This thread has probably already been started but since I couldn't find it & I was strapped for time I decided to just start a new one.

What is your favorite Dorothy (Bea Arthur) quote or line? I love the following one:

Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas

[Blanche compares herself to one of "Charlie's Angels"] Blanche: I once was told I bore a striking resemblence to Miss Cheryl Ladd ... although my bosoms are perkier!

Dorothy: Not even if you were hanging upside-down on a trapeze!

Stan, Sophia, Blanche and Rose are sitting in the living room watching Stan's commercial for the "Zborni" potato opener when Rose says something like "I want a Zborni, how exactly does it work" and Dorothy says "I put up with it for 38 years, you don't want to know." :lol:

When Sophia was missing in the hospital:

Blanche: So did you find Sophia?

Dorothy: Yes, Blanche, but I hid her again so you could find her!

Same episode, after the 3 "girls" find Sophia on the elevator:

Sophia confesses why she got her hernia.

Dorothy: Oh Ma, it doesn't matter, I'm just so glad we found you......

Rose, Push Morgue.

Dorothy talking about Stan's family:

They're the only people I know that eat chicken and then smell their fingers the rest of the day.:lol:

I know I probably won't get this completely correct but I laugh everytime she does this part:

"Excuse me, everybody, that gentleman sitting over there in the blue suit at table 5 is impotent. Bon Appetit.":lol:

Stan: I an but a humble servant.

Dorothy: Mr.Belevedere was a humble servant, you're a horse's ass.

:lol:

Dorothy: Blanche, have you heard of the latest campaigns? "Join the navy, see the world... sleep with Blanche Devereaux"? "Join the army, be all you can be... sleep with Blanche Devereaux"?

[getting angry]

Dorothy: "The marines are looking for a few good men who have *not* slept with Blanche Devereaux"!

:lol:

the last one is what i remember the most about it my favorite qoute of that episode lol

BLANCHE: Look at the way she's flirting with him! Disgusting!
ROSE: You flirted with him.
BLANCHE: I'm from the south. Flirting is part of my heritage.
ROSE: What do you mean?
DOROTHY: Her mother was a slut too.


DOROTHY: There is more to Edie than meets the eye. But all we have in common is under the sheets.
ROSE: What's under the sheets?
DOROTHY: His cappuccino maker.


DOROTHY: I have a date tonight.
BLANCHE: With a man?
DOROTHY: No, Blanche. With a venus fly trap.


DOROTHY: Stanley, you're a pig in a cheap suit.
STANLEY: You know, for two cents...
DOROHY: You could buy a better toupet?

I know I probably won't get this completely correct but I laugh everytime she does this part:

"Excuse me, everybody, that gentleman sitting over there in the blue suit at table 5 is impotent. Bon Appetit.":lol:

I believe she said that to Stanley's brother. She was dating him and it turned out he was a sleeze-bag just like Stan.

Sophia: I need the money for my old age.
Dorothy: Old age? You don't leave fingerprints anymore.

Dorothy: Blanche, are you sure you're pregnant?
Blanche: I just did a home pregnancy test - it's right here.
Rose: It looks like a perfume sample.
Dorothy: Put it behind your ears, Rose.

Dorothy: You'll have to excuse my mother. She suffered a slight stroke a few years ago which rendered her totally annoying.

Sophia: My hiney's asleep.
Dorothy: Fine, we'll keep our voices down.

:lol: that last one is one of my favorites!


Blanche: You can't keep him, Rose.

Rose: Why can't I keep the dog?

Dorothy: Rose, there's no one home during the day to take care of him!

Sophia: I'm home during the day!

Dorothy: There's no one lucid home during THE DAY!

[Blanche and Dorothy are discussing Blanche's birthday gift to Rose: a detective to follow around Miles]

Blanche: Well I can't take it back, I paid in advance
Dorothy: Can't you get a refund?
Blanche: Well, no, I paid with nature's credit card
Dorothy: You never leave home without it.

I believe she said that to Stanley's brother. She was dating him and it turned out he was a sleeze-bag just like Stan.

Yes, I'm familiar with the episode. She was pissed at him because he asked her to babysit while he went off with the flight attendant and to get back at him, she announced to everybody in the restaurant that he was impotent. She said it about Stan's brother, not to him.;)

"LESBIAN, Blanche, not LEBANESE!!!" makes me howl whenever I hear it. :lol:

Dorothy: Blanche, I'm leaving you in charge of my mother.

Blanche: Me, why not Rose?

Dorothy: Rose couldn't keep our rock garden (?) alive, I'm going to give her my mother? (can't remember exact words)

In the final episode where Dorothy is telling Lucas what specifically Blanche, Sophia and Rose taught her, she draws a blank with Rose. Then she comes up with Rose taught me to tie a ? knot. (again can't remember exact words)

Dorothy: You'll have to excuse my mother. She suffered a slight stroke a few years ago which rendered her totally annoying.

Rose: Well, I'm here if you want to pick my brain.
Dorothy: Rose, honey. Maybe we should leave it alone and let it heal.

