‘That's for Me to Know’
Season 7, Episode 4 - Aired October 12, 1991
After Rose calls the building inspector, Blanche learns she can only have two tenants and must evict someone. Meanwhile, Dorothy wants to know more about her family history, but Sophia is keeping a secret.
Quote from Sophia
Sophia: Hey, how were you supposed to know I had an accident in the hall. Wait, why were you guys sorry?
Quote from Sophia
Sophia: I would just like the panel to disregard that accident-in-the-hall thing.
Quote from Blanche
Blanche: All right, everybody, just write down who you think ought to leave.
Rose: Well, you know this is a waste of time. I'm just gonna write down myself.
Dorothy: Don't tell us that. Yeah, maybe we should do this. It's the fairest way.
Rose: All right, but it's just gonna end up being me.
Blanche: Okay. Okay. Here we go. Good luck, ladies. Dorothy. [sighs] Dorothy. Dorothy. Dorothy.
Sophia: Well, that's that. Let's eat. I'm starved.
Quote from Sophia
Dorothy: Ma, we have to talk. I think it's time we settled this.
Sophia: Get off my property.
Dorothy: Ma, that's enough.
Quote from Dorothy
Dorothy: Ma, why couldn't you tell me this?
Sophia: Dorothy, I went against centuries of tradition. You don't leave an arranged marriage. I disgraced my family's entire way of life.
Dorothy: I think I'm finally beginning to see.
Sophia: Good. Then you'll have the decency to lie if anyone asks you about it.
Dorothy: Of course not, Ma. It all has to go in the family history.
Sophia: Don't do this, Dorothy. Don't do something we'll both regret.
Dorothy: I have to, Ma. [to tape recorder] In 1920, your great-grandmother, Sophia Petrillo, became a pioneer in the women's rights movement. She single-handedly dragged her family into the 20th century by refusing to be thought of as property and demanding instead to marry a man she loved. To do so, she had to leave behind everything she'd ever known. And that is the kind of courage and strength that flows through your veins.
Quote from Dorothy
Dorothy: Rose. Rose, you're not going to believe what I found in that box. Look at this photo.
Rose: Oh, it's Sophia as a young bride.
Dorothy: Yeah, but that's not my father. Ma was married to someone else before she married Pop, and she never told me. I mean, she lied to me. I don't know this woman. I- I don't know my own mother.
Quote from Sophia
Dorothy: Ma, get back on the track. Did you date much?
Sophia: Not really. Then what about this picture of you in a wedding gown with someone who is identified as Guido? Oh, World's Fair, at the "Have your picture taken with a Guido" booth.
Dorothy: Ma, you were married to somebody else. I have a right to know about it.
Sophia: Wrong. There are some things a daughter should not know about her mother. You're always sticking your nose in where it doesn't belong. Just like that old dog Sandy we used to have. God, your father loved that dog.
Quote from Dorothy
Rose: I am the smartest woman in the whole world.
Dorothy: And I am the Pygmy queen.
Rose: No, wait a minute. Blanche, what would you say if I got a permit that would let you have as many people stay here as you want?
Blanche: What? Oh, that's terrific. Rose, this says I'm going to turn my home into a halfway house for recently released criminals.
Dorothy: Yes, Rose, you are the smartest person in the world. Burger World.
Quote from Blanche
Don: Well, as moving as all this is, I can't help you. I gotta file my report, and either Mrs. Devereaux has to bring the house up to code, or somebody's gotta leave.
Blanche: Wait just a minute. These women no longer live in my house.
Dorothy: Blanche, what are you saying?
Blanche: I'm saying that it's not just my house anymore. It's our house. I've decided to share the title with you. We'll sign the deed tomorrow. That way you'll have equity and nobody can make you leave.
Don: Heh. By golly, you got me.
Blanche: Say, Don, why don't you drop back by after the hot tub's in.