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I realise this is a cheesy sitcom full of eighties hair. Whatever, I love it. I love that they take their moralising about AIDS so seriously, and that Charlene had a prison pen pal named Shadow she believed was an undercover cop for two years who actually turned out to be an undercover cop, and that nobody picked on Julia's little sister (and the world, dammit, was Julia's little sister) and that Mary Jo's ex-husband was a jackass, but her family still functioned, and that Suzanne was acknowledged as an object of lust even at her heaviest; even when she herself was really insecure about her weight. I love Bernice competing for Mrs. Senior Citizen, I love the battered wife they helped to save, I love the crazy decorating competitions and schemes, I love the pig and the mountain chalet and the parenting problems and the being-widowed problems and the differing levels of comfortableness when it comes to sex, to breast size, to money.

I love that they love each other; I love that they support each other.

And I will say again: I fucking love Julia.

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[desert-neon.livejournal.com]

Bravo! Yes! These women were amazing, especially given the time frame. AIDS, GLBT rights, abuse, these were just a few of the issues tackled.

Julia did have some great lines!

"And that, Marjorie, just so you know, and your children will someday know: is the night the lights went out in Georgia!"
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"Alma Jean, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to move your car."

"Why?"

"'Cause you're leaving . . . The only thing that makes me angrier than Hollywood using AIDS as an excuse to have morals again are all you holier than thou types who think you're exempt from it."

"For your information, Julia Sugarbaker, I am exempt. I didn't live like these people. If you ask me AIDS is God's way of punishing them for what they've done."

"Alma Jean, get serious. I've known you for 27 years and all I can say is that if God were handing out Sexually Transmitted Diseases as punishment for sinning, than you would be at the free clinic all the time! And so would the rest of us."

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Mary Jo,(trying to get Julia fired up): "Let's all think of something that makes us really mad."

Suzanne: "Oh, I've got one! When men use women's liberation as an excuse not to kill bugs for you. Ooh, that makes me so mad. I think the man should have to kill the bug!"

Julia: "I don't think there's anything I can add to that."

[barmy-bunk.livejournal.com]

i loved that show when i was younger, but had forgotten all about it!