I just wanted to bump to celebrate the fact that the 1st season is out on DVD!

:does happy dance:

:D

bump!

Since this has been bumped...

I loved when Anthony would make mention of his "unfortunate incarceration", and when Mary Jo was so fascinated with the size of other women's breasts, she said that Suzanne's bra fit over her head!

There are waaaaay too many quotes I loved from this series, but almost all of 'em were said by Julia. I always did love it when she would be flabbergasted and say, "Have you all just COMPLETELY lost your minds?"

Sigh. When I was 16, if you'd asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would've answered, "JU-lia Sugarbaker."

My favorite episode is "The Candidate", when Julia runs for office. She has an amazing monologue that I actually performed at a local film industry event.

I do not think everyone in America is ignorant! Far from it! But we are today, probably, the most uneducated, under read, and illiterate nation in the western hemisphere. Which makes it all the more puzzling to me why the biggest question on your small mind is whether or not little Johnny is gonna recite the Pledge of Allegiance every morning!

I'll tell you something else, Mr. Brickett. I have had it up to here with you and your phony issues and your Yankee Doodle yakking! If you like reciting the Pledge of Allegiance everyday then I think you should do it! In the car! In the shower! Wherever the mood strikes you! But don't try to tell me when or where I have to say or do or salute anything, because I am an American too, and that is what being an American is all about!

And another thing, I am sick and tired of being made to feel that if I am not a member of a little family with 2.4 children who goes just to Jerry Falwell's church and puts their hands over their hearts every morning that I am unreligious, unpatriotic, and un-American! Because I've got news for you, Mr. Brickett. All liberals are not kooks, anymore than all conservatives are fascists! And the last time I checked, God was neither a Democratic nor a Republican!

And just for your information, yes I am a liberal, but I am also a Christian. And I get down on my knees and pray everyday - on my own turf - on my own time. One of the things that I pray for, Mr. Brickett is that people with power will get good sense, and that people with good sense will get power... and that the rest of us will be blessed with the patience and the strength to survive the people like you in the meantime!

Mine too. I also off the top of my head love the ep. where Julia is invited to the country club Suzanne want to be a part of but the club doesnt allow Jews or "others". The other one I love is Suzanne's high school reunion & how she deals with her weight gain issue.

I had to find this.
The first part
The night the lights went out in Georgia

This was also one of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTITa...eature=related

"HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, LOIS AND SHIMMY!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtjdjixQnI8

bump. RIP, Dixie.

RIP Dixie :(

RIP Meshach. :(

May the light eternal shine upon him.

Missing Meshach Taylor, and hoping that his "unfortunate incarceration" in this world has been exchanged for one of peace.

That's exactly what I thought.

Must be the Jamestown Cousin thing at work!

One of my favorite shows, by a country mile. RIP Meshach. Le sigh.

I have too many favorite lines to count. I often try to channel Julia (although I achieve Suzanne).

But one of my all-times -- I guffaw every time -- is from the episode where Julia and Suzanne's nieces come to visit, and they are uncomfortably similar to Julia and Suzanne.

The line (paraphrasing a bit, since I'm not looking up the exact verbiage):

"I want to get some blush-on with some little sparklies in it."

"We are not stopping. If you want red cheeks, why don't I just slap them for you?"

Roots and Wings
The quote from the pillow given to Suzanne by her grandmother:
Dear Little One,
I wish two things;
To give you roots.
To give you wings.

Julia confronts, and then comforts, a very tearful Suzanne who doesn't want to give up Li Sing.
SUZANNE: Well I sure made a mess of things this time, didn't I?
JULIA: Not yet. In a few more hours they'll be talking kidnapping.
SUZANNE: I wish I'd never met her. She thinks I'm wonderful. She even loves my cooking.
JULIA: You don't cook.
SUZANNE: Well, I know that, but she doesn't! Li Sing's the first person who's ever loved me just for me.
JULIA: She's not the first. She's the third.
SUZANNE: What? you mean my ex-husbands?
JULIA: No, silly. Mother and me. We love you just for you.
SUZANNE: Yeah, but you don't think I can do anything.
JULIA: That's not true. I just said I didn't think you were cut out to be a mother.
SUZANNE: You mean unlike the four billion other women on Earth? Thanks a lot.
JULIA: But you do something nobody else can do.
SUZANNE: What?
JULIA: I don't know what it is.....exactly.....that you do. I just know nobody else is doing it, or can do it, like you do. You giving away your pillow?
SUZANNE: Yeah. I wanted Li Sing to have it.
JULIA: I think Grandma would like that. I remember when she made these for us. Roots and Wings. We sure got our share didn't we? Suzanne, I'm going to say something pretty harsh, but I'm saying it because I love you. Just once in your life, don't put yourself first.
SUZANNE: I'm not, Julia. I'm thinking of Li Sing.
JULIA: No, you're not. You're not thinking at all. You know, in your heart, that she's better off with this couple. If you love her, like you say you do, give her wings.
SUZANNE: I just didn't expect to fall in love with her. I know, you're right. I know. Ok, I'll do it.
Julia takes Suzanne's hand and starts to cry herself.
JULIA: I'm so happy for you.
SUZANNE: Why?
JULIA: Because, now. . . you know what it feels like to be a mother.

Oh Suzannah pt 1
http://youtu.be/MYTijugWWGg

Part 2
http://youtu.be/cSC2q4lneAA
I cry every time I watch this episode.

The Rowdy Girl episode is on LOGO, right now, 2pm central.

