Nancy McKeon: Jo Polniaczek

Quotes 

• Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : [to the burly inmate who wants to rob Blair]  You touch that watch and you're going to be sweeping up your teeth with a broom!

• Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Keep your Saks Fifth Avenue rags out of my area! And the next time I find your shoes on my side, I'm gonna glue them together!

  [Jo presses the shoes together, then throws them on Blair's bed] 

  Blair Warner : Would you be careful! Those are very expensive shoes!

  Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Then keep them in a safe deposit box!

• Edna Garrett : Alright, girls. What's all the shouting about?

  Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Could you tell Mrs. Onassis here to stay out of my way? With her face creams and cologne bottles and hair sprays, I tell ya, I walk in here sometimes and I think I'm in a drugstore. I look around for the checkout stand.

  Blair Warner : She should talk. It's not easy sleeping next to Mr. Goodwrench.

• [while the four girls work as waitresses in the cafeteria, snobbish Margo keeps teasing Jo. Jo does her best to ignore Margo] 

  Margo : [to Molly]  It's no surprise she's such a terrific waitress! I heard that's what her mother's been all her life.

  [hearing that, Jo is about to beat the obnoxious girl] 

  Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : You no good creep...!

  [Blair stops Jo] 

  Blair Warner : [smiling]  Wait a minute, Jo. Don't stoop to her level. A situation like this calls for a rational, civilized behavior befitting a school like Eastland where dignity is our motto.

  [Blair takes a leftover cream pie and smears it on Margo's face. Natalie and Tootie burst out laughing, but Jo is not content. Hearing the laughter, Mrs. Garret enters. As she sees what happened, she starts laughing too, but quickly gets hold of herself, while Margo tries to clean her face] 

• Blair Warner : My nose hurts.

  Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Your *nose* hurts?

  Blair Warner : I fell asleep in Algebra class and hit it against the book.

  Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : You're lucky, I fell asleep during gym class and they used me as first base.

• Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : I know what you're doing, you're trying to guilt me into staying.

  Edna Garrett : Guilt's a powerful weapon, why not use it?

• Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : We're closing up here, now what do you want?

  Margo : Mmm, I'm on a diet, just one roll.

  Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : I've seen you in gym clothes, you got a LOT more than just one roll.

• Blair Warner : [locked up in holding cell, to Jo:]  This is all your fault. You got us into this.

  Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : Blow it out your Gucci bag. Just sit down and cool it, huh? This is no big deal.

  Blair Warner : No big deal? We're locked up like common criminals, and you say it's no big deal? My life is ruined! They'll never let me set foot in Martha's Vineyard again.

  Natalie Green : My Mom's gonna have a heart attack. A quadruple bypass. She'll be in intensive care for twelve years!

  Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : My parents are gonna disown me. "That little black kid? No, she ain't ours."

  [shakes her head] 

  Blair Warner : We've got to get out of here. I can't stand being closed in like this!

  [desperate cry at cell door:] 

  Blair Warner : Let me out!

  Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey : Blair, we've only been in here for forty-five minutes.

• Blair Warner : You don't think about anybody but yourself, do you?

  Joanne 'Jo' Polniaczek : You got it, Farrah.