Filthy Rich (1982–1983)

Nedra Volz: Winona 'Mother B' Beck

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Quotes 

• Carlotta : Mother B, Kathleen was married to Big Guy after your divorce.

  Mother B : Oh. Well, just don't forget to put out after dinner!

• Mother B. : Bootsie, do you know "Spread Your Tiny Things and Fly Away?"

  Stanley : It's "Wings," Mama.

  Marshall : She's always one word off!

  [The family finishes singing the "Happy Birthday Song"] 

  Mother B : Alright, everybody rub my bottom and make a wish!

• Mother B. : I don't know, Stanley. Guess I'm just gettin' tired of bein' around old people.

  Stanley : Well, Mama, maybe you oughta try bein' around some younger ones for a change.

  Mother B. : Oh, young people, old people, what's the difference? They're all high on painkillers!

• Stanley : Mama B, why didn't you call, huh? I woulda come to get you.

  Mother B : No need. I stole the nursing home van.

• Mother B : Well, if you don't mind I think I'd just like to go upstairs and freshen up my face. You see, I feel like I've been rode hard and put up wet.

• Mother B : Didn't you get my message?

  Carlotta : What message?

  Mother B : That I had run away from the nursing home. I'm gonna live with you guys!

• Marshall : Oh, I'm just putting some vitamins in Mother's coffee. I don't like her color.

  Mother B : Well, I don't like yours either!

• Stanley : You know, Marshall, those pills look remarkably like Carlotta's sedatives. Hurts me to say this, but I think you put sedatives into Mama's coffee.

  Mother B : And to think I breastfed you!

• Mother B : Marshall, when you were born there was no such thing as stirrups in the delivery room. If there had been, I assure you, I would have slapped your bottom goodbye and rode right off into the sunset!

• Mother B : I always hated makin' love to Big Guy 'cause he insisted I say "cheese." I got so tired of that. "Cheese, cheese, cheese!"

  Marshall : Mother, you are confusing having sex with having your picture made.

  Mother B : Oh.

• Wild Bill : Now, y'all don't let us interrupt. You just go right on with your conversation.

  Mother B : Okay. We were discussing your sex life.

• Mother B : [singing]  Reach out, reach out and touch someone. Reach out, reach out and just say "hi!"

• Bootsie : Well, I'm sorry. But I just happen to feel that if a woman makes a play for your man, then you should stay and fight for that man. But if that man lets himself be had, then the battle is already lost.

  Mother B : That's lovely. Where did you get that?

  Bootsie : The wit and wisdom of Cher.

• Bootsie : And that's where I found him -- with his face pressed to Kathleen's lips.

  Wild Bill : Now, that's not true! She put 'em there without any help from me!

  Mother B : I believe him. Her lips look mighty powerful!

• Mother B : That girl causes nothing but trouble. I say we call the pound and have her picked up!

• Bootsie : Here's a woman who was walking down the street and suddenly went up in flames.

  [reading] 

  Bootsie : "Scientists speculate that in rare cases, the human body is capable of manufacturing such a high degree of heat that internal combustion occurs spontaneously."

  Kathleen : What does that mean?

  Mother B : Honey that means you're in big trouble!

• Marshall : Mother, I think you've had far too much to drink. Let's take this wine and put it over here 'til dessert.

  Mother B : Marshall, I have not had too much to drink. I know so because when I have had too much to drink, I throw up.