Hot in Cleveland (TV Series)

Dr. Who? (2014)

Valerie Bertinelli: Melanie Moretti

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Joy Scroggs : [plumping a cushion]  Simon is going to be here any minute, and these pillows are flat!

  Elka Ostrovsky : Well, if he's turned off by flat things...

  Melanie Moretti : [warningly]  Elka, not today. She's very nervous. Joy, honey, you have got to calm down.

  Joy Scroggs : I can't. I'm nervous enough that Simon's coming to see me, but he's also meeting his son and his grandson for the first time. I know it's silly of me to hope, but what if it all works out? We could be a real family. Maybe even a perfect family.

  Melanie Moretti : Well, no family is perfect.

  Joy Scroggs : We'll be. Caroling on Christmas Eve in our matching sweaters. People will look at us and say, "Why can't we be happy like them?" And we'll smile as the spirit of Christmas is replaced by envy in their hearts.

  Elka Ostrovsky : And I thought Melanie was the one with the brain tumor.

• Melanie Moretti : I'm sure pre-schools were different in your day.

  Elka Ostrovsky : My pre-school was a box. My teacher was a potato. And winter came... and I had to eat my teacher!