The Facts of Life (TV Series)
Legacy (1982)
Nancy McKeon: Jo Polniaczek
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Quotes
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Jo Polniaczek : You know if you really want to raise money, you gotta provide a service that everybody needs, like a car wash.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : A car wash?
Jo Polniaczek : Sure, everybody drives cars, and like my Uncle Frank used to say, 'The one thing you can really count on in this world is dirt'.
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Blair Warner : [leaning in the kitchen doorway] Hi... can I come in?
Jo Polniaczek : [snapping at her] Of course you can come in, you live here, don't ya?
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Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : [walks in wearing a sweater too long for her arms] What do you think?
Natalie Green : You couldn't get it in blue?
Jo Polniaczek : Who gave you that, Bigfoot?
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : It's Blair's.
Edna Garrett : Not again.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : Again! So far she's given me 5 sweaters, a wool skirt, and I keep finding credit cards under my pillow.
Jo Polniaczek : Maybe they're from the tooth fairy.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : I don't think the tooth fairy has this kind of bread.
Edna Garrett : Well remember girls, what Blair needs now is patience, and understanding.
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : I tried to tell Blair that I don't blame her for what her grandfather did.
Natalie Green : What'd she say?
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : That she understood, then she laid another sweater on me.
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Jo Polniaczek : Why do we need to raise money for the library anyway? I thought the money was coming from Blair's grandfather's estate.
Edna Garrett : Well his $500,000 is paying for the building, it's not paying for the books.
Jo Polniaczek : Cheapskate.
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Blair Warner : Listen everybody, I've made a decision... how does the Carlton Blair Library of Black Studies sound to you?
Jo Polniaczek : ...Black... studies?
Natalie Green : Your grandfather'd get a big kick out of that.
Blair Warner : The library will be entirely devoted to black history, black heroes, black music...
Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : A *section* on black studies is a good idea, but I haven't finished polling the rest of the students to see what they want.
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Jo Polniaczek : Hey Nat, you're not looking too good.
Natalie Green : I know, I'm gonna take two chocolate chip cookies and go to bed.
[grabs a handful of cookies]
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Blair Warner : [lies casually on bed, paging through family album] Here's grandfather and me with my first tricycle. I was such an adorable child.
[Jo just toys with ball and catchers' mitt]
Blair Warner : Here he is in his judicial robes outside the courthouse. Here we are in his Mwrcedes.
Jo Polniaczek : What?
[clutches her heart]
Jo Polniaczek : No Rolls Royce?
Blair Warner : Hey! We had hard times too!
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Blair Warner : Well?
Jo Polniaczek : Well, what?
Blair Warner : I don't understand. Ever since the truth came out about Carlton Blair, you haven't said a word. This is the perfect opportunity to be mean and rotten.
Jo Polniaczek : I know. Maybe I'm coming down with something.
Blair Warner : Or maybe I'm just beneath contempt. And just not worth insulting.
Jo Polniaczek : [big smile] Yes, you are.
Blair Warner : Well, then, talk to me, Jo.
[sighs]
Blair Warner : I'm so confused. Can't you say something to make me feel better?
Jo Polniaczek : Blair, you're a jerk.
Blair Warner : [relieved] Bless you.