- All the lights are out.
- Wouldn't take a minute to turn them on.
5 seconds sound clip from the Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:07:01.100 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- I guess. So did everybody in St. Louis.
- John, it's awfully nice of you to accept my apology.
- If you're not busy tomorrow night, could you beat me up again? Huh?
- Well, I guess I'd better be getting home. It's getting late. Yeah, yeah, right. I guess so.
- Esther? Uh... Would you mind helping me turn off the lights? I'm afraid of mice.
- Wouldn't take a minute to turn them on.
- Well, wouldn't that be kind of wasting a minute?
- Yeah. Yeah, I guess it would.
- You know, you've got a mighty strong grip for a boy.
- I have to have two kinds of ice cream. I'm recuperating.
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