Dr. Mary Lou Larue quotes from Horton Hears a Who! (2008) ... Movie Quotes Database

Played by Isla Fisher

Horton Hears a Who! (2008) · 52 quotes

Scenes with Dr. Mary Lou Larue

3 scenes

Miss Yelp

(The scene cuts to Miss Yelp's desk with her computer) (laughing)

Girl, I got 15,000 friends already. (serious) What? What do you mean, it don't look like me? (Shows an old picture of her on WhoSpace, a parody of MySpace) That looks just like me; 10 years ago. (looks at her watch) Wait a minute. Hold on for one second.
(Grabs a purple drink with a liver for a label and pours it on a cup as the Mayor arrives in a air-themed elevator and slams it to stop. He later walks and grabs the cup)

Mayor Ned McDodd

Treats me like an idiot. I am not an idiot... (drinks the whole cup, then rushes to Miss Yelp) Do I look like an idiot?!

Miss Yelp

You don't want me to answer that.

Mayor Ned McDodd

I am not an idiot. (In his office, still angered about recently) Has the nerve to call me a boob? I would never call somebody a boob. He's a boob. (looks at a portrait of the Chairman) Look at you. Yuck! Look at your face. And I bet you don't look so good with a (throws his stapler at the portrait) stapler on your head!
(The stapler miss the portrait as it bounces right back at Ned, stapling him in the forehead, to which he screams in pain at the top of his lungs, loud enough for even Horton to hear)

Horton the Elephant

Whoa! Who-ho-hoa!

Mayor Ned McDodd

(Back in Whoville, Miss Yelp removes the stapler on Ned's forehead)

Ow, ow, ow... yagh! Thank you, Miss Yelp.

Miss Yelp

You're welcome.

Horton the Elephant

(?)

Hello??

Mayor Ned McDodd

(?) (slurred)

Who said that!? Back off! I'll punch you! Wagh!

Mayor Ned McDodd

(He falls over onto his gramophone, grabbing the horn in self defense as he follows the voice outside, coming out of the burst drain pipe from earlier.)

Hello?

Mayor Ned McDodd

(At the Jungle of Nool) (high pitched and silent, from the speck)

Hello?

Horton the Elephant

(excited)

Hellooooo?
(Back in Whoville, his speech is unintelligible due to the drain pipe. Ned ponders in confusion about this but seeing the horn in his hands, he puts it in the drain pipe and...)

Horton the Elephant

(through the horn)

Who's there?

Mayor Ned McDodd

Um, this is the Mayor.

Horton the Elephant

(In the jungle…)

The Mayor? The Mayor?! (looks to a passing bird in hysterics) I'M TALKING TO THE MAYOR!!! (the bird's nose go down and walks away) I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. I knew there was life on this speck!

Mayor Ned McDodd

(In Whoville…)

"This speck?" (chuckling doubtedly) What speck?

Horton the Elephant

(In the jungle…)

Well, um... (leans on a tree) I don't exactly know how to tell you this, but...

Horton the Elephant

(In Whoville…) (through the horn)

You're living on a speck.

Mayor Ned McDodd

Well, I hate to disagree with you, Oh, voice from the drainpipe, but I live in Whoville.

Horton the Elephant

Well, then, Whoville's a speck.

Mayor Ned McDodd

(from the speck)

Right, o- (In Whoville…) -kay, seriously, who is this? Is this Burt from accounting?

Horton the Elephant

Uh, no. This is Horton. I'm an elephant.

Mayor Ned McDodd

Okayyyy... Hor-ton, fake name. Where are you?

Horton the Elephant

Well, from where you standing? I guess I'm... in the sky. Which is saying something, because I've slimmed down quite a bit. I swim. You're whole world fits on a flower in my world.

Mayor Ned McDodd

Oh, man, this is even inclusion for you, Bert.

Horton the Elephant

Don't believe me? Watch what happens when I put you in the shade.

Mayor Ned McDodd

(In Whoville…)

This is absolutely impossible-

Horton the Elephant

(through the horn)

Dark.

Horton the Elephant

(The sky turns dark, The Mayor eyes widened as he saw the sky. Then cuts to Horton who uses a tree to cover the speck)

Light.

Horton the Elephant

(The Mayor looks down) (through the horn)

Dark.

Horton the Elephant

(Horton uses his ears to cover the speck)

Light.

