Allison Janney credited as playing...
Prudy Pingleton
- Prudy Pingleton: Get the jump rope, Penny.
- Penny Pingleton: [runs out of the room] Mom, not the jump rope!
- Prudy Pingleton: [to Tracy] Don't you touch my canned tuna!
- Penny Pingleton: Mom, please don't send my best friend to the big house!
- Prudy Pingleton: [grabs Penny] Penny, hush!
- Tracy Turnblad: You haven't heard the last of me, Mrs. Pingleton! Things need to change, and I won't stop trying to change them. I don't care how long it takes.
- Prudy Pingleton: Good! You'll be waiting twenty to life.
- Prudy Pingleton: [to Penny] Wait till your father gets out of prison, you'll see more than a jump rope!
- Prudy Pingleton: [about Tracy, who was just on the news] You see? You see! If I let you leave the house right now, you'd be in prison, fighting whores for cigarettes. That Tracy Turnblad always was a bad influence! Well, you are never, ever gonna see that beehived harlot again.
- Penny Pingleton: [sees Tracy in the window, gets up to leave] Okay, mother. Excuse me.
- Prudy Pingleton: Penny!
- [offers her a rosary]
- Prudy Pingleton: Pray for her. She's gonna need it.
- Prudy Pingleton: [tying Penny to her bed with a jump rope, as Penny stoically says nothing]
- Prudy Pingleton: Penny Lou Pingleton, you are absolutely, positively, permanently punished. You will live on a diet of saltines and Tang, and you will never leave this room again.
- Prudy Pingleton: [tosses holy water on Penny] Devil child, devil child!
- Penny Pingleton: [glowers at her mother]