If Julia reacted like that because she thought the argument about Lolita was stupid, imagine how she would have reacted to the whole "The dress is blue/The dress is gold" argument
I love the Napoleonic code reference as a native Louisiana Cajun this is what we are still under in our law. We have parishes instead of counties. Only place in the US that does.
After Katrina, I had to look up what parishes referred to. My understanding where I live is totally different. Prefecture---another word to again sent me to Google for its definition.
Now that I have been a drinking adult....this scene is top 5 Designing Women moments. I have been every woman in this scene...as for Julia ..that is me in staff meetings.
Blink and you'll miss it, but when Suzanne and Charlene first walk and turn on the lights, Dixie Carter tried to hide a laugh with the covers. I love little moment like that when they try so hard not to break character!
They also did that in the episode where Mary Jo and Julia go into the bar to "test drive" Mary Jo's fake breasts and, after Mary Jo makes a particularly crass comment, Julia turns from the camera and downs her glass of wine. Dixie later said that that wasn't in the script, but that she did that because she knew she was going to laugh, and so she needed to be facing away from the camera.
J Miller It’s funny you should say that. 227 was on at the same time as Designing Women AND Jackee even played Anthony’s girlfriend Vanessa on an episode or two of Designing Women.
@@notthefather3919 , exactly.. The point is that she knew precisely how to portray an over the top feminist. The fact there are modern feminists now who totally lose sight of how over the top she got before the show ended (especially in light of all that was going on in national politics at the time) makes how we know all this now even more intense. You are right.. but it is very much like Sir Anthony Hopkins portrayal of Hannibal Lector.. a portrayal of the utter antithesis of oneself.
@@FaytLinegod , yes.. but the simple truth is that in the last half of the show's run especially.. Julia was at times far more over the line. Many of the show's classic comedy moments are entirely based on her "feminist Terminator" behavior without thinking of the consequences. You can be pro-civil rights and marriage equality and still be conservative.
Yeah reminds me of when Streep played Thatcher - Streep incidentally said that she had a great respect for the woman after she learned about her even though she didn't agree with her politics
What did Julia expect in New Orleans, moral prudes? At 3AM, I'd be sound asleep and wouldn't want to eat anything, but I wouldn't go on a rant jag, either, if I were woken.
The irony of this is that Dixie Carter, who played Juila (R.I.P.), was a very *conservative* woman, and made it where she did singing and dancing for every "Julia Rant".. up until the time that fellow conservatives Jean Smart and Delta Burke left and the show when full "feminism" and ruined the series.
When this show was on the air, Julia was considered ultra-liberal. Now-a-days she would be called a privileged, racist Karen and bullied into shameful silence.
You can tell there were already major on-set issues with Delta. She's only in one shot with the rest of the cast, the brief one where she enters and doesn't even make eye contact with anyone. Once you realize it, it becomes very obvious that her takes were shot separately without the rest of the cast. Interesting and sad.
Even so, this was the last season of the show for me. Once Delta was let go & Jean left (only appearing as a guest in the sixth season opener), the damage was done. Turmoil or no, the dynamite combination of the "original four" was still present even if creative blocking/editing was needed to give the impression of all of them in the same room. That chemistry was unrepeatable & even though Jan Hooks, Julia Duffy & Judith Ivey tried their best, they were up against a formidable ghost. Julia, in particular, was clearly hired as a "replacement Suzanne", but without an ounce of the heart that Delta brought to the character that made you like her in spite of her pettiness. That was not Julia's fault, of course, as she was simply playing someone who was written as not merely thoughtless, but just plain mean. The tabloid drama over Delta's battles with the cast & producers had given the show its highest ratings ever, but I think even Julia began to feel a big mistake had been made. She also likely thought that the role of Allison was too much deja vu after Stephanie on Newhart, who again made viewers like her despite her snobbiness. I also am wondering Linda Bloodworth-Thomason might have had less time for this show as she was busy with Evening Shade by then. By the 7th & last season, she only wrote the season opener & that was it. In the end, Delta & the Thomasons clearly made amends as they worked together again on Woman Of The House. As for the cast, that might have taken longer, but they all did appear at the Paley Center in 2006. At least they patched things up before Dixie died.
Boy, I bet you $999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 that any New Orlenian that eyewitnessed Julia's rant thinking, "Who dat white woman ranting sbout sleeping with a black man?!" #LOL
"Do you still feel guilty about commiting adultery?" I laugh every time I hear Charlene say that.
