- Nero's Spy: [the kids are completely unprepared, constantly needing offstage prompting] The oriental girls do their ori-... their wild, pag-... , pagan dance, to make... to make...
- Kennedy the Cop: [for once, Kennedy upstages his wife giving a joke prompt from the wings] To make whoopee!
- Nero's Spy: [with renewed confidence] To make whoopee!
- Jackie: Forsooth!... Nero was in a terrible rage today...
- Mrs. Funston Evergreen Kennedy: [from offstage] And well may...
- Jackie: And well may we all tremble in our pants.
- Mrs. Funston Evergreen Kennedy: [from offstage] *Togas.*
- Jackie: Well, anyway, he has used up all his Christian prisoners, and has no more to feed the lions.
- Chubby: [as Nero, Chubby forgets his line and his mother scolds him from the audience when he picks up his toga to read his crib notes, so he ad-libs] You're a pretty keen-lookin' kitten. You gotta marry me!
- Mary Ann: Uh-uh.
- Mrs. Funston Evergreen Kennedy: [prompting from offstage] I spurn thy vile heart, O monster, and cast it in the dust.
- Mary Ann: [ignoring the prompt] Well, anyway, I won't marry ya.