She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown (1980 TV Short)

Patricia Patts: Peppermint Patty

Quotes 

• [Peppermint Patty tries on her skating dress, which turns out to be a long skirt] 

  Marcie : Maybe it'll look better after I get the sequins sewed on, sir.

  Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : [furiously]  Marcie! This is the worst skating dress I've ever seen! It doesn't even have any sleeves in it! How can I skate in a dress like this? I'll be the laughingstock of the whole competition!

  Marcie : If you will recall, sir, I told you I didn't know how to sew.

  Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : [sadly]  I think I'm going to cry. I can feel the tears forming in my stomach.

• [after Peppermint Patty's figure skating competition] 

  Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : Well coach, how did you like my sit-spin?

  [Snoopy grumbles angrily] 

  Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : That bad, eh? Well, how did you like my double axel?

  [Snoopy grumbles angrily] 

  Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : Don't you have anything good to say?

  [Snoopy kisses her] 

  Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : [smiles]  That good, eh?

• Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : Well, coach, what do you think?

  Snoopy : Bleah!

  Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : There's no one harder to please than a skating coach.

• Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : Problem number six?

  [reading worksheet] 

  Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : "How many gallons of cream containing 25% butter fat and milk containing 3 1/2% butter fat must be mixed to obtain 50 gallons of cream containing 12 1/2% butter fat?" Ma'am, would you settle for twenty push-ups?

• [Peppermint Patty is asleep in class again] 

  Marcie : Wake up, sir.

  Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : I can't lift my head, Marcie. Give me a little push.

  [Marcie pushes Peppermint Patty's head onto her desk and Patty bumps her nose] 

  Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : Don't call on me for a while, ma'am. I'm here, but my nose is in the recovery room.

• Teacher : Patty!

  Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : Oops! Sorry, ma'am! I guess I dozed off for a second. I dreamt I had just been given a scholarship to Vassar.

  Teacher : Patricia, please try and stay awake.

  Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : Well, back to reality!

• Teacher : Patricia? Patricia, you're asleep again!

  [Marcie hits Patty on the head with her book] 

  Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : I'M AWAKE! I'M AWAKE!

  Teacher : Patricia, are you aware of what's happening?

  Patricia "Peppermint Patty" Reichardt : No, ma'am, I don't know what's going on... BUT I'M AWAKE!