Favorite quote or episode of "Designing Women"
 

*cue the theme song*

I saw one of my favorite episodes this morning. It's titled,"How Great Thou Art". The one where Charlene questions leaving her church and Julia deals with getting over her stage fright for her solo performance at the Interfaith Conference. The best part was that Bernice didn't have her "little arterial flow problem above the neck";). She gave Reverend Nunn a run for his bible by meeting him verse for verse. He was against women being ministers in the church.

"Yo Miss Betts, we got our head stuck in the fence!"-Mary Jo from "The Abbott Bannister".

I'll bite. My two favorites:

I'm saying this is the South. And we're proud of our crazy people. We don't hide them up in the attic. We bring 'em right down to the living room and show 'em off. See, Phyllis, no one in the South ever asks if you have crazy people in your family. They just ask what side they're on.

and

Suzanne, if sex were fast food there'd be an arch over your bed. (This one was originally used in Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Dixie Carter and Delta Burke's earlier show, Filthy Rich.

My family's favorite parts of Designing Women--the one where Anthony yells at the women for discussing female anatomy like he's not even there and the last episode where the little old lady keeps singing her original song, "Black Man! Black Man!"

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

There's a bad one?
 

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This is from Dash Goff, Suzanne Sugarbaker's exhusband and ends with the above picture: "Yesterday, in my mind's eye, I saw four women standing on a verandah in white gauzy dresses and straw colored hats. They were having a conversation, and it was hot - their hankies tucked in cleavages where eternal trickles of perspiration run from the female breast bone to exotic vacation spots that Southern men often dream about. They were sweet smelling, coy, cunning, voluptuous, voracious, delicious, pernicious, vexing and sexing - these earth sister rebel mothers, these arousers and carousers. And I was filled with a longing to join them. But like a whim of Scarlett's, they turned suddenly and went inside, shutting me out with the bolt of a latch. And I was left only to pick up an abandoned handkerchief and savor the perfumed shadows of these women. These Southern women. This Suzanne, this Julia, this Mary-Jo and Charlene. Thanks for the comfort." -Dash Goff, the Writer

I also love the one when Bernice gives the Designing Women a "wildness experience weekend" and Anthony shows up:
Anthony gets caught helping the ladies and pretends to be a woman camper.
CONNIE: What's this camper's name?
ANTHONY: (in a high-pitched voice) Cindy.
CONNIE: Cindy what?
ANTHONY: Cindy Birdsong.
CONNIE: Birdsong - I don't remember that name. (to other leader) Check your list.
ANTHONY: I was late. I got on the bus at the last minute.
CONNIE: Who let you on?
ANTHONY: I don't know. Some white girl.
CONNIE: Where's your application?
ANTHONY: I turned it in.
CONNIE: To who?
ANTHONY: Some white girl.
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Unfortunately, the show put new meaning into "jumped the shark" when they got rid of Suzanne and Charlene, and brought in Alison and Carlene - although I did like BJ Poteet.

Oh, Mystic Cat - I like when the snob asks Julia on which side the crazy people are in her family, and she responds, "Both sides!" I love the Terminator!!

My favorite (one of my favorite episodes of TV ever period) is "The Rowdy Girls." Charlene's cousin Mavis (played by Kim Zimmer who plays Reva on Guiding Light, which is another reason I like it so much) has an abusive husband, the fact of which she's covered up for years, and Charlene helps her to leave him. Every time I see it, I absolutely end up bawling.

1) JULIA: ...In general it has been the men who have done the raping and the robbing and the killing and the war-mongering for the last two thousand years.... and it's been the men who have done the pillaging and the beheading and the subjecating of whole races into slavery. It has been the men who have done the law making and the money making and the most of the mischief making! So if the world isn't quite what you had in mind you have only yourselves to thank!!


and of course:

2) 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!

YES! I sing that to this day.

