Thirtysomething (TV Series)

Payment Due (1989)

Polly Draper: Ellyn Warren

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• Ellyn Warren : So, what's a nice assistant D.A. like you doing in a place like this?

  Dave Calloman : Slumming.

  Ellyn Warren : Ah. You gonna leave me my developer or arrest him?

  Dave Calloman : Don't know yet. Is he your developer?

  Ellyn Warren : Is that a subpoena in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

• Hope Murdoch Steadman : [visiting Ellyn in the hospital]  If you want me to leave, you're gonna have to throw me out bodily.

  Ellyn Warren : I don't think I'm up to it.

  Hope Murdoch Steadman : Hmm. So, what do you need? Newspapers? Magazines? Clean underwear?

  Ellyn Warren : Nothing, really. My mother came. Yeah. Old Doc Meyer made me call her. She cleaned out the whole lingerie department at Saks on her way over.

  Hope Murdoch Steadman : Anything good?

  Ellyn Warren : Mm-hmm. If I don't mind looking like Heidi.

• Hope Murdoch Steadman : It's not fair of you to go and get sick and need my help just when I was really angry at you. It's very hard to be empathic and murderously angry at the same time.

  Ellyn Warren : Hey, do you think I did this on purpose?

  Hope Murdoch Steadman : I wouldn't put it past you. Just don't let it happen again, okay?

• Ellyn Warren : I don't know why I can't go home. It's just an ulcer, right?

  Dr. Meyer : A bleeding ulcer. You're severely anemic. You lost a great deal of blood. And if that's perforated, we're going to have to operate.

  Ellyn Warren : Like I said, I'm fine.

  Dr. Meyer : It isn't funny. You're gonna make some changes in your life. You're gonna change your diet, you're gonna change your work habits, and you're gonna find some way to relax. I'm giving you the number of Winston Phipps. He's a psychiatrist who deals with stress-related disorders.

  Ellyn Warren : Oh, come on. What, you want me to do some caring and sharing? Getting in touch with my feelings? That sort of thing?

  Dr. Meyer : I can treat the symptoms, but if you don't deal with the causes, you won't get well, period.

• Ellyn Warren : Suzie Q, how are you?

  Susan : Ehh, okay.

  Ellyn Warren : Uh-oh. How's John?

  Susan : He hasn't called in a week.

  Ellyn Warren : They say you can reach out and touch someone.

  Susan : Yeah, with this thing, I ought to be able to reach out and beat him to death.

  [giving Ellyn her messages] 

  Susan : Here.

  Ellyn Warren : What are these?

  Susan : Jo Ann called in sick.

  Ellyn Warren : Ugh. What is it this time?

  Susan : Her inner ear.

  Ellyn Warren : Inner ear. I like that. I don't think we've heard that one from her before.

• Steve Woodman : Good coffee.

  Ellyn Warren : Thanks. Sorry it's instant. I-I forgot how that bean grinder works.

  Steve Woodman : Well, it's very complicated. You push a button.

• Dr. Meyer : There's a great GI group I've been working with over at Hahnemann. I'm sending you to Jay Schiff. You'll love him.

  Ellyn Warren : Oh, no. I just came in for a new prescription for Lomotil. I've had this before.

  Dr. Meyer : You're probably right. But that's why you're going there: to make sure.

  Ellyn Warren : Come on, Doc...

  Dr. Meyer : Otherwise, I'll tell your mother you were on birth control pills in tenth grade.

  Ellyn Warren : Eleventh.

• Ellyn Warren : I can't help it. Sometimes he drives me crazy.

  Hope Murdoch Steadman : Oh, come on. You've been saying that since the third date. It comes right after "I really like him, but".

  Ellyn Warren : Yeah. But recently, he's been mothering me too much. It makes me feel weird.

  Hope Murdoch Steadman : Oh, I know. Warm, secure, loved. I can understand why it would make you upset.

  Ellyn Warren : You grew up in a Normal Rockwell painting. Mine was more like Hieronymus Bosch.

• Hope Murdoch Steadman : Dinner's ready.

  Ellyn Warren : Um, Hope, I'm not that hungry. Michael, can I just have some wine?

  Michael Steadman : Yeah. Help yourself.

  Hope Murdoch Steadman : Oh, Lynnie, can you get the, um, bread? It's in the toaster oven. Please.

  Ellyn Warren : Sure.

  [trying to open it, she burns herself] 

  Ellyn Warren : Ow!

  [knocking the appliance off the counter] 

  Ellyn Warren : Damn it! Sorry.

  Michael Steadman : Showed that sucker, didn't you?

  Ellyn Warren : I have this thing about small appliances. When I was a child, I was abused by a Mixmaster.