Fidgity Elephant Quotes in Dumbo (1941)

[after the pyramid accident]

Elephant Matriarch: Oh, I never thought I'd live to see the big top fall.

Giddy: Because of that Dumbo, I never *can* show my face there again.

Fidgity Elephant: Oh, look at my beautiful tail!

Elephant Matriarch: I just like to spank the daylights out of him, I...

[she raises her trunk from her cast, but the pain stops her, and she groans as she lowers her trunk back into the cast]

Prissy: Oh, that won't be necessary, dearie. They fixed him good.

Elephant Matriarch: What do you mean?

Giddy: What did they do?

Fidgity Elephant: Did they beat him?

Giddy: What is it, Darling?

Fidgity Elephant: Tell us!

Elephant Matriarch: Come, come, I demand to know!

Prissy: Oh, well... they've gone and made him... oh, dear, I just can't say it.

Elephant Matriarch: Out with it!

Prissy: Made him a clown.

Fidgity Elephant: A clown?

Giddy: No!

Prissy: Yes!

Elephant Matriarch: Oh, the shame of it. Let us take the solemn vow.

[all the elephants raise their trunks]

Elephant Matriarch: From now on, he is no longer an elephant.

[they touch trunks together]

[Dumbo's ears are revealed, and the other elephants gasp]

Elephant Matriarch: Is it possible?

Giddy: Isn't there some mistake?

Prissy: Just look at those... those... E-A-R-S.

Fidgity Elephant: Those what? Oh, ears!

[Takes one of Dumbo's ears]

Fidgity Elephant: Oh, these! Aren't they funny?

[laughs]

Fidgity Elephant: [Mrs. Jumbo slaps her on the trunk, while the others gasp in terror]

Prissy: What a temper!

Fidgity Elephant: What did I do? Tell me, did I say anything?

Elephant Matriarch: A perfectly harmless remark.

Fidgity Elephant: I said they're funny looking, they *are* funny!

Prissy: They certainly are.

Giddy: After all, who cares about her precious little Jumbo?

Prissy: Jumbo? You mean Dumbo.

Elephant Matriarch: Dumbo!

[All laugh]

Fidgity Elephant: Can you bear it? When she doused the ringmaster, I just thought I'd die!

Giddy: Well personally, *I* think she went a bit too far.

Elephant Matriarch: After all, one musn't forget one is a lady.

Fidgity Elephant: Oh, you're right, dear.

Giddy: Oh, well, I suppose that's mother love.