Dotty quotes from Scarecrow and Mrs. King

Dotty

Ah. Well, your poppyseed cake is your Sistine Chapel, Amanda, no one can top it.

Dotty

You can't be too cavalier about knees and elbows. They are very tricky propositions.

Dotty

On a scale of 1 to 10 he’s an 11 and she doesn’t want to date him... My daughters crazy.

Dotty

You are awfully fixed up.

Amanda

Mother, all I did was comb my hair and put on a little makeup.

Usually your hair is sorta frazzled.

Amanda

Usually I'm sorta frazzled, sweetheart.

Dotty

What do you mean you didn't get the job at Honeycut Typewriter? Didn't the interview go well?

Amanda

You certainly could say that.

Dotty

Have you told Dean? I think you should. I have always found him a rock in my darkest moments.

Amanda

You told my boyfriend your darkest moments?

Dotty

Well, um ... he's so patient. It's like talking to a registered nurse.

Dotty

Amanda, Are you having an affair? (she hits her head)

Amanda

What?!

Dotty

Amanda?

Amanda

Yes, Mother?

Dotty

Somebody's here to see you.

Amanda

Oh, really? Who -- Oh, uh, Mother, this is Miss Desmond, she's one of my pet-sitting clients, I take care of her ... chimpanzee.

Dotty

Oh, really?

Amanda

Mm-hmm.

Dotty

Well, won't you sit down? Oh, I just thought it was awfully enterprising when Amanda told me that she was going to start this service, taking care of people's pets and plants. I mean, it's not exactly what I had in mind when she went to college, but, I mean after all, what does one do with a degree in American lit?

Francine

Uh, I really have to be going, could I take a raincheck on that strudel?

Dotty

Oh. All right. Be careful with that chimpanzee!

Dotty

Well, Amanda, I knew it would happen.

Amanda

What?

Dotty

My hula skirt rotted.

Amanda

I'm sorry, Mother.

Dotty

I have nothing now to show for my one and only trip to Hawaii. I wish your father had not dropped the camera out of the war canoe.

Amanda

Mother, what is Dengue fever?

Dotty

Oh, my God. Is that going around? I thought I was just getting a little head cold.

Hurry up, Phillip bats clean-up.

Dotty

Clean-up. They have you batting according to cleanliness and neatness. It's nice.

Dotty

Amanda, I don't know why you work for a company that won't give you office space. I mean you're never going to meet anyone working at home.

Amanda

Mother, I don't want to meet anyone right now.

Dotty

Amanda, that doesn't make sense. How can you not want to meet someone you've never even seen?

Dotty

Amanda, you know I counted every little coffee bean in that coffee can and do you know what your lucky number is?

Amanda

No what is it?

Dotty

One thousand, six hundred and thirty eight.

Amanda

Oh gee, I always kinda hoped my lucky number would be seven

Dotty

You’re a big girl, you don’t owe me any explanations.

Amanda

Thank you Mother.

Dotty

You could have called.

Amanda

I should have.

Dotty

Yeah but you didn’t.

Amanda

I was tied up.

Dotty

Amanda I have to tell you something, I never liked the idea of you working for IFF, I mean they should have moved you up, given you something challenging to do, I think you're gonna find this new job much more exciting.

Amanda

Oh I hope not.