- Natalie Green: Have you been sexually active lately?
- Blair: Is that on the form?
- Natalie Green: No, but I thought I'd ask.
- Natalie Green: Name?
- Blair Warner: Whoopie Goldberg. You know my name.
- Natalie Green: Address, Miss Goldberg?
- Blair Warner: Natalie, you've known me for eight years. You're probably wearing my pantyhose!
- Natalie Green: I'm just trying to do this by the book, Blair. And I borrowed this pair from Tootie.
- Blair Warner: Jo, you're not suggesting I stick the Warner hands in refried beans, are you?
- Jo Polniaczek: I'm suggesting you stick them in something if you want to graduate.
- Natalie Green: Wait a minute! If you're talking about our student trainee program, forget it. This is my first management job, and I don't wanna risk it. I need someone who knows the meaning of work.
- Blair Warner: Well, that leaves me out.
- Andy Moffett: Play it smart, Blair, with Natalie helping you, it will be an easy A.
- Blair Warner: [smiles shrewdly, then looks at Natalie with different eyes] Natalie, before you reject me out of hand, think of the fun.
- [swings Natalie's hand]
- Blair Warner: Just you and I, standing shoulder to shoulder over all that Mexican stuff! Sharing an occasional laugh.
- [inserts some fake chuckling]
- Blair Warner: Together, feeding a hungry nation.
- Jo Polniaczek: If you start singing We Are The World, I'm leaving.
- Natalie Green: [to Blair] Okay, but don't expect any favors. This job means graduation to you, to me it's survival. Be prepared to put your nose to the grindstone.
- [as she turns to leave, adding with emphasis:]
- Natalie Green: Again.
- Blair Warner: [whimsical sigh] The things I do to graduate.
- [then, realizing she'd been slighted, calls after Natalie:]
- Blair Warner: This is my real nose!
- [touches it]
- [first lines]
- Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey: Seriously, Beverly Ann, you haven't gone out on a date since you moved here. Isn't it about time you started living a little?
- Beverly Ann Stickle: I've lived. Believe me, it's *very* overrated.
- Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey: Okay, so things didn't work out with your ex-husband, but it's like riding a bicycle, you fall off, you gotta get on again.
- Beverly Ann Stickle: I'll take the bus.
- Blair: [enters the Mexican fast food outlet] Hello. This is a dump. Yes, a quaint dump!
- Natalie Green: Blair, what are you doing, so dressed up?
- Blair: I'm ready for work. Where's my office?
- Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey: [pointing out reluctant wearer of Mexican outfit complete with sombrero] There's Blair.
- Jo Polniaczek: [gleefully] There is a God. Hey, Cisco, can we have a couple of menus?
- Blair Warner: They're on the counter!
- Jo Polniaczek: I know. That's why I need them over here!
- Mrs. Webster: [difficult patron] And don't forget my water! I have a tendency to pass out if I don't get it.
- Blair Warner: I wish.
- Mrs. Webster: [irate customer] Listen, chippie, I've been coming here since before you were blonde. No one ever insulted me like that.
- Blair Warner: Oh, yeah? How *did* they insult you?
- Blair Warner: Yeah, but don't worry. I called Mr. Simmons and he's gonna give her her job back.
- Jo Polniaczek: [wryly sarcastic] Based on your close personal relationship with him.
- Blair Warner: No, I merely told him that my father was chairman of Warner Industries, and he was looking for someone to head up his ITD. International Taco Division.
- Jo Polniaczek: Is that true?
- Blair Warner: Well, he is my father. And he is the chairman. Two out of three isn't bad.
- Jo Polniaczek: You Warnered your way out of another one.
- Blair Warner: I didn't do this for me. I did it for Natalie. Poor kid earns her living. She deserves a second chance.
- Blair: [trainee waitress decked out all Mexican, sombrero and all] How come you don't have to dress like this?
- Natalie Green: I'm the Assistant Manager, I can't look like a fool!
- Blair: All right, I understand. But you don't have to treat me like a total incompetent.
- Natalie Green: I never used the word 'total'.