For Keeps? (1988)

Molly Ringwald: Darcy Elliot Bobrucz

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Quotes 

• Darcy : Oh my God! My God, it's huge, it's a monster! It's a giant boa-constrictor, get that thing away from me, get it away, put it aways before it kills somebody!

• Darcy : I'm pregnant. Can you pass the turnips?

• Darcy : How could you name our baby Theodosia?

  Stan : We needed a name for a the birth certificate, I asked you what you wanted!

  Darcy : It sounds like a greek fishing boat, or a crater on the moon or something!

• Stan : Oh no, my wife is not gonna get a job!

  Darcy : Oh great Stan, you sound just like Fred Flintstone.

• Darcy : I tried on my dress, for the prom, I look like a Thanksgiving Day float. I'm also itchy everywhere, my ankles are fat, there's something hanging out of my butt, the article's not going well and now I have to get a haircut.

  Stan : There's something hanging out of your what?

  Darcy : Well, when you're pregnant, sometimes you get hemorroids, okay?

  Stan : Bummer.

• Stan : You're light as air.

  Darcy : Yeah, so is a blimp.

  Stan : But a blimp can't dance.

• Stan : [in the labor room]  Do the pattern breathing, come on.

  Darcy : Screw the pattern breathing, I want a painkiller!

• Darcy : [going to the prom]  Stan, it took me ten minutes to get out of the car. How am I going to make it on the dance floor?

  Stan : Simple, I rented a forklift.

• Darcy : God, why can't you just be my mother? Why can't you just crawl in bed with me right now and put your arms around me?

  Donna Elliot : Well, just what is it you want?

  Darcy : Just don't be my friend, okay?

  Donna Elliot : But I am your friend.

  Darcy : No, I don't want that. I can't. It comes with all these strings. When you're a mother, you just love somebody. That's it!

• Darcy : I'll worry about that, okay? You just worry about making sure he gets on a plane by Thursday. Oh, and make sure that he gets enough underwear. Okay?

• Darcy : These frogs are very big news at my school and very big news in Kenosha - which is where I live and where I find my stories. Do you know Mike Royko? He writes about Chicago. Fran Lebowitz writes about New York. I write about Kenosha!

• Mrs. Bobrucz : Stay for dinner, Darcy. We have glumpkies.

  Darcy : I'd love to, but it's Thursday.

  Lou Bobrucz : Oh, yeah. French night.

  Mr. Babrucz , Stan : French night! Ooh-la-la!

  Mr. Babrucz : Come wit me to zee Casbah.

  Mary Bobrucz : What's a Casbah?

  Mrs. Bobrucz : We have French fries!

  Stan : French dressing.

  Mr. Babrucz : Ooh! Zee french toast.

  Mrs. Bobrucz : And for dessert - we've got ice cream.

  Lou Bobrucz : French vanilla.

  Mary Bobrucz : And french kissing. With gum!

  [Stan and Darcy stop chewing their gum] 

• Stan : We're gonna have this kid, Darce. You and me. A Bobrucz with red hair and your lips.

  Darcy : We can have everything, right? I mean, how did Hemingway put it? "You just have to grab for the gusto."

  Stan : That's a beer commercial.

  Darcy : Well, he said it too!

• Darcy : I wish I had a Polaroid of her face.

• Stan : What's wrong? What's the matter?

  Darcy : Nothing. Nothing. It's just that I've never seen you - naked.

  Stan : Naked.

  Darcy : Well, you know, I mean, we did it - but I - I just never actually looked at it.

  Stan : Come on, we did it six times.

  Darcy : Five times. The car, the car, the garage, the tent, the basement. Does that count?

  Stan : Of course it counts.

  Darcy : Okay. Well, still, that's only five times.

  Stan : The rain?

  Darcy : Oh, yeah. Still - I never actually checked it out.

  Stan : Oh, well, you don't have to look.

  Darcy : No, I want to!

  Stan : Well?

  Darcy : It's cute.

• Stan : Where are you going?

  Darcy : I'm going to sleep with my mother.

  Stan : Good. Good! I always thought somebody should be sleeping with your mother.

• Darcy : Now where are you going?

  Stan : The same place I always go. Out!