Wishbone

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Wishbone

Played by:

Larry Brantley
Larry Brantley, a former stand-up comedian and radio spokesperson, now will entertain families nationwide ...

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Wishbone Quotes

	Season 1 / Episode 23: - Bark to the Future Wishbone: [Joe's laying on the couch watching TV] Joe, how long can you sit there looking at an empty box?
	Season 1 / Episode 23: - Bark to the Future Wishbone: [Joe can't figure out a percentage even with his new calculator] Doh! Joe, that machine was supposed to help you step forward into the future, but you my friend are stepping backwards.
	Season 1 / Episode 23: - Bark to the Future Wishbone: [as the Time Traveler, reading an old book of Shakespeare] 'Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. [touches the page and it desintigrates, gasps] Weena: [laughs] Dusty death! Wishbone: Weena! How can you laugh? Weena, don't you read? Weena: Read? What is read? Wishbone: [leaving the library] But Weena, reading is fundamental. Weena: Is fun? Wishbone: Fundamental. Weena, I'm starting to think I built the time machine in vain.
	Season 1 / Episode 23: - Bark to the Future Wanda Gilmore: Oh, there's no calculator, but, [puts a pencil and paper down] here. Joe Talbot: No thanks, I'm fine. Wishbone: 'No thanks, I'm fine', famous last words.
	Season 1 / Episode 23: - Bark to the Future Wishbone: [as the Time Traveler] What is your name? [Weena stares at him puzzled] Uh... what are you called? [Weena still doesn't respond] Okay, let's try this again. Who are you? Weena: I am Weena. You are man! [laughs] Wishbone: [turns to the camera] Uh huh, I'm convinced, it's something in the water.
	Season 1 / Episode 5: - Homer Sweet Homer Wishbone: [after strongman pulls out a sword, Wishbone as Odysseyus taunting] Oooh! Big man with a sword!
	Season 1 / Episode 3: - Twisted Tail Wishbone: Oliver Twist was an orphan, which meant he had no tags and no ID collar.
	Season 1 / Episode 3: - Twisted Tail Wishbone: [about Wanda] That woman's got the heart of a dog catcher.
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - A Tail in Twain Part Two Ellen Talbot: So what did you kinda sorta find? Wishbone: Oh nothing, just a crazy man digging up a grave! Joe Talbot: Well, you know the no name grave? Ellen Talbot: Oh sure, the mystery grave. Joe Talbot: Well today, Sam and David and I went to check it out. Ellen Talbot: Ooh, so did you find anything? Joe Talbot: [pause] Actually Mom, there was a guy digging it up. He caught us spying on him and he chased us away. Ellen Talbot: [laughing] What? Joe Talbot: This crazy guy was digging up the grave. We could hear his shovel scraping across the coffin. Ellen Talbot: Wait, you're just making this up, you're just trying to scare me, right? Joe Talbot: No, Mom, it's true, I know it sounds strange but it's true. He caught us spying on him because of Wishbone and he chased us away.
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - A Tail in Twain Part Two Joe Talbot: [sees Wishbone about asleep] I don't think Wishbone's too worried. Wishbone: Who's worried? Tom Sawyer had only one worry. After the trial of Mum Potter, Tom worried that Crazy Joe would come back for him.
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - A Tail in Twain Part Two Huck Finn: [about finding buried treasure] What do your books say? Wishbone: Well sometimes it's buried on islands, but mostly it's buried under the floorboards in haunted houses. Huck Finn: Who hides it? Wishbone: Robbers! Who do you think, schoolteachers?