BERNICE: (singing) Black man!! Black Man, where have you gone to? Black Man!! Black Man . . . where did you go? . . .
ANTHONY: Bernice, what the hell are you singing about?
BERNICE: Oh, Anthony I don't know. It just comes to me, I can't explain it. It's a gift.

my two absolute favorite episodes are where charlene is having her baby and the group happens into this elderly black woman's hospital room where she gives a commentary on her life, and when she passes on she's holding onto dolly parton's hand as they walk down the aisle...
also, where anthony is in the big brother's program and he takes under his wing this juvenile. when the juvenile steals and gets the group in trouble, anthony wants to give up on him, but julia talks him into still staying in the young boys life, and anthony has his talk with him in the end...

My all-time favorite
 

When Julia calls a New York Times Reporter who has written an article saying that Southerners eat dirt ...


JULIA on the phone: Yes, you can give him a message. You do take shorthand, don't you? Good, we take it in the South too. Anyway, just tell him that I have been a Southerner all my life, and I can vouch for the fact the we do eat a lot of things down here........ and we've certainly all had our share of grits and biscuits and gravy, and I myself have probably eaten enough fried chicken to feed a third world country ---- not to mention barbecue, cornbread, watermelon, fried pies, okra, and ...........yes.........if I were being perfectly candid, I would have to admit we have also eaten our share of crow, and for all I know --- during the darkest, leanest years of the Civil War, some of us may have had a Yankee or two for breakfast. But........... speaking for myself and hundreds of thousands of my Southern ancestors who have evolved through many decades of poverty, strife, and turmoil, I would like for Mr. Weaks to know that we have surely eaten many things in the past, and we will surely eat many things in the future, but --- God as my witness - -- we have never, I repeat, NEVER EATEN DIRT!!!

Excellent! Julia's tirades made the show complete!

Where are y'all finding all this dialogue? I am loving reading it.

The one that comes to mind is an episode that starts with Mary Jo on the phone with a design client who ordereded a white piano with the faces of George, Paul, John and Ringo on it, and wants to return it. Mary Jo patiently tells the client that it's a custom item, so it can't be returned. Then ends the conversation by saying "We won't place you for collections. We don't have a collections agency. We have Julia."

My favorite is when Julia had the lead in "Mame" and Anthony had to go on at the last minute in drag as Vera Charles.

Some of my favorites: :)

Suzanne (from the episode where she finds out that one of her old pals on the pageant circuit is a lesbian and "coming out" didn't mean she was a debutante): Well, EXCUSE ME for not bein' up on homaseckshul history and the latest lesbian lingo! I thought Sappho was a detergent!

Charlene (during the Miss Georgia U.S. pageant mess): Yesterday, when you said that stuff about your cold, dead scalp, y'know, and then you ran out to the parking lot and threw yourself on the ground kicking and screaming, and then you crawled to your car with dirt and saliva all over your face, and then you drove away peelin' rubber ... well, we thought you were upset.

Bernice (from the same episode, having just discovered the now morbidly obese Donna Jo Karns): Look what I found in the ladies' room!
Charlene: Bernice, put her back!

Bernice (in the judge's chambers at her competency hearing): Well, I just can't believe it. That's twice he's been in here, and she's raving about some girl's breasts, and you're on the table juggling imaginary underwear. Now, I'm telling you people for the last time—you have GOT to get it together!

Bernice (who has tricked the gang into appearing on Senior Roundup, her public-access cable show): Charlene, now let's just cut through the decorating scam—how many treats do you turn a week?

Julia (offering Bernice a cookie while trying not to seem aghast at her Miss Piggy nose job): How about another nose?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090418/quotes

Thanks, Senusret I!

The best of Suzanne ...

EXCUSE ME! EXCUSE ME! Would the parents of the juvenile delinquent who broke my windshield please come to the announcer's booth immediately? And bring your checkbook! THANK YOU!

Mr. Fladbeau! This is Suzanne Sugarbaker! Reggie Mac is takin' his break now! THANK YOU!

