Some of Arkin’s best lines:
“Ve Are, Ov Course, Nor-weegans”
“This is an island with no boats?”
“Be Good behaved, Mr. Vitteker Valt, or he will shoot you into little pieces”
“Egermency! Everybody to get from street!”
(after surviving being shot at with an AK47) “Promise me you won’t do that no more.”
and of course, the aforementioned WW3 quote!
“Glou-cester. Glouster!”
I also love Brian Keith screaming “Fern! Fern!” at his wife when he wakes up to the phone ringing.
The Russians Are Coming IS the funniest EVER. It is twice as funny if you happen to know Russian (which I was raised with). Arkin’s Russian accent is impeccable and adds to the non-stop humour. You had to grow up during the cold war to really appreciate the high strung tension between Americans and the Russians that unintentionally invade Glaugh-Chester Island.