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  • Adam enters the inn to try Millie's cooking. She's dishing out stew to the customers. He smiles at her, and she's Distracted by the Sexy enough to absentmindedly pour stew into the customer's lap instead of his bowl!
  • Milly losing her temper with the boys' atrocious table manners.
    Milly: All right then. If you want to act like hogs, you can eat like hogs! [turns the table over]
  • Adam, unable to either leave Milly's room or stay in it on his wedding night, climbing out the window.
  • All the brothers but Adam wake up one morning to find that Milly's cooking fresh breakfast. Thing is, she's also taken their clothes for washing, and she's not letting the brothers come eat until they've washed and shaved... and given her the long johns they're sleeping in to be washed.
    Milly: Now are you going to give 'em to me or am I gonna' have to come in and take 'em?
    Benjamin: *after a pause and stopping Gideon from taking his off* She wouldn't dare.
    Milly: Oh, wouldn't I?
    • Cue Milly barging in and six grown backwoodsmen forcing the door shut as if she were carrying the plague. Milly's even smiling, she knows she's got them dead to rights.
  • When Milly and all the brothers but Adam go into town, the brothers notice a bunch of girls. Benjamin tells someone to do something. Ephraim hops off the wagon...
    Ephraim: *to two elegant town women* Care for a plug o' tobacco?
    • When they are naturally offended and the men who're speaking for them move to beat up Ephraim, Benjamin leaps down to defend his little brother. The best defense he can offer, delivered in a semi-resigned fashion?
      Benjamin: ...well, it's mighty fine tobacco.
  • While Milly's teaching Adam's six brothers how to dance, Gideon... well, the only way to describe it is him letting Frank and Benjamin toss him back and forth like a rag doll.
  • During the barn dance, after the townsfolk have stolen back the women they're speaking for, we get a funny image of Milly pushing Frank away from a potential fight gently shaking her finger at him like he's a naughty child. She's almost saying 'no, Frank, we do not hit the other dancers'.
  • The girls getting their revenge on the boys—snowball fight!
    • "Snowballs with rocks in 'em! 'Those poor little dears, crying buckets of tears...'"
  • Adam's reaction to the news of his daughter:
    "A girl!....it figures she'd have a girl."

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