Rufus T. Firefly: Awfully decent of you to drop in today. Do you realize our army is facing disastrous defeat? What do you intend to do about it?
Chicolini: I've done it already.
Rufus T. Firefly: You've done what?
Chicolini: I've changed to the other side.
Rufus T. Firefly: So you're on the other side, eh? Well, what are you doing over here?
Chicolini: Well, the food is better over here.
Chicolini: Well, you remember you gave us a picture of this man and said, 'Follow him?'
Ambassador Trentino: Oh, yes.
Chicolini: Well, we get on-a the job right away and in the one hour - even-a less than one hour...
Ambassador Trentino: Yes?
Chicolini: We lose-a the picture. That's-a pretty quick work, eh?
I preferred Duck Soup to A Night at the Opera (http://kaleenasmith.blogspot.com/2013/08/85-night-at-opera-1935.html). It's another Marx brothers movie (Groucho, Harpo and Chico, with the addition of straight-man Zeppo this time). Still not really my type of humor, with all the puns and slapstick, but it was an improvement.
Margaret Dumont (my favorite, she's quite funny), from A Night at the Opera, plays Mrs. Teasdale, a wealthy woman in the imaginary nation of Freedonia. She, for some reason (well, the reason is she's attracted to him), insists that the inept Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho) be made leader of Freedonia, though he is ridiculous and incompetent.
And so hilarity and shenanigans ensue. Good for a giggle, with a classic mirror gag and a song in the beginning that amuses Tyler to no end:Rufus T. Firefly: [singing] If any form of pleasure is exhibited, report to me and it will be prohibited! I'll put my foot down, so shall it be...this is the land of the free! The last man nearly ruined this place he didn't know what to do with it. If you think this country's bad off now, just wait till I get through with it! The country's taxes must be fixed, and I know what to do with it. If you think you're paying too much now, just wait till I get through with it!
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