Favorite scene in movie

Sheila Beers

My favorite scene is the one in which Madea hits the kid on the school bus. She is wearing the usual, matronly looking pink and lilac calico house dress with coordinating fuzzy lilac house slippers. Just the outfit is hysterical because it is the outfit overweight housewives of the 1950s wore. In fact, the scene takes me back to my childhood when two of my neighbors dressed exactly this way and wore their fuzzy house slippers all over town, day and night. The heavy, deliberate steps as she approaches the school bus convey her anger so well, and her movement and expression add to the hilarity of the scene. As she steps onto the bus and her weight makes it tilt, she says something. A skinny Afro-American boy talks back by over-enunciating, "SHUT UP, Old Lady!" Madea grabs him as if he were a rag doll and puts him in his place. I think this is the funniest scene in the whole film.