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Empty Nests

‘Empty Nests’

Season 2, Episode 26 -  Aired May 16, 1987

The girls help their neighbor, Renee, with her marital problems after all her kids have left for college, in this early backdoor pilot for Empty Nest.

Quote from Sophia

Renee: Blanche, at the hospital they call him St. George. I'm married to a saint and I tell him to work less because I'm Ionely?
Sophia: Don't you think St. Francis of Assisi's wife had a similar problem? Don't you think she said, "Frank, enough donkeys"?

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Quote from Rose

Dorothy: Come on, a movie will cheer you up.
Renee: What are you seeing?
Blanche: Nightmare On Elm Street 4.
Rose: Do you have to have seen 1, 2 and 3 to appreciate it?
Dorothy: No, Rose, it stands alone.

Quote from Dorothy

Jenny: Well, I went there to be with my boyfriend, but when I got there I found he was practically living with somebody else. He'd replaced me.
Rose: With what?
Dorothy: A hand puppet, Rose.

Quote from Sophia

Jenny: He met a thin, blonde goddess. One of those girls who has everything, you know. Looks, money, brains, a body, and now my boyfriend.
Blanche: Honey, I've been in that position more than once.
Sophia: You've been in every position more than once.
Jenny: My position?
Blanche: Oh, goodness, no. The goddess' position. We have our problems, too.
Dorothy: Especially when the goddess is now twice the size she used to be.

Quote from Sophia

Dorothy: And, honey, the loss of your first love is the worst, the very worst.
Rose: Oh, I know. I remember mine.
Sophia: It was probably a cow.
Rose: How on earth did you know that, Sophia?
Sophia: Wild guess.

Quote from Blanche

Renee: It's happened to all of us, sweetheart, and we've all survived.
Blanche: Never happened to me.
Dorothy: Oh, come on, Blanche. What, you were never rejected?
Blanche: Well, once. But just once.
Jenny: By who?
Blanche: Weight Watchers for being too thin.

Quote from Rose

Rose: I couldn't go to another doctor.
Renee: See?
Rose: George is the only man to ever see me naked.
Blanche: Get outta here.
Rose: Well, except for Charlie, of course.
Blanche: Get outta here.
Rose: And the vet.
Dorothy: The vet?
Rose: Our prize hen, Henrietta, had some kind of a chicken disease or something. I don't exactly know what it was.
Dorothy: Chickenpox.
Rose: No, I don't think so. Anyway, I had an earache, so he saw us both at the same time.
Dorothy: For that you got naked?
Rose: I thought that was strange, too.

Quote from Blanche

Dorothy: Mine was Larry Raganetti. Oh, how I loved him. He was gorgeous. He left me for Cookie Kelly. She kissed with her mouth open.
Blanche: Well why didn't you kiss with your mouth open, Dorothy?
Dorothy: I was eight.
Blanche: So?

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