The Facts of Life (TV Series)

A Friend in Deed (1981)

Charlotte Rae: Edna Garrett

Quotes 

• Edna Garrett : Blair, are you okay? Look I'm sorry I was there when the doctor called. and I'm sorry I know what I know. But I know and I can't pretend that I don't know.

  Blair Warner : Yeah, and by now so does half the school.

  Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : Blair, that's not fair. I'm not that kind of jerk!

  Edna Garrett : We know that, Tootie.

  Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : Thanks Mrs Garrett, but I wanna hear it from Blair.

  Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : [while Blair's folding napkins]  Blair, this isn't gossip. I know that. And I won't say a word about it. To anyone. I swear it.

  Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : [Blair stops and looks at Tootie gratefully]  On our friendship.

• Jo Polniaczek : [bursting into the kitchen with Natalie hot on her heels]  I need a clock! Mrs Garrett, I'm taking your egg timer. I'll take this for a fuse.

  [begins unraveling some string] 

  Jo Polniaczek : I'll get this stuff together, and then I can make some stuff up in the science lab!

  Edna Garrett : [half-heartedly]  What are you doing, making a bomb?

  Natalie Green : [desperate]  Yes, YES!

  Edna Garrett : WHAT?

  Jo Polniaczek : I'm gonna roll it through their front door, and POW! BOY, POW! Dead Kawasakis all over the street!

• Edna Garrett : [as Jo mops absent-mindedly]  Jo, you've been scrubbing the same spot for fifteen minutes. I don't think I've ever seen it cleaner.

  Blair Warner : I've just had another one of my brilliant ideas. If you move your feet while you're moving that mop, we may just be out of here before noon.

  Jo Polniaczek : [to Mrs. Garrett]  Could you tell Cinderella here to go stick her head in a pumpkin?