Prudence: Penny Pingleton, you know you are punished. From now on your wearing a giant P on your blouse EVERY DAY to school so that the whole world knows that Penny Pingleton is permanently, positively, punished.

Geometry Teacher: Tracy Turnblad, once again your ratted hair is preventing another student's geometry education.
Tracy: It's feathered, not ratted.
Geometry Teacher: Whatever you call it, it's a hair-don't.

Tracy: How do you get your hair so straight and so flat?
Beatnik Chick: With an iron, man. I play my bongos, listen to Odetta, and then I iron my hair, dig?

Amber: Aren't you a little fat for the show?
Tracy: I'm sure many of the other home viewers out there are pleasantly plump or chunky.
Amber: Come on. The show's not filmed in Cinemascope.

Edna: It's the times. They are a-changin'. Something's blowing in the wind. Fetch me my diet pills, would you?

Edna: Look at your hair. All ratted up like a teenage Jezebel.
Penny: But Miss Edna. Tracy's "flamboyant flip" is all the rage. Even Mrs. Kennedy, our First Lady, rats her hair.
Edna: But Tracy's no First Lady is she? No siree. She is a... hairhopper.

Iggy: Would you swim in an integrated swimming pool?
Tracy: I sure would, Iggy. I'm a modern kind of girl, I'm all for integration.