The Waterboy (1998)

Kathy Bates: Mama Boucher

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Quotes 

• Mama Boucher : Bobby, deh ever catch dat gorilla that busted outa da zoo and punched you in da eye?

  Bobby Boucher : No Mama, the search continues.

• Bobby Boucher : [after reading a question about Benjamin Franklin]  Ben Franklin.

  Young Bobby Boucher : [flashback to Bobby's childhood]  Mama, when did Ben Franklin invent electricity?

  Mama Boucher : That's nonsense, I invented electricity. Ben Franklin is the Devil!

• Mama Boucher : You gonna lose all your fancy "fools' balls" games! And you're gonna fail your big exam! Because school is...

  Bobby Boucher : The devil?

  [Mama gasps] 

  Bobby Boucher : Everything is the devil to you, Mama! Well, I like school, and I like football! And I'm gonna keep doin' them both because they make me feel good!

  Bobby Boucher : [Bobby runs out, slamming the door, then comes back in]  And by the way, Mama. "Alligators" are ornery 'cause of their "Medula Oblongata"!

  Bobby Boucher : [Bobby runs back out, then back in again]  And I like Vicki, and she like me back! And she showed me her boobies, and I like them too!

  [slams door on Mama] 

• Mama Boucher : No son of mine is gonna play any foos-ball.

• Bobby Boucher : Nice hit, Mama.

  Mama Boucher : Thanks, baby. Now you go on and have some fun becomin' a man.

• Bobby Boucher : Mama, something bad happened today.

  Mama Boucher : [Pulls up a knife]  Did somebody hurt you my boy?

• Mama Boucher : [to Bobby]  You don't have what they call "the social skills." That's why you never have any friends, 'cept fo' yo' mama.

• Mama Boucher : Are men supposed to wear pajamas featuring a cartoon character by the name of Deputy Dog?

  Bobby Boucher : Mama, please.

  Vicki Vallencourt : Well you know what? I happen to find Deputy Dog to be very, very sexy.

• Mama Boucher : [after Vicki Vallencourt mentions a football game]  Foos-ball? Buncha overgrown monsters man-handlin' each other... 'Member when dat man wanted you to play foos-ball, Bobby?

• Mama Boucher : Now you listen here, cupcake. The 'onliest' woman in my boy's life is me. Nobody's gonna take him away, especially not some godless Jezebel like you.

• Mama Boucher : Come give your momma a kiss.