This is Dixie Carter at her best! Designing Women is one of the best comedy's of all time! Brilliant!
Hands down!
I love it when she says "that's it!"You know she's about to go off!
If Julia reacted like that because she thought the argument about Lolita was stupid, imagine how she would have reacted to the whole "The dress is blue/The dress is gold" argument
Curt Yeomans 🤣🤣
Curt Yeomans 😂😂😂😂
Oh my....she would have blown her top.
This show was so underrated. It rates up there with Golden Girls. Epic & timeless.
But it was best with Delta in it
Julia was like Dorothy and Suzanne like Blanche, except not so promiscuous.
@@Murgatroydian Oh yeah. I can see it now. Ha. Rose is Charlene & Sophia was Mary Jo.
Hundred times better than GG
@@maryeverling8238 Hold on now. Ha.
"Girls in bikinis have thrust their SAMPLES in my face!" 😂
EXCUUUUUUSE MEEEEEEEEEEE!?!
(That's how you know it's coming)
"I don't care if this Lolita is George Bush in drag" LOL
LOL That would've been George H.W. Bush (GB senior)!
And that, my friends, is called good writing and good acting.
@Kristine Maitland
Nailed it!
And one sexy woman
How about how beautiful is delta Burke! She made the show her and Anthony and Bernice and sorry charline
Hey, hey, hey New Orleans!! Love me some Julia!!
I love Julia's rants! lol
So much for Julia's decorum lol!
I love the Napoleonic code reference as a native Louisiana Cajun this is what we are still under in our law. We have parishes instead of counties. Only place in the US that does.
I didn't realize that... Thanks for the trivia!
Uncle Adam sure! 🥰
After Katrina, I had to look up what parishes referred to. My understanding where I live is totally different. Prefecture---another word to again sent me to Google for its definition.
Now that I have been a drinking adult....this scene is top 5 Designing Women moments. I have been every woman in this scene...as for Julia ..that is me in staff meetings.
Blink and you'll miss it, but when Suzanne and Charlene first walk and turn on the lights, Dixie Carter tried to hide a laugh with the covers. I love little moment like that when they try so hard not to break character!
They also did that in the episode where Mary Jo and Julia go into the bar to "test drive" Mary Jo's fake breasts and, after Mary Jo makes a particularly crass comment, Julia turns from the camera and downs her glass of wine. Dixie later said that that wasn't in the script, but that she did that because she knew she was going to laugh, and so she needed to be facing away from the camera.
Jake looks more like reacting to lights being turned on.
GREAT catch!
@@notthefather3919 i thought the same
she wasnt laughing she was grimacing due to the light being turned on
Dixie Carter was fascinating!! Loved the way she could rant and rave after she got enough of something!!!!! 😆
Watch out she’s GONNA BLOW !!!!!!
1:19 Suzanne: "Julia, keep your voice down; this is a hotel."
Julia: *"You have chosen death!"* 😂
I wish we had this full episode. DW top five episodes of all time
Charlene gets drunk and falls asleep under the podium. 😄
Suzanne's dress looks like something Sandra Clark would wear on "227!" :-)
J Miller It’s funny you should say that. 227 was on at the same time as Designing Women AND Jackee even played Anthony’s girlfriend Vanessa on an episode or two of Designing Women.
@@timrob87 Yeah...that was never gonna work! I feel that Jackee and Dixie would've clashed.
1:54 Oh damn - Dixie got up, trouble's coming. XD
I love that little tune at 1:25
One of the best shows ever. They should just rerun it as is!!!!
and he is SIGNIFICANTLY YOUNGER THAN I AM! ! xD xD
+gmwilkie85 Well that makes ALL the difference!
Loved this series. Underrated years later! 😂
Julie was the Queen of rants. Always fantastic.
Another wild hysterical moment . Julia left the others speechless.
No one does a rant better than Julia! LOL.
This is one of my favorite scenes!
1:58 “wher yew GAWoin?”
😂😂
Julia: hey hey hey NEW ORLEANS!!! 😂😂😂😂
Dixie Carter being a conservative politically just made her playing Julia all the more hilarious. LOL
She was also a liberal Republican who supported civil rights and marriage equality.
Many actors play characters unlike themselves.
@@notthefather3919 , exactly.. The point is that she knew precisely how to portray an over the top feminist. The fact there are modern feminists now who totally lose sight of how over the top she got before the show ended (especially in light of all that was going on in national politics at the time) makes how we know all this now even more intense. You are right.. but it is very much like Sir Anthony Hopkins portrayal of Hannibal Lector.. a portrayal of the utter antithesis of oneself.
