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Filthy Rich (US) :: Pilot (I) (01x01)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | Pilot (I) |
| Episode #: | 01x01 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday August 09th, 1982 |
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Episode Summary |
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At the reading of Big Guy Beck's "video-will," the Beck clan learn that they must cohabitate with Big Guy's illigitimate son, Wild Bill Westchester, and his wife, Bootsie, in the family mansion in order to stake claim on their inheritance.
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Guest Stars |
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| Guest Stars | | •David Healy (1) | played | George Wilhoit | Recurring (first appearance) |
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Episode Notes |
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Big: CBS didn't get around to airing this series until well over a year after it was filmed - which helps explain why Slim Pickens only appeared as Big Guy in this episode (as well as part two). It's oft been rumoured that he died before he could film more episodes, but he didn't die until December 8, 1983 -- nearly 6 months after the show went off the air. In an odd twist of art imitating life, Pickens actually was hospitalized when this episode aired (according to newspaper articles run by the associated press). He was in no shape to reprise his part with his deteriorating health, so Forrest Tucker was cast in the role.
| There are two different versions of this episode. The original episode, filmed in Feb of '81, was too long to air in its entirety once commercials were factored in. Minor snippets of dialogue that existed in the original episode are missing from the two-part version that aired. Most of them were very minor, however, one lengthy scene was cut out of the aired version of this episode where Marshall proclaims to his mother that he's a bisexual. More than likely, this was removed since homosexuality was still taboo at the time. While gay jokes were used on "Soap" (a show that was scandalous in its own right), it wasn't until over a decade later when Roseanne proved that it was okay to make gay jokes on sitcoms.
| Clips from this episode were featured in the Designing Women Reunion Special.
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Featured Songs |
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| Artist | Song Title | Played When | | •Filthy Rich Cast | The Happy Birthday Song | |
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Kathleen: Carlotta, who do you think you are, tampering with my decorating theme?
Carlotta: Kathleen, dear, I know that impeccable taste is not your strong suit, so trust me when I tell you that cheap Mexican mosaics are entirely inappropriate as tomb décor. Unless, of course, one happens to be an Aztec.
| Kathleen: Y'all can snap at me all you want, but just remember; you'll never cheat me out of my inheritance.
Marshall: Now, Kathleen, why would we want to do that? After all, you gave Daddy ten of the best months of your life. Certainly ought to be worth thirty or forty million.
| Kathleen: You better watch how you talk to me. After all, I'm still Big Guy's wife.
Carlotta: Second wife.
Kathleen: Not to mention your mother-in-law.
Carlotta: Step-mother-in-law.
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Carlotta: Now, unfortunately, being a Miss Mississippi and third-runner-up to Miss America isn't worth a bucket of spit in this family. So I suggest you stuff your little Mary Ann Mobley act into a hatbox and hit the road. At Toad Hall, there is room for only one reigning queen.
Marshall: And I'm your slave!
| Big Guy: First off, I want to apologize to you for lettin' you grow up an orphan.
Wild Bill: Oh, don't worry about that.
Big Guy: But please do not let the mysterious circumstances surrounding your birth besmirch the character of your good and saintly mother. She was a fine woman of highest moral fiber, even though I was only privileged to know her for a few short hours.
| Carlotta: I don't care if it's a telethon for gum disease, just as long as I'm Chairperson and the press shows up!
| Kathleen: I worked too hard to get where I am.
Marshall: Yeah, pulled yourself up by your bra-straps.
| Carlotta: Kathleen, before you proceed with another of your sophomoric snit-fits, you should know I tied up all the family boxes so the Westchesters couldn't sit in them. You want Wild Bill and his little Bootsie swillin' beer and shellin' peanuts at the Philharmonic in a box with our name on it?
| Carlotta: Marshall, will you stop that incessant wheezing?
Marshall: Carlotta, I happen to have asthma.
Carlotta: Well, have it somewhere else, I'm talkin'!
| Kathleen: Well, I don't care two hoots for this cryogenic-frozen business. I'd like to march right down to that crypt and turn up his little thermostat!
| Kathleen: I mean, how can a person date when her husband's lying a hundred yards away in a tank full of liquid nitrogen?
| Kathleen: Then tonight we get our full inheritance?
Carlotta: I don't see why not. We did let Bootsie and Wild Bill move in and they did tell George how nicely we've treated them.
Marshall: Of course, there was that incident with the broken cellar stair, the fallen chandelier and that ugly bout with botulism.
| Bootsie: Well, hon, you don't have to be up before dawn to know that half the women in Memphis are in love with Stanley. Kathleen's in love with him too.
Stanley: Bootsie, Kathleen's my step-mother!
Bootsie: I know. But somehow, I don't think that's gonna stop her.
| Carlotta: The Westchesters are just like our own flesh and blood.
George Wilhoit: Carlotta, according to Big Guy, the Westchesters are your own flesh and blood.
Carlotta: Yes, first it was difficult for me to believe that I could be related, even by marriage, to a woman who thinks the pinnacle of good taste is owning a rug with Elvis Presley's face on it.
| Bootsie: Oh, you're Stanley and Marshall's mother.
Mother B.: That's right. I live at the nursing home. They tell me I'm crazy. What do you think?
Wild Bill: Why, you seem okay to me.
[Mother B. lowers her voice, reaches into her shirt, pulls out a note and hands it to Wild Bill]
Mother B.: These people are holding me hostage. Won't you give this note to the police?
| Carlotta: Mother B., Kathleen was married to Big Guy after your divorce.
Mother B.: Oh. Well, just don't forget to put out after dinner!
| Mother B.: I heard a very unpleasant rumour about you at the nursing home, Marshall.
Marshall: Well, Mother, uh, I've been meaning to tell you somethin' for a long time... I'm bisexual.
Mother B.: They say you cheat on your income tax.
| Marshall: Do you know what bisexual means?
Mother B.: Of course I know! One foot on the ground and one foot off!
Marshall: I am in therapy; try an' understand it.
Mother B.: Oh, for crying out loud, I don't wanna hear all this... I liked it better when folks had secrets! Anyhow, I'm senile, half my teeth are gone - I don't care if you date goats!
| Marshall: Well, my father was not a sentimental man, so I'll just say this. Here's to Big Guy Beck. He lived for better or for worse, but he's dead for good.
| Carlotta: Really, Stanley, who ever heard of toasting with a soft drink?
Stanley: Well, Carlotta, I drink this ‘cause I'm proud. I'm a Pepper... We're all Peppers. Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?
| Mother B.: Bootsie, do you know "Spread Your Tiny Things and Fly Away?"
Stanley: It's "Wings," Mama.
Marshall: She's always one word off!
| [The family finishes singing the "Happy Birthday Song" to Big Guy]
Mother B.: Alright, everybody rub my bottom and make a wish!
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The following quote is from this episode:
Carlotta: Really, Stanley, who ever heard of toasting with a soft drink?
Stanley: Well, Carlotta, I drink this ‘cause I'm proud. I'm a Pepper!
This is a reference to the then-enormously-successful Dr. Pepper campaign. In the uncut version of this episode, Stanley goes on to say: "We're all Peppers. Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too?"
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