Family Matters (1989–1998)

Jo Marie Payton: Harriette Winslow

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• Carl : Hi, honey.

  Harriette : Hi sweetie. How was your day?

  Carl : Rough. I just spend two hours talking a guy off a ledge, then found out he was a window washer.

• Harriette : Better add zucchini to that shopping list.

  Judy Winslow : [writing]  Z-U-K

  Harriette : Nope.

  Judy Winslow : Z-O-O-K

  Harriette : Uh uh.

  Judy Winslow : Let's get corn instead.

• Harriette : [sobbing]  Clint is driving off and Meryl will never see him again! Isn't that sad?

  Carl : I'll tell you what's sad Harriette, I've watched two full hours of the "Bridges Of Madison County" and Clint didn't blow up one bridge!

• Harriette : Judy, finish your Brussels sprouts.

  Judy Winslow : Brussels sprouts make me wanna puke.

  Harriette : At my table, you eat them. Now, what you do on your own time is your business.

• Steve Urkel : Ready, my sweet? Our limo awaits.

  Harriette : You rented a limo?

  Steve Urkel : No, well, actually it's my Uncle Ernie's hearse. He's gonna drive us tonight. We only have to make one quick delivery.

• Carl : There is a guy on our couch who says I remember him, but I don't remember him.

  Harriette : Well, tell him you don't remember him.

  Carl : I can't tell him I don't remember him! Because, I already told him I do remember him. So, if I tell him I don't remember him, I'll look like a jerk and I still won't remember him.

  Harriette : Well, if he remembers you, he's used to you looking like a jerk.

• Eddie : Did Halle Berry return my phone call?

  Harriette : Something on this planet!

• Eddie : I just did the laundry and I'm on my way out to wash the car and cut the grass.

  Carl : Who are you and what have you done with our son?

  Harriette : Who cares? Let's keep this one!

• Eddie : I guess this means you're gonna ground us, huh?

  Harriette : Into dust!

• Harriette : Laura! This oven is on 550.

  Laura : Ma, the package said to cook it at 275 for 20 minutes. So, I figured if I doubled the temperature, I could cook it in half the time.

  Steve Urkel : [cracks up]  Oh, that's rich! That's one for the books! Oh! How could a girl so smart do something so... so... So long!

• Laura : I was thinking about taking a home economics class so I can learn how to cook

  Harriette : What for? I can teach you how to cook.

  Laura : That's okay mom.

  Harriette : Look why not?

  Laura : Remember when you tried to teach me how to sew? You made me so nervous that I had to go to the hospital to get the thimble taken off.

  Harriette : I guess it wouldn't hurt to take a home economics class.