Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)

Michael J. Fox: Chance

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• Shadow : [after Sassy is lost in the river]  I shouldn't have made her come.

  Chance : It's not your fault, she wanted to come.

  Shadow : But it's my responsibility. I had a responsibility to Sassy - to love her and protect her - the same as I have to you... and to Peter. And the same as you have to Jamie.

  Chance : But we didn't ask for this job.

  Shadow : We didn't have to. It's built in. Has been ever since the dawn of time... when a few wild dogs took it upon themselves to watch over man, to bark when he's in danger, to run and play with him when he's happy, to nuzzle him when he's lonely. That's why they call us man's best friend.

  Chance : [narrating]  Looking at him that night, he seemed so wise... and ancient, like the first dog who ever walked the earth. I just hope that one day, I can be like him.

• [Chance has just gotten attacked by a porcupine] 

  Chance : Ah! He bit me with his butt!

• [first lines] 

  Chance : My name is Chance. I know, it sounds odd, but most names do if you think about it long enough... maybe even yours. I was abandoned when I was very young. I lived on the streets scrounging for food sleeping wherever I could; that seemed like fun at first, but pretty soon, it landed me behind bars. But I don't like to talk about that; let's talk about after that... when I got my second chance... and my name. You see, this family came along, and I guess you can say they rescued me, because they adopted me and brought me to live at their house. But it was their home, not mine. Still, it was an improvement over that other place: lots of space, fresh air, plenty interesting things to explore, and all the underwear I could eat.

• Chance : I'm such a wimp! I'm running from a cat!

  Shadow : I won't tell if you won't.

  Chance : Of course, this isn't your ordinary housecat. This is like Arnold Schwarzen-kitty!

• [last lines] 

  Chance : Turkey! Turkey, turkey, turkey, turkey!

• Chance : [sniffs]  Hmmm, this place is Smell-O-Rama.

  [sees chickens] 

  Chance : Hallelujah, I've died and gone to Kentucky!

• Chance : [to Shadow]  You pushed me this far, now I'm pushing you the rest of the way. You know, back in the woods, even when things looked really *bad*, I always thought we'd make it because I thought *you* were too stubborn to quit. Well, you're not going to quit, not now, not when we're this close.

• Chance : Look! You've pushed me this far, now I'm pushing you the rest of the way! You know, back there in the woods, even when things looked really bad, I still believed we'd make it because you were too stubborn to quit! I'm not gonna make you quit. Not now. Not when we're this close. Now, try again!

  Shadow : You think it's easy for me to admit I can't do it? I'm too old.

  Chance : That's not true! There's nothing you can't do!

  Shadow : I have nothing more to give, Chance, and it's time for you to be on your own.

  Chance : But I want you with me. I love you, Shadow.

  Shadow : You've learned everything you need, Chance. Now all you have to learn is how to say goodbye.

  Chance : I won't let you give up.

• [Chance sees a porcupine, but he doesn't know what it is] 

  Sassy : What is that?

  Chance : I don't know. It's probably a squirrel having a really bad hair day.

• Chance : [catapults the mountain lion]  Hasta la vista, Kitty!

• Chance : [Chasing a chicken]  I'm not gonna hurt you, I just want to chew on your neck!

• [Chance lets a rabbit run away] 

  Chance : I hate fast food.

• Chance : [after catapulting Sassy into the sandbox]  That's why they call it the *cat*-a-pult!

• Chance : [to a couple of ladies]  Ladies! Ladies, ladies, please, you gotta help me! I'm starving, and I can't remember when I had my last meal, and I'm an orphan, and I'm weak, and I'm helpless, and if you don't feed me, I'll shrivle into a pile of bleached bones, so please!

  [the ladies shoo him away] 

  Chance : What? Do you want to shake a paw? Shake hands? How's that? Is that worth most of your food? All of your food? A little bit? Please?

  [They continue to shoo him away then leave] 

  Chance : Ah, she doesn't even know how to shake right! You need training!

