Quotes / Dark Reprise

"You'll wash my tender leaves and smell my sweet perfume.
You'll water me and care for me you'll see me bud and bloom.
I'm feeling strangely happy now, contented and serene,
oh don't you see, finally I'll be...
somewhere that's green."

— Audrey, from Little Shop of Horrors play before getting fed to Audrey II.

"Prince Ali, yes it is he, but not as you know him!
Read my lips and come to grips with reality!
Yes, meet a blast from your past
whose lies were too good to last.
Say hello to your precious! Prince! Ali!"

—Jafar from Aladdin, revealing Prince Ali as a fraud

"I never thought I'd hear a sinister version."

—The Cinema Snob, on a scene from Endless Love

I'm such a fool to have followed this advice...
There is no trip to Paradise.
How could I let my hopes get so high?
Hasa Diga Eebowai!
Hasa Diga Eebowai!
You gave me a dream, but it was all a lie!
I think you'd like to see me cry...
Hasa Diga... [runs offstage in grief]

—Nabulungi Hatimbi from The Book of Mormon play after learning the Book of Mormon was a book of stories.

You gotta change yourself
Un-strange yourself?
You gotta strive for a better life
You gotta strive for a better life
You gotta change yourself (I stand here now)
You gotta un-strange yourself? (Thinking beyond these walls)
You gotta strive for a better life (There's nothing beyond these walls)
Strive for a better life (And I'm tired, I'm achin')

I want more, more, more
Now I know that I can't have it (Thinking beyond these walls)
Gotta strive for a better life (I'm never gonna get it one day)
Gotta strive for a better life (More, more, more)
I stand here now
Thinking beyond these walls
Strive for a better life
You gotta strive for a better life (I'm tired, I'm achin')

I stand here now
There's nothing beyond these walls
And I'm tired, I'm achin'.

—"College of Broken Dreams"; Arlo the Alligator Boy

Back to life after happily ever after
Stuck inside once again, and I'm gazing out
True, I'm in here with those I hold dear
Surrounded by their love
And for some, that's more than enough, no doubt...

—Rapunzel, Tangled: The Series

Oh, a weasel is sneaky as sneaky can be
And as I’m a weasel, it’s easy to see
That no other creature can out-weasel meeeeeeeeeeeeeee
EXCEPT FOR THAT DOGGONE MOUSE!!

—Mouse Soup

Still can't be in the club
I'm one sad fellow
Can't be a Good Bird
Cause my feathers are too yellow
I'll say it once
And I'll say it sadly
I'm sad that I am the way I am,
Not happy to be me.

—Big Bird, Sesame Street

F is for FIRE that BURNS DOWN THE WHOLE TOWN
U is for uranium... BOMBS
N is for no survivors
WHEN YOU--

—Plankton, Sponge Bob Squarepants

Home, home on the range
Where the critters are tied up in chains
I cut through their sides
And I rip off their hides
And the next day, I do it again
Everybody!
Home, home on the range...

—Mcleach, The Rescuers Down Under

There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile
The crooked man stepped forth and... rang the crooked bell
And thus his crooked soul... spiralled into a crooked Hell
Murdered his crooked family... and laughed a crooked laugh

—Janet Hodgson, possessed by Valak/Crooked Man, The Conjuring 2

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