The Golden Girls (TV Series)
Adult Education (1986)
Bea Arthur: Dorothy Zbornak
Quotes
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Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Ma! How in the world did you get these?
Sophia Petrillo : Easy. I called Frank. I told you I had connections.
Rose Nylund : You know Frank Sinatra?
Sophia Petrillo : No, Frank Caravicci! From the fish market. He's always been good to me, never a bad piece of cod. He knows Frank.
Blanche Devereaux : Sinatra?
Sophia Petrillo : No, Frank Tortoni, the dry cleaner. Tina's third cousin once removed.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Tina Tortoni?
Sophia Petrillo : Tina Sinatra!
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Rose Nylund : I got tickets, too! This is such a coincidence. I was driving down Biscayne Boulevard...
Blanche Devereaux : [cuts Rose off] No, no, no, no! Please! I cannot bear that again!
[to Dorothy]
Blanche Devereaux : She was listening to her car radio; big band, not all-talk. There was a contest. Something about a little voice, a lucky number, and a dime in a door handle, then bim-bam-boom, she won the tickets!
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Take a lesson, Rose. That's how you tell a story.
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Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : I am exhausted, I went to at least a dozen ticket brokers today. They all told me the only way I'm going to get tickets is to go to a scalper.
Rose Nylund : You can't buy from a scalper, that's a crime.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : So is eating grapes at the supermarket but you do that all the time.
Rose Nylund : I have to test them.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Rose, one is testing, fourteen is brunch.
Rose Nylund : Good Lord I'm a criminal!
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak : Fine, as long as you already have a record, I can count you in.