Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Philip Drummond: I`m sorry, Mrs. Garrett. I didn`t mean to startle you.
Edna Garrett: Oh Mr. Drummond, it`s very dangerous to sneak up behind me. I`m going to karate class, and I just got an `A` in "kicking where it hurts". Arnold Jackson: Be careful with my goldfish. His name`s Abraham.
Philip Drummond: I`ve never seen a black goldfish before.
Arnold Jackson: That`s okay. He never saw a rich white man before either.
Philip Drummond: Good morning, Arnold. Rise and shine!
Arnold Jackson: Better not let Willis hear you say the word "shine". Back in Harlem, that`s fightin` talk.
Philip Drummond: Why are you still in bed, Arnold?
Arnold Jackson: I`m studying.
Philip Drummond: Superman is studying?
Arnold Jackson: I`m too young for Wonderwoman.
Philip Drummond: I`d better send for the limosine. Mother gets very impatient if she`s kept waiting. I was born 3 days late. She didn`t speak to me for a year.
Willis Jackson: [Arnold refuses to fight the school bully] Alright, Arnold. Then I`ll just tell Mr. Drummond what a coward you are. He`ll talk some sense into you. Think he wants a coward for a son?
Arnold Jackson: Awww Willis, please don`t say anything to him.
Willis Jackson: Well, somebody`s gotta make a man outta you.
Arnold Jackson: What`s the rush? I`m barely outta toilet-training.
Willis Jackson: [Mrs. Garrett catches the boys throwing punches] Uhhh, it`s a new dance we`re doing... It`s called, ummm... The Punch Shuffle.
Edna Garrett: Now if Mr. Drummond catches you practicing fighting, you`re gonna switch from the Punch Shuffle to the Bruised Bottom Blues!
Willis Jackson: Arnold`s always under my feet. I`ll never have any privacy until he gets married.
Arnold Jackson: Married? On MY allowance?
Kimberly Drummond: Well, well, if it isn`t Sleeping Beauty.
Willis Jackson: You mean Sleeping Ugly.
Arnold Jackson: I owe you an insult!
Jethro Simpson: Whatchoo talkin` bout, Arnold?
[repeated line]
Arnold Jackson: Watchoo talkin` `bout, Willis?
[Willis has just learned his close friend has died in an auto accident]
Willis Jackson: Oh no...
[pause]
Willis Jackson: [crying] Oh no...
[Willis hangs up the phone and cries]
Willis Jackson: Look at me. Crying just like a kid.
Philip Drummond: No. Crying just like a man.
Trivia
The name of Arnold`s pet goldfish was Abraham.
The original concept for the show was different from what would come on the air. It would have been on ABC and set in an upscale Long Island town, not in Manhattan. There was no older brother, originally, and the housekeeper would have been younger and sexier. The production company balked, and ABC lost interest.
Charlotte Rae was promised a smooth return back onto this series if her spin-off, "The Facts of Life" (1979), had failed. But it was renewed, so she was replaced.
Dana Plato was written out of the series when she became pregnant in 1984, and it was agreed that it would be out of character for the same to happen to Kimberly Drummond. However, she was allowed to return for guest appearances after the birth of her son.
When Conrad Bain signed on to do "Maude" (1972), the production company promised him his own show when that one ended. By then, `Gary Coleman` was also signed to the company. When the planned updating of the "Our Gang" comedy series, which Coleman would have been in, was aborted, they paired them and decided to come up with a suitable premise.
`Gary Coleman` wanted the show to end in 1985, when it moved to ABC, but was persuaded into signing on for another year, after which it was cancelled.
When ABC picked up the show, the producers contacted `Dixie Carter` to return to play Maggie Drummond, but she was unavailable because shortly after NBC canceled, she had landed her role on "Designing Women" (1986), so Maggie was recast with Mary Ann Mobley
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# Alan Thicke, who wrote and sang the theme song, had to record a new version of the song for ABC because NBC owned the copyrights to the original.
Mr. Drummond paid $3,500 a month for his Park Avenue apartment.
Arnold`s question "Watchoo talkin` `bout, Willis?" was ranked #17 in TV Guide`s list of "TV`s 20 Top Catchphrases" (21-27 August 2005 issue).
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# Mary Ann Mobley played Conrad Bain`s love interest twice: first she played Arnold`s teacher Ms Osbourne, who dates Mr Drummond in the 2nd season; then she replaced Dixie Carter as Maggie Drummond towards the end of the series.
In addition to the spin-off series "Facts of Life, The" (1979), characters from this show also made crossovers onto "Hello, Larry" (1979) and "Silver Spoons" (1982), thereby implying that all four shows exist in the same universe.
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Lou Richards
with Dana Plato
(as Kimberly Drummond)
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