Ladybugs (1992)

Ilene Graff: Bess

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Quotes 

• Bess : [answers the car phone]  Hello. Yeah, yeah, he's right here. Hold on. Chester, it's Martha.

  Chester : [drives off the road] 

  Bess : Chester!

  Chester : I'm sorry. I thought I saw a raccoon.

  [takes the phone] 

  Chester : Martha, why are you calling me?

  Matthew : Would you rather I call my mother, Chester?

  Chester : [laughingly]  No, no, no, no, no, no.

  Matthew : Listen, Chester, I'm in big trouble. I'm at the Mullen's house. Mrs. Mullen took all the girls to her house after practice. She insisted that I go with them.

  Chester : Well, just have your ice cream and cake and go home.

  [laughs nervously] 

  Matthew : Oh, listen, genius, if it was that simple, I wouldn't have called you.

  [whispers] 

  Matthew : Now all the girls are going skinny-dipping.

  Chester : [drives off the road again]  I tell you, Bess, those raccoons are all over the place.

• [Matthew walks in dressed as Martha] 

  Bess : Matthew?

  Matthew : Mom!

  Chester : Martha!

  Bess : Chester?

  Chester : Bess!

• Bess : Oh, you are a great salesman, Chester, but I'm finished buying your bullshit. Now, get out of here!