The Golden Girls (TV Series)

The Monkey Show (1991)

Betty White: Rose Nylund

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• Rose Nylund : [running a telethon by herself with only Blanche to man the phones]  While Blanche is doing that, why don't I head on over to the piano? I'd like to sing you a song that I used to sing as a child. It's an old Minnesotan farm song entitled "I Never Thought I'd Grow a Hair There."

  [plays a piano intro, then sings] 

  Rose Nylund : Oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa, Oh what the hell is that...

  Blanche Devereaux : Rose, we just got a pledge for twenty dollars.

  Rose Nylund : Oh! Let's go to the tote board. Drum roll!

  [grabs drum sticks and plays a roll, then hits the cymbal. $20 comes up on the tote board.] 

  Rose Nylund : We're off to a good start. OK, now where was I? Oh, yes! Where Hans first spots the hair. Oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa...

  Blanche Devereaux : Rose! Rose, I just got a pledge for fifty dollars if you will stop singing.

  Sophia Petrillo : [over the phone to Blanche]  That's right. Fifty bucks if she stops singing, and I'll throw in another fifty if you slam the piano lid on her fingers.

• Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : In every relationship, there are always times when you don't want to be with each other. I mean, Stan and I went through a period when we had no marital relations at all. I totally cut off his sex.

  Rose Nylund : You mean it grows back?

• Blanche Devereaux : [Dorothy has just returned from her last therapy session with former husband Stan]  Oh, you're back from your session early. Was it as cathartic as you thought?

  Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Well, I don't know if "cathartic" is the word.

  Rose Nylund : You should do what I do. I find if I repeat a word that's confused me, I look smarter than I really am. Like, "Was it cathartic? Oh, I've had a catharticism. 'Course, I'm not the type to kiss and catharterize."