What Marx Brothers movie has the line the tusks ...

Bill — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:43:49 GMT

what Marx Brothers movie has the line the tusks are looser in Tuscaloosa

RE: What Marx Brothers movie has the line the tusks ...

jkgrandma — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:41:47 GMT

You've got it a bit jumbled, but Groucho Marx said that in the 1930 Marx Brothers movie, Animal Crackers. The exact quote is: "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. Then we tried to remove the tusks. The tusks. That's not so easy to say. Tusks. You try it some time. As I say, we had to remove the tusks. But they were embedded so firmly we couldn't budge them. Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa, but that is entirely ir-elephant to what I was talking about."

I found the answer at ...

Bill — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:45:55 GMT

I found the answer on a Marx Brothers website which led me to YouTube to watch it.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. Then we tried to remove the tusks. The tusks. That's not so easy to say. Tusks. You try it some time. As I say, we tried to remove the tusks. But they were embedded so firmly we couldn't budge them. Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa, but that is entirely ir-elephant to what I was talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31oKQNEzjC4&NR=1 part 7 starting at 2:06 Groucho in Animal crackers (Movie)