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Who's askin' you to be rational?

4 seconds sound clip from the You Can't Take It with You (1939) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:17:42 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- And, Essie, I wouldn't dance for him if I were you, because we're going to the Monte Carlo ballet later.

- Well, now I've got to dress. Bye!

- Come in.

- Hello.

- Hello, Grandpa. Sit down.

- Thanks.

- Well, Alice. Do you love him?

- Love him? Oh, I...

- Can't even talk about him, hm?

- Not rationally.

- Who's askin' you to be rational?

- Listen, when I courted your grandmother, it took me two years to propose. Know why? The moment she'd walk into the room, my knees'd buckle, and the blood would rush to my head, and the walls would start dancing.

- Up to the last, I couldn't even look at her without my heart didn't go thump, thump, thump.

- That's why I've lived in this house so many years... and never could move out. It'd be like moving away from Grandma.

- Oh, Grandpa. I've got it that way, too.

- If you have, then I guess it's all right.

- Look. I bought you something. Here. Do you like it?

[...]

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You Can't Take It with You (1939) Sound Clip

You Can't Take It with You (1939)Quotes from You Can't Take It with You (1939), Lux Radio Theatre play broadcast in 1939, based on the Pulitzer Prize Play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

Actors: Fay Wray (Alice), Robert Cummings (Tony), Walter Connolly (Grandpa Vanderhof), Edward Arnold (Mr. Kirby), Lou Merrill (Kolenkhov), Sally Payne (Essie),

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