Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Michelle Weeks: Ronette
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Quotes
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Mr. Mushnik : Hey, urchins!
[bangs on window]
Mr. Mushnik : Shoo, get outta here!/ No loitering!
Ronette : Maan, I wasn't loitering/ Were you Crystal?
Crystal : Not me Ronette, were you Chiffon?
Mr. Mushnik : You kids should be in school!
Chiffon : Yeah, but were on a split shift.
Ronette : Yeah! We went to school till the tenth grade, then we split!
Mr. Mushnik : So! How do you intend to better yourselves?
Crystal : Better ourselves? You heard what he said? Better ourselves! Mister, when you're from Skid Row/ Ain't no such thing!
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[Seymour recounts how he found Audrey II]
Seymour : You remember that total eclipse of the sun about a week ago?
Crystal , Ronette , Chiffon : [singing] Da-doo!
Seymour : I was walkin' in the wholesale flower district that day...
Crystal , Ronette , Chiffon : Shoop da-doo.
Seymour : And I passed by this place, where this old Chinese man...
Crystal , Ronette , Chiffon : Chang, da-doo.
Seymour : He sometimes sells me weird and exotic cuttings...
Crystal , Ronette , Chiffon : Snip, da-doo.
Seymour : 'Cause he knows, you see, that strange plants are my hobby.
Crystal , Ronette , Chiffon : Da da da da da da-doo.
Seymour : He didn't have anything unusual there that day.
Crystal , Ronette , Chiffon : Nope, da-doo.
Seymour : So, I was just about to, you know, walk on by...
Doo-Wop Street Singer : Good for you.
Doo-Wop Street Singer , Doo-Wop Street Singer , Doo-Wop Street Singer , Doo-Wop Street Singer : [scatting]
Seymour : When suddenly, and without warning, there was this...
Crystal , Ronette , Chiffon : ...total eclipse of the sun!
Seymour : It got very dark, and there was this strange humming sound, like something from another world.
Crystal , Ronette , Chiffon : Da-doo!
Seymour : And when the light came back, this weird plant was just sitting there...
Crystal , Ronette , Chiffon : Whoop, see-doo.
Seymour : Just, you know, stuck in, among the zinnias.
Crystal , Ronette , Chiffon : Audrey II!
Seymour : I coulda sworn it hadn't been there before, but the old Chinese man sold it to me anyways, for a dollar ninety-five.
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Mr. Mushnik : Move, move! Move! Stay away!
[gestures them away from inside his window]
Mr. Mushnik : No loitering!
Ronette : Man, I wasn't loitering! Were you, Crystal?
Crystal : Not me, Ronette! Were you, Chiffon?
Mr. Mushnik : You oughta be in school!
Chiffon : Yeah, well, we're on a split shift.
Ronette : Yeah! We went to school till fifth grade, then we split!
Mr. Mushnik : So! How do you intend to better yourselves?
Crystal : Better ourselves? You heard what he said? Better ourselves! Mister, when you're from Skid Row, ain't no such thing!
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Orin : [singing] When I was younger, just a bad little kid/My mama noticed funny things I did/Like shooting puppies with a BB gun/I'd poison guppies, and when I was done/I'd find a pussycat and bash in its head/That's when my mama said...
Crystal , Ronette , Chiffon : What did she say?
Orin : She said, "My boy, I think someday/You'll find a way/To make your natural tendencies pay/You'll be a dentist!/You have a talent for causing things pain/Son, be a dentist/People will pay you to be inhumane/Your temperament's wrong for the priesthood/And teaching would suit you sill less/Son, be a dentist/You'll be a success!"
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Crystal : [singing] Subsequent to the events you have just witnessed/Similar events in cities across America/Events which bore a striking resemblance/To the ones you have just seen/Began occurring./Ooh, ooo-ooh.
Crystal , Ronette , Chiffon : [singing] Subsequent to the events you have just witnessed/Unsuspecting jerks from Maine to California/Made the acquaintance of a new breed of flytrap/And got sweet-talked into feeding it blood./Thus the plants worked their terrible will/Finding jerks who would feed them their fill/And the plants proceeded to grow, and grow/And began what they came here to do/Which was essentially to/Eat Cleveland/And Des Moines/And Peoria/And New York/And where you live!
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'Downtown' Old Woman : [singing] Alarm goes off at seven/And you start uptown/You put in your eight hours/For the powers/That have always been.
Ronette : Sing it, child.
'Downtown' Old Woman : 'Til it's 5 PM...
'Downtown' Bum #1 : Then you go...
'Downtown' Old Woman , Crystal , Ronette , Chiffon : [singing] Downtown/Where the folks are broke/You go downtown/Where your life's a joke/You go downtown/Where the hop-heads flop in the snow.
'Downtown' Old Woman : Home to Skid Row.
