The Golden Girls (TV Series)

Snap Out of It (1990)

Bea Arthur: Dorothy Zbornak

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Quotes 

• Blanche : The sixties were an emotional time for all of us. I can still see Big Daddy sittin' on the porch swing, swirling down home brew, picking off peaceniks with his BB gun. Oh God, I miss that man.

  Dorothy : Come on honey. I'm sure Grand Dragon, I mean uhh... Big Daddy is always with you.

• Rose Nylund : [planning a surprise]  I have to figure out which of the traditional St Olaf party games to play at Blanche's party.

  Blanche : [suddenly walks into the kitchen]  Party? Is that why you've been sneakin' around tryin' to find out my age? A party? I forbid it!

  Rose Nylund : Blanche, a party is a celebration of life, and it's not just for you, but for your friends who love you.

  Blanche : [unyielding]  No!

  Rose Nylund : Stop being so vain. You can't stay 42 forever.

  Blanche : Yes you can! If you eat right, exercise regularly, and live with women who look at lot older than you.

  [she leaves in a huff] 

  Dorothy : Tell me, Rose, is 'Kill the Bitch' a traditional St Olaf party game?

• Dorothy : [a man dressed in hippie outfit opens the door and picks up the meal. Dorothy sees him and looks shocked]  Ma! Ma! He's not old. He's a perfectly healthy young man!

  Sophia Petrillo : [Sophia, comes out of one apartment and looks at the man]  Just be back before midnight Dorothy.

  [Then goes back into the apartment] 

• Sophia Petrillo : [Dorothy is helping Sophia deliver meals to the homebound]  This is Mrs Taylor. You'll get along with her just fine. Two things: one, compliment her cat, and two, Jews control the planet.

  Dorothy : Got it.

  Sophia Petrillo : [the door opens and Sophia goes in]  Oh, Hi, Fluffy. Looking good!... No, Mrs Taylor, it's Flint-STONE, not Flint-STEIN.

• Dorothy : [after meeting Jimmy, who hasn't been out of his apartment in 22 years]  How pathetic a person could live their life totally alone, devoid of companionship or love. I wish I could do something.

  Sophia Petrillo : Start a club!

• Rose Nylund : Don't worry, Dorothy, maybe Jimmy'll come around.

  Dorothy : Oh, I wish I could believe you, but Rose, I have been there. I mean, after awhile you feel like you're just in this gigantic black hole.

  Rose Nylund : We had a gigantic black hole back in St Olaf.

  Sophia Petrillo : Oh, God!

  Rose Nylund : On Main Street, right in front of the courthouse, where Charlie and I got our marriage license, and our permit to have kids. Oh, it was a lovely hole. Everybody in town would stand around and look in it...

  Dorothy : [mocking]  And they say Hollywood is the entertainment capitol of the world.

  Rose Nylund : Well, we didn't just look in it. Sometimes we'd point, too. Or spit, and time it! Then there was always that wise guy, who'd have a couple of drinks and unzip himself...