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[WhitneyWhit]

I paraphrase as DW is not shown in my local market.

If you get the TV Guide network it comes on 4 times a day:)

[vera charles]

she got her head stuck in the Abbott bannister

I loved how Charlene said, "You know, I think you are a little over the top about this bannister."

And Suzanne referred to the mansion employee as "some 2-bit low level bureaucratic usherette".

Edited by vera charles, Jul 9, 2012 @ 9:53 AM.

[TwoBitUsherette]

And Suzanne referred to the mansion employee as "some 2-bit low level bureaucratic usherette".

That's the line that inspired my username! 'Julia Gets Her Head Stuck in a Fence' is definitely one of my favorite episodes.

[Kitty Bac]

Designing Women was the best! Delta Burke and Jean Smart made that show. The chemistry of Suzanne and Anthony was awesome too. Of the ladies, Julia was my least favorite because she always thought she was so far "above" the rest of them. I loved the episode when she got her head stuck in the Abbott bannister and when she got drunk at Payne's wedding. It showed that despite all of her pontificating, she was no better than the rest of them.

Julia was my favorite, followed by Charlene and Suzanne. I couldn't stand MaryJo as the seasons went on because she seemed to criticize Charlene for making some of the very same choices she herself had made. I enjoyed Julia's pontificating and grand lectures.

[WhitneyWhit]

This morning, TV Guide showed on of my favorite episodes, "La Place San Souci" or, as Suzeanne calls it, "La Place Sans Sucky". I love how she's so concerened about Anthony embarrassing her when in the end, he becomes a star guest who gets personally invited back by the staff while the women end up banned.

[smiley13]

On that episode, I love that Suzanne and Charlene beat the high and mighty Julia and Mary Jo at Trivial Pursuit. That cracked me up!

The fact that Suzanne bought another game and spent all that time memorizing stuff was great.

[hoosier]

We're starting a new 1980's Sitcom Survival game is beginning in the Rec Room soon.

New players welcome.

Edited by TWoP Howard, Jul 24, 2012 @ 9:40 PM.

[affirmed]

Sadly, I do not get the TV Guide channel. But the place where I was having my brakes checked DOES get the channel and another favorite Julia line was on: THey were in New Orleans and Julia yelled out off the balcony about sleeping with Anthony!!

I liked them all and I liked how it addressed women of all walks of life, older adult child, small children at home, wanting to get married and have kids and remaining childless. Although Suzanne DID own a pig.

[hoosier]

I'm enjoying the reruns on TVGuide Channel myself. It's surprising that the show has held up for years despite the fashion and hair. The writers deserve praise for the classic lines spoken by the actors. I love the women of Sugarbakers just as much now as I did years ago.

[ljenkins782]

On that episode, I love that Suzanne and Charlene beat the high and mighty Julia and Mary Jo at Trivial Pursuit. That cracked me up!

The fact that Suzanne bought another game and spent all that time memorizing stuff was great.

I love the scene after Suzanne has shot Anthony (after sneaking back to Julia's to get the game) and Mary Jo points out that she could have bought another game at any store. Charlene's "we are kinda dumb!" always cracks me up.

Designing Women was the best! Delta Burke and Jean Smart made that show. The chemistry of Suzanne and Anthony was awesome too. Of the ladies, Julia was my least favorite because she always thought she was so far "above" the rest of them. I loved the episode when she got her head stuck in the Abbott bannister and when she got drunk at Payne's wedding. It showed that despite all of her pontificating, she was no better than the rest of them.

Most of my favorite Julia scenes are the ones where she's in the wrong or making a fool of herself. It humanized the character and Dixie Carter played it really well. I love the one where she gets drunk at dinner when she thinks Reis is about to propose.

[WhitneyWhit]

I love the one where she gets drunk at dinner when she thinks Reis is about to propose.

I crack up just thinking about her ripping apart those dinner roles and sticking her arm in an ice bucket.

I also love when she got drunk at Payne's wedding recepetion. "It's a very special day for him, and a very special day for him"

[hoosier]

My favorites are any eps when Dixie Carter sings. That woman had pipes.

[Bastet Esq]

I didn't care for her singing voice, and it often felt shoehorned in even before I knew the singing was a sop to Dixie Carter for delivering Julia's most liberal monologues.

