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Motormouth Maybelle: [to Seaweed and Penny] Oh, so this is love? [She pauses and then smiles] Well, love is a gift, 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 Pingleton: [Totally serious] So, you've met my mom?

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At the start of "Good Morning Baltimore," Tracy's alarm clock changes position three times. See more...

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Adam Shankman, director of the movie, has a cameo appearance as the agent with the sunglasses in the Miss Hairspray pageant. See more...

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Hairspray (2007) - 2 questions

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Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance

The "questions" section is for any random questions that occurred to you while watching this film, or anything you didn't entirely understand, and which Google or the IMDb can't help with. Submit them as a question, and hopefully someone will answer (the bold comments in brackets) - check back regularly. If the answer is wrong, or missing information, please use the "clarify answer" option. Don't feel limited - want to know what music played in a certain scene? Whether this was the first film to use a certain effect? Here's the place to ask!

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Entry Who is the girl that sings 'Ooh, Yeah' in "I Know Where I've Been" (Queen Latifah's song)? She sounds like a really good singer.
Entry At the end, right at the beginning of the song "Hairspray" at the pageant, Amber turns to Link and whispers, "Look, there's the agents" and it cuts to a few suit-wearing people with clipboards. My mom and I noticed that one of the women among them looked like Ricki Lake. Is it her, in a cameo? It would seem to make sense since she was in the original movie. [Yes, that is Ricki Lake, the original Tracy Turnblad, in a cameo appearance!]

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