Unhappily Ever After (TV Series)

The Temptation of Jack (1996)

Stephanie Hodge: Jennie Malloy

Quotes 

• Jennie Malloy : Well, you chased my other child away, so you must pay the price. How was school, honey?

  Tiffany Malloy : Terrible. We had to do this report on Great Women of History, so I figured that rather than the expected "yes, Madame Curie was great, blah-blah-blah" dull the report, I would take the satirical approach and do a delightful devil-may-care report on Ann-Margret. I even did a little go-go dance, including shaking my hair all around, ah, the class screamed...

  [demonstrates, the studio audience going wild] 

  Tiffany Malloy : Just like that.

  [sits down next to Mom on the couch] 

  Tiffany Malloy : You know, I thought I deserved an A+, but I only got an A.

  Jennie Malloy : Do I look like I care?

  Tiffany Malloy : No.

  Jennie Malloy : [smirking]  Well, then I guess I'm as good an actress as your idol Ann-Margret.

  Tiffany Malloy : Sable got an A+. She did Golda Meir, Nobel Peace Prize, big deal, I'd like to see her fall off a stage in Vegas and still get up and finish the show.

  [but Jennie is not a receptive audience] 

  Tiffany Malloy : Oh, you're no good at this, I need my Daddy to come home and start adoring me.

• Jennie Malloy : Oh, you're the girl that's been causing Tiffany all this unhappiness. Welcome!

  Sable O'Brien : [ingratiating herself]  Wait, you must be Tiffany's older but extremely youthful sister.

  Jennie Malloy : [exclamation of joy]  Now, this is a daughter!

• Jennie Malloy : So, Sable, I understand your father's in jail. Oh, you poor baby.

  [strokes her hair] 

  Jennie Malloy : Tell me all about it.

  Sable O'Brien : My Daddy embezzled some poor old people's retirement money. Big crime! Like they were gonna live to spend it!

  [smirks] 

• Tiffany Malloy : Now, I want you to march over to Sable's house, and tell her mother that... that mothers and daughters need to spend time together.

  Jennie Malloy : [calling to her]  Tiffany, would you like to help me cut the cake?

  Tiffany Malloy : [fake smile]  I'll be right there.

  [annoyed, to Jack:] 

  Tiffany Malloy : Uh, she's so needy.

  Jack Malloy : Mm.

  Tiffany Malloy : Daddy, if you don't do it, I'm just going to have to do this.

  [pouts] 

  Jack Malloy : Oh no... not... not... not the pouty lip. And not the Bambi eyes.

  [Tiffany does both] 

  Jack Malloy : All right, all right, I'll... I'll do it.