I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968)

Jo Van Fleet: Mrs. Fine - Harold's mother

Quotes 

• Mrs. Fine : What is this? Who is this? What is this? Is this one of your new friends? Shame on you. Go on a diet!

  Crying hippie : All I eat is grass and acid.

• Mrs. Fine : I loved him like a brother.

  Mrs. Foley : I know. I loved him like a husband.

• Mrs. Fine : What kind of meshuggenah outfit is this?

• Joyce : Harold? I didn't see you all day.

  Harold Fine : Well, I was very tired after the funeral, you know.

  [Joyce kisses Harold] 

  Harold Fine : My mother's in there.

  Joyce : Oh, let's live dangerously, huh?

  Mrs. Fine : [from the other room]  Plenty of time for that after the wedding.

  Harold Fine : I told you so.

• Joyce : Look, I found some brownies.

  Father : They look fresh baked.

  Mrs. Fine : Do you have saccharine, Harold?

  Joyce : Oh, I have some in my purse.

  Joyce : Oh, you're a darling. Thank you. Well, looks like a nice brownie, Harold. From Rubins?

  Harold Fine : I don't remember. A small bakery on Fairfax.

  Mrs. Fine : Mmm. Mmm. Better than Rubins.

  Father : Better than Rubins? That's a brownie!

  Joyce : This is delicious.

  Harold Fine : Mmm. They're very good. They're - they're groovy.

• Joyce : He ran off with a governess?

  Mrs. Fine : Maid. Maid.

  Joyce : But he came back.

  Mrs. Fine : Well, they all come back.

  Joyce : Oh, you must have been so terribly hurt.

  Mrs. Fine : Joycella, women are built for hurt.

• Mrs. Fine : So how's the family?

  Gas Station Attendant : Well, to tell you the truth, Mrs. Fine, l've been having a little trouble with my daughter.

  Mrs. Fine : Why? What's the matter?

  Gas Station Attendant : Well, about a month ago she ran off to San Francisco with a white boy. My wife's going crazy.

• Mrs. Fine : Oh, brownies!

  Harold Fine : Hey, don't eat those, Ma. They're Alice B. Toklas brownies.

  Mrs. Fine : I love you, Alice B. Toklas! Who is Alice B. Toklas?

  Harold Fine : Gertrude Stein's friend.

  Mrs. Fine : Oh, yeah, Gertrude Stein. She used to live on Oakwood.

• Harold : I went to pick up my car.

  Father : Yeah? What'd they charge you?

  Harold : 89 bucks.

  Father : For a fender?

  Mother : He can afford it.

  Father : When Roosevelt was alive you could buy a whole car for $89.

• Mrs. Fine : [weeping]  61 years old and they took him!

  Harold Fine : [breaking down]  My father! My poor sweet father!

  Mrs. Fine : [bewildered]  What father? No, Mr. Foley. Ed Foley the butcher. He had a coronary.

  Harold Fine : [enraged]  What are you're trying to do to me? You tell me a 61 year old man has just died! I thought it was Papa!

• Mrs. Fine : Harold, you'll come to the funeral? And bring your brother. Bring Herbie.

  Harold Fine : I don't know where Herbie is. I haven't seen him in 3 months.

  Mrs. Fine : Herbie! He's with the bums in Venice.