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A favorite relaxing weekend activity for my roommates and I in college was as much Designing Women and Golden Girls as the Lifetime channel would give us. Those were the days.

I know this one was mentioned several years ago, but here it is agiain anyway in all its glory:

Julia: Excuse me, aren't you Marjorie Leigh Winnick, the current Miss Georgia World?
Marjorie: Why, yes I am.
Julia: I'm Julia Sugarbaker, Suzanne Sugarbaker's sister. I couldn't help over hearing part of your conversation.
Marjorie: Well, I'm sorry. I didn't know anyone was here.
Julia: Yes, and I gather from your comments there are a couple of other things you don't know, Marjorie. For example, you probably didn't know that Suzanne was the only contestant in Georgia pageant history to sweep every category except congeniality, and that is not something the women in my family aspire to anyway. Or that when she walked down the runway in her swimsuit, five contestants quit on the spot. Or that when she emerged from the isolation booth to answer the question, "What would you do to prevent war?" she spoke so eloquently of patriotism, battlefields and diamond tiaras, grown men wept. And you probably didn't know, Marjorie, that Suzanne was not just any Miss Georgia, she was THE Miss Georgia. She didn't twirl just a baton, that baton was on fire. And when she threw that baton into the air, it flew higher, further, faster than any baton has ever flown before, hitting a transformer and showering the darkened arena with sparks! And when it finally did come down, Marjorie, my sister caught that baton, and 12,000 people jumped to their feet for sixteen and one-half minutes of uninterrupted thunderous ovation, as flames illuminated her tear-stained face! And that, Marjorie — just so you will know — and your children will someday know ---is the night the lights went out in Georgia!

^^^^Bravissima!

Thank you, RUASTgrrl!! I read that whole thing with Julia's voice in my head. My very favorite scene from DW!

RUASTgrrl - my sisters and I quote that to each other!!! It's the finest scene, we've made all our daughters watch it on youtube!!! Thank you.

And this as well:
"For example, you probably didn't know that Suzanne was the only contestant in Georgia pageant history to sweep every category except congeniality, and that is not something the women in my family aspire to anyway. "

Dear Little One,
I wish two things;
To give you roots.
To give you wings.

The First Day of the Last Decade of the Entire Twentieth Century

The ladies and Anthony have been mesmerized by the tales at Miss Minnie's bedside as she starts to speak passionately and emotionally.
MISS MINNIE BELL WARD: ....I thought as I got older, the bold outline of truth would be revealed to me, but it hasn't happened. When I was young, I was in such a hurry. And now, I've been here a hundred years. It seems like only yesterday I held my babies in my arms. I'm glad to be going home. It's been a long time since I've seen my family. And I wish for all of you, all the love and happiness I had in my life -- and I hope the world keeps going toward freedom. And I hope that people everywhere can learn to live together in peace. As my pappa used to say......we ain't what we should be, we ain't what we're gonna be, but at least we ain't what we were..... (and Miss Minnie slowly lays back as she gasps her final breath and passes on.)

Not a quote, but....

The exteriors for Julia's and Suzanne's homes were shot in Little Rock, AR.

Julia's home (Sugarbaker's) is Villa Marre
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.ne...x?entryID=2108

while Suzanne's home is the Arkansas Governor's Mansion.
http://www.arkansasgovernorsmansion.com

No one has mentioned the episode "Miss Trial"?

Julia: "I'd like to thank you again, Charlene, for turning me in to the judge. Now the entire jury is sequestered and I am stuck sharing a room with a woman with no lips."

Later...

Suzanne to Charlene: "I think you and your baby oughta get a couple of black wigs and get the hell out of town."

Customer at Burger Guy: Is it fresh?

Julia, working the counter: Let me put it this way—it's compressed fish, breaded and deep-fried, it costs 89 cents. What do you think?

Customer: I dunno.

Julia: Yes, it's fresh.

My mom watched DW religiously and sometimes I'd watch it with her.

Two episodes come to mind:

1) The episode where they all go to New Orleans and get hammered, then the next day while trying to fix the microphone Annie Potts' character announces that she's having an affair with a married man and the microphone turns back on when she says it.

2) The episode where Bernice has her own TV show and interviews Julia and someone else (Charlene??), and she starts asking Julia questions with sexual inuendos.

I don't remember much about the episode except that Mary Jo's daughter Claudia had a serious boyfriend, and she was still in High School. And Mary Jo was talking to Claudia about how if she had *questions*, she would be happy to answer them. And she slipped in very quickly at the end of her conversation, "Don't have sex." Like a subliminal message. That one got plenty of use with my mother, sister and me.

"Tonight we're talking about a problem that preys on the mind of every senior citizen: sex for sale."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6ouhdxwK6Q

ttt

Where did this come from? Lol

Well, then—
“The man should have to kill the bug!”

That line came from the Killing All the Right People" episode.
Part 1
https://vimeo.com/32375488

Part 2
https://vimeo.com/32376452

Charlene: I asked this Northern woman, "Where are ya'll from?" And she said, "I'm from a place where we don't end our sentences with prepositions." So I said, "Okay, where are ya'll from, bitch?"

Bumping, just because...

I enjoy the DW S02E10 episode "Stranded" where Suzanne and Anthony travel by car during a cold snow storm and are forced to spend the night in a motel. There's only one room available and Suzanne refuses to allow Anthony to sleep in the room, for fear that "Something like this could get around, I could be ruined on the pageant circuit, they might even revoke one of my pageant crowns".

God bless Suzanne for giving Anthony a robe, a pair of pantyhose and scarf so that he is warm, while he sleeps in the car.