Quotes

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.

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.

Tracy Turnblad: I'm an integrationist. We shall overcome someday.

Beatnik Chick: Not with that hair, you won't.

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.

Edna Turnblad: Could you turn that racket down, I'm trying to iron in here.

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?

Tracy Turnblad: Momma, welcome to the sixties.

Edna Turnblad: Tracy, I have told you about that hair. All ratted up like a teenage Jezebel!

Penny Pingleton: Tracy's "flamboyant flip" is all the rage, Miss Edna. Jackie Kennedy, our First Lady, even rats her hair.

Edna Turnblad: But Tracy ain't no First Lady, are your Tracy? No siree. She's a hair hopper, that's what she is!

Penny Pingleton: I wish I was at a hootenanny in Harlem.

Velma Von Tussle: Relax. Take it easy. Tension is the worst thing for a complexion.

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.

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.

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!

Tammy: Please wait outside. The council will now meet in secret, debate your personality flaws, and come to a final decision.

Velma Von Tussle: And you HAD to pick a colored song, didn't you? You got something against 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.

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!

Edna Turnblad: Our little Tracy's too busy ratting her hair and doing the "Ubangi Stomp."

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

Iggy: [to Tracey] Would you ever swim in an integrated swimming pool?

Tracy Turnblad: I would imagine that many of the home viewers are also pleasantly plump or chunky.

Amber Von Tussle: Oh, come on. This show's not filmed in CinemaScope.

Tracy Turnblad: Now all of Baltimore will know... I'm big, blonde and beautiful!

Amber Von Tussle: [to Penny] Are you now or have you ever gone steady?

Motormouth Maybelle: No matter what you've heard, we are gonna teach the white children how to do The Bird!

[last lines]

Tracy Turnblad: Let's dance!