• Chance : [horse neighs at him]  Whoa, are you sick or what?

  [chasing after ducks on a small pond] 

  Chance : Hey! Bath toys!

• [Chance is chewing apart an old shirt] 

  Sassy : Chance, stop! The blouse is dead!

  Chance : That's right! And I have to shred it into teeny, tiny little pieces and I...

  [gulps] 

  Chance : - I swallowed a button.

  Sassy : Oh, what a shame... Too bad it wasn't a zipper!

  Chance : Hey, you better beat it powder puff before I turn you into dog meat!

  Sassy : Oh, is that any way to speak to a petite dewdrop... you big flat-faced butt-sniffer?

  [Chance barks and chases Sassy] 

• [Chance is looking for fish in the river] 

  Chance : Ok, how did Sassy do it? I don't want it. I don't want it. I don't want... Ay-yi-yi!

  [Pulls out a crawdad attached to his lips] 

  Chance : I don't want it! I don't want it! I don't want it!

  Shadow : [laughing]  Sassy would love to see this.

• Chance : I'm too pooped to poop.

• Chance : [running away from the turkey after he tries to scare the hens]  Ah! It's Birdzilla! I swear I'll never eat a McNugget again!

• Chance : Flying meat!

  [catches a meatball] 

  Chance : Ooh! Hot! Hot!

• Shadow : Up and at 'em, you two. I found our breakfast.

  Chance : Good, I hope it's garbage

  Shadow : No, even better.

  Sassy : With you two gourmets, I can just imagine

  Chance : Well fine, just sit here and diet.

  Sassy : Are you calling me fat?

  Chance : Course not, for a hippopotamus!

  [Runs into a tree] 

  Chance : I meant to do that!

  Sassy : Ha ha! Serves you right.

• Chance : [sees a real live Turkey for a second time]  Ahhh! Birdzilla returns!

• [Chance's stomach growls] 

  Chance : I think... I need to eat some grass.

  [vomits] 

  Peter : Eww!

  Jamie Seaver : That's Grandma's cake!

  Peter : Ugh! Come on, Shadow.

  Chance : [voice-over]  I learned an important lesson that day: cake and polyester don't mix.

• [At the vet, having porcupine quills removed] 

  Chance : Okay, okay, I'll talk! I left a gift on the carpet. I let Sassy take the rap for when I unrolled the toilet paper all over the house. I stole underwear on three occasions.

  [the vet yanks a quill out of his face] 

  Chance : Okay, okay, four!

• Shadow : Chance, you're a genius!

  Chance : I am not! Uh, what's a genius?

  Shadow : Never mind.

• Chance : Remember hot dogs?

  Shadow : Yeah, I wasn't much for the name, though.

  Chance : I don't think they're really made of dog.

  Shadow : I don't think they're made of meat!

  Chance : But they taste the best when they fall in the dirt.

  Shadow : Yeahhhhh.

• Chance : Are we going in circles? That tree smells familiar.

  Shadow : Of course it does. It's pine.

• Sassy : [the animals are re-united and running towards each other]  My Boys! My Boys!

  Chance : Sassy! Sassy! Sa...

  [nearly steps in a hole] 

  Chance : Whoa, gopher hole!

• Chance : [Chance is riding with his head out the car window]  Da Daaaa Bat Dog!

• Sassy : It's like I said all along, poopsie: cats rule and dogs drool.

  Chance : Get a life. Get nine of 'em.

  Sassy : But it's true. Cats are smarter than dogs, and more attractive... and we don't drink from the toilet!

• Shadow : [growls at Chance as he noses the turkey] 

  Chance : Oh, back off, old man! You were just jealous cos I smelled it first.

  Shadow : Would a rolled up newspaper mean anything to you?

  Chance : No. Why?

  Shadow : [barks] 

  Chance : All right! Okay! I just wanted to... smell it.

  Shadow : [barks] 

  Chance : ...to make sure it was safe for people.

