Ticks (1993)

Virginya Keehne: Melissa Danson

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Quotes 

• [Tyler meets Melissa for the first time at the pick-up spot] 

  Melissa Danson : Adults. Don't believe a word they say. You're gonna hate this trip more than I will.

• [the kids arrive at the Campgrounds Lodge] 

  Rome Hernandez : This is it. This place looks worse than the projects.

  Dee Dee Davenport : Definitely not cable-ready.

  Melissa Danson : Wait till you check out the toilette, princess.

  Rome Hernandez : Do we got to actually sleep in this dump?

  Panic : Give me a dark alley over this place, anytime. This place ain't right, man. It's too quiet. It's too goddamn quiet.

• [Tyler and Melissa take a walk together in the woods] 

  Melissa Danson : You must think I hate everything, huh?

  Tyler : No, actually I, uh... you must like coming up here with your dad, huh?

  Melissa Danson : No, I hate it. I hate this place. I mean, everybody says coming out to nature is supposed to be a poetic and inspiring experience, right? What is so inspiring about bugs and insects and snakes and creatures of the night making all that racket? It's suffocating and it's vile, and it's full of rot.

• [Tyler and Melissa come back from they're stroll in the woods] 

  Tyler : Melissa got attacked by some big bug or something. Can we go home?

  Charles Danson : Well, we are out in the wilderness.

  Tyler : No, I know, but this wasn't your average wilderness bug, okay?

  Melissa Danson : No, wait, this thing was, like, glued to my back or something. It was gross, it was all slimy, it was like a, like a...

  Rome Hernandez : Like a big snot!

• [Holly tells the kids what to do if they see any bugs] 

  Holly Lambert : Just don't touch it if you don't know what it is.

  Melissa Danson : Don't touch it? It attacked me.

  Holly Lambert : Oh, come on, guys. Bugs don't attack unless they're aggravated.

  Tyler : Great. Classic story. The adults not believing the kids. Thanks.

  Panic : I should've brought a piece, man. This place ain't safe.

• [last lines] 

  Rome Hernandez : [the group watches the cabin explode as they escape in the van]  Yeah, sucker!

  [Rome puts his arm around Dee Dee, Mrs. Lambert puts her arm around Kelly] 

  Melissa Danson : [Melissa puts her arm around Charles]  Oh, dad.

  [Tyler sits in the front seat, driving them all back to the city, as it's revealed that the van has a tick egg attached underneath it]