After eluding the attackers and escaping unharmed with Rika ("This is the most incredible first date I""ve ever been on"), Riggs returned her to her apartment (when she promised him that she would quit her job the next day).W.C.Fields plays the lead comic role, a penultimate characterization of a bullied, unemployed drunk who despises the members of his aggravating family and is talented only at telling (and believing) tall tales and imbibing alcohol at the Black Pussy Cat Cafe.Boot: Go ahead.Bore me.The irrepressible Tatum also had to admit - with appropriate self-deprecation - that he was an adept liar, but that he couldn""t lie to the steadfast and truth-seeking Boot, whom he astutely observed was a very conservative and "cautious man.When he revived, he raced on foot through the woods toward his cabin, entered and tried to escape through multiple doors and hallways from he evil forces before hiding under a trap door.Tatum: Big deal.1,000 rattlers in the underbrush.Give me just 50 of them loose in Albuquerque.Like that leopard in Oklahoma City.The whole town in panic.Deserted streets.Barricaded houses.They""re evacuating he children.Every man is armed.Fifty killers on the prowl.Fifty.One by one, they start hunting them down.They get 10, 20.It""s building.They get 40, 45.They getForty-nine.Where""s the last rattler? In a kindergarten? In a church? In a crowded elevator?Where?...In my desk drawer, fan.Stashed away, only nobody knows it, see? The story""s good for another three days.Then when I""m good and ready, we come out with a big extra.""Sun-Bulletin Snags Number 50.""Tatum concluded his wishes by emphasizing the type of ""bad news"" he preferred to cover:Me, I didn""t go to any college, but I know what makes a good story.