I read Nora Roberts and just had to mention one of her books, Taming Natasha. Natasha is Ukranian. Early on, on a date, we have "His face sober, he leaned toward her. “Say ‘Get moose and squirrel.’”
Her mouth quivered before she gave up and laughed. “No.” "
A slightly off-topic Buffy reference: When teaming up with her boyfriend to fight a vampire and a horned demon, Buffy tells him, “You get Fangs, I’ll get Horny.”
Not quite “Get Moose and Squirell”, but not a million miles removed.
Don’t know how I missed this the first time around.
That might be the line, but not direct from the source. There was an episode of Murphy Brown where there was a Russian journalist (female) working with the FYI gang. At one point, Murphy blows up at her and says “Well I can’t take anything you say seriously with that stupid accent. You sound like you should be plotting big trouble for moose and squirrel!”