Ruthie Quotes in Follow That Bird (1985)

Ruthie: [Shocked to see that there's nothing left of her car] Gordon! What on earth happened to the car?

Gordon: Don't ask me.

Gordon: [Points to Cookie Monster] Ask him.

Cookie Monster: [Looks up at Ruthie] Hi.

Cookie Monster: [Belches] Oh, excuse me.

Ruthie: The insurance man isn't going to believe this.

Floyd: You're the biggest chicken I've ever seen.

Big Bird: Oh, I'm not a chicken actually. I'm a bird on the run.

Ruthie: Oh yeah. Floyd, he's the bird on TV who ran away.

Big Bird: Oh, I didn't run away. I'm going back to my real home on Sesame Street where I belong.

[yawns]

Ruthie: Are you tired?

Big Bird: Well, maybe a little. I sure wish I had a place to sleep.

Ruthie: Have you ever slept in a barn?

Big Bird: [looking toward the barn] Hmm.

Sam: Oh my God! "I've just been looking for my boyfriend. Have you seen him? He's a cute guy with a little mole on his right cheek."

Local: Hey, Ruthie. One of your ghosts come back to haunt ya?

Sam: "AH! Oh, Brad! Oh, Brad. Brad, please don't be dead. Brad, I never had a chance to tell you what you meant to me. Oh, Brad, please!" It's you! You're you! Ruthie Melony, co-star of the Prom Queen Mutilator with Dick Bebe!

Ruthie: You saw that?

Sam: "He was mine! He was mine!" "No, Cindy. You're sick. Cindy, you need help. No, Cindy! No, no!"

Benny: So why'd you leave?

Ruthie: L.A.? I wasn't that good of an actress.

Benny: Well, that's not how Sam tells it. He's raving about you.

Ruthie: Yeah, well, he's sweeter than he is judgmental. How long have you known him?

Benny: Sam? Uh, 72 hours.

Ruthie: Be serious.

Benny: I am... serious.

Ruthie: Really?

Benny: I'm always serious. I'm too serious.

[last lines]

Ruthie: Haven't we tried this before?

Benny: [presenting flowers] Yeah, but my life's a lot less complicated now.

Ruthie: Is Joon inside? Yeah.

Benny: Yeah? OK...

[brings flowers inside and sees Joon "ironing" cheese sandwiches with Sam]

Ruthie: Watch your back... leech!

Dorothy Wheeler: Excuse me, who are you?

Ruthie: That's none of your business.

Campbell Morris: Don't worry, she's nobody.

Ruthie: Yeah, I'm nobody. I'm just the idiot who's still waiting for a return on my Internet investment.

[to Campbell Morris]

Ruthie: What did you call it? Bleed-Me-Dry.com?

Dorothy Wheeler: [about Campbell] He loves me.

Ruthie: He loves your trust fund. Trust me.

Ruthie: You ever hear of PFLAG?

Elise: No, and I don't think I like the sound of it, either.

Ruthie: No-no-no, it's... it's for people like you. You know, people who have a friend or a family member who's gay and they don't know what the hell to do.