- Chubby Checker: [singing] Cool down the Cha-Cha, Burn up the list, But don't, yeah don't, Don't Knock the Twist, Oh, knock--Hully Gully, Knock - Mashed Potato, Knock--knock The Mess Around, Knock--Continental, Knock--Shimmy Shimmy, But don't put the Twist down, Slop and The Chicken, They won't be missed, So, don't, yeah don't, Don't Knock the Twist! Knock-knock, Knock-knock, Come on baby let's rock the Twist! Come on baby, Don't you Knock the Twist!
- Ted Haver: Want to know something? I was going to propose to you tonight. Now, I don't know whether to propose to you or proposition you.
- Dulcie Corbin: When in doubt, darling, proposition.
- Female Nightclub Patron: All I can say is, if she's a famous designer, she must have designs on every man in the place.
- Dulcie Corbin: I'm going to leave for New York in the morning, draw up the contract, start working on your new costumes. Ted, you and Chubby start teaching Madge and the kids some of the Twist routines. We can get started immediately!
- Ruth Emerson: Ah, just like Cinderella.
- Frank Emerson: Yeah! Cinderella in tight pants!
- Herbert 'Herb' Walcott: [watching the backside of a girl doing the Twist on the TV] That's what I like to see, boy. America on the move.
- Ted Haver: Well, if that's America, Chief, I sure don't recognize the coastline.
- Herbert 'Herb' Walcott: Progress, boy, progress! That's what the Twist is. New ideas. New dances. New comedy. New faces. America's always moving forward! A TV network has to do the same.
- Herbert 'Herb' Walcott: Watch the screen, son. You know what you were looking at?
- Ted Haver: Yeah, I got the girl's message okay.
- Herbert 'Herb' Walcott: That's "Twelve O'Clock Dance Time" on NBS. Modern. Up-to-the-minute. Today it was the Spice Island Group. Tomorrow it'll be some other hot Twist outfit.
- Ted Haver: Herb, this Twist is a fad! Look, we're starting a long range program and the fad will be over before we can get our feet wet.
- Herbert 'Herb' Walcott: Fad? Ha-ha. Why, women haven't had so much fun doing things with their hips since they wore bustles.
- Ted Haver: So, we'll get Hinkley/Bruntley to do the Twist in their news broadcast.
- Chubby Checker: [singing] Baby, you're with me tonight, Go make the scene tonight, Dancin' half past three tonight, Makin' history tonight, Come on, Come on, We're goin' Twistin' now!
- Ted Haver: Don't ever break that Twistin' leg, man, or you're out of business.
- Chubby Checker: I'll go right into bankruptcy, that's for sure.
- Chubby Checker: This Twist stuff is a blast right now, Ted. You know that. All the good, good acts are booked!
- Dulcie Corbin: My latest creation comes under neither the Rome nor the Madrid influence. You will notice the soft drape across the bodice.
- Helen - the Fashion Editor: Darling, you simply must shock today. Your designs are good, year in and year out creations; but, women want something new! They have to be jolted out of their complacency. Shocked, dear! Shock! That's the word.
- Helen - the Fashion Editor: Play a tune that women will follow. Be a Pied Piper, playing his magic music.
- Ted Haver: Hey, I tell you what, there's nothing better for the nerves than a couple of hours of Twistin'.
- Dulcie Corbin: I want this gown finished by seven o'clock.
- Amy - the Dressmaker: Hew! This must be something special.
- Dulcie Corbin: "Shock 'em!" she said. "Shock 'em and play magic music!"
- Amy - the Dressmaker: [looking at what Dulcie is drawing] Is that what it's going to be like?
- Dulcie Corbin: Even more so.
- Amy - the Dressmaker: Are you gonna put it on or paste it on?
- Chubby Checker: And, now, ladies and gentlemen, my good friends, the Dovells, are gonna keep the pot boiling with the "Bristol Stomp" - while I take five to rejuvenate my vitamins. And now the dazzling Dovells!
- The Dovells: [singing] The kids in Bristol are sharp as a pistol, When they do the Bristol Stomp, Really somethin' when they join in jumpin', When they do the Bristol Stomp...
- Chubby Checker: [singing] I got my eyes on you all through the Twistin', Hopin' that when we're through we'll do some kissin', Baby you know it's wrong to be resistin', We gotta fall in love if we keep Twistin', Ah, let's Twist!
- Ted Haver: What are you trying to do? Win an award for the best undressed woman of the year?
- Dulcie Corbin: Shhh! Darling, Chubby Checkers is going to sing.
- Chubby Checker: [singing] I love to Twist, Baby, I do, I love to Twist, Ah, baby, with you, Sweet little Miss, Come on, let's Twist, The way they do, Yeah, that's all brand new...
- Chubby Checker: [singing] Come on, child, Let's do it wild, wild, wild, A brand new twist, forget the old...
- Chubby Checker: [singing] I love to Twist in the morning, And the nighttime too, Afternoon or evening, That's the right time too, Even when I sleep, I hear that beat, I get out of bed, Girl, I'm ready to Twist...
