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End of the Curse

‘End of the Curse’

Season 2, Episode 1 -  Aired September 27, 1986

Blanche is horrified to learn she might be pregnant, but even that's not as bad as when she learns she's going through menopause.

Quote from Sophia

Rose: Did Stan ever get you a mink coat?
Sophia: Stan wouldn't get a popcorn at the movies.

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Quote from Sophia

Dorothy: You know, I always wanted mink. I thought I would look elegant and impressive.
Sophia: We didn't have mink in Sicily. To impress someone, you shot their brother.

Quote from Blanche

Blanche: How did this happen to me? How? How?
Rose: What, Blanche?
Blanche: Oh, my God.
Dorothy: Blanche, please, tell us what's wrong.
Rose: We're your friends, honey. Nothing's so terrible that we wouldn't understand. You can tell us. What is it?
Blanche: I'm pregnant.
[Rose passes out]

Quote from Dorothy

Sophia: What shocking news?
Rose: Blanche is pregnant.
Sophia: Holy cow.
Dorothy: Blanche, are you sure?
Blanche: I did a home pregnancy test. It's right here.
Rose: It looks like a perfume sample.
Dorothy: Put it behind your ears, Rose.

Quote from Sophia

Dorothy: Blanche, who's the father?
Blanche: The father? Gee, I don't know.
Dorothy: Well, you'd better figure it out. When was your fertile period?
Blanche: I'm nine weeks late, it would have been two weeks before, so 11 weeks ago.
Dorothy: Nine weeks late and you just realized that something is wrong?
Blanche: Yes. I kinda lost track.
Dorothy: Well, I think you better get out your book and find out what you did that week.
Sophia: We know what she did. We don't know with who.

Quote from Blanche

Blanche: Here we go. Week of the 7th. Let's see.
Rose: Who was it?
Dorothy: Blanche?
Blanche: I don't know.
Dorothy: But, Blanche, who did you... see?
Blanche: Well, that was a particularly active time for me. I was looking quite stunning. You know, I'd just had my teeth bonded and I was really irresistible.
Dorothy: Who, Blanche?
Blanche: A few people.
Dorothy: How many is a few? Two?
Rose: Three?
Sophia: Do we hear four?
Blanche: Well, that was more like a ten-day two-week span.
Dorothy: For me, that's a lifetime span.
Sophia: Not even.

Quote from Sophia

Blanche: Do you realise I'll be 65 when this child graduates high school?
Sophia: Try 70.
Blanche: I'll be the oldest mother. What I loved about my children was everybody thought I was their sister. My body won't recover from this one.
Sophia: It barely came back from the last time.

Quote from Dorothy

Dorothy: Oh, no, honey. It's not. It's OK. The baby's gonna be fine. Sweetheart, you'll have amniocentesis, and the baby will be just fine.
Rose: We'll help you. The baby will have three mothers.
Dorothy: Oh, it'll be such fun, honey. We can take turns feeding him, waking up with him.
Rose: And I can do the car pools for school because my hours are the same.
Dorothy: And I can help with homework because I'm a teacher.
Rose: And then we can send him to the University of Minnesota.
Dorothy: Minnesota? Are you crazy, Rose? This kid is going to Harvard.
Rose: Oh, Dorothy. Those Ivy League schools are so snotty with those preppy people. In Minnesota he'll get a nice mix.
Dorothy: Of cattle, maybe. This boy goes to Harvard.
Rose: Well, who says? We'll take a vote.
Dorothy: Well, nobody is going to vote for Minnesota over Harvard, Rose.

Quote from Blanche

Blanche: He's not going anywhere.
Rose: It's a girl?
Blanche: No girl. No boy. I'm not pregnant. It's worse. It's much worse.
Dorothy: Blanche, what is it?
Rose: My life is over. Oh, Blanche. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for thinking all those bad things about you when I thought you were pregnant. Like what a slut you were for having all those men. The things only a tramp would do. But now that you're dying, please forgive me, I didn't know.
Blanche: I am not dying, but I might as well be. It's menopause. Well, I wish I could die because as far as I'm concerned, this is the end of my life.

Quote from Sophia

Blanche: I don't know why I'm seeing a psychiatrist.
Dorothy: Because you haven't gotten out of bed all week. You don't eat, you don't sleep, all you do is cry. Now, you see the psychiatrist or we do.
Blanche: I don't know why you all have to be here with me. I'm fine by myself.
Sophia: I'm here because you're having lunch at Wolfie's after.

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