What a mess. What a medieval muddle. We'll have to modernize it. Start an assembly line system.

Merlin (Karl Swenson)

8 seconds sound clip from the The Sword in the Stone (1963) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:39:05.244 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Now, have you ever considered being a squirrel?

- No, I don't suppose.

- Well, now, there is a tiny creature with enormous problems.

- How he has survived throughout the ages is one of nature's big mysteries.

- His life is hazardous. Downright dangerous. Would you like to try it?

- Oh, no, I'd better not.

- Oh. Too dangerous for you, eh?

- Oh, no, it's not that.

- It's just that I've got six demerits. All this work to do.

- What a mess. What a medieval muddle. We'll have to modernize it. Start an assembly line system.

- All right, now. A one and a two and a three and a four.

- Higitus, figitus, migitus, mum, tittendy, bittendy, buttondy, dum.

- But I'm supposed to do it!

- No one will know the difference, son. Who cares as long as the work gets done?

- Rubbety, scrubbety, sweepity, flew.

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