The Golden Girls (TV Series)

Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas (1989)

Bea Arthur: Dorothy Zbornak

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Quotes 

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Oh, boy, it is hell out there. It must be 103 and the mall is impossible.

  Sophia Petrillo : Did you get something for the grandchildren?

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Oh, please. You know Robbie wants a Batman hat. I went to six different stores, they were all sold out. I finally went to one store where they had one hat left, and another woman saw it. Ugh, I cannot believe a person would push a perfect stranger out of the way, step on her hand, and give her an elbow to the forehead, just for a Batman hat . . .but I did it anyway!

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Rose we have to talk to you about Christmas. It is too hot to go out shopping again so why don't we just draw names out of a hat and then we only have to buy one gift each?

  Rose : But Dorothy I love Christmas and I love giving presents at Christmas. Besides, if we draw names out of a hat, whose names are they going to be?

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : The Oakridge Boys, Rose! Each others'!

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Why are the Christmas cookies shaped like Liberty Bells and American flags?

  Rose : I couldn't find the Christmas cookie cutters so I used the 4th of July ones.

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Stan, do you remember the Christmas we were so broke, you convinced the kids that Christmas was actually the 26th? You went out and got a Christmas tree from somebody's garbage and you trimmed it with gum wrappers and pull tabs. Then you turned on Jim Thorpe, All American and told them it was King of Kings.

  Stan Zbornak : And they believed it too.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Right up until Jesus got His medals taken away for playing professional baseball.

  Stan Zbornak : Yeah, kind of got to be a tradition for us.

• Blanche : Well that's all of the presents, except for the ones we know are fruitcakes.

  Sophia Petrillo : Wait a minute, what about the one Blanche hid behind the couch?

  Rose : Oh my present for you!

  [picks it up and gives it to Blanche] 

  Rose : I can't wait to see the look on your face.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : [grinning]  Neither can I.

  Blanche : [opens the present hesitantly, surprised]  Rose! It's a beautiful blouse.

  Rose : I hope you like it. Dorothy said you'd want something crotchless.

• Blanche : [watching the poor and homeless come in]  I just never thought there'd be children.

  Rose : [nods, sees a Santa come in with them]  What's Santa doing here?

  Blanche : Oh they pay these out of work guys 10 or 15 dollars to stand on a corner and ring their bell, most of them can't afford the price of a meal.

  Stan Zbornak : [Santa goes over to Dorothy]  Hello.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Hello, Santa.

  Stan Zbornak : [pulls off his beard]  Dorothy, it's me, Stan.