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The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA.
Donna: Somebody up there has got it in for me. I bet it's my mother.
Sky: You must be Tanya. I've heard so much about you. Tanya: Oh. All bad, I hope. Sky: Yes. Donna: And all true!
Rosie: [to Tanya] Typical isn't it? You wait 20 years for a dad and then three come along at once.
Sophie: I don't care if you slept with hundreds of men. You're my mom, and I love you so much. Donna: [hugging her] Oh, Soph! Donna: [to the congregation] And I haven't slept with *hundreds* of men.
Sam Carmichael: Am I getting this right? Sophie may be mine, but she may be Bill's or Harry's? Donna: Yeah. Yes! That's right. And don't get all self-righteous with me, because you have no one but yourself to blame! Sophie: Yeah, if you hadn't just dumped my mother and gone off and married somebody else... Sam Carmichael: Hey, hey, wait a minute. I had to go home. I was engaged. But I told Lorraine I couldn't marry her and I came right back! Donna: You... you... Why didn't you call me? Sam Carmichael: Because I was crazy enough to think that you would be waiting for me. Only when I arrived, they told me you were off with some other guy. So... Lorraine called me an idiot and married me to prove it.
Sophie: [reading Donna's diary] "We danced on the beach, and we kissed on the beach, and... dot, dot, dot."
Harry Bright: Donna must be tearing her hair out doing this wedding on her own. What would the father of the bride normally do? Tanya: Pay. [beat] Tanya: Though my dad drew the line at my third.
Rosie: [to Donna, holding up Tanya's underwear] Does she wear it or floss with it? Tanya: Floss you! Donna: Is it edible Tanya?
Donna: [about the possible dads] I don't know where they are, I don't know why they're here, and I have brought this all on myself because I was a stupid, reckless little slut! Tanya: Whoa-ho-ho-ho! Don't you sound like your mother!
Tanya: [before singing 'Does Your Mother Know'] Little boys who play with fire get their fingers burned.
Donna: You sound like you're having fun already. Lisa: Oh, we are. Donna: [nostalgically] I used to have fun. Ali: Oh, we *know*! [Donna looks puzzled]
Rosie: Excuse me! Coming through! I have a senior citizen with me. Thank you. My mother needs a perch. Tanya: Mother? We're the same age! Rosie: Yeah. Well, parts of us are.
Donna: [at the wedding ceremony] And welcome to... to... Sophie's dad. I have to tell you, he is here. Sophie: I know. I invited him. Donna: You couldn't have. I don't know which one it is.
Rosie: [to Tanya] It's very Greek.
Tanya: Whatever happened to our Donna? Life and soul of the party! El Rock Chick Supremo! Donna: I grew up. Tanya: Well, then, grow back down again!
Donna: Why are you here? What are you doing here? Bill: I'm writing a travel piece. Harry Bright: I'm, I'm here on a spontaneous holiday. Sam Carmichael: Er, I just dropped in to say... hi.
Pepper: [preparing a cocktail for Tanya] Now, baby, this should tickle your taste buds. Tanya: Down, big fella. I'm old enough to be your mother. Rosie: Grandmother.
Harry Bright: Bugger. Sam Carmichael: My sentiments exactly.
Donna: Okay, now, the thing about the toilet... If it doesn't flush right away, just go, and come back in a while, and it should... Nothing works around here, except for me.
Rosie: [regarding Sam, Bill and Harry] Now, listen, listen, what we're gonna do is... we'll get them plastered tonight, and then tomorrow, Tanya and I will take them fishing. Tanya: Fishing? Oh, please! Rosie: What do you suggest we do with three men? Tanya: Well, then, now, THAT takes me back.
Sophie: You took... Mom's guitar! Harry Bright: No, I borrowed it. Look... Now, where is it? "D.S." - Donna Sheridan, and, er, "H.B." - Head-Banger. Sam Carmichael, Bill: [both] "Head-Banger"? Harry Bright: I bought her this. It cost me ten quid, plus my Johnny Rotten T-shirt. Your mother knew quite a rebel.
Sophie: I want the perfect wedding, and I want my father to give me away. Ali: Better be a wide aisle!
Donna: I'm gonna arrange for a boat to take you all back to the mainland. Bill: I have a boat, Donna. Donna: You have a boat? Good, get on it. And, er, anchors aweigh! Sam Carmichael: Hey... Donna: Away aweigh! Sam Carmichael: Donna... Bill, Sam Carmichael, Harry Bright: [together] It's good to see you!
Rosie: [in a very Cockney accent] Excuse me! Hello! This is a hen party. Women only! Thank you. Sam Carmichael: Okay.
