Favorite quote or episode of "Designing Women"

[NinjaPoodle]

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

[NinjaPoodle]

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

[LXA SE285]

"HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, LOIS AND SHIMMY!"

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

[carnation]

bump. RIP, Dixie.

[wrigley]

RIP Dixie

[NinjaPoodle]

RIP Meshach.

[MaryPoppins]

Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle

RIP Meshach.

May the light eternal shine upon him.

[honeychile]

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

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by honeychile

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.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

That's exactly what I thought.

Must be the Jamestown Cousin thing at work!

[GammaGirl1908]

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?"

[NinjaPoodle]

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.

[MaryPoppins]

[RUASTgrrl]

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!

[MaryPoppins]

Originally Posted by RUASTgrrl

And that, Marjorie — just so you will know — and your children will someday know ---is the night the lights went out in Georgia!

^^^^Bravissima!