The Golden Girls (TV Series)

Triple Play (1990)

Betty White: Rose Nylund

Quotes 

• Rose Nylund : You're not having company, are you, Blanche? Because I want everything to go smoothly for Miles and Caroline. It's a big step meeting a man's family.

  Blanche Devereaux : [Blanche's scheme is to meet men by telling them she's selling a Mercedes she doesn't have]  Don't worry about it, honey, men'll be over, but they'll be in and out all day.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Don't say it, Ma.

  Sophia Petrillo : I have to, Dorothy. At my age, when you don't say it, it can back up on you and come out some other way.

  Blanche Devereaux : [later]  My first appointment's here, right on time. I've been out there watchin' him. He's been lookin' at the car and smilin'. I feel just like a fisherman with a new lure.

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : You catch 'em, you clean 'em.

  Blanche Devereaux : [James is her first "customer" for the phantom Mercedes, as Blanche goes into action]  You stay right there, and I'll get the keys.

  James : How much mileage has she got on her?

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : [Sophia looks to Dorothy for a comeback to this tempting line]  Let's just say that she's been around the block.

  James : [Blanche comes back with the keys, and they go outside]  I can't believe anything that beautiful is so cheap.

  Sophia Petrillo : [she covers Sophia's mouth, until Blanche and James are gone]  I'm crampin' up!

• Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : [Miles and Rose are just returning from their date]  How was your evening?

  Miles : Oh, it was terrific, Dorothy. We saw a marvelous production of "The Glass Menagerie".

  Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Oh, that is one of my favorite plays.

  Rose Nylund : Frankly, I was a little disappointed.

  Miles : Really?

  Rose Nylund : Yeah, when you told me you were taking me to a revival of Tennessee Williams, I was expecting something more along the lines of a séance.

• Rose Nylund : Your father tells me you're a classical musician. What do you play?

  Caroline : The English Horn.

  Rose Nylund : I didn't know horns had nationalities. But I guess it makes sense, if jumping beans can be Mexican, and fire drills can be Chinese, and flies can be Spanish.

• Rose Nylund : [distraught]  I tried so hard to impress Caroline.

  Blanche Devereaux : I remember when a woman had to impress a man's *parents*, not his *children*. Oh, Mama Devereaux was fit to be tied when George introduced me. She wanted her boy to marry a *virgin*.

  Rose Nylund : How did she know you weren't?

  Sophia Petrillo : Maybe it was all the 'honk if you had Blanche' bumper stickers.