The Golden Girls (TV Series)

Love Me Tender (1989)

Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo

Quotes 

• [Spohia is unhappy that Dorothy's relationship with Eddie is purely a physical one] 

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Look, Ma, I am a grown woman and I have needs.

  Sophia Petrillo : Needs! You need food. You need air. You need a better wrinkle cream. You don't need sport nookie!

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : I *hate* blind dates. You know, Ma, I never would have agreed to this if it wasn't your best friend Edna's good-looking doctor nephew.

  Sophia Petrillo : Awwww, he wasn't available any more. He decided to buy a woman from the Philippines. Actually, he bought two women. He wanted an extra for formal occasions.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Then who is this guy?

  Sophia Petrillo : Well, to tell you the truth, I was on the bus...

  Blanche Devereaux : Wait a minute. You set Dorothy up with some guy you met on a bus?

  Sophia Petrillo : Please. It wasn't that glamorous. I saw a sign on the bus. It said, "Lonely? Can't make connections with that special person?" So, I took twenty dollars out of your purse, sent in a picture, they ran it through the computer, and Boom!, you got a social life.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Ma, I cannot believe you sent my picture in to a total stranger?

  Sophia Petrillo : I didn't send in your picture. I sent the picture that came with my wallet.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Ma, I am furious with you.

  Sophia Petrillo : Think of how mad your date's gonna be when he finds out he's not goin' out with Janet Gaynor.

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Well, there's not that much to tell. Eddie took me to the restaurant where he met his ex-wife Roberta.

  Rose Nylund : Well, I'd think going to that restaurant would just remind him of her.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : It did, especially since she owns it, runs it, and calls the place "Roberta's"! As she was seating us, he begged her to come back to him. And after he had wept over his crab cakes, I begged her to come back to him.

  Rose Nylund : So I guess you're not going to see him again?

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Oh yes! Yes, I will!

  Blanche Devereaux : WHAT?

  Sophia Petrillo : Listen, Pussycat. It's been a long time, since you'd been out on a date. And it's quite possible you can no longer judge a good one from a bad one. So let me be of help: Bad date, Dorothy! Bad, bad date!