James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Jane Leeves: Ladybug
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Quotes
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Centipede : I've sailed all the five seas. From the land of Bora Bora to the icy shores of Tripoli. Commodore Centipede, they used to call me.
Grasshopper : Seven.
Centipede : Huh?
Grasshopper : There are seven seas, and Tripoli is in the Sub-Tropics, Commodore!
Centipede : Trim the sails!
Ladybug : There are no sails.
Centipede : Start the engines!
Earthworm : There are no engines.
Centipede : I can't work with this miserable crew!
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Ladybug : I crave the tasty tentacles of octopi for tea/I like hot dogs, but I love hot frogs, and surely you'll agree/A plate of soil with engine oil is a super recipe. I hardy need to mention that it's practically free!
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Earthworm : Great! We'll be stuck here until we starve and die.
The Grasshopper : Highly improbable.
Ladybug : Well, that's encouraging.
The Grasshopper : We are far more likely to drown.
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Ladybug : [Discussing how to fly out] How would you do it, James?
James : With those seagulls. But we'll need string.
Earthworm : [Sarcastically] Oh, well I'll just go to the stationers and pick up some paperclips while I'm at it!
Spider : [Pulling a thread from her body] I have string - miles of string.
James : And we'll need bait. Food bait.
Earthworm : Food bait? Where do you expect we're going to find bird bait out here in the middle of the...
[Notices everyone staring at him as Miss Ladybug pulls a cowbell out of her handbag]
Earthworm : Of the... oh no. Have you lost your minds?
[Screams as they grab him]
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Grasshopper : [he heard in the distance] James! Up here!
Glowworm : Hello! We're here!
Centipede : Hey, buddy!
Aunt Sponge : [stutters] What are they?
Glowworm : [they grab one of their strings with seagulls on top] Young James.
Centipede : Hey, Jimmy!
Aunt Spiker : [he looks up in fright] BUGS!
Centipede : [the people looked at them] Need a little help down there?
Aunt Sponge : [screams] GIANT BUGS!
[Spiker and Sponge gasped in fright]
Centipede : HEY, YOU OLD BIDDIES!
[blows a raspberry on them]
Aunt Sponge : [Spiker grabs Sponge's hand] Help us!
Ladybug : Whoo-ee! Here we are, dear.
Earthworm : Hello, James!
James : [looks up at them] I TOLD you they were real.
Grasshopper : Hello, old boy.
Miss Spider : Requesting clearance to land.
[they started to land on the peach, while Spiker and Sponge whimpers and shutters and James looks up at Miss Spider.]
James : Miss Spider, throw me a string.
[she tosses down a strand of the Spider's thread. It's loop on the end just like it was when they captured the seagulls. James catches it and throws the lasso down down onto Spiker and Sponge]
Earthworm : Okay. Pull them up.
Aunt Sponge : [they started pulling them up when Spiker and Sponge were screaming and shrieking] HELP!
Aunt Sponge : [then both screaming] Where are we going?
James : Spin them around.
Aunt Sponge : YOU LITTLE...
James : [the grasshopper pushes the Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge for a spin, they started screaming] Wrap them tightly!
[her wigs tore it off as Miss Spider spins out more silk as the Ladybug and the Centipede fed it up]
James : Tighter! Tighter!
[Spiker and Sponge got wrapped up in Spider's Silk]
Beat Cop : Well, I'll be a...
Beat Cop : [addressing the crowd] The kid was tellin' the truth.
[he saw muffled screams coming from inside a huge cocoon]
Beat Cop : [to the crane operator] Get those two creeps OUTTA here!
[the crane operator pulls the lever and the cocoon swings out into view]
