Golden Girls: Sophia’s 10 best one-liners

LIVING with a dateless daughter, a promiscuous Southerner and a blonde bimbo meant that Sophia Petrillo always had someone to sling a sassy one-liner at.

LIVING with a dateless daughter, a promiscuous southerner and a blonde bimbo meant that Sophia Petrillo always had someone to sling a sassy one-liner at.

Her witty wisecracks made the Golden Girls grandma (played by Estelle Getty) one of the most popular TV characters in the 1980s.

Now, almost 30 years after the show debuted, Sophia’s one-liners are still as funny as ever. Here are our favourites:

Rose: Dorothy, a man called for you while you were out.

Sophia: Finally. Now we can break out that bottle of champagne we’ve been saving.

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Sophia: Jealousy is a very ugly thing, Dorothy! And so are you, in anything backless.

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Blanche: Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to relax in a hot, steamy bath with just enough water to cover my perky bosoms.

Sophia: You’re gonna lay in an inch of water?

The girls try to decipher one of Rose’s St Olaf stories.

Dorothy: I would kill Gloria if she ever wrote about my sexual escapades.

Sophia: You’d kill your sister over a pamphlet?

“Picture it ... Sicily ... 1942”.

Blanche: But you have to promise me you won’t do anything to embarrass me.

Sophia: I’ll try but if they serve me cauliflower, it’s in God’s hands.

Sophia tells a late night story.

Dorothy: Ma. What would you do if you found out one of your children was ... gay?

Sophia: I know you don’t get many dates, Dorothy, but stick with what you know

Rose looks confused ... not surprising really.

Blanche: Mel makes me feel young and beautiful and special. When we’re together we laugh a lot.

Sophia: Why wouldn’t you? You’re both naked.

The Queen of one-liners.

Dorothy: Why can’t you sleep on the couch and give Clayton and Doug your room?

Blanche: Are you crazy? What will the neighbours think if they see two men in my bedroom?

Sophia: They’ll think it’s Tuesday.

The girls struggled when they had another crack at motherhood.

Rose: It was just a dream, Sophia.

Sophia: It’s not just a dream for me. Martha wants to commit suicide … and she wants me to be there with her.

Blanche: And what did you say?

Sophia: I said I’d think about it. You can’t say no to someone who pops for a $75 dinner; tell them, Blanche.

Mother and daughter.

Prank call?

Blanche: I am abhorred!

Sophia: We know what you are Blanche. I’m glad to finally hear you admit it.

Blanche: Sophia, I said “abhorred”.

Sophia: A wh***, a sl**, a tramp, it’s all the same.