Family (TV Series)

Thursday's Child (1976)

Gary Frank: Willie Lawrence

Quotes 

• Kate Lawrence : [reads a note on the table]  "Mrs. Maitland called. See me" I give up. Who's me?

  Letitia 'Buddy' Lawrence : Me.

  Kate Lawrence : I'm seeing you. What's up?

  Letitia 'Buddy' Lawrence : Please tell your mother that Jeffrey Sr. and I are looking forward to seeing her at 7:30 tomorrow evening and also, Letitia, dear, would you please say that the Wilsons just got back from Sardenia and will be able to come to the party, after all?

  Doug Lawrence : That brings it up to twenty.

  Kate Lawrence : Twenty-two. There's a married daughter. Oh, god, there's not going to be enough to eat. I was going to have quiche. Doug, do you remember that English couple that catered the Freeman's cocktail party?

  Doug Lawrence : Caterers? Kate, slow down. Jeffrey Maitland isn't paying for this, I am. I'll get Mrs. Handley.

  Kate Lawrence : Mrs. Handley? The only reason she works for us is because she likes the lunches I've fixed for her.

  Willie Lawrence : Do you remember when Charlie and Grace Harmsworth had their baby christened? We went out into a big field and the guests provided the food. I remember I brought Harib bread and a bean and onion salad, and somebody else brought cous-cous.

  Doug Lawrence : Kate, call the caterers.

• Kate Lawrence : [holds up a box containing a dress for Buddy]  Here's something for you to wear on Saturday. It's called a dress.

  Letitia 'Buddy' Lawrence : Well, thanks, Mom, but I already had something else picked out to wear and it wasn't a dress.

  [sets the box on the couch] 

  Letitia 'Buddy' Lawrence : But it doesn't matter now, anyway.

  Doug Lawrence : [firmly]  Buddy, don't be difficult.

  Letitia 'Buddy' Lawrence : Well, I'm not, Dad. Audrey Pfeiffer called before. Her family's going skiing for the weekend and I'm gonna go with them. I didn't think you'd mind.

  Kate Lawrence : We DO mind and you're not going. Go and call Audrey.

  Letitia 'Buddy' Lawrence : [protests]  Mom...

  Doug Lawrence : Buddy, do as your mother says!

  Letitia 'Buddy' Lawrence : Oh, what difference does it make? It's just a dumb old christening. Chub-O won't even know I'm there.

  Kate Lawrence : He'll know in years to come when he looks at the photographs and his name's not Chub-O. Call Audrey, now.

  Letitia 'Buddy' Lawrence : [pouts and starts up the stairs]  Dumb baby!

  Doug Lawrence : [stands up]  I won't have her behaving that way.

  Kate Lawrence : She IS being a pain.

  Willie Lawrence : She's been acting cuckoo, for days.

  Doug Lawrence : Well, I don't like it.