Tress MacNeille: Ms. Devine

Quotes 

• [during Professor Zork's music lesson, a fire breaks out, necessitating the fire sprinklers to flood the class] 

  Ms. Devine : Oh, dear! What a mess! Whatever were you conducting, Professor, a rain dance?

• Ms. Devine : This is Home Economics, and more specifically: wonderful ways with food, a total experience! In my class, you will be exposed to new food ideas! Use them wisely! And never, never, never be mundane! Be creative, be daring!

  [Behind her back, Rarf makes faces at Griz, who attacks him] 

• Ms. Devine : Attention! Your attention, please! I have a simply FABULOUS lesson planned! We are going to have a cooking contest! Yes, a bake-off!

  Grizzle : All right, a bake-off! Something I can really sink my teeth into, literally! I'll eat the losing entries! Aw, is this a great class or what?

• Ms. Devine : Five minutes, class! Five minutes before judging!

  Grizzle : Oh, no! Five minutes! I've failed, I don't have anything ready! I'm gonna fail Home Ec! This is not gonna look good on my resume! Oh, if I don't pass I wont graduate, if I don't graduate I wont get a good job, and if I don't get a good job... I'll have to live at home when I'm an adult!

• [Rarf runs from the amorous mouse into Ms Devine's arms] 

  Ms. Devine : Oh, Rarfy, whatever is the matter with you? Is this one of those dreary little instinctive things you lower animals have from time to time?

• Ms. Devine : [to Boink, Tess and Bully]  Would you and you and, oh yes, you, be dears and find the janitor? Tell him to bring a mop!

  Boink , Bully , Tess : Janitor?

  Ms. Devine : Yes! You, know, those quaint lonely men with the names on their pockets? Tell him to clean up this mess, immediatement!

  Grizzle : What mess?

• Ms. Devine : And the winner, although you all performed magnificently, is... Grizzle, who created these wonderful, delicious meat cookies! I simply must have the recipe for my next get-together! And now, dear present boy, your prize: the rare opportunity to care for and nurture my precious Rarfy-poo for an entire three-day weekend!

  [hands Rarf to Griz] 

  Grizzle : [grinning]  I'm so honoured, Miss Devine! We're gonna be the bestest buddies there ever was! I've even got a special little playmate just for Rarfy-poo...

  [Griz walks home with Rarf and the Siberian mouse] 

  Grizzle : Say, Rarf, did I tell you my dad bought some new power tools?

  Rarf : NOOO!

  Grizzle : Just what I thought you'd say...