Lisa Whelchel: Blair Warner

Quotes 

• Tootie Ramsey : I never thought this would happen in a million years. What am I going to say to Natalie?

  Blair Warner : There's not much you can say when somebody's father dies.

  Tootie Ramsey : But I can't believe it! I mean I went home with Natalie last month and Dr. Green played Monopoly with us.

  Jo Polniaczek : Sometimes it happens that way, Tootie, real fast.

  Tootie Ramsey : What's Natalie going to do? How's she going to feel on Father's Day?

  Blair Warner : A couple of years ago when I thought I was going to lose my mother, I kept thinking 'Who's going to help me pick out my wedding dress? Who's going to go with me when I register at Tiffany's? Who's going to be there, no matter what?'

• Jo Polniaczek : Blair can I borrow your black liner?

  Blair Warner : Well okay, but I think a soft brown would make you look not as cheap.

  Jo Polniaczek : It's for my bike, I scuffed it. Lucky for me your make up covers everything.

• Tootie Ramsey : I've never been to a funeral before.

  Jo Polniaczek : No kidding, I've been to lots of them.

  Blair Warner : One of the fringe benefits of being a Bronx Barbarian.

  Jo Polniaczek : In my neighborhood we didn't have enough money to throw parties, so we got together whenever the situation presented itself.

  Tootie Ramsey : Jo, a funeral is not supposed to be a social event!

  Blair Warner : In my circle, it can be the event of the season. Mother's friend, Bunny, met her 3rd husband at a funeral.

  Tootie Ramsey : Oh that's just tacky!

  Blair Warner : I'll say, she was burying husband number 2 at the time.

• Tootie Ramsey : You know what I don't understand? How come there are no flowers? When somebody dies, people usually send flowers.

  Jo Polniaczek : Not to a shiva house.

  Blair Warner : What's shiva?

  Edna Garrett : Shiva is the Jewish period of mourning, and the family follows certain customs you know, like wearing that black ribbon.

  Jo Polniaczek : Yeah, and there's no music or TV allowed.

  Blair Warner : [sees a sheet draped on the mantle]  I wonder what that is.

  Edna Garrett : It's a mirror, but in a shiva house all the mirrors are covered.

  Blair Warner : Why?

  Jo Polniaczek : Because they're a symbol of vanity, Blair, and they're out of place in a house of mourning.