@@FaytLinegod , yes.. but the simple truth is that in the last half of the show's run especially.. Julia was at times far more over the line. Many of the show's classic comedy moments are entirely based on her "feminist Terminator" behavior without thinking of the consequences. You can be pro-civil rights and marriage equality and still be conservative.
Yeah reminds me of when Streep played Thatcher - Streep incidentally said that she had a great respect for the woman after she learned about her even though she didn't agree with her politics
Purple silk robe...i like it.
LOVE the Ann-Margret reference!
LOL - Suzanne - "you better keep your voice down, we are in a hotel!"
What did Julia expect in New Orleans, moral prudes? At 3AM, I'd be sound asleep and wouldn't want to eat anything, but I wouldn't go on a rant jag, either, if I were woken.
This shot is so funny....
Am I the only one who knows all of Julia's rants by heart???
gotta love Julia!!
“Now eat it now! It’s hot!”
I love this! 😄
This show was a whole lot better than golden girls
And to think I watched this show as a little girl. 😮😇😊☺😄
And you turned out alright!
The irony of this is that Dixie Carter, who played Juila (R.I.P.), was a very *conservative* woman, and made it where she did singing and dancing for every "Julia Rant".. up until the time that fellow conservatives Jean Smart and Delta Burke left and the show when full "feminism" and ruined the series.
I love it 🤣omg Julia
1 of the Best shows
Dixie was awesome
2:15 Suzanne be like... "Oh, mah Lord..." -_-
There is always a point in one of the Julia's speeches that is Suzanne's "facepalm moment". That was this one's.
When this show was on the air, Julia was considered ultra-liberal. Now-a-days she would be called a privileged, racist Karen and bullied into shameful silence.
Charlene is a hoot!
In Louisiana we are still under French law and the Napoleonic code.
That's it......I've HAD it. Love me some Julia Sugarbaker
Although I love them all, DELLA BURKE is my favorite!
God I Love Dixie Carter
I feel sad when I don't see Susan on the tv program :(
Ex Cuse Meeee!
I love it here in NOLA
What episode when Suzanne hot stuck in a fur coat ?? I and they went on anti fur!!!
I think the name of that episode was "The Fur Flies"
Classic Juila Sugarbaker.
You can tell there were already major on-set issues with Delta. She's only in one shot with the rest of the cast, the brief one where she enters and doesn't even make eye contact with anyone. Once you realize it, it becomes very obvious that her takes were shot separately without the rest of the cast. Interesting and sad.
Even so, this was the last season of the show for me. Once Delta was let go & Jean left (only appearing as a guest in the sixth season opener), the damage was done. Turmoil or no, the dynamite combination of the "original four" was still present even if creative blocking/editing was needed to give the impression of all of them in the same room. That chemistry was unrepeatable & even though Jan Hooks, Julia Duffy & Judith Ivey tried their best, they were up against a formidable ghost.
Julia, in particular, was clearly hired as a "replacement Suzanne", but without an ounce of the heart that Delta brought to the character that made you like her in spite of her pettiness. That was not Julia's fault, of course, as she was simply playing someone who was written as not merely thoughtless, but just plain mean. The tabloid drama over Delta's battles with the cast & producers had given the show its highest ratings ever, but I think even Julia began to feel a big mistake had been made. She also likely thought that the role of Allison was too much deja vu after Stephanie on Newhart, who again made viewers like her despite her snobbiness.
I also am wondering Linda Bloodworth-Thomason might have had less time for this show as she was busy with Evening Shade by then. By the 7th & last season, she only wrote the season opener & that was it.
In the end, Delta & the Thomasons clearly made amends as they worked together again on Woman Of The House. As for the cast, that might have taken longer, but they all did appear at the Paley Center in 2006. At least they patched things up before Dixie died.
I think it was when she was depressed about her weight
@@ericandy88 same for me after season 5 I didn't watch it
She is Medea
Boy, I bet you $999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 that any New Orlenian that eyewitnessed Julia's rant thinking, "Who dat white woman ranting sbout sleeping with a black man?!" #LOL
In real life, she likely would be arrested for disturbing the peace, even in an anything-goes city like New Orleans.
I would take you up on that bet, but I am so poor I can't even afford a haircut. Let alone a bet over enough money to clear the national deficit.
Dixie Carter was the best!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh that doesn't prove didly
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I hate laugh Tracks
Well, once you go black...
+Ryan James, you never go back!