Overboard (1987)

Doris Hess: Elk Cove: Adele Burbridge

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• Annie : Mrs. Burbridge, would you come over here for a moment? Has it escaped your attention that these children have head-to-toe poison oak?

  Adele Burbridge : Well, no, I... well, yes, but...

  Annie : But what? My children are in need of medical assistance! And you can sit here and smugly lecture me on the importance of tests? Tests which exist to pigeonhole children's potential, a thing which cannot possibly be measured, least of all by anal-compulsive huns! And my husband may be a "large child," but that's none of your business! And my children may be rotten, but they're mine. And I think that they're bright, and sensitive, so I have no doubts whatsoever about their intelligence. I do, however, have serious doubts about yours!

• Joey Proffitt : [talking in Pee-Wee Herman's voice]  I'm itchy and want to go home.

  Adele Burbridge : You may go stand in the corner until you can talk like a little boy!

• Adele Burbridge : Is anyone at your home?

  Charlie Proffitt : Yeah, our mom is.

  Adele Burbridge : [dumbfounded]  You have a mother now? Your father remarried?

  Travis Proffitt : Ummm... yeah, we got a new mother now.

  Adele Burbridge : Well, good. Then I'm calling both your parents!

• Dean Proffitt : [Arriving home from his disastrous experience working for the Staytons, he finds Ms. Burbridge running out of his house, covered with toilet paper and being chased by his dogs]  You look the morning after Halloween. Probably had a day like I did, what happened to you?

  Adele Burbridge : Monday is their first day of school, and I came here to welcome your family! And what do I get in return? I get toilet-papered by your children!

  Dean Proffitt : [laughs]  Eh, they're just playing around.

  Adele Burbridge : Oh, "just playing around"? They were about to douse the toilet paper in gasoline and strike...

  Dean Proffitt : Wait, wait, wait, wait. Stop. Greg and Charlie... twins, right?

  [Adele nods] 

  Dean Proffitt : ... They're goin' through this arson period. Hey, they don't know it, but I'm way ahead of them. I got two fire extinguishers ready to go. I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name?

  Adele Burbridge : Adele Burbridge, principal of the Elk Cove School. Your children are monsters!

  Adele Burbridge : Oh, you won't think that once you get to know them.

  Adele Burbridge : Where is Mrs. Proffitt while all of this is going on?

  Dean Proffitt : She died three years ago

  Adele Burbridge : Mr. Proffitt, your children are totally lacking in parental supervision!

  Dean Proffitt : Hey, you don't have to tell me these kids are lucky.

  [chuckles] 

  Adele Burbridge : Fine, you can joke all you want, but I am serious about this.

  [climbs into her car] 

  Adele Burbridge : If you don't do something, I am going to notify the proper authorities!

  Dean Proffitt : I have had babysitters in here by the dozen. Look, I've tried... I'm kind of low on cash right now, I'm new in town, but if I get a chance, I'll hire a housekeeper, all right?

  Adele Burbridge : Well, I'll believe it when I see it. Good day, Mr. Proffitt!

  [drives away] 

  Dean Proffitt : [yelling]  I'm a good father!