  Shadow : I'm keeping my eye on you, pup.

  Chance : Yeah, well I'm just gonna go mingle.

• Chance : You want to shake a paw? Shake hands? Is that worth most of your food? All of your food? She doesn't even know how to shake right. You need training.

  Sassy : You need the training.

  Chance : Ah, great. And I suppose you know a better way?

  Sassy : Yes. I'll get food by acting like I don't want food.

  Chance : That's stupid.

  Sassy : I'll prove it.

  Chance : Oh, you don't have to prove it. I believe you're stupid.

• Chance : Cats are smarter than dogs, huh? Right. She doesn't even know the meaning of the word, "stay".

• Sassy : [seeing Chance eat greedily]  I feel I'm going to be sick

  [as Chance starts eating her unwanted food] 

  Sassy : Hey, hey! Stop, that's mine!

  Chance : Yeah. Well you snooze, you lose.

  Sassy : Ooh! Canines!

• Chance : I can't sleep. I'm too tired to sleep. And this place is spooky. I don't like it here. It gives me the creeps.

  Sassy : Oh, fraidy cat. I mean dog!

  Shadow : You two pipe down and go to sleep.

  [Chance hears a sound and sits up with a start] 

  Shadow : Now what?

  Chance : There's somethin' out there.

  Sassy : [trying to scare him]  Oooooooohh!

  Shadow : Enough, Sassy. Now sleep.

• Shadow : Just sleep.

  Chance : I can't sleep. I'm too tired to sleep.

• Chance : [barking at raccoon in a tree] 

  Sassy : Oh, right! Like if you yap at it, it's going to come right down and ask you to eat it! Ha, pitiful!

• Chance : Shadow was faithful, Shadow was loyal... Shadow was a chump.

• Shadow : I thought you were gonna stay, pup.

  Chance : Yeah, but I thought I should come along, in case you two needed protection.

  Sassy : My hero! Guess I'm gonna have to stare at YOUR butt the whole way.

• [Chance is chewing on an old boot] 

  Sassy : Do you have any idea where that's been?

  Chance : Yeahhh. That's why I like it. You want some?

  Sassy : I'm not really into leather.

• Sassy : You just woke me up from a very deep catnap.

  Chance : What's the matter, Sassy? Get up on the wrong side of the litter box?

  Sassy : Even a great beauty needs her beauty sleep!

  Chance : Beauty sleep? You'd have to sleep for, like, a month!

• Chance : [seeing a poop]  Whoa. That's as big as Sassy!

  Sassy : Thanks, darling.

  Chance : Whoo! Only it smells better!

  Sassy : At least, I don't roll in it like some species.

• Shadow : Something doesn't smell right. They've been gone way too long. Much longer than they should have been. Something's really wrong.

  Chance : Wake up and smell the kibble. They dumped us!

  Shadow : No! It isn't true!

• Chance : [after discovering a skunk in a hollow log]  Hey, Shadow, you want to have some fun? Stick your head into that hole.

• Chance : [encounters a grizzly bear]  What is this?

  [the bear growls] 

  Chance : Uh... gosh, you look hungry. May I suggest the trout?

• Chance : You were great. You were like Rin Tin Tin.

  Shadow : Like who?

  Chance : Rin Tin Tin. Don't you ever watch TV?

  Shadow : Ah, that's not real.

  Chance : It is too!

  Shadow : You can't smell it, can you?

  Chance : Well, anyway, you were great.

  Shadow : Okay, thanks, Chance.

• Chance : [eating a shoe and talking to Shadow]  Why don't you relax, Gramps?

  [with mouth full] 

  Chance : Have yourself a shoe!

  Shadow : [tuts in disgust]  Pups!

  Sassy : Have you any idea where that's been?

  Chance : Oh, yeah. That's why I love it

• Chance : [sees a cake]  Uh-oh! Must follow, must follow...

• Shadow : Great fish, Sassy. Fully stomach sure feels good.

