| “ | Harvey: Verne, I really don't like it when you tease the dogs. Vernon: What are you, some kind of animal lover? |
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| ~ Harvey and Vernon. |
Harvey and Vernon are the secondary antagonists in the 1992 family comedy Beethoven.
They are henchmen who work for their employer, Dr. Herman Varnick, in his drastic agenda in kidnapping dogs for scientific experiments.
Harvey was portrayed by Oliver Platt, who also portrayed Carl Anheuser in 2012, Apollo in Gods Behaving Badly, and High Priest in Year One, and Vernon was portrayed by Stanley Tucci, who also portrayed Frank in Jury Duty, George Harvey in The Lovely Bones, Lord Roderick in Jack the Giant Slayer, Mr. Jefferson Jasper Rene Berk in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl and Berand Joshua Joyce in Transformers: Age of Extinction.
Biography[]
Harvey and Vernon are first seen in the opening in Dr. Herman Varnick's lab, carrying a dog cage. After Dr. Varnick's request for puppies, the two go to steal some from the Docktor Pet Center but stop short when Harvey accidentally triggers the alarm, forcing the two to run for it. Two of the puppies, a Jack Russell Terrier called Sparky and a St. Bernard we soon know as Beethoven, outwit them and escape their van. The St. Bernard eventually finds the Newton family.
Later, Harvey and Vernon capture Sparky who helped Beethoven escape their van.
Once Dr. Varnick gets a hold of Beethoven, he has Harvey and Vernon take the St. Bernard to the testing area. Later before the climax, Dr. Varnick orders them to bring Beethoven for the ammo test and a smaller dog for a chemical test. Vernon decides to use Sparky for the chemical test as a score to settle with him. After subduing Beethoven, Dr. Varnick prepares to shoot at him but George smashes into the area and knocks out Vernon and Harvey. But when Dr. Varnick was about to shoot him, Sparky, who was on the loose attacked him by biting his groin, while Beethoven and George take out Vernon and Harvey. When Dr. Varnick is sedated by Ted driving the family car into the testing area wall (launching syringes into him), Vernon and Harvey try to make a run for it. Ted spotted them and orders the now freed dogs to "sic them" and the chase is on. All the dogs, including Beethoven and Sparky chase their abusers as the two men are desperately trying to get away, knocking people and objects over in their haste. Eventually, Harvey and Vernon reach a junkyard gate and climb over it, taunting Beethoven and the other dogs. However, much to their horror, they made a near-fatal mistake when they discover four vicious dobermans on the other side guarding the junkyard and they both scream with terror as the dobermans attack them.
Harvey and Vernon are last seen bandaged up as they are being arrested along with their boss.
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Trivia[]
- Vernon is like Mr. Tweedy when having a personal hatred with Sparky, just like the farmer did with Ginger. Both decided to use the fugitive animals as a test subject as a score to settle with them.
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