The Golden Girls (TV Series)

It's a Miserable Life (1986)

Estelle Getty: Sophia Petrillo

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Quotes 

• Sophia : [At Frieda Claxton's funeral]  Oh my God, this is terrible. Such a tragedy. Such a tragedy.

  Dorothy : Ma, try not to upset yourself.

  Sophia : Two men on, the bottom of the ninth, that baciagaloop Lasorda has him bunt!

• Rose Nylund : Mrs. Claxton, think about what you're doing. That beautiful, old tree is 200 years old. How can you hate a living thing?

  Frieda Claxton : I hate you.

  Rose Nylund : That's it! I've had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat people like human beings, well then I'm sure as hell not going to waste my time kissing your fanny! Now if you don't like it Mrs. Claxton, you just sit there and shut up while we have our say! And if you don't like it, just drop dead!

  [to Dorothy] 

  Rose Nylund : Go on, Dorothy.

  [Rose returns to her seat as Freida Claxton keels over] 

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : What happened?

  Sophia : You know when you told her to drop dead?

  Rose Nylund : Yes.

  Sophia : I think she did.

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : We're interested in arranging a funeral.

  Mr. Pfeiffer : Isn't that lovely, you're planning ahead for Mother.

  Sophia : [mocking Pfeiffer's name which has a non-silent P]  Hey, Pfeiffer, how would you like a punch in your pface?

• Sophia : When is old lady Claxton's funeral? I want to pay my respects

  Dorothy : Pay your respects? I thought you hated her

  Sophia : I did. But when a person dies you go to their funeral to show the man upstairs you have respect for human life, no matter how wretched it was. Any idiot knows that.

  Rose : I knew that.

  Sophia : See?

• Sophia : Hey, P-feiffer, how would you like a punch in the p-face?