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- This green fluid here... Like plant sap.
- We'll probably find it has a sugar base.

7 seconds sound clip from the The Thing from Another World movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:45:21 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, doctor?

- No arterial structure indicated. No nerve endings visible. Porous, unconnected, cellular growth.

- Juste a minute! Just a minute, doctor. Sounds like you're trying to describe a vegetable.

- I am.

- Are you getting all of this?

- Oh, for Pete's sake!

- You know, that could be why the bullets fired had no seeming effect.

- That's right. Merely holes drilled into vegetable matter.

- This green fluid here... Like plant sap.

- We'll probably find it has a sugar base.

- Please doctor, I've got to ask this. It sounds like just as though you're describing some form of super carrot.

- That's nearly right. This carrot, as you call it, has constructed an aircraft capable of flying some millions of miles through space propelled by a force as yet unknown to us.

- An intellectual carrot! The mind boggles.

- Shouldn't.

- Imagine how strange it would have seemed during the Pliocene Age to forecast that worms, fish, lizards that crawled over the earth were going to evolve into... us.

- On the planet from which our visitor came, vegetable life underwent an evolution similar to that of our own animal life, which would account for the superiority of its brain. Its development was not handicapped by emotional or sexual factors.

[...]

The Thing from Another World Sound Clip

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Revisit the sci-fi classic "The Thing from Another World" with our collection of sound clips featuring iconic quotes from the 1951 movie.

Actors: Margaret Sheridan (Nikki Nicholson), Kenneth Tobey (Captain Patrick Hendry), Robert Cornthwaite (Dr. Arthur Carrington), Douglas Spencer (Scotty)

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