The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T Quotes

“I am no cog; I don't even like the sound of it. I am an independent contractor.”

“Tommy Rettig - Bart Collins”

“Hans Conried - Dr. Terwilliker”

“Mary Healy - Heloise Collins”

“Peter Lind Hayes - August Zabladowski”

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“Attention! Attention, everyone at the Terwilliker Institute. Down below me, my students are awaiting our date with destiny. They will not fail, for I shall not fail.”

“Bartholomew Collins! The years you spend with Dr. Terwilliker will be the happiest years of your life. But if you get homesick, don't try to escape. The barbed wire around the Terwilliker Institute... is ELECTRIFIED!”

“[sings:] Come on and dress me, dress me, dress me in my finest array,/because in case you haven't heard, today is Do-mi-do Day!/Dress me in my silver garters, dress me in my diamond studs,/Because I'm going do-mi-do-ing in my do-mi-do duds!”

“Mrs. Collins: [answering the phone] Collins speaking. No madam, most definitely not, your son will not be allowed to bring his baseball. Dr. Terwilliker does not believe in baseballs, golf balls, basketballs or tennis balls, ping-pong balls, snowballs, croquet balls or hockey pucks. Dr. Terwilliker believes only in the piano!”

“Elevator operator: [singing the Dungeon elevator song]
First floor dungeon
Assorted simple tortures
Molten lead, chopping blocks and hot boiling oil
Second floor dungeon
Jewelry department
Leg chains, ankle chains, neck chains, wrist chains, thumbscrews and nooses of the very finest rope
Basement dungeon
EVERYBODY OUT!”

“This is my day! 5,000 little fingers, all playing together on my piano! Every finger obedient to the whim of me, the master! Every infinitesimal, microscopic piece of living tissue of those 5,000 little fingers, cringing and trembling and groveling before me! Before me, Dr. Terwilliker, as I raise my baton! We shall play... raise hands! We shall play the most beautiful piece ever written! I wrote it. Ten Happy Fingers! A one, and a two, and a three, and a play!”

“[singing "Because We're Kids"]
Now just because we're kids
Because we're sort of small
Because we're closer to the ground
And you are bigger pound by pound
You have no right, you have no right
To push and shove us little kids around...
Now just because your throat has got a deeper voice
And lots of wind to blow it out
At little kids who dare not shout
You have no right, you have no right
To boss and beat us little kids about...
Just because you've whiskers on your face to shave
You treat us like a slave...
So what? It's only hair.
Just because you wear a wallet near your heart
You think you're twice as smart.
You know that isn't fair...
But we'll grow up someday, and when we do I pray,
We won't just grow in size and sound,
And just be bigger pound by pound...
I'd hate to grow, like some I know,
Who push and shove us little kids around.”