Estelle Getty credited as playing...
Sophia Petrillo
- Rose: [Blanche is upset after falling out with her daughter] It's not like Blanche to go to bed at eight o'clock.
- Sophia: At least not by herself!
- Dorothy: No, Blanche is depressed, Rose.
- Rose: Do you think she's depressed about Rebecca?
- Dorothy: No, Rose. She's depressed because Marblehead Manor is only on once a week.
- Rose: Boy, I remember when I was a little girl, when we'd get depressed. Grandma could always cheer us up. She'd take out her dentures and she'd take a healthy swig from the aquarium, and then she'd put a flashlight under a chin, and we could watch the goldfish swim from cheek to cheek. We could have watched it all day... but visiting hours were only from ten to four.
- [Dorothy and Sophia can only stare in silence at their eccentric companion]
- McCracken: [Sophia and two of her elderly colleagues, are negotiating with their harsh boss, a restuarant manager - who is approximatly 15-years-old] ... Look the only reason I came over here was so you didn't cause a scene at the Chow Wagon when I fired you!
- Sophia: ...Fired us?
- McCracken: You heard me! And no story you could tell is going to make me change my mind.
- Edna: NOT even the one we could tell your father about how his car got dented while you were doing wheelies and NOT while it was sitting in the parking lot?
- McCracken: You wouldn't do that? Would you?
- Sophia: Hey - she's your Grandmother has she ever lied to you?
- Sophia: Wait, McCracken. Before you begin, I wanna tell you something. I'm no novice when it comes to negotiations.
- McCracken: Oh, really?
- Sophia: Let me tell you a story. Picture it: Sicily, 1922. An attractive peasant girl, who has saved her lira, embarks on a glorious vacation to a Crimean resort on the Black Sea. For weeks, she frolics at the seaside resort and enjoys the company of many young men, all of whom adore her.
- Edna: All of them?
- Sophia: Shut up, Edna. I work alone. All of them. When it's time to return to Sicily, three different suitors beg her to stay. But she can't decide who to choose, so she chooses none of them. But she agrees to meet with them at the same resort many years later. To her trio of suitors, that eventful gathering was referred to as "Rendezvous With Sophia." But to the rest of the world, it was better known as the Yalta Conference.