Mary Jo, I had my period 5 years straight in high school to avoid PE, OK? What do you think I have a Mercedes for?

Suzanne, scoping out men at the supermarket: Hey, those two are cute—wait, never mind.
Mary Jo: What's wrong with them?
Suzanne: Two guys, one cart, fresh pasta, figure it out.

Bernice, at her sanity hearing ...

Now, Your Honor, if you don't mind, I'd like to tell you a few things about my cousin Phyllis. First of all, when you go to the bathroom at her house, you can't use the soap or the towels—there's just a big old bar of Ivory under the sink, and you have to wipe your hands on your pants. And whenever we go to McDonald's, she always wants to know what the fish is like. And I always have to say, "It's SQUARE FISH, Phyllis, OK?"

But my fav all time quote is from Julia, of course and its the night the lights went out in Georgia speech....

but here are some more memoriables

From: The Last Humorously Dressed Bellboy in America

SUZANNE: Don't worry about Mr. Fladbeau, I'll take care of that. You're not leaving this room. (Suzanne grags the microphone on the piano) Mr. Fladbeau! This is Suzanne Sugarbaker! Reggie Mac is taking his break now, thank you!!

SUZANNE; Reggie Mac, I want my money and I want it now!

La Place Sans Souci
I loved the fight in the mudbath, but I couldn't find it :( but this last one made up for it:

JULIA: But then again, I suppose in my heart I always knew that someday we would end up like this. I mean, well, it's kind of fitting isn't it? Here we are going down the highway into the dark Georgia night. Four aging Southern belles --- war-torn hair, dirty faces --- a nanny, a baby, and a crippled black man.

Julia and Suzanne's Big Adventure
SAM: Ma’am I know I’m on her purse strap. And I’m gonna get off of it as soon as I get re-situated here. And just for the record, if there’s anything else you all want to do to me, besides moving me, insulting me or waking me up, just do it all in English, cause I’m from Conyers Georgia. I might look Japanese, but I’m really a Bubba. Ok?

From Oh, What A feeling --
I loved when Anothony after coming back from being stranded in the Car with a client walks back to the store and then goes on his rant about how this came about. I couldn't find the quote, but what stands out in my mind: The coffee is tepid, I couldn't stay in that van one moment longer her and her humongous ass

Any episode that included a Julia tirade though the Miss georgia quote was hands down awesome

and

When Julia Sings in the closing church scene at the inner city baptist conference....wow what a beutiful voice!

whatever happened to mesach taylor?

My Favorites
 

Growing up in Atlanta, I always liked Designing Women (and not afraid to admit it).
I like the episodes when:

1) Suzanne makes Anthony take Consuela's citizenship test

2) Any episode with crazy Vanessa, Anthony's girlfriend. Especially when she works at Sugarbakers and Anthony has the yuppie girlfriend.

Lita: "How do you do?"
Vanessa: "I do fine, how do you do?"

Suzanne: "Can you believe that? She's touching the back of his neck and smiling"
Vanessa: "That's okay, if she wanna start trouble with me I got a switchblade"

He was on a show a few years back, as the next door neighbor, and really was the best part of the show - but it got cancelled.

*checked www.imdb.com*

It was Dave's World, a takeoff on Dave Barry's life. You can read the rest athttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm0852886/.

I really enjoy his acting!

He is on one of those nickelodeon teen shows as a high school teacher.

which one? I would like to see him again.

I think it is Ned's Declassified or Zoey 101 but pretty sure it is Ned's on Nickalodeon

I still want to hear what Wrigley's favorites are!! :D

"The Beauty Pageant" is also my favorite episode of Designing Women. The entire scene ranks as one of my all time TV favorites.

I'll add more soon. Everyone's responses have been great. I didn't know about the imdb quote section.

An exchange on Charlene's brother Odell ...

