Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 . Prudence: Penny Pingleton, you know you are punished. From now on your 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?
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.
[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 Tale 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
Trivia
Director Cameo: [John Waters] the psychiatrist.
The role of Edna Turnblad was originally written for famed transsexual Christine Jorgensen. However, when the role of Tracy had to be rewritten, John Waters also rewrote the role of Edna in order to keep his friend and muse Divine in the production.
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# "The Corny Collins Show" was based on the local television show "The Buddy Deane Show" (1957) and from several elements of "Bandstand" (1952).
"Tilted Acres" was based on "Gwynn Oak Amusement Park" in Baltimore County, MD, where racial problems occurred.
The Tilted Acres scenes were shot at Dorney Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Remade on the Broadway stage in 2002 as a musical starring Harvey Fierstein (and later, Bruce Vilanch, Michael McKean and John Pinette) in the role of Edna Turnblad (played in the film by Divine) and `Marissa Jaret Winoker` in the role of Tracy Turnblad (played in the film by Ricki Lake)
Ricki Lake began rapidly losing weight due to the intense dance lessons she had to take for the film. She reportedly had to "eat like crazy" in order to stay plump.
John Waters` first PG-rated film.
The von Tussles are quoting George Wallace when they say, "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!"
Edna Turnblad says that "The times, they are a-changin`. Something`s blowin` in the wind." Both lines are quotes from Bob Dylan songs.
The role of Velma Von Tussle was originally offered to Mamie Van Doren.
There was a scene filmed where Tracey finds cockroaches in her hair (which was based on the urban legend about a girl whose brain is eaten by cockroaches that were living in her beehive hairdo). While it never made it into the final cut it does explain all the references to roaches in the latter part of the film.
The inspiration for Corny Collins, Buddy Deane, appears as a Governor`s Mansion newsman.
The musical Hairspray opened at the Neil Simon Theater on August 15, 2002 and ran for 2641 performances.
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Ricki Lake
(as Tracy Turnblad)
with Michael St. Gerard
(as Link Larkin)
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