Designing Women (TV Series)

101 Ways to Decorate a Gas Station (1987)

Jonathan Banks: Eldon Ashcroft IV

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• Julia Sugarbaker : [Eldon and Julia are looking at a book of wall paper samples and discussing how important it is to make the selection as the finish deadline approaches]  Now, this is the wall paper we would like you to use. I know you said that the other wall paper made you dizzy...

  Eldon Ashcroft IV : [Interrupts Julia]  I don't like it.

  Julia Sugarbaker : I beg your pardon?

  Eldon Ashcroft IV : It doesn't have any red, white or blue, and I told you I wanted something that goes with the American flag.

  Julia Sugarbaker : Yes, well, we've been all over that, but we simply cannot decorate around the American flag.

  Eldon Ashcroft IV : Why not?

  Julia Sugarbaker : Because no one puts a flagpole in the middle of the room.

  Eldon Ashcroft IV : Why not?

  Julia Sugarbaker : Because... it would look... ODD!

  Eldon Ashcroft IV : Well, I thought... that the customer... was *always* right.

  Julia Sugarbaker : Well, you... were *mistaken*

  [drops the book on the ground] 

  Julia Sugarbaker : That was two weeks, 3 wall papers, 2 floor coverings, 11 sofas, 4 end tables and 16 LAMPS AGO! WE ARE NO LONGER *INTERESTED* IN WHAT THE CUSTOMER THINKS, OR WANTS, AND FURTHERMORE, THERE IS *NOT* GOING TO BE A VIBRATING BED WITH A PAY BOX OR A REVOLVING SCREEN LAMP WITH A CAMP SCENE! NOT AS LONG AS THE NAME *SUGARBAKER* RESTS ON THIS PROJECT! NOT NOW, NOT EVER! DO YOU UNDERSTAND?