Donna: I better be dreaming, you better not be here. Bill: You want me to pinch you Donna?
Rosie: [talking about Sophie] She's a chip off the old block! Donna: If she were more like *me*, she wouldn't be getting married at 20. Tanya: Or married at all!
Donna: [about the three "dads"] They have no right to turn up like this. What have they ever done for their daughter? Huh? Rosie: Donna, Donna, they didn't know she existed. Donna: Well, they didn't need to know, did they? I've done a great job with Soph all by myself, and I won't be muscled out by an e... jaculation!
Sam Carmichael: [after Donna falls on Harry's air bed] You always knew how to make an entrance.
Sophie: God, I love Sky and I want to be with him and I... I don't want my children growing up, not knowing who their father is, because it's just, it's crap!
Sam Carmichael: I see you kept my bagpipes. Donna: They're supposed to ward off unwanted visitors. Sam Carmichael: Oh, you don't need bagpipes to do that.
Tanya: [to Sophie] I bet you don't remember me. Rosie: Not with all that plastic surgery.
Rosie: I'm a lone wolf!
Sam Carmichael: [while Donna and the Dynamos are singing "Super Trouper"] Our song! Harry Bright: Your song? It's *my* song!
Sky: It's my stag do - my last night of freedom. Which is how some people might see it. But for me, it's the last night before the greatest adventure of my life.
Tanya: [when a crack appears in the courtyard] What's going on? Donna: [laughs] D'you feel it? The earth moved, darling. We're falling apart here. [she snatches the bottle of champagne from Tanya's hands and walks off] Donna: Don't think about it. Come on. Let's go have fun.
[Bill has just realized that he might be Sophie's father] Sophie: You know what comes next? Bill: Well, you're not going to tell me that you have a twin sister, are you?
Sophie: I'm so glad you're here because... I have a secret, and I can't tell anybody else. Ali: Sophie! You're knocked up? Sophie: No! no! no! Um... I've invited my dad to my wedding. Lisa: You are joking! Ali: You found him at last? Sophie: No! No, no, no, no, no. Not exactly.
Tanya: [talking about Donna's money troubles and her life in general] Yeah, but are you being taken care of? Donna: What do you mean? Tanya: Are you getting any? Donna: Oh, you mean... [turns on the drill, making loud noises] Donna: [to the drill] Down, boy. Down, boy! No, it takes too much energy. Rosie: Yeah, just more plumbing to be maintained, isn't it?
Sam Carmichael: I've done the big white wedding, and believe me, it doesn't always end in "happy ever after". Sophie: That is you, that's not me! Okay? I love Sky more than anything in the world, and I... Arrgh! Did you feel that way before you got married? Sam Carmichael: [thinks about that] No.
Tanya: All that fricking yoga's made my feet bigger.
Donna: Sky! Come meet my backup girls. Rosie, Tanya: Backup girls, my arse!
Harry Bright: [introducing himself] I'm Bright. Harry Bright.
Sophie: Do you think I'm letting you down? Donna: Why would you even think that? Sophie: Oh, because... of what you've done. I mean, the Dynamos, raising a kid... and running a business, all on your own. Donna: Well, honey - I didn't have a choice. I couldn't go home. You know? When I got pregnant, my mother told me not to bother coming back. And I wouldn't have had it any other way. My God, look at what *we've* had.
Sky: [talking about Sam, Bill, and Harry] You invited these guys and you didn't tell me? Sophie: No, I thought you would... try to stop me. I *know* I messed up... Sky: Sophie... is that what this whole big white wedding is about? You finding your dad? Sophie: No, no! Sky: I wanted to take a boat to the mainland with a couple of witnesses, and you *insisted* on this sodding circus so you could play happy families. Sophie: It's about knowing who I am and... and I wanted to get married knowing who I am! Sky: That doesn't come from finding your father. That comes from finding yourself, and... The irony is, I was travelling to find *myself*, and... I put everything on hold, for you. Because I loved you, and I wanted what you wanted. Now I don't know. Sophie: You don't know if you love me. Sky: Of course I *love* you. I just wish you'd told me!
Sam Carmichael: The last time I saw your mother, she said she never wanted to see me again.
Rosie: [looking down the hatch of Bill's boat] Cooee! Bill: Heey! Right in time for breakfast. We're serving up the works here. [he turns around, revealing his bare bottom] Rosie: Oh! Think you just did!
Tanya: [looks in the basket that a local woman is holding] Waaaaaahhh! [Tanya catches herself] Rosie: It's just a fish! [some people chuckle around them]
Donna: Ohh, look at my baby, her whole life ahead of her! Sophie: Oh *please*, I'm getting married, I'm not joining a convent!