Enn Reitel credited as playing...
Maggot • Town Crier
- Maggot: [singing] What does that wispy little brat have that you don't have double?
- Black Widow Spider: [singing] She can't hold a candle to the beauty of your smile!
- The Corpse Bride: How about a pulse?
- Maggot: Overrated by a mile!
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Overvalued! Overblown! If he only knew the you that we know!
- Black Widow Spider: [singing] And that silly little creature isn't wearing his ring.
- Maggot: [singing] And she doesn't play piano,
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Or dance, or sing. No she doesn't compare!
- The Corpse Bride: But she still breaths air...
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: Who cares?
- Maggot: Unimportant!
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Overrated! Overblown! If only he could see how special you can be; if he only knew the you that we know.
- The Corpse Bride: [singing] If I touch a burning candle, I can feel no pain. If you cut me with a knife, it's still the same. And I know her heart is beating, and I know that I am dead; yet the pain here that I feel, try and tell me it's not real, and it seems that I still have a tear to shed.
- Maggot: [singing] The sole redeeming feature from that little creature is that she's alive.
- Black Widow Spider: Overrated!
- Maggot: Overblown!
- Black Widow Spider: [singing] Everybody knows that's just a temporary state, which is cured very quickly when we meet our fate.
- Maggot: Who cares?
- Black Widow Spider: Unimportant!
- Maggot, Black Widow Spider: [singing] Overrated! Overblown! If only he could see how special you can be; if he only knew the you that we know.
- The Corpse Bride: If I touch a burning candle, I can feel no pain. In the ice or in the sun, it's all the same. Yet I feel my heart is aching; thou it doesn't beat, it's breaking; and the pain here that I feel, try and tell me it's not real. I know that I am dead; yet it seems that I still have some tears to shed.
- Maggot: Let me at him! Let me at him! Don't hold me back!
- Elder Gutknecht: [holding crowd back] Wait! We must abide by their rules! We are amongst the living.
- Barkis Bittern: Well said.
- [drinks potion]
- Maggot: [after Lord Barkis drinks potion] Not anymore!
- Elder Gutknecht: Yep. You're right. He's all yours.
- Victor Van Dort: But I don't even know your name.
- Maggot: [from inside the Corpse Bride's head] Well, that's a great way to start a marriage.
- The Corpse Bride: [grasps head and hisses] Sshh! Shut up!
- [smiles at Victor]
- The Corpse Bride: It's Emily.
- Barkis Bittern: Would you care to repeat tonight's headline for us?
- Town Crier: [shouting so loud that the teacups rattle] HEAR YE, HEAR YE! VICTOR VAN DORT SEEN THIS NIGHT ON THE BRIDGE IN THE ARMS OF A MYSTERY WOMAN! THE DARK-HAIRED TEMPTRESS AND MASTER VAN DORT SLIPPED AWAY INTO THE NIGHT!
- [lowers voice]
- Town Crier: And now the weather. Scattered showers...
- Barkis Bittern: Enough! That will be all.
- The Corpse Bride: ...I'm sure he has a perfectly good reason... for taking so long...
- Maggot: Oh, I am sure he does. Why don't you go ask him?
- The Corpse Bride: All right, I will!
- Maggot: After all, he couldn't get far - with those cold feet...
- Paul The Head Waiter: Coming through, coming through. My name is Paul, the head waiter. I will be creating your wedding feast.
- Maggot: [popping out the Corpse Bride's eye] Wedding feast, I'm salivating.
- The Corpse Bride: [pushing the maggot back into her eye] Maggots.
- [laughs]
- Nell Van Dort: Oh, it's almost dawn! Where could he be?
- Town Crier: Victor Van Dort elopes with corpse! Heartbroken bride to wed wealthy newcomer!
- Nell Van Dort: Wealthy newcomer? It cannot be.
- William Van Dort: Did he say corpse?
- Nell Van Dort: Oh, don't be ridiculous. What corpse would marry our Victor?
- [Mayhew coughs]
- Nell Van Dort: Oh, Mayhew! Silence that blasted coughing! Mayhew, are you trying to kill us? I think he's trying to kill us!