I never felt Julia thought she was a better person than the others, just that she generally comported herself better and kept herself better informed. Which was true. But I enjoyed watching the moments when she made a fool of herself just as much as the ones when she told someone about themselves; Julia was my favorite character.

THey were in New Orleans and Julia yelled out off the balcony about sleeping with Anthony!!

I love that scene, and I love that entire episode. Suzanne's throwdown with the female impersonator cracks me up, with the wig tossing and "Call the police -- there is a man in the ladies' room!"

[hoosier]

We began a new 1980's game in the REC ROOM. Check the Sitcom Game thread. New players welcome.

[WhitneyWhit]

I came across this and just had to share.

 

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=9tooEkkPkTc

[redshirtx]

Okay, that's actually kind of awesome.

 

I still miss you, show.

[carolinagirl63]

I love looking at youtube clips of DW. I saw one I had forgotten about wishing Happy Anniversary to Shimmy. Suzanne was funny. She asked about his race. I wonder if characters could do that now.

[ljenkins782]

Watched an episode last night that's always bugged me: My Daughter, Myself (aka 36-year-old Mary Jo's SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD daughter brings home a 34-year-old man for a date and he and Mary Jo end up going out instead.) 

 

So much weirdness in this episode. The man comes to the door claiming that he thought Claudia was 25 (maybe finding out how old a girl is would be useful information before asking her out??) and upon finding out that she's only 17, is still willing to go out with her if Mary Jo would allow it. Mary Jo then agrees to go out for coffee with this guy but doesn't go when Claudia throws a fit. 

 

Then at the end of the episode, the guy shows up again for Claudia's birthday dinner but it turns out Claudia has invited him for Mary Jo, which neither the guy nor Mary Jo seem to be aware of, so again, 34-year-old thinking he's going out with a now just-turned-18-year-old. It's so creepy. 

 

I just hate the whole episode and Mary Jo is such a freaking doormat with her daughter. 

 

I've realized that even though I like Mary Jo as a character most of the time, most of the episodes that really focus on her bore me or annoy me. There are a couple of good ones, but in general, I prefer her as the straight man to the rest of the crew. Most of the Charlene-centric ones kinda bore me too actually, I guess I like the ones that have Suzanne and/or Julia at the center and the others orbiting around them.

[Jayson79]

I do agree that I thought Mary Jo, especially in earlier seasons, was the greek chorus for the antics of all the women.  Though I admit one of my fav scenes is when mary Jo loses Suzanne's pearls and she is tearing through the salad bar trying to locate them.

[carolinagirl63]

Mary Jo's not my favorite, but she had some great scenes. The fake boobs, sitting in the Southern belle dress. I thought her character started off mousy and became more emboldened. My favorite scene is when she teases Julia about those hillbilly men by singing from the song "Behind Closed Doors" by Charlie Rich. I've listened to the song on youtube,and I get the giggles thinking about that scene and the look on Julia's face.

Edited by carolinagirl63, Aug 10, 2013 @ 1:39 AM.

[tamariskie]

I think my favorite Mary Jo scene is when she was calling the car salesman on his BS when they were trying to buy a van. Particularly when she said that even her son wouldn't fall for what the salesman was trying to pull.

[Jayson79]

I was thinking that no only did each of the 4 women have memorable scenes, but I think the show was really good at duo team-ups as well. 

 

My fav Suzanne/Charlene team up is a tie between the shopping spree and telling off the nudie magazine owner.  Both scenes always register in my mind when I think of the two of them together.

 

My fav Julia/Mary Jo team up was both of them getting stuck under a bed.  It was one of the rare times that I thought post-season 5 had anything remotely funny.

 

My fav Julia/Suzanne team up is when they get stranded in Japan.  The episode highlighted everyone's worst fears of what could go wrong in Japan, and the situations were adjusted to the character, not the other way around.

 

My fav Suzanne/Mary Jo team up is when they try to find Mary Jo a man.  My fav Julia/Charlene scene is when Charlene blasts Julia for looking down on the Rocky movies.  The one Mary Jo/Charlene team up was when Bill comes home early from leave.. and Mary Jo doesn't take the hint while Bill/Charlene don't know how to tell her.

