Prudence:
Penny Pingleton, you know you are punished. From now on you're wearing a giant P on your blouse EVERY DAY to school so that the whole world knows that Penny Pingleton is permanently, positively, punished.
Beatnik Chick:
When I'm high, I AM Odetta. Let's get naked and smoke.
Motormouth Maybelle:
Oh Papa Tooney. We've got a Looney.
Prudence Pingleton:
Don't you try to cast one of your voodoo spells on me, native woman.
Geometry Teacher:
Tracy Turnblad, once again your ratted hair is preventing another student's geometry education.
Tracy Turnblad:
It's feathered, not ratted.
Geometry Teacher:
Whatever you call it, it's a hair-don't.
Tracy Turnblad:
I'm an integrationist. We shall overcome someday.
Beatnik Chick:
Not with that hair, you won't.
Tracy Turnblad:
How do you get your hair so straight and so flat?
Beatnik Chick:
With an iron, man. I play my bongos, listen to Odetta, and then I iron my hair, dig?
Wilbur:
Tracy, we all have responsibilities in life. You may think owning the Hardy-Har joke shop is all drudgery; unwrapping dribble glasses, checking doggy doo, but I wuv it.
Amber Von Tussle:
Aren't you a little fat for the show?
Tracy Turnblad:
I'm sure many of the other home viewers out there are pleasantly plump or chunky.
Amber Von Tussle:
Come on. The show's not filmed in Cinemascope.
Edna Turnblad:
Could you turn that racket down, I'm trying to iron in here.
Amber Von Tussle:
Tracy Turnblad is a human roach nest.
Velma Von Tussle:
Hey you. Can I ask you a personal question?
Edna Turnblad:
No, you may not...
Velma Von Tussle:
Is your daughter mulatto?
Edna Turnblad:
It's the times. They are a-changin'. Something's blowing in the wind. Fetch me my diet pills, would you?
Tracy Turnblad:
Momma, welcome to the sixties.
Tracy Turnblad:
Mother. You're so fifties.
Edna Turnblad:
Look at your hair. All ratted up like a teenage Jezebel.
Penny Pingleton:
But Miss Edna. Tracy's "flamboyant flip" is all the rage. Even Mrs. Kennedy, our First Lady, rats her hair.
Edna Turnblad:
But Tracy's no First Lady is she? No siree. She is a... hairhopper.
Velma Van Tussle:
At least try to act white on television.
Penny Pingleton:
I wish I was at a hootenanny in Harlem.
Motormouth Maybelle:
Tidley papa, I am a whopper... Motormouth Maybelle's my name and sweetheart, dancin' is my game.
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Applause]
Motormouth Maybelle:
Motormouth, Motormouth, Motormouth!
Velma Von Tussle:
Relax. Take it easy. Tension is the worst thing for a complexion.
Iggy:
Would you swim in an integrated swimming pool?
Tracy Turnblad:
I sure would, Iggy. I'm a modern kind of girl, I'm all for integration.
Amber Van Tussle:
Do you relate to the music of Leslie Gore?
Nadine:
Look, she ain't no James Brown... but I can dance to Lawrence Welk if I have to.
L'il Inez:
Segregation never, integration now.
Penny Pingleton:
I'm just a little nervous.
Tammy:
This is show business young lady. If you're nervous now, Hah. Wait 'til you're on the air.
Mr. Pinky:
Fatty, fatty, two-by-four. Can't get through the dressing room door?
Amber Von Tussle:
That girl's got roaches in her hair!
Edna Turnblad:
Roaches? Our little Tracy's a clean teen!
Wilbur:
There's no bugs on our baby!
Amber Von Tussle:
I'm not kidding, I just saw one!
Gym Teacher:
Special Ed! In the red!
Tammy:
Please wait outside. The council will now meet in secret, debate your personality flaws, and come to a final decision.
Tracy Turnblad:
Oh, Link, I wish I had dark skin.
Link Larkin:
Tracy, our souls are black, though our skin is white.
Velma Von Tussle:
And you HAD to pick a colored song, didn't you? What's wrong with Connie Francis? Shelley Fabares? I LOVE Shelley Fabares!
Amber Von Tussle:
Mother, Shake a Tail Feather has a wild song. It's got a good beat and you can dance to it.
Amber Von Tussle:
[
Amber is gossiping with two friends in school] Anyway, she was right there in the car, in plain sight of just everybody at the hop. She was NUDE.
Amber's school friend #1:
No!
Amber's school friend #2:
That fat thing?
Amber Von Tussle:
Tracy Turnblad is a WHORE.
Prudence Pingleton:
[
Seaweed is hiding in Penny's bedroom] Oh my God! There's colored people in my house! I'm going to make a citizen's arrest!
Tracy Turnblad:
POLICE BRUTALITYYY! POLICE BRUTALITYYYYYY!
Edna Turnblad:
Our little Tracy's too busy ratting her hair and doing the "Ubangi Stomp."
Edna Turnblad:
[
about Amber] I watch that tramp and I'm embarrassed to be white.
Beatnik Chick:
Are you a checkerboard chick, you know, black and white, salt and pepper
Penny Pingleton:
Yes, I'm a checkerboard chick, I guess
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