Monday, August 30, 2010


Whenever I let Linz flip channels she picks something either girly (usually found on W network) or real and dramatic involving midgets or hoarders (usually found on TLC). The other day she was happy to stop on Golden Girls. So, just for fun, try to remember this episode from 1985.

Blanche’s nephew is coming to stay for a week or two because Blanche’s sibling’s rocky marriage is in repair mode somewhere warm and sunny. Dorothy fears this will put her out because she is studying for exams of some sort but agrees because, as Sophia, with her old Sicilian values, put it, “We do for family!” The little punk comes to stay, actually arriving under police escort, and is completely disrespectful to the girls and their household. He parties with random friends (who all have awesome mullets) and is insolent until, in one heated moment, Sophia slaps him. He storms out onto the veranda in a pouty rage and Blanche becomes upset with Sophia and asks her, “Is that all you Italians know how to do is yell and hit people?”

To which, she replies, “No. We also know how to…

What does Sophia say?