Auntie Nelda Quotes in Ernest Goes to Jail (1990)

Auntie Nelda: The way they run this institution is an outrage, for a poor, tight, old lonely woman like me. Her only son of feathers is a terribly successful one. Young man? Young Man?

[the gate guard comes out]

Auntie Nelda: Young Man, Would you please open that gate, I left my car running outside?

Gate Guard: Ma'am, You tell me how you got through this gate, the visitors area's on the other side of the prison.

Auntie Nelda: I brought him up with the best I could, but sometimes a bad thief pulls from even the most fragile flower.

Gate Guard: Ma'am, you are not going through this gate.

Auntie Nelda: Is this the way you'd treat your mother? Is this the kind of abuse that poor woman must endure?

Gate Guard: Well, I guess that my mother is a little bit mad at-...

Auntie Nelda: Mmmhmm! You ought to be in the slammer with the rest of these misfits! If you had any remorse at all for the HORROR you pushed your mother through, you'd open that gate! I have a car overheating as we SPEAK!

[Ernest makes a snooty expression at the Gate Guard]

Gate Guard: Ok, Ok.

[picks up phone]

Gate Guard: All right! Let's open the east gate.

[hangs it up]

Gate Guard: There, now you satisfied?

Auntie Nelda: Now tell your mother how her son has improved despite his shady and somewhat checkered past.

Auntie Nelda: [lying about her prison balls] The doctor told me that I'd only have to wear these until after the sugery.

Doris: [as Auntie Nelda pours some disgusting looking stew into Doris' bowl] Uh, aren't you having some?

Auntie Nelda: No dear, I'm on a water diet.

Lance: Well, I hope you're taking a vitamin supplement.

Auntie Nelda: I try to take care of myself. My son Hymie, he never took care of himself. He didn't weigh ninety pounds soaked in paving tar.