  Chance : Yeah, I guess I kinda pigged out.

  Sassy : [burps]  Whoop. Excuse me.

• Chance : [Finds Sassy sleeping on the ground] 

  Chance : Well, look who's down in the dirt with the dogs.

  Chance : Morning, honey.

  [Licks Sassy] 

  Sassy : Ugh! Dog breath! Blah!

• Shadow : That's it, pup! You're on your own!

  Chance : I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'll do it right! Just give me a second chance!

  Shadow : That was your second chance, Chance!

  Chance : Then give me a third chance! Come on! Please? I'm starving!

• Chance : Well, look who's down in the dirt with the dogs.

• Chance : [eats a piece of broccoli]  Ugh! What was that? Broccoli! Puh!

• Sassy : Thanks, precious.

  Chance : You're welcome, cupcake.

• Chance : Jamie was supposed to belong to me, but I didn't need anyone else. I was alone. Still, you gotta admit, he did have a lot of great ideas.

• Chance : There's a big huge cat!

  Shadow : Balderdash! You're seeing things! Now, stop scaring the fish.

  Chance : But, it was there! I didn't

• Shadow : You alright, Sass?

  Sassy : Me? I laugh at danger!

  Chance : Me too, but I'll laugh later. Let's get out of here.

• Chance : [narrating]  Shadow and Sassy risked their lives for me. I never knew I'd have friends like that. The feeling was all very new to me. I liked it.

• Chance : [to a couple of black bears]  Hey, scram! Get your own fish!

  Shadow : Careful, pup.

  Chance : No! We didn't invite these guys! Hey, get out of here! Buzz off, you party-crashers! Go steal some porridge!

• Chance : [getting out of the water]  I think I shrank in there!

• Sassy : You two are really gonna go off and leave me here?

  Shadow : You wait for that bus. You'll do fine.

  Chance : Yeah, we'll send you a dead bird when we get there.

  Sassy : I prefer to do my own shopping.

• Chance : First thing I want to do when we get home is raid the trash can.

  Shadow : I just want to see Peter.

  Chance : Yeah, straight into the garbage. Snout first! Darn good eatin'!

• Shadow : Did you know Peter used to slip me broccoli under the table?

  Chance : Yuck! Gag me with roughage!

• Chance : Jumping rocks. Typical cat move.

• Chance : Oh, go hawk up a hairball!

  Sassy : [sarcastically]  Oh, yeah, that hurt. Really hurt.

• Chance : Uniforms! They've got uniforms!

  Shadow : It's okay. They're here to help.

• Shadow : Pace yourself, pup. We got a long way to go.

  Chance : Don't sweat it, Pops! I could go on like this for days!

• Shadow : Something doesn't smell right. They've been gone *way* too long. Much longer than they should've been. Something's really wrong.

  Chance : Wake up and smell the kibble! They dumped us!

  Shadow : No! It isn't true!

  Chance : They love you, then they dump you.

  Shadow : Not Peter!

  Sassy : You could be right, Shadow. It... It's been too much time, *way* too much time.

  Shadow : Something is keeping Peter from coming to me, so I'm gonna go to him.

  Chance : You guys *kill* me. She locked the gate, remember?

  Shadow : I don't care about gates. I'm going *home*!

• Shadow : [stands on the riverbank]  It's gentle here, Sassy. You can swim across.

  Sassy : I don't have to swim! I have a note!

  Shadow : It's *fun* to swim! Come on, you'll like it.

  [jumps into the river] 

  Sassy : Except for the water part.

  Shadow : [swims out a few metres and looks back]  Come on, you two.

  Chance : Don't be such a sissy, Sassy.

  Sassy : *You* know how to swim?

  Chance : I happen to be a champion dog paddler. Bonsai!

  [jumps into the river] 

  Chance : Oh, that's *cold*!

  Shadow : It's easy, Sassy. Come on.

  Sassy : I prefer the dry look.