- Judy Foster: Why can't we have a butler like the Pringles do? Why can't we be civilized?
- Melvin R. Foster: One more word about the Pringles or the oxblood nail polish or the long eyelashes and I'm going to forget that *I'm* civilized.
- Melvin R. Foster: Whatever happened to Oogie?
- Judy Foster: Oh, I just gave him up forever for a little while.
- Carol Pringle: Try singing the number slower, Judy. More seductively. And a scarf might give you something to do with your hands.
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: Judy, don't pay any attention to her. Last week you were Kathryn Grayson. This week you're Hildegard. Couldn't you be just plain Judy Foster for tonight?
- Judy Foster: [singing] It's a most unusual day, Feel like throwing my worries away, As an old native-born Californian would say, It's a most unusual day...
- Melvin R. Foster: Dora, look, I've been a faithful husband to you for 19 years, haven't I?
- Mrs. Foster: Twenty. It's our anniversary next week. Remember, dear?
- Melvin R. Foster: A good provider?
- Mrs. Foster: Yes.
- Melvin R. Foster: Satisfactory father to the children?
- Mrs. Foster: Yes.
- Melvin R. Foster: Then please don't ask me to rumba.
- Xavier Cugat: If you don't mind, Señor Foster, perhaps your wife will do the rumba with me?
- Melvin R. Foster: Oh, sure, go ahead and ask her. You won't have to coax her.
- Mrs. Foster: Thank you, Mr. Cugat. I'd love it.
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: Ladies and gentlemen, our popular *16*-year-old singer, Miss Judy Foster, will sing for you - *now*!
- Judy Foster: That's despicable, that's what it is. It's despicable! He knows that I'm practically 17.
- Stephen I. Andrews: Any man who'd reveal a woman's age should be horsewhipped.
- Judy Foster: Would you?
- Stephen I. Andrews: I'd much rather hear you sing, Judy.
- Judy Foster: All right, Stephen. But only because you *want* me to.
- 'Pop' Sam Scully: How about a cherry phosphate?
- Gramps: Don't mind if I do. Got anything to put a little sting in it?
- Carol Pringle: It's a fundamental law of human nature that women are always more attracted to men who ignore them.
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: I don't think Judy knows that law.
- Carol Pringle: Well, of course she doesn't. You spoil her. You shouldn't do that.
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: I shouldn't?
- Rosita Conchellas: You see, it is just a matter of a little wiggle here and a little wiggle there. You have to get the right wiggle at the right place and at the right time.
- Rosita Conchellas: My profession is an honorable one. You engaged me to teach you the rumba, don't you? And I do not teach in closets!
- Rosita Conchellas: You know something? You too would look 10 years younger, if you did not dress so stuffy.
- Melvin R. Foster: Stuffy?
- Rosita Conchellas: Sí, look at that tie here. So tired. Throw him away. And that tummy, that should go too. Well, never mind. We'll get rid of them dancing.
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: Hi, Judy. Why did you stop?
- Judy Foster: The mood's been broken.
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: Seems to me you're getting awfully moody lately.
- Stephen I. Andrews: When a girl goes to all the trouble Judy does to make you jealous - that's true love.
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: Gee, I never thought of that. Steve, you're a man of the world, do you think Judy will be easier to understand as she gets older?
- Stephen I. Andrews: Don't try to understand women, Oogie, just accept them.
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: I guess that would be easier.
- Judy Foster: Father, how old are you?
- Melvin R. Foster: Well, I'm just half as old as you think I am, Judy.
- Judy Foster: Men, beasts. I hate you all!
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: Golly, Judy, what did I do?
- Judy Foster: Nothing yet, but you will.
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: Why?
- Judy Foster: Because you're a man.
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: One of us must be crazy, Judy. Frankly, I'm bewildered.
- Judy Foster: From now on, don't you ever speak to me again!
- Judy Foster: It's terribly important to a man how a womars hair looks.
- Mrs. Foster: It's important to your father how his food tastes.
- Judy Foster: Mother, what shade of lipstick are you using?
- Mrs. Foster: Let me see, I think the clerk called it Soft Rose Number 3.
- Judy Foster: Soft Rose?
- Mrs. Foster: Or was it Number 4?
- Judy Foster: What you should use is Flaming Folly. It does things for you.
- Mrs. Foster: Yes, I'm sure I would, Judy. I'll bite my lips for tonight.
- Judy Foster: Mother? Do you have a black nightgown?
- Mrs. Foster: Judy Foster!
- Melvin R. Foster: Just what is your interest in my daughter?
- Stephen I. Andrews: She's one of the most beautiful, spoiled egotistical girls I've ever had to meet. Now that I've met you, I understand better why she is as she is.
- Melvin R. Foster: Hope that you're not late for your rehearsal and that Mr. Cugat won't be angry with you.
- Rosita Conchellas: Cugie, angry? Oh, no, he never gets angry. He's sweet and kind just like you, Mr. Foster. Always a gentleman. He's gentle as a kitten.
- Melvin R. Foster: I hope your married life is as happy as mine has been.
- Rosita Conchellas: It will be. If it's not, I hit Cugie right on the head.
- Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra: [singing] Do you like it?