 

Anthony had some great moments with each of the four women.  He and Suzanne had so many but my fav was when they got stranded in that motel six during a blizzard, loved Mary Jo/Anthony running up the $500 + phone bill for a survey then scheming to get the money to pay the bill, loved Anthony/Julia's heart to hearts, and I loved the one time he and Charlene pretended to be Santa Claus for Mary Jo's son.

 

What is missing from most modern sitcoms are comedy chemistry, and mixing up the acting partners on occasion. 

[carolinagirl63]

My fav Julia/Suzanne team up is when they get stranded in Japan. 

 

I love watching the airplane scene on youtube. "Excuse me, Excuse me, you are sitting on my purse strap. Suzanne, tell him in Japanese, (In Southern accent) I may look Japanese,but I'm just a Bubba".

 

Another favorite Mary Jo scene: Talking about wanting school to close for snow. "Please say Franklin Elementary!" We don't get many snow days in the South.

 

The tornado show was just a riot. Charlene's videotaping. Bernice and the hillbilly man. Les Nessman from WKRP dancing in a sailor cap and Speedo.

[smiley13]

With the original four ladies, this show was all kinds of wonderful.  I hate that it is not on TV Guide in the late afternoons any more.

[moose135]

Les Nessman from WKRP dancing in a sailor cap and Speedo.

I don't remember seeing that episode, but had to find clip.  Bizarre!

[ljenkins782]

Mary Jo's not my favorite, but she had some great scenes. The fake boobs, sitting in the Southern belle dress. I thought her character started off mousy and became more emboldened. My favorite scene is when she teases Julia about those hillbilly men by singing from the song "Behind Closed Doors" by Charlie Rich. I've listened to the song on youtube,and I get the giggles thinking about that scene and the look on Julia's face.

 

 

 

That's the thing, I think Mary Jo is extremely funny when she's responding to the other girls, it was just most of her solo storylines that never really grabbed me. And I couldn't stand the actress who played Claudia, so I never liked the storylines around the kids.

 

I love watching the airplane scene on youtube. "Excuse me, Excuse me, you are sitting on my purse strap. Suzanne, tell him in Japanese, (In Southern accent) I may look Japanese,but I'm just a Bubba".

 

 

 

Hands down one of my favorite episodes, Suzanne is on fire in this episode. "How do you tell him just to get his little butt out of my window seat right this minute..." 

[WhitneyWhit]

"I bet they don't have dibs in your country"

 

Mary Jo wasn't my favorite, but a couple of my favorite episodes are Mary Jo centered: "Pearls of Wisdom" and "Big Hass and Little Falsie"

 

"Big Hass and Little Falsie" had some great lines and scenes. Charlene feeling Mary Jo's fake breasts just as Anthony walks in. Mary Jo going crazy with power and being convinced she could get into a fist fight if she went up another cup size. I also love the bar scene: "Would you had made such a bee line over here if my breasts weren't as big as they are"

 

And the "Pears of Wisdom" salad bar scene is an all time classic.

[PepSinger]

The tornado show was just a riot. Charlene's videotaping. Bernice and the hillbilly man. Les Nessman from WKRP dancing in a sailor cap and Speedo.

That's a great episode. Suzanne is on fire that entire episode.

"HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, LOIS and SHIMMY!" "Is this a white man?" "I just never heard of white man named Shimmy." "Oh, good grief, just fix the damn tea." Among many other quotes...

[smiley13]

Suzanne was my absolute favorite.  Delta Burke was fantastic.    I loved when she endearingly called Bernice a fruitcake.

 

Charlene was my next favorite.  That's why the show was just not the same without the two of them.

[LadySadie]

 

My fav Suzanne/Mary Jo team up is when they try to find Mary Jo a man.

 

That is also one of my favorites, and it has a great line from Suzanne, when they're following the advice in Mary Jo's book about how to meet men, and cruising the grocery store:

 

"Mary Jo, men don't come up and talk to a woman wheeling around a 25 pound sack of dog food and a big box of Kotex!" Delta Burke's delivery was what killed me...Suzanne was so exasperated.

Edited by LadySadie, Aug 26, 2013 @ 10:05 AM.