- Ted Haver: You're not going to Twist in that!
- Dulcie Corbin: Of course, I am. I designed this gown especially for Twisting. Now, no inhibitions, darling.
- Dulcie Corbin: That trip to the dressing room was worth $6400.
- Ted Haver: $6400?
- Dulcie Corbin: Eight new gowns, designed especially for Twisting, at 800 apiece. Money, money, money! It's exquisite, darling. All of those fat, juicy little dollar signs. I just love'em!
- Ted Haver: Dulcie, you and money are carrying on the greatest love affair since Napoleon and Josephine.
- Ted Haver: I should have known I couldn't make a wife out of a Fast Buck Kid in one easy lesson.
- Dulcie Corbin: We're both Fast Buck Kids! That's one of the big things we've had in common. That's why we've lasted together for so long, Ted. Now, don't get religion on me.
- Ted Haver: Ah, Dulcie, forget it. You know, my mistake was thinking about you as Dulcie - rather than, Dulcie, Incorporated.
- Dulcie Corbin: I tell you what, how about spending the weekend with me at my place at the lake?
- Madge Albright: Go on, get out of here you Peeping Tom!
- Ted Haver: You got it wrong, lady, I'm a Peeping Ted.
- Madge Albright: I'm sorry for calling you a Peeping Tom.
- Ted Haver: Well, that's all right. Besides, the way you look, I'm thinking about becoming one.
- Dulcie Corbin: What happened the other night at the Spice Island Club gave me the idea: a whole line of Twist outfits. Not just the kind I wore the other night; but, Twist outfits for every kind of occasion!
- Dulcie Corbin: Don't tell me that's Joe Albright's little Madge?
- Joe Albright: Little? She's only little in the right places.
- Len Barry - Dovells Member: And those pants look good! The way capri pants should!
- Ted Haver: Look at that girl, go. And I bet she never had a lesson.
- Ruth Emerson: Just doin' what comes natural.
- Ted Haver: The way she uses her body!
- Dulcie Corbin: Yes! Yes! Ted, you're right!
- Madge Albright: Why me, Miss Corbin? You must have lots of models working for you already?
- Dulcie Corbin: I want someone new, Madge. A face and figure that hasn't been used by every designer in the industry. Someone fresh! Like yourself. A modern girl for modern dresses.
- Madge Albright: Look, I told you, Mr. Haver, the only reason we put on a show every Saturday night is to raise money for the summer orphanage camp. Dancing isn't our business.
- Ted Haver: How much money do you raise for that orphanage over a summer?
- Madge Albright: Oh, 14--$1500.
- Ted Haver: Suppose I told you that we can give them 10 times that amount of money!
- Madge Albright: 10 times!
- Joe Albright: Holy cow!
- The Dovells: [singing] Now... swim like a fish, With a dear old lady twist, Now slide, take a ride, But you keep it nice and tight, Ah, go left--bop-bop, Ah, go right--bop-bop, But, baby, Continental, all night, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey, diddly dee!
- Chubby Checker: [singing] Come on, come on and do the Fly with me, Hey, come on everybody and do the Fly with me, Well if you don't know how to do it, Well just watch and see, You've gotta shake your hands all around and around the sky, And then you buzz around the floor, You can do it if you really try, All the girls and guys are getting the sky they're gonna fly, Oh, you pretty little girl come and fly away with me...
- Amy - the Dressmaker: You don't seem afraid to leave Mr. Haver up in the mountains with Nature Girl?
- Dulcie Corbin: Afraid? Huh, I have Ted eating out of my hand. The way to keep a man, Amy, is to keep saying no.
- Amy - the Dressmaker: Until he meets someone who'll start saying yes.
- Dulcie Corbin: Salome costume? Salome! Are you talking about that cotton-picking wench that did the dance of the seven veils and walked around with a head on a tray?
- Ted Haver: I am.
- Dulcie Corbin: Well, you can put the tray away. I'm not designing any outfits I can't sell! And the Salome costume went out of style a few thousand years ago.
- Ted Haver: Come on, Dulcie, we built up a big Salome production number for the finale! All we're trying to do is show that Salome did a version of the Twist in those days.
- Mrs. Morrison: My dear, what perfectly ravishing conception these Twist fashions! They're so young, so full of vitality.
- Dulcie Corbin: That's the whole idea, Mrs. Morrison. They're meant to make a girl feel even girlier.
- Amy - the Dressmaker: Mr. Haver called again.
- Dulcie Corbin: About the Salome costume?
- Amy - the Dressmaker: Uh-huh. They're having a dress rehearsal in the morning and they need it.
- Dulcie Corbin: Well, call Mr. Haver and tell him it'll be there by 10.
- Amy - the Dressmaker: Are you still serious about sending over that costume?
- Dulcie Corbin: But of course I am.
- Amy - the Dressmaker: The censors will blow a fuse, Miss Corbin. I wear more than that when I take a bath!
- Mrs. Morrison: One man's meat is another man's poison.
- Dulcie Corbin: And if you're smart, the other fellow always gets the poison.