	Season 1 / Episode 2: - A Tail in Twain Part Two Wishbone: [as Tom Sawyer] Now listen here, Huck Finn, being rich ain't gonna stop me from turning robber.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - A Tail in Twain Part One Joe Talbot: Let's go to the no name grave. Wishbone: Whoo-oooh, scary. Samantha Kepler: You know there's a lot of stories about that grave. It's been there as long as anyone can remember. It's supposed to be haunted. David Barnes: Well I heard that it was somebody who was murdered, and the murderer buried the body there. Samantha Kepler: But there's no name on the tombstone, and now, the ghost can find no peace. David Barnes: So sometimes he comes up to tell a story. Samantha Kepler: But he is so horrible looking, that whoever sees him drops dead immediately, and gets sucked into the grave. Joe Talbot: But nobody really believes that, right? David Barnes: Right. Samantha Kepler: Of course not.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - A Tail in Twain Part One Wishbone: [as Tom Sawyer, he and Huck see a cannon go off on a ship looking for a drowned body] I know who's drowned. It's us! Huck Finn: Us? Wishbone: Well we snuck away so nobody knows where we are! They think we're dead and drowned! We're heroes, Huck, we're famous! Huck Finn: But we're dead. Wishbone: Only temporarily, Huck, best kind of death is a temporary one.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - A Tail in Twain Part One David Barnes: Who'd want to dig up a grave? Wishbone: [finds a paper bag] Well whoever it is likes salami on rye.
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - A Tail in Twain Part One Huck Finn: [sees fire in the cemetery] Tom, I think it's devil fire. This is awful! [sees people] They're humans, not devils. Wishbone: Why it's Mum Potter. Huck Finn: A... and Crazy Joe, and Doc Robinson!
	Season 1 / Episode 1: - A Tail in Twain Part One Wishbone: [as Tom Sawyer] I saw the murder, but it wasn't Mum Potter, it was Crazy Joe. He stabbed him with the knife and... [Crazy Joe dives out the court room window and runs away] I'm a dead dog!
	Unknown Episode: Wishbone: Try not to look cute and they'll leave you alone.
	Unknown Episode: Wishbone: [as Charles Darnay] I love tea time; right after lunch time and just before supper time.
	Unknown Episode: Wanda Gilmore: [after crashing David's toy car] You should really keep Wishbone away from this thing. Wishbone: What? She's the one who doesn't know how to drive!
	Unknown Episode: Ellen Talbot: Can someone tell me, what is the story? Wishbone: I'll give you the story. Arf! Ellen Talbot: Quiet, Wishbone. Wishbone: Nobody ever listens to the dog.
	Unknown Episode: Wishbone: [in an announcer-type voice] Okay, let's review: we've got one robot running amok, one dog in pursuit of that robot, and two dumbstruck nature-lovers! Hey, let's continue!
	Unknown Episode: Wishbone: [as Victor Frankenstein] You are an inhuman monster! Frankenstein's Monster: You made me this way!
	Unknown Episode: Wishbone: [after Joe's model dinosaur skeleton is knocked down by David's robot] Extinction comes early for one dinosaur.
	Unknown Episode: David Barnes: Boy, you bring something to life and you really have to take responsibility for it. Miss Walker: And maybe you can start taking that responsibility by helping clean up. Wishbone: [gasps and grabs a large dinosaur bone] This one's mine!
	Unknown Episode: Wishbone: Wanda, are you home? [silence] Oh, good. [starts digging up yard]
	Unknown Episode: Wishbone: Okay, you've just seen a tree walk across your front yard. What are the implications of this? Trees are supposed to have roots, not legs. What if trees have suddenly sprouted legs? What if they're all trying to walk away? I'm in big trouble if I... Wanda Gilmore: Ooh, Wishbone, watch out! Wishbone: Ah! You caught it! Good job, Wanda!
	Unknown Episode: Wishbone: Wanda, just what exactly are you doing? Samantha Kepler: What exactly are you doing? Wishbone: Sam, you read my mind.
	Unknown Episode: Wishbone: Ah! The smell of fresh dirt in your snout!
	Unknown Episode: Joe Talbot: You studied Latin, didn't you, Mom? Ellen Talbot: Yeah, a half-a-zillion years ago in high school. Wishbone: You're that old?

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