Horton the Elephant

(The Who-ville people put on their night shades repeatedly every time it goes from night to day) (through the horn)

Dark, light, dark, light, dark, light, dark, light, dark. Light. (Back at the jungle) Don't you see?

Horton the Elephant

(In Whoville) (through the horn)

We're in the middle of some kind of amazing cosmic convergence. Two vastly different worlds, miraculously crossing paths! Mine, COLOSSAL! Yours, miniscule. Yet somehow, we've managed to make contact.

Horton the Elephant

(In Whoville…) (through the horn)

If you think about it, it's pretty amazing.

Horton the Elephant

(The Mayor looks up at the sky as the camera zooms upwards)

Is everything okay down there?

Mayor Ned McDodd

(In Whoville…) (speechless)

I... I don't know. You tell me. You're the one holding the speck.

Horton the Elephant

I'm the one holding the speck. (gasp, realizing what the Mayor said) I'm the one holding the speck! (through the horn) Don't you worry, Mr. Mayor.

Mayor Ned McDodd

(The Mayor rushes to his desk and plays some music on his telephone, with a beeping sound; to Horton)

Hold, please!
(He rushes to an air-filled elevator, but he got hit and fell down. Miss Yelp, on her computer, grabs an ice pack to him and he puts it on his head and later enters the elevator)

Narrator

What did all of this mean? The Mayor hadn't a clue.
So, he ran to the office of Dr. Larue,
the brainiest brain on the staff at Who U.

Mayor Ned McDodd

(At Larue's office)

Dr. Larue! Oh, this is crazy...!

Dr. Mary Lou Larue

(lisp voice)

Oh! Mr. Mayor! How may I be of assistance?

Mayor Ned McDodd

I don't know. Hey! You know, I was just wondering if our world were, say, a tiny speck, mmm, floating through space... how would we know?

Dr. Mary Lou Larue

Well, why would you ask something like that?

Mayor Ned McDodd

Oh, no reason. No reason at all. I don't even remember. Yes, I do. Ah, you know what? Some guy was talking to me. Not an elephant in the sky. A guy on the ground.

Dr. Mary Lou Larue

(A round glass containing green acid starts to roll over and the Mayor noticed it and quickly grabs it)

There would be several ramifications.

Mayor Ned McDodd

Good ramifications?

Dr. Mary Lou Larue

A tiny speck?

Mayor Ned McDodd

(The acid then pours on the desk while Dr. Larue puts a popcorn kernel and starts experimenting with it using a laser-like experiment)

Uh-huh, yeah. Tiny speck.

Dr. Mary Lou Larue

Floating around. (While Larue uses her laptop and types about the "speck", The Mayor looks at the acid and quickly hides it with a book before it sinks itself) Well, we'd have inexplicable tremors, dramatic changes in the weather, (Dr. Larue reads at a very long paper containing results) and if we didn't eventually achieve some sort of stability, our world would be... (She removes her glasses for dramatic effect) destroyed!(A kernel later becomes a popcorn)

Mayor Ned McDodd

Destroyed?! (slurred) Destroyed, Oh destroyed. Oh, trouble! (As the Mayor leaves, Dr. Larue quickly stops the acid bottle with her finger from pouring. At Mayor's office, he hangs up the telephone and rushes to Horton) Horton!

Horton the Elephant

(in a nasally voice)

Um, no, uh, this is... uh... Benny. Horton is busy right now. (In the jungle, Horton holds his trunk to change his voice, before going back to his normal voice, chuckling.) No! I'm joking. That's me.

Mayor Ned McDodd

(to himself)

Oh, we're doomed.

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Dr. Mary Lou Larue

(At Whoville, with Mayor's bed)

Mayor? Mayor? Open up, Mr. Mayor! Mr. Mayor! It's snowing in the summer!

Mayor Ned McDodd

(We then see Whoville, now covered in snow)

Yes. Yes, it is.

Dr. Mary Lou Larue

It's a dramatic change in the weather. As if we're on a speck floating to space. I don't know how you knew. But, somehow you did. And Whoville is headed for disaster.

Mayor Ned McDodd

Oh, Horton.

Dr. Mary Lou Larue

What?

Mayor Ned McDodd

Ah, nothing. I'm on it.

Dr. Mary Lou Larue

It's up to us to save the people of Whoville.

