Soap (TV Series)

Episode #3.17 (1980)

Lynne Moody: Polly Dawson

Quotes 

• [Danny and Polly have gone to a real estate office to buy a home together] 

  Mr. Rosen : Sorry about the wait, you're next.

  [Danny and Polly start toward his desk] 

  Mr. Rosen : [to Danny]  I'm sorry, young fellow, but I think this young lady was ahead of you.

  Danny : No, you don't understand...

  Mr. Rosen : There's no rush. There's plenty of houses. All kinds of houses. Houses, houses! Rosen has hundreds of houses!

  Polly : We're together.

  Mr. Rosen : I haven't got a thing.

  Danny : Hey!

  Mr. Rosen : Joking, just some humor, please sit down, I got plenty, sit down.

  [they sit] 

  Mr. Rosen : Crazy kids, crazy, crazy, crazy... What are you, crazy?

  Polly : What do you mean?

  Mr. Rosen : What do I mean? Look how you look: White, black; where do expect the live? In the land of Nod and Oz and Disney World? It's crazy!

  Polly : All right, fine. Danny we don't need this.

  Danny : We'll go someplace else.

  Mr. Rosen : Wait, listen. Please sit down. I happen to have the same situation. My daughter is married to a black fella. Nice man, tall. But they have problems. People like them have problems, it's a social fact. You should see where *they* live and I sold them the house!

  Polly : What do you recommend?

  Mr. Rosen : I recommend you find yourself a nice black fella and you find yourself a nice Jewish girl.

  Danny : I'm not Jewish.

  Mr. Rosen : You won't regret it.

• Polly : Mr. Rosen, may I ask you a question?

  Mr. Rosen : Why not?

  Polly : How did you deal with your daughter in love with a black man?

  Mr. Rosen : At first, I was so upset I fasted for six hours. Then I said to myself: "Dundel, you're Jewish. There are people who are not so crazy about you, either!" And I realized hating was a disease and I was not gonna be a carrier.

  Danny : How is your daughter doing?

  Mr. Rosen : Great, fine. They're in love! What do they know?

  Danny : That's wonderful.

  Mr. Rosen : My wife, however, was committed three years ago.