The Wind in the Willows (III) (1983 TV Movie)

José Ferrer: Badger

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• Badger : [during his confrontation with Toad]  You *know* we must come to this sooner or later. You've disregarded all the warnings we've given you, and you've gone on squandering the money your father left you. You're a disgrace to all of us and to your family. You're giving us animals a bad name in the district by your furious driving, and smashes, and rivals with the police. We animals *never* allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit. This is our last effort that will bring you to reason. Change your ways now, or face the consequences, which I promise you will *not* be pleasant!

• [repeated line] 

  Badger : Some say there is a being, kindly, benevolent, whose heartbeat is all nature, and whose embrace protects small animals everywhere. Piper, Pan, call him what you will.

• Badger : We're attacking Toad Hall tonight.

  Mr. Toad : Right! Oh! Oh, with armies, and navies, and...

  Badger : No, no, no, just *ourselves*.

  Mr. Toad : [sadly]  A bit of a comedown on that. Hmm. We'll never get past the sentries.

  Ratty : We are *not* going PAST them! We are going unnnnnder them.

  Moley : Gonna use the secret tunnel to Toad Hall.

  Mr. Toad : Splendid idea!

• Badger : Toad, you should be delighted - that I'll have three permanent house guests who'll take turns being with you night and day.

• Moley : [during Toad's victory banquet]  He kept his word.

  Ratty : Quiet as a possum.

  Moley : Modest as a mouse.

  Badger : Too good to be true. I don't trust the little bounder.

• Badger : Tonight, we'll make our way throught the tunnel, bypass the sentries, and come up on the pantry next to the dining hall.

  Mr. Toad : The squeaky board in the pantry.

  Badger : Right. And thanks to Mole, they'll be thinking that *hundreds* are attacking. We'll clear them out of Toad Hall in five minutes.

• Badger : The trap door's right ahead. Follow me, animals, the hour is come!

• Ratty : [writing his letter to Toad]  And to this very day...

  Badger : Ratty! Toad's escaped from prison. Flew the coup. Gone.

  Ratty : Gone? G-g-g-g-gone where?

  Badger : Heaven only knows.

• Mr. Toad : Is something bothering you chaps?

  Badger : You will come with me into the library. You will hear the hard facts about yourself.

  [grabs Toad in one arm, then advances toward the library door and opens it] 

  Badger : We'll see if you come out of that room in the same Toad as you went in. Brother Toad, sit down.

  [tosses Toad onto a chair] 

  Mr. Toad : Ow!

  Badger : Prepare to repent for your follies.

• Ratty : [as he and Moley stare at the bed sheets hanging from the window that Toad used to escape from Toad Hall]  He did awfully well.

  Badger : He did *you* awfully well. Well - we'd better stay here for a while. Toad may be brought back at any moment, on a stretcher or between two policemen.

• Badger : Well now, what's the news on the riverbank? How's old Toad getting on?

  Ratty : From bad to worse.

  Moley : With all of his contraptions, you know.

  Badger : *All*? How many has he *had*?

  Moley : He smashed up six, then - then there was that stone wall, and then...

• Badger : [singing]  I hate company. If you're company, I'll hate you with the rest.

  Moley , Ratty : [singing]  He hates company.

  Badger : I hate company.

  Moley , Ratty : Don't invite him, he's a certifiable pest.

  Badger : I hate company!

  Moley , Ratty : He hates company.

  Badger : Being alone is best.

• Ratty : [to Badger]  Do you suppose we're being too hard on Toad? He's been locked up in that room for weeks. And now he's taken to his bed; he won't eat, hardly says a word...

  Badger : He's weakening. In a few more weeks, he'll be reformed. Keep a keen eye on him, Ratty, while we do the marketing. Come along, Moley.

• Ratty : [about Toad]  He'll end up killed or bankrupt. We're his friends. Shouldn't we do something?

  Badger : [yawning]  Of course. I can't do anything now. It's winter.

  [yawns] 

  Moley : Dozing? Badger, too?

  Ratty : [almost whispering]  No animal is ever expected to do anything strenuous, heroic, or even moderately active during winter.

  Badger : When winter's over, we'll take Toad seriously into hand. We'll stand no nonsense. We'll bring him back to his senses even if force is needed. We'll make him a sensible Toad. But now...

  [yawns] 

  Badger : It's time for bed.

  Ratty : Yes... we've got a long journey home tomorrow.

  Moley : Not the Wild Wood again.

• Badger : [to the weasels, who are mopping the banquet hall to prepare for Toad's victory banquet]  And make sure you get it spotless; everything must be just so for Toad's victory banquet.

  Mr. Toad : But why must I have a banquet?

  Badger : It's expected of you; it's the rule!

  Mr. Toad : It's short-noticed. But I can whip up an interesting program, I'm sure.

  [chuckles briefly] 

  Mr. Toad : I could give several speeches, of course.

  Moley : [as he and Badger shake their heads]  No.

  Mr. Toad : An address on our prison system?

  [Ratty shakes his head] 

  Mr. Toad : A lecture on the techniques of escaping?

  Badger : No speeches.

  Mr. Toad : Just one little speech?

  Ratty : *No*! Your speeches are all conceit and *boasting*, and...

  Badger : And gas.

  Mr. Toad : Oh, I know then, a short song.

  [Badger, Ratty, and Moley shake their heads in unison] 

  Mr. Toad : Ah, very well. In sport, I - I will be a very different toad. But oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, oh, this is a haaaard world...

• [telephone rings during Badger's "I Hate Company" number] 

  Badger : Yes, yes, yes? How delightful. How terribly kind. How thoughtful. Dinner Friday? No, I have previous plans. On Friday, I'm dining ALONE!

  [hangs up with a slam]