Nancy McKeon: Jo Polniaczek

Quotes 

• Tootie Ramsey : Mrs. Garrett, Jo's trying to kill our squirrel again!

  Jo Polniaczek : Well, what do you expect me to do? Enroll it in class?

• Tootie Ramsey : Jo, you can't hurt that squirrel. Don't you know he's one of...

  Jo Polniaczek : One of God's creatures. Well, he's on my turf! I don't go into his forest. Face it, he bought it when he crossed my window ledge!

• Jo Polniaczek : [Switched beds with Blair]  Perfumed sheets?

• Blair : [opens the window]  What a gorgeous evening. 'The moon was but a chin of gold a night or two ago. And now she turns her perfect face upon the world below'. The Moon, Emily Dickinson.

  Jo Polniaczek : [shuts the window suddenly]  It's freezing. Jo Polniaczek.

• [last lines] 

  Edna Garrett : Can you imagine what that family thinks of Americans after tonight? They'll probably go back to France and never want to visit the United States again.

  Edna Garrett : [Begins smiling maliciously after a pause]  Boy. That squirrel really flew out of the box, didn't it?

  Natalie Green : [all the girls begin smiling]  Zoom.

  Jo Polniaczek : Flew through the air like Evil Knievel.

  Tootie Ramsey : And did you see the way Marie jumped on that table and refused to come down?

  Edna Garrett : SHE flew through the air like Evil Knievel!

• Jo Polniaczek : [has to contend with Blair's perfumed duvet]  It's gonna be an Aviance night.

• Jo Polniaczek : [in camouflage dress]  I've had it with that hairy little creep!

  Edna Garrett : Oh, you shouldn't fight with Blair when she's sick!

  Jo Polniaczek : That squirrel chewed up my best biker gloves! This means war!