Designing Women (TV Series)

Killing All the Right People (1987)

Delta Burke: Suzanne Sugarbaker

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• Mrs. Salinger : Now I don't like to hurt anyone's feelings, but if these boys hadn't been doing what they do, they wouldn't be getting what's coming to them now.

  Mary Jo Shively : Imogene, gays aren't the only ones getting it.

  Mrs. Salinger : No, but they're the ones who started it.

  Kendall : Actually, nobody knows how it got started. Gays are just one of the first groups it showed up in.

  Mrs. Salinger : Yes, and for a good reason. You reap what you sow. And you boys brought this on yourselves. As far as I'm concerned, this disease has one thing going for it. It's killing all the right people!

  Julia Sugarbaker : Imogene, I'm terribly sorry. I'm gonna have to ask you to move your car.

  Mrs. Salinger : Why?

  Julia Sugarbaker : Because you're leaving.

  [pulling her towards the door] 

  Mrs. Salinger : What are you talking about?

  Julia Sugarbaker : I'm talking about the only thing worse than all these people who never had any morals before AIDS, are all you holier-than-thou types who think you're exempt from getting it.

  Mrs. Salinger : Well, for your information, I am exempt. I haven't lived like these people. And I don't care what you say, Julia Sugarbaker. I believe this is God's punishment for what they've done.

  Suzanne Sugarbaker : Oh, yeah?

  [standing up from chair] 

  Suzanne Sugarbaker : Then how come lesbians get it less?

  Mrs. Salinger : That is not for me to say. I just know that these people

  [pointing to Kendall] 

  Mrs. Salinger : are getting what they deserve!

  Julia Sugarbaker : [Raising her voice]  Imogene, get serious! Who do you think you're talking to? I've known you for 27 years and all I can say is, if God was giving out sexually-transmitted diseases to people as a punishment for sinning, then you would be at the free clinic all the time.

  [Imogene gasps] 

  Julia Sugarbaker : And so would the rest of us!

  Bernice Clifton : [standing up]  I think she makes a good point.

  Mrs. Salinger : Oh, who cares what you think? You're not even all there!

  [tapping her head] 

  Bernice Clifton : [sighs]  Well, as long as we're on the subject,

  [pointing at her chest] 

  Bernice Clifton : neither are you!

  Mrs. Salinger : Well, Julia. You needn't look forward to any more of my business in this lifetime!

  [turning towards door grabbing coat] 

  Julia Sugarbaker : Wonderful!

  [opening door] 

  Julia Sugarbaker : I'll close up your account! And another thing, my son has an "A" in chemistry. In fact, he's making all A's in everything - including P.E!

  [slams door shut] 

• Mary Jo Shively : Julia, If I could just be more like you. I mean, you can always think of just a million things right of the top of your head and it is always articulate and wonderful. I need you to show me how you do what you do.

  Julia Sugarbaker : Well, I'm not sure exactly what that is.

  Suzanne Sugarbaker : Oh get serious, Julia! They don't call you the Terminator for nothing.

• Mary Jo Shively : Could you get fired up and let me watch?

  Julia Sugarbaker : Mary Jo, I don't feel fired up right now.

  Mary Jo Shively : All right. We'll get you fired up. Uh, let's all think of something that really makes us mad.

  Suzanne Sugarbaker : [Gasps]  Oh, oh! I've got one. This just makes me furious.

  [Setting down her cup] 

  Suzanne Sugarbaker : You know when men use women's liberation as an excuse not to kill bugs for you. Oh, I just hate that! I don't care what anybody says, I think the man should have to kill the bug!

  Julia Sugarbaker : [Elegantly]  I don't think i can add anything to that.

• Charlene Frazier Stillfield : What's the matter?

  Kendall : Nothing, you just surprised me, taking my hand.

  Charlene Frazier Stillfield : You mean because...

  Kendall : Yeah. In the hospital even some of the nurses refused to come in my room.

  Julia Sugarbaker : [sees Imogene overhearing]  Imogene, why don't you take that book over to the counter, hun? I'll be over in just a sec to write up the order.

  Mary Jo Shively : I can't believe that, I mean if *hospital* people are gonna act that way, how can they expect the public to behave any better?

  Kendall : What I want to know is how'd you guys get so smart?

  Mary Jo Shively : Well, we read.

  Suzanne Sugarbaker : And I went to see Julia's and my family doctor, and he told me that you can't get AIDS from touching anybody, you can only get it from sex, blood products and shared needles.

  Mary Jo Shively : I mean it just stands to reason if AIDS was airborne, that somebody would've gotten it that way by now.

• Suzanne Sugarbaker : You know, I have never understood why people get so crazy about sex anyway, I mean when you think about it, it's pretty silly, and silly looking too, and it messes up your hair. I don't think it's something we ever would've come up with on our own.

  Julia Sugarbaker : Why not?

  Suzanne Sugarbaker : Well it's just got to be hormones, otherwise no rational person would run around trying to link up with other people in that way. I mean when you get down to it, it's just kind of an odd thing to do, don't you think?