Quotes

Dialogue

Archibald Snatcher: [first line, Snatcher to Butler at the front door] Wake his Lordship. The unspeakable has happened, We must speak of it immediately! [struggles with Butler, trying to slam the door on him] Lord Portley-Rind: [Frustrated] What is is, Snatcher? Archibald Snatcher: BOXTROLLS HAVE COME AND STOLEN A CHILD! Lord Portley-Rind: Gasp, no. Archibald Snatcher: There's no doubt, picking their teeth with his adorable baby bones, by now. Lord Portley-Rind: Horribly tragedy. [uninterested] Let's deal with it in the morning. Archibald Snatcher: [while butler aggressively presses the door on Snatcher] STOP, that's not the worst of it. They'll come after... [Butler slams the door in Snatcher's face, and is now talking through the mail slot of the mansion] Our cheeses! Lord Portley-Rind: [scared] MY GOUDA? Archibald Snatcher: They'll stop at nothing. Lord Portley-Rind: Oh, you're the town exterminator; I'll pay whatever it takes. Archibald Snatcher: Oh, I don't want money; I want one

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Lord Portley-Rind: [after learning that Snatcher was lying about the boxtrolls and the Trubshaws] He lied to us, and to poor Madame Frou Frou. Snatcher... Archibald Snatcher: [Using Madame Frou Frou's voice] We could have been something special, but you have broken our agreement. Lord Portley-Rind: Why is he talking like Madame Frou... [gasps; realises] Oh my god! I regret so much.

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Snatcher: You really think Portly-Rind and his mob will help a nobody like you? In this town, you want, you gotta help yourself. That's what a man does. Eggs: You're a liar. When I tell Winnie's father the truth, he'll- Snatcher: HE'LL THANK ME. Because... all your little boxtroll friends... are going to die. TONIGHT! Eggs: WHAT? Snatcher: THEY'LL MAKE ME THE MOST RESPECTED MAN IN THIS TOWN! They'll have no choice but to give me a white hat, they'll parade me, They'll take up on their shoulders. And I'm NOT gonna let that be ruined by some little boxtroll sewer rat!

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Archibald Snatcher: [Dons a "white hat"] Men, don your white hats. [Mr. Pickles, Mr. Trout, and Mr. Gristle take off their red hats and put on their "white hats".] Mr.Pickles: [nervously] Are you sure about this, boss? Archibald Snatcher: Huh? Mr. Pickles: You know what cheese can do to you... Archibald Snatcher: Unless you are referring to how cheese brings men of respect and power together in brotherhood, [leans over to Mr. Pickles] no, I do not know what Cheese. Does. To. Me Mr. Pickles: [gulps] That's what I meant then... Archibald Snatcher: [delighted] Marvelous. Then let us begin! Archibald Snatcher: [impatient, slamming his fists onto the table] ENOUGH! Archibald Snatcher: [eats a tiny bit of cheddar, and swallows. After a moment, he smiles in satisfaction] Mr. Trout: [surprisingly] Oh! Archibald Snatcher: I say, old chaps, it's quite, um [pause] It's, um [pauses] It's quite, um Mr. Trout: [breaking in] Aromatic? Oaky? With an undertone of a mother's smile on a warm spring day?

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Madame Frou-Frou: Trubshaw Senior loves his kid, like regular fathers should, and make sure he should keep him lock up tight and sure to keep him safe from BOXTROLLS. Madame Frou-Frou: He likes to Sleep through the night, but as soon began to snore, the Boxtrolls came in to destroy... POOR BABY! [Mr. Gristle comes out of a trapdoor, in a Boxtroll Costume, made of cardboard machma] Eggs: [Shocked] What? Crowd: Booooo!!!