Blanche: This is strictly off the record but Dirk is nearly five years younger than I am.
Dorothy: In what, Blanche, dog years?

Dorothy: [to Sophia] You're a furry little gnome and we feed you too much.

To Stan: Younger than Chrissy? Where did she meet him, Camp Snoopy?

To Blanche: These aren't the best years of your life, these are the last years of your life.

.

Dorothy:
I've just beeen thrown out of an unauthorized Elvis Fan Club.
I'll try and pick up the pieces and move on with my life.
Surely there must be some kind of support group for people like me.

Sophia: What is everyone talking about?
Dorothy: I can honestly say I have no idea.
Rose: We started talking about Ms. Claxton's funeral
Dorothy: and somewhere we segued (sp?) way into Blanche, the mini-series.

In the episode where Stan's cousin Magda visits, Dorothy agrees with everything Magda says until she says "Now I come stay with you" to which Dorothy responds "but I hear Stan has cable."

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Dorothy:
I've just been thrown out of an unauthorized Elvis Fan Club.
I'll try and pick up the pieces and move on with my life.
Surely there must be some kind of support group for people like me.
"

This is one of my favorite scenes in the whole series. At the beginning of the episode Rose passes around a jar with a partially eaten pork chop and Dorothy says" This is obviously a fake. Elvis would never leave this much meat on a bone" :lol:

.

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Dorothy finds ex hubby Stan and her sister Gloria together in Dorothy's bed.
Dorothy: Officers, shoot these people!
Officer #1: We can only shoot looters, ma'am.
Dorothy: I understand. Stan, pick up the TV on your way out.

Dorothy: Blanche, you're all talk and no action...just like your sex life.
Blanche: Are you saying that I'm not a tramp? Just why do you think they call me the female Ted Kennedy?
Dorothy: Because you look like him.

Dorothy arrives to the Golden Palace Hotel.
Chuy: Oye, Mamacita! Do you move as good a you look?
Dorothy: Walk away now and noone gets hurt!
Chuy: You must be Dorothy!

Minutes later...
Cab Driver: Excuse me, Miss? I was counting this fair and I think you forgot the tip.
Dorothy: A tip? A tip. Let's review your performance, shall we? You ran over my luggage. You took the freeway during rush hour and you stopped your car three times to sell fruit out the back of trunk. A tip? Walk away now and no one gets hurt!
Roland: You must be Dorothy!

:lol: :brent

This thread has probably already been started but since I couldn't find it & I was strapped for time I decided to just start a new one.

What is your favorite Dorothy (Bea Arthur) quote or line? I love the following one:

Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas

[Blanche compares herself to one of "Charlie's Angels"] Blanche: I once was told I bore a striking resemblence to Miss Cheryl Ladd ... although my bosoms are perkier!

Dorothy: Not even if you were hanging upside-down on a trapeze!
"Shady Pines, MA!"

"Shady Pines, MA!"


(To Lucas) Dorothy: Well, I haven't frolicked since...well since the day I dropped my mother off at Shady Pines...It was a good day.

(To her sister, Gloria) Dorothy: You have no money. You're poor.
Gloria: I know, Dorothy.
Dorothy: No. You think about that! You have nothing. Zilch! No mas dinero.
Sophia walks in and hits Dororthy.
Dorothy:...but you're my sister and I'm here for you.

When Sophia is being interviewed as a prospective nun, Dorothy wants to stay and watch the interview. She tells her mother, "I'd go outside, but there don't seem to be any shady pines to sit under." hehe!

Blanche asks why Dorothy's college roommate prefers women over men. She says, "A man has so much more to offer."
Dorothy replies, "I learned that in the third grade when Mark Perper ran for class president. His slogan was, "Vote for me, and I'll show you my wee-wee. He won by a landslide."

:lol:

Wish I could think of more off the top of my head, but a lot of times it was Bea's delivery moreso than the line that made you laugh.

"What about the vapors, Blanche? Shouldn't she be overcome by the vapors?"

"Good night, Ma. Good night, Moe. Good night, Larry."

To Blanche: "...she likes to think of herself as the godfather. I'll just make her an offer that she can't remember."

They're all funny.

"Where did you go to college, Blanche? The University of Jupiter?"

I think my favorite will always be her response to Sophia saying that having the Pope's ring might be her shot at getting into the Bible:

"Ma! The Bible's a done deal! :brent

"Clayton is a hobo?"

And

Rose: Do you want low fat cheese and whole wheat crust?"
Dorothy: Why don't we just smear ketchup on some cardboard? I want pizza!"

To Rose: "You're what we in the revenge business call 'next'."

"Blanche, you have to have written to have writer's block. Otherwise we all have it." :idea:

"The woman drinks grain alcohol out of a measuring cup."

"It's like living in a house full of Howie Mandels."

"Of course! Yak snacks."

Dorothy: [the girls see all of the old men working on their garage] It looks like the road company of Cocoon.