The Golden Girls (TV Series)

The Housekeeper (1987)

Rue McClanahan: Blanche Devereaux

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Quotes 

• Sophia Petrillo : So what's all this crap about you putting a curse on my daughter?

  Marguerite Brown : What is she talking about?

  Sophia Petrillo : Don't play dumb with me. I've been known to cast a curse myself. Do you think Shelley Long was really tired of playing in Cheers? Wrong, baby! I was tired of her!

  Marguerite Brown : Is that what you think this is all about? You think I put a curse on you?

  Blanche Devereaux : Well, it's true! You got mad at us for firing you, that's why you reversed that love potion you gave me.

  Marguerite Brown : Honey, that wasn't love potion. That was Chanel Number 5!

  Rose Nylund : I'm not buying that! Dorothy uses Chanel Number 5 all the time and she never attracts men!

• Blanche Devereaux : So, Marguerite, wont you start by telling us a little about yourself.

  Marguerite Brown : Well, there isn't much to tell. I'm hard working. Honest. And I'll work for a reasonable wage.

  Rose Nylund : That's it?

  Marguerite Brown : Alright. I wont go on with this charade any longer. There is something else, I'm black. Now if that's a problem for you, I'm white. Course that'll cost you extra!

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Oh, Marguerite, I could kiss you!

  Marguerite Brown : And I don't go for that freaky stuff.

  Rose Nylund : Oh, neither do Dorothy and I.

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : [coming onto the lanai carrying a small painted rock]  Girls, look what I found under my bed.

  Rose Nylund : Gee, that's the most colorful dustball I've ever seen.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : This is no dustball, Rose. I think it may be some kind of charm.

  Marguerite Brown : [overhearing]  It is! I learned it from my grandmother. You put a specially painted rock beneath a person's bed to bring them a restful sleep.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Are you telling me that you put this under my bed?

  Marguerite Brown : Well, I was only trying to be helpful! I figured with those terrible bags you needed the rest.

  Rose Nylund : Dorothy always looks like that.

  Blanche Devereaux : And besides it'll take a lot more than rest to get rid of those babies!

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Listen, I have an idea. Why don't each of you take it in turns hitting me with a two by four?