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Horton the Elephant

(He see a pink-style field that's all nothing but clovers as Horton searches for the one with the speck)

Mayor? Anybody there? Hello? Anyone?

Narrator

But clover by clover by clover he found,
that the one that he sought for was just not around.

Horton the Elephant

Mayor? Hello?

Narrator

And by noon, poor Horton, more dead than alive,
had picked, searched, and piled up 9,005.

Horton the Elephant

(tired)

Hello. Sorry to bother you, nobody. Knock knock. This is the way you say, "Who's there?" If there were any Whos there. Get it! "Who's there?!" (babbling)

Narrator

All day he looked, looked on and on,
till his hope was almost gone.

Horton the Elephant

(Just then, a wind blew a pile of pink clovers. Horton noticed this and begins to panic)

No. No. No. Please, No! This isn't fair!

Narrator

(As Horton looks at the wind-blowing clovers, he saw the actual clover, the one with the speck)

But wait! Could this one be the one?
Was all his searching finally done?
(an excited Horton runs through the clover and grabs it and later jumps through a pile of clovers) Ah, yes! For this was the hour,
Horton have found them on the three-millionth flower!

Horton the Elephant

Mayor? Mayor! I found you! (Silence; Horton's face goes nervous as the speck didn't answer) Mayor? Are you there? Mayor? (Horton lies down in defeat) Mayor! (Cuts to Who-Ville, being destroyed due to Vlad dropping the speck) Mayor, are you there? Mayor? Mayor? (Cuts back to the clover field) Mayor.... MAYYOOR!!!!!! (He falls down and begins to cry, covering his eyes with his ears, until he hears something)

Mayor the Elephant

(nasally voice)

Uh, no. This is Floyd. Can I take a message?

Horton the Elephant

(Horton's face goes excited as he hears the Mayor and starts to jump in ecstatic)

Mayor! You're Okay!!

Mayor Ned McDodd

(At Who-Ville, the people and the buildings jumps and shakes due to Horton's ecstatic jump)

Horton! Horton! Stop! Stop it!

Horton the Elephant

(The jumping and shaking stops)

Sorry. (Back at Who-Ville) It must've been rough down there. I can't believe I found you. You really have me worried.

Old Who

Say, the Mayor was right!

McDodd Sisters

(The sisters and baby arrived to hug his father)

Daddy, daddy, daddy.

Mayor Ned McDodd

Okay, I'm alright. And so are you. (Sally arrives and she and Ned both smile at each other before he talks to the Who's and clear his throat) Citizens of Whoville! I'd like you to meet our friend, Horton. (The Who's all cheer for Horton, with him being in touched, then back to Whoville) He's going to help us.

Chairman

I've got this. This is the chairman-

Horton the Elephant

IDIOT!!! You're finished in this town. Is that understood? Finished. You boob!! (The chairman was too appalled to speak, before Horton laughs) I'm just joking.

Chariman

Good one.

Mayor Ned McDodd

Horton, this is my wife Sally.
Sally O'Malley-McDodd: You exist! This means my husband isn't crazy. Hooray!

Mayor Ned McDodd

And... off you my daughters. Haley, Holly, Hooly, Hedy Hilda and Hanna.

McDodd Sisters

Hi!!

Mayor Ned McDodd

And here is Miss. Yelp, my loyal assistant. And here's Dr. Larue...

Dr. Mary Lou Larue

You saved us.

Mayor Ned McDodd

And Bert from accounting. And Mrs. McGilicuddy. (a cat yowl can be heard from the speck) And Mr. Farfoogan from the Cloogan Farfoogans. And the Oldman in the bathtub.
Sally O'Malley-McDodd: Let's not overwhelm the poor fella. He's never gonna remember all these names.

Horton the Elephant

I'll try my best. Sally. Chairman. Haley, Holly, Hooly, Hilda, Hedy & Hanna. Miss Yelp, Dr. Larue, Bert from Accounting, Mrs. McGilicuddy, Mr. Farfoogan of the Clugan Farfoogans. And wasn't there an old guy in a shower?

Mayor Ned McDodd

Mmm, Bathtub.

Horton the Elephant

Oh, yeah.

Mayor Ned McDodd

We're all here, Horton. And we all believe in you.

Horton the Elephant

Wow! That's awesome. And it's a responsibility, I do not take lightly. I promise you a future that it's safe, sound, and stable. We will create a world where every Who is endowed with three inalienable rights to be determined that a later date.

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