Return to Oz (1985)

It has been six months since Dorothy has returned home from Oz and she still cannot sleep. She has been going on about imaginary places and people so much that Aunt Em takes her to see a doctor. She promptly escapes from the mental hospital and wakes up in Oz where her pet chicken, Billina, can now talk. There she meets a whole new bunch of friends and they set off to rescue the Scarecrow from the evil Nome King who has found her ruby slippers and used them to lay waste to the Emerald City and take over Oz.

Keywords: 1890s, 19th-century, actor-playing-multiple-roles, acute-insomnia, anthropomorphic-scarecrow, aunt-niece-relationship, based-on-novel, character-feels-around-for-missing-head, chicken, clinical-depression

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Jack Pumpkinhead: If his brain's ran down, how can he talk?::Dorothy: It happens to people all the time, Jack.

Gump: If I had a stomach, I *know* I would be sick!

[regarding headless statues]::Dorothy: Look, Billina, these ones have lost their heads.::Billina: Now, that's what I call just plain carelessness

Billina: What is this, a man or a melon?::Jack Pumpkinhead: A pumpkin, if you please.

Billina: We come all this way to see a bunch a stiffs.

Mombi III: Not beautiful you understand, but you have a certain prettiness, different from my other heads. I believe I'll lock you in the tower for a few years until your head is ready. And then I'll take it.::Dorothy: I believe you will NOT!

Billina: Some place for a chicken coop! How big is this pond anyway?::Dorothy Gale: I don't think it's a pond, Billina. [gets up and looks around] I guess it is a pond.::Billina: Hmm, told you so.::Dorothy Gale: Where did all the rest of the water go?::Dorothy Gale: Yeah, where did Kansas go? Ohh, this is some place for a chicken coop.::Dorothy Gale: When did you learn to talk anyway? I thought hens could only cluck and cackle.::Billina: Strange, ain't it? How's my grammar?

Nurse Wilson: Lie down.::Dorothy: I'd like to sit up, if I may.::Nurse Wilson: What did your aunt tell you?::Dorothy: To do what you told me, Miss Wilson.::Nurse Wilson: Then, lie down.::[the attendants are strapping Dorothy to the stretcher]::Dorothy: Why do you have to tie me down?::Nurse Wilson: So that you don't fall off.::Dorothy: I came all the way from the farm on a buggy and I didn't fall off. [They start to wheel Dorothy down the hall] Did I hear somebody scream earlier?::Nurse Wilson: No. [They wheel Dorothy through some double doors. Dr. Worley is adjusting his machine]::Dr. J.B. Worley: Hello, Dorothy. How are you?::Dorothy: I wish I wasn't tied down.

Ozma: Why did they bring you here, Dorothy?::Dorothy: Because I can't sleep, and I talk about a place that I've been to, but nobody believes that it exists.

Dr. J.B. Worley: And how did you come back from... Oz?::Dorothy: With my ruby slippers.::Dr. J.B. Worley: How did they work?::Dorothy: You put them on and you click your heels three times, and you say "There's no place like home".::Dr. J.B. Worley: Dorothy, where are those slippers now?::Dorothy: I lost them. They fell off on the way back.