# Zelda Rubenstein in Sixteen Candles: what were the noises when she walked? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 17, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073 "2015-08-17T14:52:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/1 "2015-08-17T14:52:28Z")
During a post-wedding scene in Sixteen Candles, Zelda Rubenstein’s character is walking through the church, and there are noises associated with her movement. Is that supposed to be liquor sloshing around in a flask, or something else (I have no idea what)? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/2 "2015-08-17T14:53:50Z")
I always assumed it was liquor in a flask. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/3 "2015-08-17T14:59:30Z")
I believe it’s her shoes squeaking. At least I hope so since for the last 30 years any time I’m wearing a pair of shoes that squeak I joke that I’m wearing my"sixteen Candles Shoes". ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/4 "2015-08-18T14:38:19Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I always assumed it was liquor in a flask. This is what I always thought too, because she also mutters “I need a drink” as she walks away from Molly Ringwold. ---
**Author:** ![NJS36](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@NJS36](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NJS36)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/5 "2022-03-31T00:24:19Z")
Not to be gross but I thought she had an adult diaper on and it was making a squishing sound. LOL. That was the first thing I thought way back when. ---
**Author:** ![NJS36](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@NJS36](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NJS36)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/6 "2022-03-31T00:25:09Z")
🤣 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/7 "2022-03-31T00:26:52Z")
Do zombies wear adult diapers? ---
**Author:** ![NJS36](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@NJS36](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NJS36)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/8 "2022-03-31T00:29:31Z")
She wasn’t a zombie. HUH??? ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/9 "2022-03-31T00:36:33Z")
NJS36: you resurrected a thread from 2015. This is called a zombie thread or zombie. Welcome to Straight Dope! ---
**Author:** ![NJS36](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@NJS36](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NJS36)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/10 "2022-03-31T01:03:16Z")
OOPS. I didn’t realize. Sorry. I don’t know the lingo. Forgive me. 🙃 ---
**Author:** ![NJS36](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@NJS36](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NJS36)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/11 "2022-03-31T01:04:16Z")
Even my 25-year-old daughter didn’t know what a zombie thread is. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/12 "2022-03-31T01:34:28Z")
I’m not sure that it’s a term anywhere else but here. But, when someone resurrects a long-dead discussion here on this board, it’s almost invariably called a zombie. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/13 "2022-03-31T01:37:35Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Do zombies wear adult diapers? No, but they dream of them. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/14 "2022-03-31T17:16:04Z")
I haven’t seen the movie, but was Zelda by any chance a BBW? In high school, I had an English Lit teacher of very ample proportions. You could hear her coming a mile away from the noise her panty hose made as her thighs rubbed together. (True story!) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/15 "2022-03-31T17:59:23Z")
Zelda Rubinstein was a very well known little person. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/16 "2022-03-31T18:03:16Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Zelda Rubinstein Never heard of her. But looking at her photos, I can see she too was of ample proportions. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/17 "2022-03-31T18:05:21Z")
Here it is on YouTube. It sounds like sloshing and a bit of glass tinkle. I would say with certainty that she is supposed to be carrying a liquor bottle in her bag. And her last line is “Boy I need a drink.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uw2i9MgvGjU/maxresdefault.jpg "Sixteen Candles - Ending") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw2i9MgvGjU) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/18 "2022-03-31T18:07:17Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > Zelda Rubinstein > > Never heard of her. But looking at her photos, I can see she too was of ample proportions. Never saw _Poltergeist_? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/19 "2022-03-31T18:09:34Z")
Believe it or not, no. Just the scenes where the family is terrorized. (I didn’t get around much in the early '80s.) ---
**Author:** ![NJS36](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@NJS36](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NJS36)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073/20 "2022-04-01T02:10:36Z")
LOL Guess what? This is no longer a zombie post! 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zelda-rubenstein-in-sixteen-candles-what-were-the-noises-when-she-walked/728073.md?page=2)