Cliff Buxton: Do you know what I thought when this first came up? Glenn Latham: What, your pipe? Cliff Buxton: No. The moon mission. Glenn Latham: You beauty? Cliff Buxton: I thought, imagine stuffing that up. Isn't that odd? Glenn Latham: What? Cliff Buxton: Well, that I was more scared than excited. Glenn Latham: I don't think that's odd. I feel like that all the time.
(19 votes)
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Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: That's bullshit. You just bullshitted NASA!
(18 votes)
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[last lines] Cliff Buxton: [narrating] ... and it's still in the middle of a sheep paddock.
(17 votes)
4
Al Burnett: I stand corrected. Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: No, you're WRONG! Al Burnett: Do we have a problem? Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: Yeah! You treat us like a pack of galahs! Glenn Latham: That's a type of parrot.
(16 votes)
5
Reporter: No offence, but NASA spends fifteen years, hundreds of millions of dollars so that we can watch man walk on the moon and in the end it falls to you blokes! I mean, how do you feel about that? Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: A lot better before you opened your trap!
(15 votes)
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Politician: Turns out that Parkes is the biggest radio telescope in the Southern Hemisphere. Prime Minister: What's it doing in the middle of a sheep paddock?
7
Al Burnett: Are you telling me that NASA's prime receiving station has absolutely no idea where Apollo 11 is? Glenn Latham: Yeah - it's on its way to the moon.
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Mayor Bob McIntyre: You've just got to tell them. Cliff Buxton: That we lost Apollo 11? Mayor Bob McIntyre: Well, I wouldn't say that first. Cliff Buxton: What would you say first? Mayor Bob McIntyre: How about "hey, you'll never guess what happened..."
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Glenn Latham: Everything's fine. Al Burnett: Except we lost Apollo 11! Glenn Latham: Oh, except for that.
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Marie McIntyre: This entire mission is just an example of America's imperialistic greed!
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Billy McIntyre: The engines are filling with hydrogen. Mayor Bob McIntyre: Can they fix that? Billy McIntyre: No, that means it's go for launch. Mayor Bob McIntyre: Ohhh, *hydrogen*.
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Cliff Buxton: This is science's chance to be daring.
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Cliff Buxton: My wife said something. She said, "Failure is never quite so frightening as regret". Glenn Latham: Oh, that's good advice. Cliff Buxton: Pretty good. Glenn Latham: I wish somebody'd tell me that.
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Al Burnett: I think we ate an entire sheep.
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Marie McIntyre: If you ask me, I think it's the biggest chauvinistic exercise in the world. May McIntyre: That's why nobody asks you, darling.
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Politician: NASA's upgraded us. Parkes is now the prime receiving station. Prime Minister: Meaning? Politician: We've got the moonwalk. Prime Minister: Jesus. The people at this place, they know what they're doing? Politician: I think so. Prime Minister: You'd bloody well hope so!
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[Giving oral presentations] Student: I haven't done the moon landing, Miss. Teacher: Thank God.
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Mayor Bob McIntyre: Do you remember what they said when I first proposed this thing? Len Purvis: That you were grandstanding, that it was a self-serving stunt to big note yourself. Mayor Bob McIntyre: Who said that?
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[off screen] Rudi Kellerman: Who goes there? [sheep heard bleating]
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Al Burnett: Everyone at NASA's a hotshot college genius, but the guy most admired is from a one horse town in Ohio. Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: Ya, what's he do? Al Burnett: Tomorrow he's gonna walk on the moon.
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Prime Minister: You know, we've got a saying in the party. You don't fuck up... Mayor Bob McIntyre: And? Prime Minister: That's it.
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Cliff Buxton: Glenn, come here. Glenn Latham: What? Al Burnett: Every coordinate in this book has been changed. Glenn Latham: Yeah... I changed them. Al Burnett: You what? Glenn Latham: I changed them. Al Burnett: Why? Glenn Latham: Because they were wrong. Al Burnett: Why were they wrong? Glenn Latham: Dunno. Cliff Buxton: No, what about them was wrong? Glenn Latham: Oh! Well, the figures NASA gave us were for the northern hemisphere... and we're in the southern hemisphere? I can change them back but then you'd be pointing in the wrong d - Cliff Buxton: Glenn, it might be a good idea for you to tell us these things. Glenn Latham: Oh, sure, I just didn't wanna worry you... Cuppa tea, Al?
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