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Yes, We Have No Havanas

‘Yes, We Have No Havanas’

Season 4, Episode 1 -  Aired October 8, 1988

Blanche has unexpected competition when she starts dating an older Cuban man. Meanwhile, Rose takes Dorothy's adult education class after revealing she never graduated high school.

Quote from Rose

Dorothy: Rose. Rose. You never graduated from high school?
Rose: Not officially. Three weeks before graduation, I was asked to be in the kissing booth at the founders' day fair. Unfortunately, the first boy I kissed had a nasty case of mono. Well that afternoon, I passed it along to 50 young men. And one very confused female P.E. teacher who smelled of Old Spice. I slept day and night for the next six months and when I finally woke up I had missed my graduation and the integration of major-league baseball.

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Quote from Rose

Rose: Hi, Dorothy. What are you doing?
Dorothy: I'm grading the history test.
Rose: How did I do?
Dorothy: You'll find out in class tomorrow.
Rose: Can you give me a hint?
Dorothy: No.
Rose: Did I do better than Boris Yushenko?
Dorothy: Oh, Rose! Boris Yushenko doesn't speak a word of English and he was hit in the forehead with a mortar during World War II.
Rose: Did I do better than him?
Dorothy: No.

Quote from Rose

Rose: Wow! Dinner out with the girls! Oh, let's really get crazy. We'll eat Chinese and use forks. I know, I know! We'll pretend it's one of our birthdays and screw 'em out of a cake. Boy, if I wasn't going, I'd really be jealous of me. But I am going, so it's all irrelevant.
Dorothy: Rose, did I hit you too hard before?
Rose: No, not at all. I'm trying a new hairspray and it absorbs most of the impact.

Quote from Sophia

Blanche: Fidel Santiago!
Fidel: My papers are in order! Oh Hello, Blanche.
Blanche: What in hell is goin' on here?
Fidel: Blanche-
Blanche: How could you be so deceitful? What is it? Is she younger, more attractive, more desirable?
Sophia: You got two out of three, Blanche.

Quote from Sophia

Blanche: Sophia, what in hell is goin' on here?
Sophia: He's a man, I'm a woman, I've got what it takes and he knows how to use it.
Dorothy: I think I'm gonna lose my lunch.

Quote from Blanche

Fidel: Blanche, listen-
Sophia: Fidel, don't sugar-coat it for her. Look, we happen to be an item. I'm wearing his MedicAlert bracelet.

Quote from Sophia

Blanche: Girls, this nightgown is so sheer I believe you can see right through it. Oh, hello, Fidel.
Fidel: Hello, Blanche. How are you?
Blanche: You don't have cataracts, you tell me.
Sophia: Beat it, you 50-year-old mattress.

Quote from Rose

Dorothy: Blanche, this is all about your ego, isn't it?
Blanche: Ego? Dorothy, I have no ego. And you can ask the hundreds of men who would gladly cut off their right arm to sleep with me.
Rose: I agree with Dorothy. I don't think you'd even still be dating Fidel if another woman wasn't interested in him.
Blanche: Girls, look, I know it seems strange, but I happen to have strong feelings for Fidel. I can't explain it. Some things in life defy explanation.
Rose: Yeah, like Bruce Willis's hair.

Quote from Dorothy

Dorothy: Rose, I have a little surprise for you!
Rose: Cookies and milk! Oh, my God, what's wrong?
Dorothy: Nothing's wrong.
Rose: You only do nice things for me when something terrible has happened.
Dorothy: Rose, you failed the history test.
Rose: What does that mean?
Dorothy: It means you got more wrong than right.
Rose: I know that - I didn't fail math. I was talking about the bigger picture.
Dorothy: It means you won't get your diploma.
Rose: Yeah? Well, you have a big behind.
Dorothy: Oh, Rose, Rose Please, let's try to keep this on an adult level. And if you wanna talk behinds, they could show How the West Was Won on yours.

Quote from Sophia

Rose: Oh, boy! Sophia! Sophia, I'm a high school graduate!
Sophia: Congratulations. Now you can get any job involving a cardboard hat.

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