Sparkle's Tavern (1976)

Marion Eaton: Mrs. Betty. Blake

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• Mr. Pupik : Don't be frightened of the word orgasm. Just consider it the highest form of religious experience.

  Mrs. Blake : That's what I thought! A religious experience!

• Mrs. Blake : He did have his own way of thinking. He truly believed that if you really put your mind to it, you can do anything! Huh. I heard him say that so many times. "Betty, if you really wanna do it, you can do it. Just put your mind to it and you can do it." Honest, he said that!

  Brandon : Oh, that's beautiful.

  Mrs. Blake : Yeah, as beautiful as any other fairy tale I've heard lately. Well, you just can't go around teaching kids nonsense like that! Why, they'd fly off the first available balcony!

• Mrs. Blake : I raised my children to fear God, death, and to love their mama. And to make an honest living by good, hard work. Work is prayer, I always say. And I never been rich, but what I have is mine, and I earned it honestly.

• Mrs. Blake : I said, "Son, I don't care if you're a garbage man, as long as you're an honest garbage man."

• Mrs. Blake : Beth Sue is just exactly like her daddy, God rest his soul. Stubborn.

  Brandon : Beth Sue never told me her father had died.

  Mrs. Blake : Oh, he hasn't. Officially. Though I don't read the obits faithfully anymore. He's gone as far as I'm concerned though.

• Mrs. Blake : I don't wanna start up anything with Brenda's mother. I had to go to school with her, and that was plenty, I can assure you! Why, Beth Sue says they don't even have a vacuum cleaner! You know, that type of family.

• [Mr. Pupik dances around Mrs. Blake's porch playing a saxophone, then he suddenly begins singing] 

  Mr. Pupik : Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Blake, smells like you just baked a cake. Share your cake, Mrs. Blake, please don't leave me with a tummy aaaaaache!

  Brandon : How does he know your name?

  Mrs. Blake : I can't imagine!