The Golden Girls (TV Series)
The Monkey Show (1991)
Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo
Quotes
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Rose Nylund : [running a telethon by herself with only Blanche to man the phones] While Blanche is doing that, why don't I head on over to the piano? I'd like to sing you a song that I used to sing as a child. It's an old Minnesotan farm song entitled "I Never Thought I'd Grow a Hair There."
[plays a piano intro, then sings]
Rose Nylund : Oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa, Oh what the hell is that...
Blanche Devereaux : Rose, we just got a pledge for twenty dollars.
Rose Nylund : Oh! Let's go to the tote board. Drum roll!
[grabs drum sticks and plays a roll, then hits the cymbal. $20 comes up on the tote board.]
Rose Nylund : We're off to a good start. OK, now where was I? Oh, yes! Where Hans first spots the hair. Oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa, oom-pa-pa...
Blanche Devereaux : Rose! Rose, I just got a pledge for fifty dollars if you will stop singing.
Sophia Petrillo : [over the phone to Blanche] That's right. Fifty bucks if she stops singing, and I'll throw in another fifty if you slam the piano lid on her fingers.
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Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Ma, what are you doing?
Sophia Petrillo : Filling sandbags, Dorothy, there's a hurricane a-comin'.
Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : A-comin'?
Sophia Petrillo : That's right. People only use the "a-" when a really big storm is a-comin' or a-brewin',
Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Ma, the weather report said nothing about a hurricane.
Sophia Petrillo : Ida Perlberg down at the Senior Center woke up this morning with a leg cramp. Need I say more?
Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Yes.
Sophia Petrillo : Dorothy, when you get around my age, two things happen: one, you get more intuitive about the weather; and two, corn becomes your enemy.
Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : Ma, even if there is a hurricane a-comin...
Sophia Petrillo : Don't patronize me.
Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak : I'm not patronizing you, I'm a-mockin' you.