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Chris Isaak, Tracey Ullman, Selma Blair, Johnny Knoxville, and Suzanne Shepherd in A Dirty Shame (2004)

Suzanne Shepherd: Big Ethel

A Dirty Shame

Suzanne Shepherd credited as playing...

Big Ethel

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  • Big Ethel: Perverts are taking over this neighborhood.
  • Big Ethel: Did you see those new neighbors moving in? Hmm? Grown men with hairly legs prancing around half naked? "We're bears." What the hell is that supposed to mean?
  • Big Ethel: You going to the movies, Dave?
  • Dingy Dave: Huh?
  • Big Ethel: [watching him scratch his ass] Hell, you're pickin' your seat, aren't you?
  • Big Ethel: My daughter's a good girl, she hates sex!
  • Big Ethel: [pleading with Sylvia to give up her fixation on oral sex] You'll get a yeast infection!
  • Vaughn Stickles: This isn't California.
  • Big Ethel: It's Harford Road!
  • Big Ethel: Being a *whore* is a disease?
  • Neuter Man with Sub-Titles: [after Sylvia makes a move on him] That's it! I'm moving to Tulsa.
  • Big Ethel: Don't run away. Join us for our decency rally today. Only you can prevent fornication.
  • Neuter Man with Sub-Titles: Whatever...
  • [at the Bear house]
  • Cow Patty: Hi, I'm Cow Patty.
  • Vaughn Stickles: Hi, I'm Vaughn. I live up the street and I'm looking for my wife Sylvia.
  • Cow Patty: I'm the only Goldilocks allowed in this Bear cave. I'm a Bear Hag and we call this...
  • Mama Bear, Papa Bear, Baby Bear: Bear soup!
  • [Big Ethel looks in at the Bears as Cow Patty notices her]
  • Cow Patty: Wow, a tranny bear. Come on in!
  • Big Ethel: [as she runs off] Police!
  • Mama Bear: Hey, polar bear, you know what an otter is?
  • Big Ethel: No.
  • Papa Bear: It's a bear cub who isn't fat or hairy yet, but will be!
  • Baby Bear: Find me a significant otter!
  • Sylvia Stickles: Mother, I don't feel well.
  • Big Ethel: Well, no wonder, they've got blatant homosexuals shopping right in our store. They eat life, you know... Sperm!

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