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Paul Terry in James and the Giant Peach (1996)

Joanna Lumley: Aunt Spiker

James and the Giant Peach

Joanna Lumley credited as playing...

Aunt Spiker

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Quotes11

  • [Spiker and Sponge are outside the peach, looking for James]
  • Aunt Spiker: Where are you? You detestable little worm!
  • Earthworm: AAAHHHHHH!
  • James: Not you, ME!
  • Aunt Sponge: I look and smell, I do declare, as lovely as a rose. Just feast your eyes upon my face, observe my shapely nose. Behold my heavenly silky locks, and if I take off both my socks, you'll see my dainty toes.
  • Aunt Spiker: But don't forget, my dearest Sponge, how much your tummy shows!
  • [Gazing at the giant peach]
  • Aunt Sponge: Can you smell that, Spikey? It smells delicious!
  • Aunt Spiker: No! It smells like... money!
  • Aunt Sponge: Here he is. Get up, you little worm! We sent you out here to kill a spider!
  • Aunt Spiker: Not to laze about.
  • James: I wasn't lazing about, I tripped.
  • Aunt Sponge: How dare you disagree with us.
  • Aunt Spiker: Beat him, Sponge!
  • [comes to him, grabs him]
  • Aunt Sponge: [sighs] It's too early.
  • Aunt Spiker: Well, that makes you the luckiest boy alive. Now, come inside and get dressed!
  • Aunt Sponge: You lazy bug! Who told you to stop working?
  • James: I finished the wood.
  • [Aunt Spiker snatches his travel book and sees it]
  • Aunt Spiker: A travel book? How dare you even dream of leaving.
  • [Spiker and Sponge grabs his arms to get him up]
  • Aunt Sponge: This is the only home you'll ever had.
  • Aunt Spiker: No one else would tolerate a worthless little nothing like you.
  • [She gives to Sponge]
  • Aunt Sponge: [sees his travel book] Where did you get this? Where?
  • James: Father gave it to me. He said we were go there one day.
  • Aunt Spiker: Stupid foolish man.
  • Aunt Sponge: Foolish man, always dreaming. That's what got him killed.
  • Aunt Spiker: And your mother.
  • Aunt Sponge: Had his head in the clouds instead of looking where he was going!
  • Aunt Spiker: He never even saw that rhino coming.
  • Aunt Sponge: That rhino!
  • Aunt Spiker: And the beast will get you too, if you don't behave.
  • Aunt Sponge: [ripping his travel book] Now, get these stupid dreams out of your head!
  • Aunt Spiker, Aunt Sponge: And get back to work!
  • Aunt Spiker, Aunt Sponge: Work, work, work, work, WORK!
  • Aunt Spiker: [In New York, as James is about to reveal the aunts' cruelty] Come along. You're going home with us.
  • James: No, I'm not.
  • [Spiker cracks her neck and her smile turns into a scowl]
  • Aunt Spiker: What did you say?
  • James: I said... no... I'm... not! I hate that house and that cold room and how I was always hungry.
  • Aunt Spiker: All right, that's enough!
  • James: And how you beat me!
  • Aunt Sponge: [gasps] He's lying!
  • [the crowd gasp and utter in disbelieve]
  • James: And told me I was nothing!
  • Aunt Spiker: Shut up!
  • Aunt Sponge: Shut up! Shut up!
  • James: No, not this time! I flew the giant peach across the ocean. I landed on top of the tallest building in the world. I made it! I'm not the one who's nothing. You are! And I'm never going back with you! Not me and not the peach.
  • Aunt Spiker: How dare you speak to us this way!
  • [the aunts-turned-enemies grab fire axes, yell angrily and attack James, who scoots onto the truck's roof]
  • Innocent Girl: Can we touch it?
  • Aunt Spiker: Touch it? You want to touch it?
  • Aunt Sponge: She'll be wanting to taste it next.
  • Aunt Spiker: [Tears up ticket] Admission refused. This child has too many cheeky ideas. Go away!
  • Aunt Sponge: Quite right.
  • Aunt Spiker: [Swatting a butterfly] Ew, wouldn't want one of those nesting in your knickers.
  • Aunt Sponge: You hit me in the face. You hit me in the face!
  • Aunt Spiker: Oh, do shut up.
  • Grasshopper: [he heard in the distance] James! Up here!
  • Glowworm: Hello! We're here!
  • Centipede: Hey, buddy!
  • Aunt Sponge: [stutters] What are they?
  • Glowworm: [they grab one of their strings with seagulls on top] Young James.
  • Centipede: Hey, Jimmy!
  • Aunt Spiker: [looks up in fright] BUGS!
  • Centipede: [the people looked at them] Need a little help down there?
  • Aunt Sponge: [screams] GIANT BUGS!
  • [Spiker and Sponge gasp in fright]
  • Centipede: HEY, YOU OLD BIDDIES!
  • [blows a raspberry on them]
  • Aunt Sponge: [Spiker grabs Sponge's hand] Help us!
  • Ladybug: Whoo-ee! Here we are, dear.
  • Earthworm: Hello, James!
  • James: [looks up at them] I TOLD you they were real.
  • Grasshopper: Hello, old boy.
  • Miss Spider: Requesting clearance to land.
  • [the bugs land on the giant peach and Spiker and Sponge recoil in fright as the crowd gazes at the bugs]
  • James: Miss Spider, throw me a string.
  • [she tosses down a strand of thread to James, who lassoes Spiker and Sponge with it]
  • James: Okay. Pull them up.
  • [the bugs pull Spiker and Sponge up off the ground]
  • Aunt Sponge: HELP!
  • [Spiker and Sponge scream as they're pulled up and dangle from the crane hook]
  • Aunt Sponge: Where are we going?
  • James: Spin them around.
  • Aunt Sponge: YOU LITTLE...
  • [Grasshopper kicks Spiker and Sponge, causing them to spin around]
  • James: Wrap them tightly!
  • [Miss Spider throws a length of thread around Spiker and Sponge's legs as they spin, and their wigs fly off]
  • James: Tighter! Tighter!
  • [Spiker and Sponge spin even faster and faster as the thread wraps around them]
  • Beat Cop: [watching everything with the crowd] Well, I'll be a... The kid was tellin' the truth.
  • [Spiker and Sponge are now cocooned in thread]
  • Beat Cop: [to crane operator] Get those two creeps OUTTA here!
  • [the crane operator moves the crane away, taking Spiker and Sponge with it]

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