The 1988 film has its own page.The 2007 film has its own page.
The musical:
- "Good morning, Baltimore! There's the flasher who lives next door!" And Tracy smiles cordially at a beaming John Waters, who promptly flashes the neighbors.
- The brilliant way Allison Janney's Prudy goes over the coffee table to get to the television in the 2007 film.
- "I Can Hear the Bells."
- The part where Tracy pins a random guy to a locker and continues singing as Penny visibly struggles to get her to release him in the background.
- Also when she puts Penny's hand on her chest, prompting stares from others around and an awkward look from Penny.
- Plus, when Tracy gets hit by a dodgeball while singing the song. Made especially funny since Amber did this in the Broadway show and Tracy is in the midst of the line "Amber, much to your surprise" when the ball hits her, implying she was singing directly to Amber who threw the ball at her to shut her up.
- In the Broadway show and Hairspray Live, during basically the entire song Penny can be seen wandering around out of the spotlight in the background, constantly putting her ear to random places and trying to pinpoint the sound of the bells Tracy keeps insisting she can hear.
- Penny's mom tying her up with a jump rope and throwing holy water on her.Penny's Mom: Devil child! Devil child!
- When Penny is on TV while she kisses Seaweed, her mother is watching, screams "Penny!!", and trips over a table.Penny: I am now a checkerboard chick! (kisses Seaweed passionately)Prudy: (watching on TV) Penny! (tumbles over the coffee table)
- The next scene of Prudy desperately attempting to scrub Seaweed out of the picture.
- When Link catches Tracy dancing with Seaweed in the detention room, when she spanks her butt.Tracy: I'm a bad bad girl who needs to be punished!
- Link seeking solace at the Turnblad residence.Link: I'm so worried! I can't sleep, I can't eat -Edna: You can't eat? Come on in, I'll make you some pork.
- This exchange, while Penny and Seaweed are having a romantic moment as he tries to untie her from her mother's jump rope:Penny: Oh, Seaweed! I knew the color of our skin wouldn't get between our love!Seaweed: Yeah, but these knots might. Was your mom ever in the Navy?
- Not to mention Penny's reply, complete with eye-roll, when Seaweed asks why her mother tied her up.Penny: She's punishing me for harbouring a fugitive without her permission.
- In the musical it's for going to jail without permission.
- In the 2016 Live TV production, it's living without permission.
- Not to mention Penny's reply, complete with eye-roll, when Seaweed asks why her mother tied her up.
- "If we get any more white people in here, it's gonna be a suburb."
- Amber's phone call to Edna, with her doing a poor job to sound like a man named "Mike".Amber: Right now, as we speak, your daughter has entered a hotbed of moral.... turpentine.
- This Rhetorical Question Blunder:Maybelle: You been sleeping through history class, girl?
Tracy: Yes. Always. - This exchange when Maybelle finds out about Seaweed and Penny:Maybelle: So this is love. Well, love is a gift, but a lot of people don't remember that. So, you two better brace yourselves for a whole lotta ugly comin' at you from a neverending parade of stupid.Penny: So you met my mom.
- "No, I get who Caesar is but what's the ideas of March? I mean how can a month have an idea?"
- This exchange:Corny: Gee Velma, how are you going to fire Corny Collins from "the Corny Collins Show?"Velma: *Beat* They do it all the time on "Lassie"!
- "The Big Dollhouse," where all the women of the cast are arrested following the riot outside the TV station, and they sing about how much they hate prison.Random Hooker: (to Tracy) Don't you have an old man that can bail you out?Velma: Oh please, her father's a pervert, a loser, a lout!Edna: (Pawing Velma and singing in a deep male voice) And it's just us girls in the big dollhouse...
- Also from that song, the prison matron is a total One-Scene Wonder.
- The entirety of the song "It's Hairspray". It's the theme to the Miss Hairspray pageant, and as such paints hairspray as the key to eternal happiness.
