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View Quote Penny: Without that show I have nothing!
Mrs. Pingleton: Having nothing builds character!
View Quote Police Chief: [while on the lookout for Tracy] Velma, I seriously doubt she’ll risk incarceration to win a pageant.
Velma: [to herself] I risked communicable diseases. She’ll certainly risk jail.
View Quote Tracy: I can’t believe I’m really here auditioning [for The Corny Collins Show]!
Penny: I can’t believe I’m really here watching you audition.
View Quote Tracy: Negro Day’s the best! I wish every day were “Negro Day”!
Seaweed: At our house, it is.
[Everyone laughs]
View Quote Velma Von Tussle: Incredible! I could do a fan dance with a lettuce leaf and you would remain completely obtuse!
Wilbur: Obtuse?
Velma: Yes, obtuse!
Wilbur: I flunked geometry-
Velma: Yeah, well, and biology too, no doubt!
View Quote Velma: [after The Dynamites perform “The New Girl in Town”] How dare you pick the same song!
Maybelle: They wrote it.
View Quote Velma: Corny, do something! This show is turning to gumbo!
Corny: Not a chance, Velma - this is the future.
View Quote Velma: Detroit sound? What’s that, the cries of people being mugged?
View Quote Velma: They’re kids, Corny, that’s why we have to steer them in the white direction.
Corny: The right direction?
Velma: Didn’t I say that?
View Quote Wilbur: [to a sobbing Edna, who thinks that he has been cheating on her with Velma] Honey, it took me five years to figure out you were flirting! How could I ever?
View Quote Wilbur: [to Tracy] This is America, babe, you gotta think big to be big.
Edna: Big ain’t the problem in this family, Wilbur...
View Quote [Seaweed attempts to untie the rope binding Penny]
Penny: Oh, Seaweed, you do care! I was afraid the colors of our skin would keep us apart!
Seaweed: No, but these knots might. [still trying to untie her] Was your mom in the Navy?
View Quote (crying after Link has gone with Tracy and the Detention Kids) He just danced on that bus with that Great White Whale and those Negroes! from “The New Girl in Town” Hey look out for that moving van
Driving down our street!
You better lock up your man
Before he meets
View Quote Being invited places by colored people - it feels so hip!
View Quote I am now a checkerboard chick!