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Edna Turnblad • Arvin Hodgepile
- Wilbur: Maybe Tracy could be some sort of campus leader.
- Edna Turnblad: Wilbur, it's the times. They're a-changin'. Something's blowin' in the wind. Fetch me my diet pills, would you, hon?
- 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, Ms. 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!
- 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!
- 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: Mother, we're watching "The Corny Collins Show".
- Edna Turnblad: Penny, your mother called all frantic. She said you are punished.
- Penny Pingleton: I'm always punished.
- Wilbur: Tracy, did you do your chores around the house today?
- Edna Turnblad: Not Miss Tracy, Cyd Charisse herself. She's too busy ratting her hair and doing the Ubangi stomp.
- Mrs. Malinski: It ain't right to be dancing on TV to that colored music.
- Edna Turnblad: She's just a teenager.
- Edna Turnblad: Stick with me, and we'll claw our way to the top!
- Tracy Turnblad: Oh, God! Fame, fortune, glamour.
- Edna Turnblad: Could you throw in a pair of complimentary pettipants in the deal?
- Mr. Pinky: You drive a hard bargain, Miss Edna, and rightfully so. Pettipants, pettigirdle, you just let Tracy take her pick.
- Principal Davidson: Starting today, you report to class 10-D, room 108.
- Edna Turnblad: Special Ed?
- Principal Davidson: Yes, Miss Turnblad, special education.
- Edna Turnblad: But that's for retards - and the black kids you try to hold back.
- Principal Davidson: Here, you will be taught by specialists trained to deal with hairdo scoff laws in high school society.
- Penny Pingleton: Miss Edna, can I come in? There's something you've both got to see.
- Edna Turnblad: Well, yeah, come on up; but, I've got ironing and Wilbur's working.
- Penny Pingleton: Mr. Turnblad!
- Edna Turnblad: It's not war with Cuba, is it? Or more negro problems?
- Penny Pingleton: No. You'll see.
- Edna Turnblad: Did poor Debbie Reynolds have a nervous breakdown? This better be good.
- Mrs. Shipley: Where'd a white girl learn how to dance like that?
- Edna Turnblad: Just practicing. Oh, and watching Negro Day on Corny Collins.