Charlotte's Web (1973 film) Quotes

Charlotte's Web (1973 film) is a TV program that first aired in 1970 . Charlotte's Web ended its run in 1970.

It features Joseph Barbera; William Hanna as producer, and Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, and Irwin Kostal in charge of musical score.

Charlotte's Web (1973 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Charlotte's Web (1973 film) is 94 minutes long. Charlotte's Web (1973 film) is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: Debbie Reynolds as Charlotte, Henry Gibson as Wilbur, Pamelyn Ferdin as Ram, Pamelyn Ferdin as Fern Arable, Pamelyn Ferdin as Arable, Danny Bonaduce as Avery Arable, Bob Holt as Homer Zuckerman, Herb Vigran as Lurvy, Bob Holt as Mrs. Zuckerman, William B. White as Henry Fussy, and Martha Scott as Mrs. Arable.

Charlotte's Web (1973 film) Quotes

Debbie Reynolds as Charlotte

• (Debbie Reynolds) "The autumn days grow short and cold; / It's Christmas time again. / Then snows of winter slowly melt. / The days grow short, / And then -- / He turns the seasons around, / And so she changes -- her gown: / Mother Earth -- and Father Time."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "How very special are we -- / For just a moment -- to be -- / Part of life's -- eternal -- rhyme."

• (Templeton) "It says "Crunchy.""
• (Debbie Reynolds) "No, that's wrong. It could start Zuckerman thinking about crunchy bacon."
• (Henry Gibson) "Ohhh."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Wilbur, I forbid you to faint."

• (Debbie Reynolds) "Salutations."
• (Henry Gibson) "Salu-what?"
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Salutations."
• (Henry Gibson) "What are they? And where are you?"
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Salutations are greetings; it's my fancy way of saying hello."

• (Debbie Reynolds) "Why don't you try over by the fence, Templeton?"
• (Templeton) "Huh?"
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Lurvy dropped half a sandwich from his lunch there."
• (Templeton) "Why, thank you, Charlotte."
• (Templeton) "That wasn't nice, Charlotte."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Perhaps next time I call a meeting Templeton, you'll see fit to attend."

• (Unnamed) "How about "Pig Supreme"?"
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Mmmm -- no good. It sounds like a rich dessert."
• (Goose) "How about terrific, terrific, terrific?"
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Cut that down to one terrific, and it will do nicely. I think "terrific" will impress Zuckerman."
• (Henry Gibson) "But Charlotte, I'm not terrific."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "You're terrific, as far as I am concerned."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "And does anybody know how to spell it?"
• (Goose) "I think it's T, double-E, double-R, double-R, double-I, double-F, double-I, double-C, C, C."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "What kind of acrobat do you think I am? It would take me all night to write that."

• (Debbie Reynolds) "Humble. Humble has two meanings: it means "not proud" and and it also means "near the ground." That's Wilbur all over."

• (Debbie Reynolds) "Now go to sleep, you'll see me in the morning."

• (Templeton) "What are you doing?"
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Working."
• (Templeton) "Why so late?"
• (Debbie Reynolds) "I'll be lucky if I'm finished by sunup. Go to sleep, Templeton."
• (Templeton) "Good night, Charlotte."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Good night, Templeton."

• (Debbie Reynolds) "Do you want a friend?"
• (Henry Gibson) "Yes. I want a friend, but I want to live, too."

• (Templeton) "I'm back."
• (Templeton) "What a night. Never have I seen such leavings. Everything well ripened, seasoned with the passage of time and the heat of the day -- Oh, it was rich, my friends, riiiiiich."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "You ought to be ashamed of yourself. It would serve you right if you had an acute attack of indigestion."
• (Templeton) "My stomach can handle anything."
• (Henry Gibson) "Templeton, if you weren't so dopey, you would have noticed that Charlotte's made an egg sac."
• (Templeton) "Hooray for Charlotte."
• (Henry Gibson) "She's going to become a mother. For your information, there are 514 eggs in that peachy, little sac."
• (Templeton) "This has been a night."

• (Debbie Reynolds) "Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print."

• (Debbie Reynolds) "Chin up, chin up / Everybody loves a happy face / Wear it, share it / It'll brighten up the darkest place / Twinkle, sparkle / Let a little sunshine in / You'll be on the right side, looking at the bright side / Up with your chinny-chin-chin."

• (Debbie Reynolds) "Just a minute, Wilbur."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "He'll make a perfect breakfast for me."
• (Henry Gibson) "Ooooh. You mean you eat flies?"
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Why, certainly. I eat anything that gets caught in my web. I have to live, don't I?"
• (Henry Gibson) "Why, yes, of course. Do they taste good?"
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Delicious."
• (Henry Gibson) "LECCH."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Course, I don't really eat them, I drink their blood. I love blood."
• (Henry Gibson) "Oh, please don't say things like that."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Why not? It's true."
• (Henry Gibson) "But it's cruel."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Well, you can't talk. You have your meals brought to you in a pail. Nobody feeds me. I live by my wits."
• (Henry Gibson) "It just seems an odd sort of diet."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Do you realize that if I didn't eat them, bugs would get so numerous, they'd destroy the earth? Spiders are really very useful creatures."

Pamelyn Ferdin as Fern Arable

• (Narrator) "Wilbur was what the farmers call a "spring pig", which means he was born in springtime. By the time he was six weeks old, he'd grown so, you'd never have known he started life as a runt. Wilbur had gotten so big, in fact, that John Arable decided that it was time he stopped being a pet, and start being a pig."
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "He's got to go, Fern."
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Papa, no."
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "You've had your fun raising a baby pig, but Wilbur's got to be sold. He's not a baby anymore and his brothers and sisters are already sold."
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Oh Papa."

• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Sheep do not play with pigs."
• (Henry Gibson) "Why not?"
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Oh, it's a matter of status. Sheep, for instance, are highly regarded by Zuckerman, because we furnish him with good quality wool. With pigs, on the other hand, it's just a matter of time."
• (Henry Gibson) "Time to what?"
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Till you're fat enough to kill."
• (Henry Gibson) "What did you say?"
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Oh, everybody knows it. In the fall, you'll be turned into smoked bacon and ham. Just as soon as cold weather sets in, they'll kill you."

• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Here are the eggs, Mama."
• (Martha Scott) "Thank you, Fern."
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "What's Papa doing with that axe?"
• (Martha Scott) "Some pigs were born last night."
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "What does he need an axe for?"
• (Martha Scott) "One of the pigs was a runt, so your father has to do away with it."
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Do away with it? You, you mean, kill it?"
• (Martha Scott) "Well, yes."
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Just because it's smaller than the others?"
• (Martha Scott) "Don't yell, Fern. The pig'll probably die, anyway."

• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Oh Wilbur."
• (Narrator) "The next day was the saddest one Fern and Wilbur had ever known, for the young pig was taken from his home under the apple tree, and sold down the road to Fern's uncle, Homer Zuckerman."
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Goodbye, Wilbur -- goodbye Wilbur -- goodbye --"

• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Ooh. What did you DO, Avery?"
• (Danny Bonaduce) "Good night. What a STINK."
• (Templeton) "Lucky for you I saved that egg, Charlotte."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Er, yes -- and I'm grateful to you, Templeton --"

• (Narrator) "This old world is filled with wonders, but to me there is no place more wonderful than a farm in springtime, when the sun is just lifting from the sky line. The air is so sweet and everywhere you look, little miracles are happening. Buds swell into blossoms, eggs hatch, young are born."
• (Narrator) "Everything's off to a fresh start, and life is good and busy and brand new."
• (Narrator) "Around the barnyard, big families are a blessing. The more the merrier."
• (Narrator) "Root and grunt, push and shove, room for everyone. Well, everybody except; the runt."
• (Narrator) "John Arable had been up since daybreak. He'd seen the size of the pig, but he wasn't looking forward to what had to be done."
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Good morning, Papa."
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Morning, Fern."

Henry Gibson as Wilbur

• (Henry Gibson) "Will you play with me?"
• (Goose) "I'm no flibberty-ibberty-gibbit. I'm staying here and hatching my goslings."

• (Henry Gibson) "I think you're beautiful."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Well, I am pretty. Nearly all spiders are good looking. I'm not as flashy as some, but I'll do."

• (Henry Gibson) "Isn't it great, that I articulate? / Isn't it grand? That you can understand / I don't honk, I don't eep, I don't even squeak or squawk / When I wanna say a-something, I open up and talk, I can talk, I can talk, talk, talk, I can --"
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Why don't you keep it down?"
• (Henry Gibson) "I can talk."

• (Henry Gibson) "Congratulations. How many are there?"
• (Goose) "There are seven."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Seven is a lucky number."
• (Goose) "Luck has nothing to do with it. It was good management and hard work."
• (Templeton) "Why didn't, uh, this one hatch?"
• (Goose) "It's a dud, I guess."
• (Templeton) "What are you going to do with it?"
• (Goose) "You can have it. Roll it away and add it to that nasty collection of yours. Be careful; a rotten egg can be a regular stink bomb."
• (Templeton) "I know what I'm doing. I handle stuff like this all the time."

• (Henry Gibson) "I didn't know you could lay eggs."
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Oh yes. I'm versatile."
• (Henry Gibson) "Does versatile mean "full of eggs"?"
• (Debbie Reynolds) "Certainly not. Versatile means I can turn with ease from one thing to another."

• (Goose) "You have a good home home here. Why aren't you happy happy happy?"
• (Henry Gibson) "I miss Fern."

• (Henry Gibson) "Are you writers?"
• (Unnamed) "No, but we will be when we grow up."
• (Henry Gibson) "Then write this in your webs, when you learn: This hallowed doorway was once the home of Charlotte. She was brilliant, beautiful, and loyal to the end. Her memory will be treasured forever."
• (Unnamed) "Ooh, that would take us a lifetime."
• (Henry Gibson) "A lifetime. That's what we have."

William B. White as Henry Fussy

• (William B. White) "Look at Wilbur. He's got tears in his eyes."
• (Danny Bonaduce) "Probably having such a good time he hates to go home."
• (Herb Vigran) "He's not sick, is he?"
• (Bob Holt) "Probably just homesick. I guess we all are."

• (William B. White) "When I heard Zuckerman's famous pig was here, I came looking for you."
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "Well, I'm not Zuckerman's famous pig."

Bob Holt as Homer Zuckerman

• (Bob Holt) "Lurvy?"
• (Herb Vigran) "Yes, sir?"
• (Bob Holt) "Make a large crate, and paint it green with gold letters."
• (Herb Vigran) "Uh, what should the letters say?"
• (Bob Holt) "They should say uh, "Zuckerman's Famous Pig"."
• (Herb Vigran) "Yes, sir."

• (Bob Holt) "Thank you, thank you, everybody. He's some pig, and if I have anything to do with it, he's gonna live to a ripe old age."

• (Bob Holt) "There he is."
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "That's some pig."
• (Danny Bonaduce) "He's terrific."
• (Herb Vigran) "He's radiant."
• (Bob Holt) "Well, he's clean anyway. That buttermilk certainly helped."

Danny Bonaduce as Avery Arable

• (Danny Bonaduce) "Can I have a pig too, Pop?"
• (Pamelyn Ferdin) "I only distribute pigs to early risers, and Fern was up at daylight trying to rid the world of injustice."

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