett [Valentine has just freed the truck from a hangup, after a struggle]
Y'know, that's a good way to break an axle.
Could you shut up?
Earl Bassett Hey, I don't need to spend the night out here!
Earl Bassett [Graboid breaks through the surface of the ground]
Nope, just one!
Earl Bassett [Graboid slams into a concrete retaining wall]
Stupid son-of-a-bitch, knocked itself cold!
Cold, my ass, he's dead! We killed it. We killed it! FUUUUUUUUUUCK YOU!
Earl Bassett [About the dead Graboid]
Hey, Rhonda. You ever seen anything like this before?
Oh, sure, Earl, everybody knows about them. We just didn't tell you. Hell, nobody ever saw anything like this! We're really onto something here!
Earl Bassett I'll tell you one thing: Old Chang won't be getting his slick mitts on this for no measly 15 bucks!
You got that right!
Earl Bassett [Earl suddenly has his entire leg drop into a hole] [yelling]
AHHH! AHHH!
What? What is it?
Earl Bassett Damn prairie dog burrow.
Sons a bitches.
[trapped on top of a boulder by a Graboid, Val, Earl, and Rhonda are thinking of explanations for where the creatures came from] [joking]
I've got it: They're mutations caused by radiation. No, wait- the government made 'em. *Big* surprise for the Russians.
Well, there's nothing like them in the fossil record. Okay, so they predate the fossil record. [not buying it herself] That'd make them a couple of billion years old, and we've just never seen one until now. Right.
Earl Bassett I vote for outer space. No way these are local boys.
Earl Bassett [after spending a night on a boulder due to being trapped by a Graboid]
They must be long gone by now.
Yeah. Hey, why don't you go take a little stroll and find out?
Earl Bassett [Trying to escape from the rocks]
You know, we're gonna have to come up with some sort of plan, or he's just gonna wait us to death.
Well, why don't we just make a run for it? We outran 'em yesterday.
Earl Bassett Run for it?! Runnin's not a plan- runnin's what you when a plan fails! Valentine, you're not even trying to think of a plan.
Well, it ain't like we got a hell of a lot of options.
Earl Bassett Oh, there's always options. We just gotta think of 'em.
All right, why don't you start thinkin', then?
Earl Bassett Why the hell do I always gotta do all the thinking?
Who died and made you Einstein?
Hey, shut up!
Earl Bassett [unseen Melvin screams when a Graboid attacks, after having scared everyone moments ago]
Dammit, I'm gonna kick his ass!
I'm gonna help you.
They only respond to vibration, right? Couldn't we distract them somehow?
Yeah, something to keep 'em busy, like a- like a decoy!
Earl Bassett Hey Melvin, wanna make a buck?
[Melvin flips him off]
Earl Bassett [Earl and Val argues who will run to the bulldozer in spite of the Graboids]
Damn it, listen to me. I'm older and wiser.
Yeah, well, you're half right.
Earl Bassett [Burt cuts off a piece of fuse for a bomb for Earl]
What kind of fuse is that?
Cannon fuse.
Earl Bassett What the hell do you use it for?
My cannon!
