Tress MacNeille: Max's Mom

Quotes 

• Virgil : Witch doctor:Zombies coming!

  Max's Mom : How can you tell?

  Virgil : [Points]  Because they are standing right over there.

• Max's Mom : So what are these nasty looking things, anyway?

  Virgil : Witch doctor:They hold the lifeless soul of the zombie. If one attaches, that person will become a zombie.

  Max's Mom : Sorry I asked.

• Max's Mom : Maybe they're friendly zombies.

  Max : [sarcastically]  Yeah, and they're here to give us the key to the village.

• Max : [Max notices a strange hieroglyph on a temple wall]  mom, look at this! What does this mean?

  Max's Mom : It's a zombie symbol-the hole in the body is where the soul once was. According to legend, a zombie neither lives nor dies, but exists only in limbo.

  Max : Kinda like bein' in school.

• Max's Mom : This figurine is incredible. Do you think I could possibly have it?

  Virgil : Witch doctor: If you like, but I must warn you. This place is filled with evil.

  Max : Mom, mom, um... I don't think it's such a good idea messing around with evil. Call it a hunch.

• Max's Mom : I just wanted something special for the museum... I never thought it could lead to the end of civilization as we know it!

  Max : It's okay, mom... it could happen to anyone!

• Max's Mom : I don't see why we can't call professionals in to do this job.

  Max : Mom, I *am* a professional. I'm the Mighty One!

  Max's Mom : The more I see of this Mighty One thing, the less I like it.

• Max : [Max finds his mom, zombified]  I hope you're not gonna take away my allowance for this, but it's for your own good, Mom!

  [He whacks the zombie creature away from the back of her neck] 

  Max's Mom : What's going on?

  [She feels the back of her neck] 

  Max's Mom : Something tells me I don't wanna know.

• Max's Mom : [Max picks up a two-by-four as a zombified witch doctor comes toward them]  What are you gonna do with that thing?

  Max : I don't know, Mother. I thought I'd ask the big guy out for a game of stickball!