Hairspray (1988)

Ruth Brown: Motormouth Maybelle

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Quotes 

• 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.

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

• Corny Collins : All right. Hold on to your hats, all you continental rockers 'cause it's *dance* contest time and we've got the wildest judge in town. You listen to her every night on WEDD and she hosts Negro Day on The Corny Collins Show, the last Thursday of every month. A warm welcome for the Queen of Baltimore soul: Miss Motormouth Maybelle herself, ladies and gentlemen! Let's hear it, Baltimore - Motormouth Maybelle! All right, here she comes, looking very fine.

  [Applause] 

  Motormouth Maybelle : Ooh whee! Tiddley papa! l am a whopper!

  [Applause] 

  Motormouth Maybelle : Motormouth Maybelle is my name and, sweetheart, dancin' is my game.

  [Applause] 

  Motormouth Maybelle : Motormouth, Motormouth, Motormouth!

• Corny Collins : Now, Motormouth, l think it's time we slowed things down a little with Mr. Gene Pitney.

  Motormouth Maybelle : You can't hide your face in this godforsaken place. Here in your own city, there's a town without pity.

  Corny Collins : Gene Pitney, ladies and gentlemen...

• Motormouth Maybelle : Black Baltimore, your Mother is ready to show her might and fight, fight, fight! All right, now. After school, you know where to go - Tilted Acres, for the show. Segregation? No! No! No!

• Motormouth Maybelle : All right, now. l want to introduce you to my main man. l'm his biggest fan. All the way from Louisiana, just to see me, the Big Mamma Jamma. Now, l want a ball in this hall, because he's a real doll. Talkin' about Toussaint McCall.

  Toussaint McCall : [singing]  l moved your picture, From my wall, And l replaced them, Both large and small, And each new day, Finds me so blue, Nothing, Takes the place of you...

• Motormouth Maybelle : Ooh, Papa tuney, we got a loony.

  Prudence Pingleton : Don't you try any of your voodoo spells on me, you native woman!

  Penny Pingleton : We're just dancing!

  Tracy Turnblad : Mrs. Pingleton, stop acting crazy! These are our friends.