- Rosita Conchellas: Yes, I like it
- Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra: Do you dig me?
- Rosita Conchellas: Yes, I dig you
- Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra: Is it murder?
- Rosita Conchellas: Sure, it's murda
- Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra: Will you swing it?
- Rosita Conchellas: Yes, I will, I'm the zootiest chick this side of Brazil, Yes, sir! Oh!
- Xavier Cugat: Pancho, go down with eight and come up with the downbeat.
- Rosita Conchellas: [singing] I love the Latin music of Señor Cugat, He's got the kind of a zip, That only a few got, The music is r-r-r-romantic, The music is ex-citing, But I like a little better what you got...
- Rosita Conchellas: [singing] I'm a jitterbug and I'm hot as a pipe, I want to tell you, brother I'm the bobby-sock type, I'm a red tomato and I'm overly ripe...
- Rosita Conchellas: [singing] I'm an alligator and I'm sharp as a bug, I like to boogie-woogie, Like to chew up a rug, I'm very, very groovy...
- Judy Foster: Weren't you at his office every day this week?
- Carol Pringle: And hiding in his closet?
- Xavier Cugat: Well, were you?
- Rosita Conchellas: Of course, I was. I mean, I was teaching him to rumba.
- Xavier Cugat: In a closet?
- Dance Chaperon: [sits down next to Mr. Foster] Where's Mrs. Foster?
- Melvin R. Foster: [points out to the dance floor] Out there... dancing the rumba with Mr. Cugat.
- Dance Chaperon: [sees them on the dance floor] Ohhhh...
- Melvin R. Foster: Kind of a vulgar dance, don't you think?
- Melvin R. Foster: [leans towards Mr. Foster] I can't do it, either.
- Carol Pringle: It's a very nice little swing number, Judy. But I don't know if it's really appropriate for a high-school dance.
- Judy Foster: He expects me, Judy Foster, to go to the high school closing dance with a mere child? An infant, a half-pint?
- Jo-Jo Hoffenpepper: I'm taking vitamins.
- Carol Pringle: Judy, dear, don't you think your pink would be more appropriate? Your complexion really calls for pink. It brings out the freshness and charm of your youth.
- Gramps: [answers the door] Evening, Oogie.
- Jo-Jo Hoffenpepper: I'm not Oogie. I'm Jo-Jo.
- Gramps: Oh, Jo-Jo, come in. Jo-Jo's here, Judy.
- Judy Foster: Jo-Jo? What are you doing here?
- Jo-Jo Hoffenpepper: I came to take you to the dance.
- Judy Foster: What? Where's Oogie?
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: Holy jeepers. Who wants a fire on a night like this?
- Carol Pringle: I find it cozy.
- Judy Foster: Very cozy.
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: How cozy can you get?
- Rosita Conchellas: Let's try again. Chin up. Waist in. Shoulders back. Chest out. Come now. One, two, three, hip. One, two, three, hip. Watch the hip. One, two...
- Melvin R. Foster: I am, lady, I am.
- Rosita Conchellas: Then go ahead. Do it. One, two, three, hip. One, two, three, hip. That's it. One, two, three, hip.
- Judy Foster: [singing] When I was just a little girl, A long, long time ago, I promised me I'd grow to be, A woman of the world, But fate plays many funny tricks, It did to me, I know, And as Jimmy Durante puts it, I've been foiled!
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: [singing] I used to wanna be a wealthy broker, With secretaries sitting on my knee, I guess I'll wind up being just a joker
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle, Judy Foster: Shaking apples from an apple tree...
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: [singing] I never go for city chicks, I can't mix, got no tricks, But put me with the cows...
- Carol Pringle: Shakespeare once said, "A man in his time plays many parts. His acts being seven ages." Of course, I never did see eye-to-eye with Shakespeare. As far as I'm concerned, there are but three ages: Youth, middle age, and infirmity.
- Judy Foster: When Father gets home, be glad to see him. And act with a little charm for once.
- Randolph Foster: Sure, sure, I'll be just like Walter Pidgeon. Or would you rather have me be Clark Gable?
- Judy Foster: Walter Pidgeon would be fine.
- Nightingale: Even in the morning, the door bells, the phone bells. This is the "bellingest" house I've ever been in.
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: Well, it's like this, Mr. Foster, I think your daughter is losing interest in me.
- Melvin R. Foster: Oh, well, you know how girls are, Oogie.
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: No, sir, I don't. How are they?
- Melvin R. Foster: Well, you see, you have to keep two jumps ahead of them. Find out what they want and then don't give it to 'em. Later on, surprise 'em. Always works, Oogie.
- Ogden 'Oogie' Pringle: Gee, I can't seem to surprise Judy much. Seems she always knows what I'm gonna do before I do.
- Melvin R. Foster: I'm doing pretty good, don't you think?
- Rosita Conchellas: Magnificent, wonderful. Somewhere in your family tree must be hanging a Spaniard. Let's go. That's it. Now watch the hip. Watch the hip.
- Melvin R. Foster: Yeah, I am. I am.
- Carol Pringle: Father?
- Lucien T. Pringle: Yes, Carol.
- Carol Pringle: You'll be happy to know that American Tel and Tel went up two points today.