Hedge’s song gets its lines from the real-world Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung.

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Official: I’m from Immigration. Is there a Hedge Dubois here?

Hibby: She’s right inside.

Hedge: Thy charm be-se-e-e-e-ets me / And cheers my sight / In thy leaping laughter / My heart de-li-i-i-i-ights!

Hibby: Hedge, this is —

Official: Ms. Dubois?

Hedge: Yaah, madam?

Official: So you’re Sønheic?

Hedge: Yes, yes! I need no lessons, yaah? I am secretly Sønska all along.

Official: Secret, eh?

Hedge: Is a good secret! Even my sweetheart, she does not know!

Official: You’d be surprised. Where in Sønheim are you from?

Hibby: Hedge, ixnay on —

Hedge: — Iksnay-on-the-Tundra, yaah! My home town.

You want to hear a Sønska opera? I sing with de voice of a snow maiden.

Official: Do you know Nibelung?

Hedge: How does it go?

Official: It’s not an opera. It’s the place we’re deporting you to tomorrow.

Grassie: . . . so you’ll get to stay here in Ceannis!

Ms. Riisgård: Ms. Dubois, this is very nice, but I —

Hedge: Grassie! Did you tell immigration I snuck into the country?

Grassie: — I’ll call you back. Yes, I did! How did it work out?

Hedge: What would you say if I told you we’ll be deported in the morning?

Grassie: Oh, I’d say that’s terrible!

Hedge: Of course it’s —

Grassie: I haven’t had any time to pack!