The Golden Girls (TV Series)

Scared Straight (1988)

Rue McClanahan: Blanche Devereaux

Quotes 

• Clayton Hollingsworth : I shouldn't have got you mixed up in all this. It's just so hard to tell Blanche the truth.

  Rose : Clayton, you're selling your sister short. Now at times Blanche can be very understanding, compassionate and forgiving.

  Blanche : [entering the room]  Get away from my baby brother you cradle snatchin', empty headed, two faced dummy!

  Rose : And then at other times she can be a real bitch.

• Blanche : [Blanche and Rose have had a fight and Blanche has gone to a bitter Rose to say "sorry"]  Now, Rose, I'm about to say two little words and they are the hardest words for me to say...

  Rose : [cutting Blanche off]  'Not tonight?'

• Blanche : I just feel like I don't know you anymore.

  Clayton Hollingsworth : I'm the same person I always was.

  Blanche : No you're not. You used to be just like me.

  Clayton Hollingsworth : What - great lookin'?

  Blanche : Yes.

  Clayton Hollingsworth : Charming?

  Blanche : Yes.

  Clayton Hollingsworth : Irresistible to men?

  Blanche : My God, Clayton, you *are* me!

• Rose : We should put out the Welcome mat.

  Blanche : We don't have a Welcome mat.

  Rose : What about the one Dorothy always says is at the foot of your bed?

• Blanche : Clayton Hollingsworth, you look me in the face and tell me you really are what you say you are.

  Clayton Hollingsworth : I think you heard me the first time, Blanche.

  [He walks out] 

• Blanche : You know what that popcorn reminds me of? Rex's Drive In out at the lake. You remember the night my date and I parked right next to you and your date? Pretty soon it got to be a contest who could fog up whose car the fastest. I think you won!

  Clayton Hollingsworth : You weren't doing too badly considering you were in a convertible.

• [Clayton happened to meet Rose after a failed date and confessed his homosexuality to her, now she is helping him to confess to Blanche] 

  Rose : Tell her, Clayton.

  Clayton Hollingsworth : I will, Rose.

  Blanche : Tell me what?

  Clayton Hollingsworth : Well, I ran into Rose at the park and...

  Blanche : And?

  Clayton Hollingsworth : And we had a long talk and...

  Blanche : And?

  Clayton Hollingsworth : And... we slept together tonight.