Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
#1Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 8:07am
This must have been done before, but which of your lines (spoken by Panch or Perreti when introducing spellers) is your faourite.
One of my favourites was in the AUS show. When one of the older guest spellers came up to say her word, Perreti announced "Miss Smith is a recovering cleptomaniac. Don't even think about stealing that microphone.
My favourite one from Panch, also from the Aussie show, is the sentence he used for eupeptic, meaning optimistic...
"Despite the fact that he had just been impaled, Billy was still Eupeptic"
A little known fact is that in the original screenplay, Pan's Labyrinth was Pan's FLAByrinth. Hmmmmmmm...glad they changed it.
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#2re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 8:30am
At one performance I attended, one of the audience spellers had very spikey hair, and Peretti introduced him (paraphrased):
"Mr. So-and-so is trying to set a world record by having his hair go in 96 different directions."
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#2re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 9:57am
When I saw it on Adult night. . a very thin woman came up to the mic wearing a very tight dress that came down to her upper-thigh.
Rona said, "Miss so-and-so is showing off knee. . cuz she ain't got no titty." LOL.
I thought I was going to piss my pants. .
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#3re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 10:00amThe guest spellers when I saw it got the regular old lines, except for a 10-year-old boy named Cooper. His introduction went something like "Mr. _____ has always preferred to be called The Spelling Machine, but his friends stick to calling him Mini Cooper."
#4re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 11:08am
In L.A., one of the audience spellers was named Hernandez-Colski, prompting the line 'Mr. Hernandez-Colski comes from a long line of Latino-Polacks.' He got the word 'Mexican.'
'Vice Principal Panch! VICE PRINCIPAL! THEY WON'T MAKE ME PRINCIPAL!'
'Gee, I wonder why.'
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#5re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 12:37pm"They're mocking me, you're sending me mixed signals! Oh, why don't you just say it? WE WANT PARAMUS, WE WANT PARAMUS!!!" - Mo Rocca, omg
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#6re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 12:54pm
Although I agree that Mo Rocca was hysterical, I think he was saying, "We want Barabbas, we want Barabbas!" As in, the prisoner released by the crowd instead of Jesus at Easter, implying that Panch is being "crucified" by the unfair and changeable will of the people.
Yes, I was raised Catholic, why do you ask? 
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Updated On: 7/31/07 at 12:54 PM
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#7re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 12:58pm
I've always loved:
"Honey, put down that phillactory(sp?), we're Episcopalian!" and
"-Your word is cow.
-Can I have the definition please?
-A cow.
-Can I have it in a sentence please?
-Please SPELL COW!"
#8re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 12:59pmI AM A HEATHEN.
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#9re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 1:01pm
No one would have ever guessed.
I saw the show where there was a guy with dreadlocks. Rona said something like, "And when Mr. (whatever his name was) went to the barber, he said, 'Give me the Whoopi Goldberg.'" I thought the guest speller was going to fall on the floor laughing.
'"Contrairiwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."'
~Lewis Carroll
Updated On: 7/31/07 at 01:01 PM
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#10re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 1:22pm
in Chicago:
Big guy was guest speller, "Mr._______ was thrown ouf of the boyscouts for eating a girlscout... GIRLSCOUT COOKIE!"
What a night! I was in more laps than a napkin!
#11re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 1:32pm
Rona: "Mr. (whoever) won his school's Vice Principal Panch lookalike contest."
Panch: "Handsome man."
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#12re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 1:47pm
In the Philly tour show, they said one of the guest spellers had the biggest cucumber in town, or something.
The sentence for jihad is hilarious, but I can't remember it exactly. It's something like, "Duck behind the Wailing Wall, honey, I see a jihad coming!"
There was also something about Marcy Park or Logainne being assistant to President Obama.
Updated On: 7/31/07 at 01:47 PM
#13re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 2:09pm
In Boston:
Rona: "Miss _________ has an extensive collection of My Little Pony figurines which is currently on loan to the Smithsonian!"
Oh, and also in Boston:
"Olive, who brought you to the bee?"
"The T."
And my dad just about lost it when Marcy says: "Oh Jesus, I always knew you were Asian!"
#14re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 2:18pmJihad's is, "Billy, quick, duck behind this Western Wall! I think I see a jihad coming!"
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#15re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 2:57pm
Haha. So great.
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#16re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 4:32pm
I think my favorite would probably have to be this one time when an attractive, muscular guy in a very tight shirt was up and his intro was "Miss Peretti would like Mr. Johnson's phone number!"
As for my favorite line in general, that would be, "Daddy conference, now!"
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#17re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 7:13pm
The word was Mexicans:
After a close run-in, Lisa noticed how many Mexicans there were on the street.
When we had jihad, it was:
Everyone made sure the food was kosher at the jihad barbecue.
There was also a woman with a bright yellow plastic bracelet, and she said, "Too old to be playing with her childhood toys, _____ melted her rubber ducky down into a plastic bracelet."
There were a bunch others, too. God, I adore this show.
#18re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 7:14pm
Everyone made sure the food was kosher at the jihad barbecue.
No, halal.
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#19re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 7:20pm
In the LA show, there was an older woman dressed completely in light purple and they said "Miss Whatever's spelling nick name is The Lilac Assassin."
My dad was a guest speller and they said that he "liked to intimidate the other spellers by disguising himself as their father."
This little girl went up and Rona said, "Miss Whatever can't wait until next year when she can ride the roller coaster!"
Also, when they were at the Wadsworth theatre (which is on hospital grounds...)
Logainne:I've never been in a gymnasium on the grounds of a V.A. Hospital before...
Leaf: I've never been in a GYMNASIUM before!
I also love Jesus' line about "Also, this isn't really the type of thing I carry very much about..."
And one of my favorite lines ever (sheerly because of the delivery):
I'M TAKING IT ALL! YOU'RE ALL GOING DOWN SUCKERS!!!
Okay, this musical officially has too many lines that I love.
Updated On: 7/31/07 at 07:20 PM
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#20re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 7:26pm
"No, halal."
Thanks. I kinda made up kosher to fit in there cause I couldn't understand what the real word was...
#21re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 7:46pm
One of my favorites was "Mr. Panic gets confused when his spelling coach says Panic, calm down. Panic, calm down."
Another was that one guy with spikey hair and two earings and Ms. Peretti said "Mr. Lam called up Mitch Mahoney last night and said Omigod are you going to wear your diamond earings tomorrow?? I'm going to wear my diamond earings tomorrow!! We should totally like wear our diamond earings together!!!!"
#22re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 7:48pm
When I saw it, we got a black guy with a mohawk.
"Mr. Speller pities the fool who beats him at spelling."
Mr. Speller also looked ABSOLUTELY HORRIFIED when the chap playing Leaf (understudy and I've TOTALLY blanked on his name) started flossing with his own hair. I LOLed very hard.
#23re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 7:49pm
Another was that one guy with spikey hair and two earings and Ms. Peretti said "Mr. Lam called up Mitch Mahoney last night and said Omigod are you going to wear your diamond earings tomorrow?? I'm going to wear my diamond earings tomorrow!! We should totally like wear our diamond earings together!!!!"
Hahaha, same thing happened in one NYC show, only the guy was wearing a purple shirt like Mitch Mahoney's, so replace "diamond earrings" with "purple shirt."
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A bird cage I plan to hang,
I'll get to that someday...
A bird cage for a bird who flew away
Around the world.
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#24re: Your favourite Spelling Bee Lines
Posted: 7/31/07 at 7:50pm"Mr. Yam recently changed his name from Mr. Sweet Potato."
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