- Louise Jefferson: Does this mean you're leaving us?
- Florence Johnston: Yes.
- George Jefferson: Where're you going?
- Florence Johnston: I'm going to God's house, Mr. Jefferson.
- George Jefferson: Church? She DOES want to be saved.
- Florence Johnston: No, not church, God's house in the sky.
- Louise Jefferson: Oh Florence!
- Tom Willis: But I thought you said you weren't going to jump.
- Florence Johnston: I ain't gonna jump, I'm scared of heights.
- Helen Willis: But you WERE going to...
- Florence Johnston: I got enough pills saved up to do it peacefully and quietly, I'll just take them when I go to bed tonight.
- Tom Willis: Do you realize what you're saying?
- Florence Johnston: Sure, when I wake up in the morning, I'll be riding that chariot to the land of glory.
- Louise Jefferson: We are NOT going to let you do this, Florence.
- Florence Johnston: Look at y'all, ya got family, ya got nice homes, you got so much money that you can even afford to be sick if you want to. All I got is a sore back.
- Helen Willis: You got plenty more to live for, money isn't everything.
- Florence Johnston: Well ain't that a blip? Tell the truth, how many of y'all would want to trade places with me? Well come on, raise your hands. Mm-hmm, carried out unanimously.
- Louise Jefferson: If we didn't love you, do you think we'd be worried about you like this?
- Florence Johnston: Aw you just saying that cuz I said I was gonna kill myself, you don't really mean it.
- George Jefferson: Hey wait a minute! You calling my wife a liar?
- Florence Johnston: No, I just...
- George Jefferson: Do you know how many fights Weezy and I have had because of YOU? You don't know, I'm gonna tell you the truth, a couple of times you made me so mad I was gonna fire you, but Weezy said she wouldn't talk to me if I did. So look, if you want to kill yourself, go right ahead, but if you do, you damn well better realize you gonna be hurting somebody who really cares about you.
- Florence Johnston: What time is it?
- Louise Jefferson: Almost 5, why? Did you have something planned for the rest of the day?
- Florence Johnston: Honey, I got plans for the rest of my life. When I leave here, I'm going to do something I've never done before.
- Louise Jefferson: What's that?
- Florence Johnston: I'm going to the TOP of the Empire State Building.
- Louise Jefferson: Really? You know I was born in New York and I've never done that.
- Florence Johnston: I got the idea when I was at the movies last night.
- Louise Jefferson: What did you see?
- Florence Johnston: Lady Sings the Blues.
- Louise Jefferson: I thought you'd seen that.
- Florence Johnston: Yeah, 3 times, but I just wanted to see it once more. You seen it?
- Louise Jefferson: Nope. The last movie we went to was Jaws, and we only saw half of it before George made us leave.
- Florence Johnston: How comes?
- Louise Jefferson: He hates fish. He says the only thing worse than people eating fish, is fish eating people.
- Florence Johnston: That reminds me, I found a dirty picture behind your fridge.
- Louise Jefferson: What?
- [Florence hands her the photo]
- Louise Jefferson: This is a picture of Lionel! It's not dirty!
- Florence Johnston: It was till I dusted it!
- Louise Jefferson: Florence, what're you playing at?
- Florence Johnston: I'm not playing, I'm cleaning, a good maid always cleans behind the refrigerator.
- Louise Jefferson: You never did before.
- Florence Johnston: Oh I'm not talking about me, I said a GOOD maid.
- Louise Jefferson: Florence, taking a cab to work? Isn't that a little extravagant?
- Florence Johnston: Well, you only live once.
- George Jefferson: What're you doing calling Detroit on my phone?
- Florence Johnston: Cuz that's where my uncle lives.
- [to the operator]
- Florence Johnston: 313? Thank you.
- George Jefferson: What are you doing calling your uncle on my phone?
- Florence Johnston: Because I don't think he'd hear me if I yelled out the window.
- Harry Bentley: I thought cauliflower was very good.
- George Jefferson: Cauliflower?
- Harry Bentley: Yes, Lassie's favorite vegetable: Collie-flower.
- George Jefferson: Cauliflower! I was going to put sauerkraut
- Louise Jefferson: Sauerkraut?
- Harry Bentley: I thought Lassie was a German shepherd.
- George Jefferson: [reading Florence's letter] Dear Mrs. Jefferson, thank you for everything. Goodbye. Love, Florence.
- Lionel Jefferson: That's strange, it almost sounds like a suicide note.
- George Jefferson: Get out of here, everybody knows black folks don't commit suicide.
- Louise Jefferson: Suicide!
- George Jefferson: Will you stop making a mountain of a dumb maid? She said herself she's enjoying life today, took a cab for the first time.
- Louise Jefferson: There's something else she was going to do for the first time.
- George Jefferson: What's that?
- Louise Jefferson: She was going to the top of the Empire State Building.
- George Jefferson: Why would Florence want to die?
- Tom Willis: She probably doesn't, she probably wants to be saved.
- George Jefferson: Then she should go to church.
- Helen Willis: But if she really wanted to be saved, why didn't she just come out and say so?
- Tom Willis: Well, maybe she did, in her own way. She left these clues, a note, a prized possession, I think she was crying out for help.
- George Jefferson: Did you ever hear her sing? She needs help.
- Florence Johnston: What's stupid about wanting to go to Heaven? Don't you want to go to Heaven?
- George Jefferson: Yeah, but I'm waiting till He sends for ME.
- Florence Johnston: Well why wait? I mean up there, there ain't no food bills, ain't no rent, yes Jesus! Ain't no hassling, ain't no dirt, and glory hallelujah, don't nobody have to clean up up there!
- Helen Willis: You think God's going to approve of you killing yourself?
- Florence Johnston: Why should He mind? I'm just helping Him to do His job.
- Helen Willis: But Florence, what if there is no Heaven? What if you die and they just put you in the ground and that's it?
- George Jefferson: Yeah, then you spend the rest of your life COVERED in dirt.
- Tom Willis: I think you're being pretty selfish. Don't you care how your friends will feel if you do this?
- Florence Johnston: What friends? All I got is floors to scrub and windows to clean.
- Helen Willis: We're you're friends.
- Florence Johnston: You're my employers.
- Louise Jefferson: We're your friends too, Florence, we care about you.
- Florence Johnston: About me? I'm only the maid, and I ain't even a good one at that.
- George Jefferson: She's right about that, she's a terrible maid.
- George Jefferson: We only hired you because nobody else wanted you!
- Florence Johnston: You mean I only took the job because no one else would!
- George Jefferson: We only let you KEEP the job because we love you!
- Florence Johnston: You what?
- Lionel Jefferson: Don't you see? You're more than just a maid, you're like one of the family.
- Florence Johnston: Lord, I thought black people only heard that one in white homes.