The Facts of Life (TV Series)

From Russia with Love (1981)

Lisa Whelchel: Blair Warner

Quotes 

• Jo Polniaczek : You lied to your grandparents, you lied to your parents, you're really on a roll.

  Natalie Green : It's called survival. Can you imagine how much fun a weekend with grandma would be?

  Blair Warner : Oh please, with my mother's 3 marriages I'm an expert on grandparents. When they all come over at Christmastime, it sounds like a bunch of antique cars warming up.

  [coughs and hacks] 

  Jo Polniaczek : I never got to know my grandparents, they all died on me.

• Grandma Mona : First they burnt all our hay. And then a mean old looking cossack, started whipping my father.

  Blair Warner : How terrible.

  Grandma Mona : I ran over to him and I said 'you stop hurting my papa!' Then he put a gun to my chest and he said 'Lie down'.

  Jo Polniaczek : Geez Louise.

  Grandma Mona : And I said 'no, if you want to kill me, I'll stand'. He said 'I don't want to kill you, I want something else.'

  Edna Garrett : Oh my God.

  Blair Warner : What did you do?

  Grandma Mona : I don't know, without even thinking, God must've given me the strength, I gave him such a push that he fell back over a milk stool, and I began to run. And I ran and I ran and I ran, until I hid, in a corn field.

  Edna Garrett : And he never found you?

  Grandma Mona : No.

  Edna Garrett : Oh Mona, you're lucky to be here.

  Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : And we're lucky we weren't there.