The Facts of Life (TV Series)

Dieting (1980)

Charlotte Rae: Edna Garrett

Quotes 

• Edna Garrett : [eating a green pepper and lettuce for lunch]  Once you get used to the taste of a green pepper, it can explode with flavour.

  Molly Parker : Did it explode yet?

  Edna Garrett : Not a crackle. Not a pop.

  [sniffs:] 

  Edna Garrett : What's that wonderful smell?

  Molly Parker : Cinnamon buns. The cook baked them today.

  Edna Garrett : What a rotten thing to do!

• Nancy Olson : [tight jeans]  Hey, when Roger sees me in these, he'll go crazy.

  Edna Garrett : It won't do him any good. You're pretty safe in there.

• Sue Ann Weaver : I guess I have been acting kind of crazy, huh?

  Edna Garrett : Oh, crazy isn't the word I'd use, more like

  [crosses eyes] 

  Edna Garrett : bananas! Oh, and speaking of bananas,

  [takes one out of purse] 

  Edna Garrett : have one, only 75 calories and full of vitamins A, B and C.

• Edna Garrett : Look at yourself, Sue. You're a beautiful teenage girl, you're ruining your health, worrying your friends, all for a boy who's never even seen you.

  Sue Ann Weaver : [ashamed]  I guess so.

  Edna Garrett : I was just as bad as you though. I went crazy about a dress size label. I love this dress, and I feel beautiful as a size 14, and when I'm ready, I'll be a beautiful size 12 again.

• Steven Bradley : [looks at Mrs. Garrett's lunch]  What do you call that?

  Edna Garrett : [defiantly]  I call it minding my own business.

  [he stares at her] 

  Edna Garrett : Otherwise known as green pepper on a bed of lettuce.

  Steven Bradley : Nobody ever told you this, but you're too big to be a bunny.

• Sue Ann Weaver : Mrs. Garrett, I look good enough for Kansas City, but Scott Dunbar is used to regal New York women with thin butts like in Vogue magazine.

  Edna Garrett : Honey, those women aren't real, they only come out at night to have their pictures taken.