A character in Tremors (1990)

Burt Gummer quotes from Tremors (1990)

Michael Gross
Played by Michael Gross Tremors (1990) · 52 quotes

3rd most-quoted character in Tremors (1990): in 11 of its 52 quotes
Most scenes with: Valentine McKee (4)

A line from Burt Gummer [Burt Gummer looks at his bomb shelter for perhaps the last time]

Food for five years, a thousand gallons of gas, air filtration, water filtration, Geiger counter. Bomb shelter! (long sigh) ...underground. God damn monsters.

More lines from Burt Gummer

3 quotes
Burt Gummer

No tracks, no sign, no spoor... you'd think after eating all those sheep they'd have to take a dump some place.

Burt Gummer
[Burt Gummer, with his wife Heather at his side, berates the dead monster fought off with their "family arsenal"]

Broke into the wrong God damn rec room, didn't ya you bastard!

Burt Gummer
[handing out weapons and refusing to give Melvin one]

I wouldn't give you a gun if it were World War Three!

Scenes with Burt Gummer

7 scenes
Melvin Plug
[discovering the gun Burt gave him is empty]

Burt, you asshole! There's no bullets in this gun!

Burt Gummer
[taking the gun back with a smile]

Got you moving, didn't it?

[speaking to Burt over a radio and is trying to tell him about the Graboids]

Burt, it's under the ground! It's an underground monster! Now get out! Hurry!

Burt Gummer
[over the radio, as a Graboid comes through his rec room wall]

Jesus Chri...!
[transmission turns to static]

Burt Gummer
[over the radio]

We killed it, you got that!? We killed that motherhumper, come back!

Roger that, Burt, and congratulations. Be advised, however, that there are two more, repeat, two more motherhumpers.

Heather Gummer
[after Burt tries to shoot the Graboid with his elephant rifle]

You didn't get penetration even with the elephant gun?!

Burt Gummer

Shit!

Heather Gummer

Good lord!

[After Burt scares away the Graboids with his home-made dynamite]

What the hell's in those things, Burt?

Burt Gummer

A few household chemicals in the proper proportions.

We can't hold still long! These things are damn smart! They're getting smarter by the minute!

Burt Gummer

That's fine! [Holds up a stick of dynamite] We got some new things to teach 'em!

[Burt cuts off a piece of fuse for a bomb for Earl]

What kind of fuse is that?

Burt Gummer

Cannon fuse.

What the hell do you use it for?

Burt Gummer

My cannon!

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