The Golden Girls (TV Series)

Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mammy (1990)

Rue McClanahan: Blanche Devereaux

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Quotes 

• Rose Nylund : [to Blanche]  Blanche, are you alright?

  Blanche Devereaux : I'm stunned, I'm just stunned.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Honey, what's wrong?

  Blanche Devereaux : That call, it was Viola Watkins, she used to be my Mammy.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Your what?

  Blanche Devereaux : My Mammy, the woman who took care of me when I was little.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Oh, I'm sorry, I don't think I ever heard anyone called Mammy before.

  Rose Nylund : What about Mrs. Eisenhower?

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Mammy Eisenhower... I think only the Nixon kids got to call her that.

• Blanche Devereaux : [after learning her father, Big Daddy, had an affair with her Mammy]  This changes everything I ever thought about Big Daddy. I always assumed that he and Mama had a wonderful sex life. I walked in on 'em once when I was a little girl. There was all this huffin' and puffin' and high-pitched sounds, and then suddenly Big Daddy shouted out, "GLORY!", and they both lit up cigarettes. I vowed, then and there, I would *never* do anything so repulsive.

  Rose Nylund : So what happened?

  Blanche Devereaux : Oh, Bobby Joe Porter explained to me that the cigarette part was optional.

  Sophia Petrillo : Remember that one time you walked in on me, Dorothy?

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Oh, yeah. I still remember what you said: "Mommy's sick, get help."

  Rose Nylund : I would have *died* if I had ever caught my parents having sex.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : What, you never walked in on them?

  Rose Nylund : Once, but they were only playing leapfrog.