Suzanne: Let me get this straight. He's never had a girlfriend, he knits sweaters, and he works at the beauty shop?

Charlene: Well, he goes to Three Rivers Junior College, too. What are you gettin' at?

Suzanne: Well, I don't mean to get personal Charlene, but has it ever occurred to you that maybe Odell is involved in some homaseckshul activity?

Charlene: Suzanne! I mean, just because a person is sensitive and artistic doesn't mean he's gay. Not that that would matter to me anyway.

Julia: Well, I think he sounds like an interesting and talented young man.

Suzanne: I think he sounds like a woman.

Mary Jo: Bear in mind that this comes from the lips of a woman who thought there was a patron saint for homosexuals named "Saint Francis of a Sissy."

It is Ned's Declassified on Nick (6:00 pm EDT). My kids love that show.

Nick at Nite
 

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/blog/20...n-october.html

from: http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/...d.php?t=182756

- Designing Women Launch Marathon / Roseanne Marathon
Monday, October 2 through Thursday, October 5, 2006
Designing Women launch airs 10:00 p.m. to approx. 2:00 a.m. each night, followed by Roseanne from approx. 2:00 a.m. to 6 a.m.

Join Nick@Nite to launch Designing Women! Starring Delta Burke, this show was one of the most well written comedies of the late 80s and early 90s. After the launch, catch the show Mon-Sat at midnight ET/PT and on Thursday in the late night marathons.

Designing Women is coming to Nick@Nite with a week-long launch marathon featuring the best episode of the series. Head down to Atlanta this October for a crash course in interior design! Julia Sugarbaker and her staff will teach you the do’s and don’ts so you too can be a successful designer…while keeping you in stitches.

SUZANNE: I think these pantyhose are too dark for this dress.
JULIA: Oh, my goodness. Suzanne, do something. That could be embarrassing. I mean, in 45 minutes when the finest people in Georgia are gathered here before me, I wouldn't want anyone to say, "Did you see that woman with her head stuck in the staircase? Yes. That woman the Governor just stepped over? Don't you think her pantyhose are a little dark for her dress?"
SUZANNE: Now, listen, I have a lighter pair right here.
JULIA: Suzanne, of all the experiences I would like to avoid, I believe having my pantyhose changed in the front hallway of the Governor's Mansion would rank right up there.
SUZANNE: Well, just excuse me for livin'. It wasn't something I was going to particularly enjoy myself, anyway.

I used to watch when I was in grad school. They showed it at 9 am on CBS stations. This was one of their funniest episodes.

Have I told you lately that I love you? :D

One episode Mary Jo gave Bernice a Christmas Tree skirt to put around the bottom of the tree, and silly Bernice thought it was for her, so she had this skirt around her waist. When Mary Jo told her what it was really for, Bernice said she thought it fit awfully tight.

Every time I decorate the Christmas tree I think of that episode. I look at the Christmas tree skirt and think "hmm ... wonder if it would fit?"

I'm so excited for the Nickelodeon reruns!

My favorite Julia moment was when she was in the bathroom with Resse's new assistant and Julia compares the woman to compost.

That speech Julia gives to Ray Don is so :eek: . That woman has got a mouth on her!

Bumping this thread 'cause I love this show ... :)

Charlene and Mary Jo are frantically tearing a salad bar apart to find Suzanne's pearls, which Suzanne had lent to Mary Jo and which she lost at the restaurant, when a busboy catches Charlene with her arm in a vat of dressing ...

Charlene: Can you tell me, is this French or Thousand Island?

Busboy (stunned): Thousand Island.

Charlene (drops the container and wipes off her hand): I don't care for Thousand Island.

Yea, I love the Miss Georgia episode.

Also, any of them with Lewis Grizzard...GOOO DAWGS!! :)

Bumping because it's on TV Land's Block Party tonight. Showing at this moment: Dash Goff, the Writer!

What about the Lee Sing episode? I loved that one.