Schitt's Creek: The 10 Funniest Moira-isms | ScreenRant
Moira Rose is a fan-favorite character on Schitt's Creek, and one of her most lovable traits is the posh indecipherable accent diverse actress Catherine O'Hara chooses to use when portraying Moira on screen.
Along with the accent, Moira has a peculiar and memorable vocabulary that is completely her own, whether she's referring to a baby that won't take a nap as a "bebe that's supposed to be dormant" or telling David that Patrick is a "butter-voiced beau." Moira certainly had her own way of speaking that kept fans entertained throughout the series.
10 Disgruntled Pelican
Moira and her son David are pretty close as a mother and son, but they sometimes fight and Moira isn't above hurling odd insults at David either. Moira catches David after a one-night stand, and David asks her why she wasn't at lunch like she was supposed to be, and she tells him to "stop acting like a disgruntled pelican." The odd phrasing is met with a confused look by David but laughs from the viewer.
9 The Bebe
Moira and Johnny babysit, and Moira shows off her odd parenting skills as Johnny tries to remember how to take care of a baby. Moira gets frustrated that the baby is crying and asks Johnny if he realizes that "the bebe" is crying.
Moira says that "the bebe should be dormant now" in a way that only Moira Rose could, and it's one of the best examples of her absolutely out-there phraseology.
8 Positively Bedeviled With Meetings
Moira isn't typically a character who is willing to drop everything for someone, and she proves it when David asks for her help and she responds with this Moira-ism. She tells David that she is "positively bedeviled with meetings etcetera" even though the audience—and most likely David—knows that she doesn't have anything stopping her from helping him.
7 Dizzying Heights Of Your Moral High Ground
Moira tells Johnny to be "careful, lest you suffer vertigo from the dizzying heights of your moral high ground," and it perfectly sums up their characters on the show.
Johnny typically tries to bring the family together and be financially stable while the rest of his family, a behavior that begins with Schitt's Creek's first episode, can't adjust to their new lives. Johnny does tend to have the moral high ground and gets frustrated with his family, and Moira decided to knock him down a bit.
6 Impulsive, Capricious, Melodramatic, But Wrong
David runs away from Schitt's Creek, and the Rose family goes looking for him. They find him living in an Amish community and convince him to come back, but, before they go back, the family gets some frozen yogurt and discusses David's actions.
Moira tells him that what he did was "impulsive, capricious, and melodramatic, but it was also wrong," emphasizing that it's actually completely fine to be impulsive, capricious, and melodramatic most of the time in her book.
5 Bombilating With Anticipation
Moira is frustrated by the "glud of unasinous ideas put forth," but then she's excited that "the room is suddenly bombilating with anticipation" in yet another iconic Moira-ism from Schitt's Creek. Moira usually gets annoyed by the townspeople of Schitt's Creek, and she has a short temper, but, paired with her particularly perculiar vocabulary, it comes off as more hilarious than mean.
4 Encumbered With Emotional Cargo
Moira unfortunately comes across Roland and Jocelyn's sonogram photos that reveal the sex of their unborn baby, and the couple continues to go back and forth about if they want to know or not. Moira is the only one who has seen what she first referred to as "a photo of a ghost" before she knew it was a sonogram. She goes on to be upset that she is the "only one encumbered with emotional cargo," being the only one who knows the biological sex of Roland and Jocelyn's baby.
3 Butter-Voiced Beau
David is concerned when his new partner Patrick wants to host a karaoke night at Rose Apothecary and insists that he's going to perform. David thinks it will be embarrassing, but it turns out that Patrick has a great singing voice, and Moira sums it up perfectly.
David is entranced by Patrick's performance, and Moira wants to watch this special moment in her son's life that she describes as her "boy being serenaded by his butter-voiced beau."
2 Not The Time For Pettifogging
Alexis mentions the idea of a singles event in Schitt's Creek to try to raise money for the town, and Moira shoots it down as a silly request, saying that she won't bring it to Council. But, Moira changes her mind at the City Council meeting and brings it up passing it off as her own idea instead of Alexis'.
Alexis is understandably upset, but Moira tells her that "now is not the time for pettifogging" and that it's just the situation that they're in now and Alexis should help her anyway.
1 Motley Crew Of Pale Dewey Faced Salamander People
Alexis tries to convince Moira to attend a convention to meet fans of her work, specifically on the soap opera Sunrise Bay. Moira completely refuses the request, saying that there's a reason she's avoided the fan conventions in the past.
She claims that all the fans are "a motley crew of pale dewy-faced salamander people" who want autographs and photos with her and that she hasn't hit rock bottom yet, so she still doesn't want to attend the convention.