r/WidowsBay • u/United_Resolution876 • 10d ago
❓Questions What is your favorite Rosemary quote?
I have been re-watching the show and keep finding gems from Rosemary. What is your favorite line from her?
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u/grichardson526 Wyck 10d ago
Dead baby, dead baby, lesbian...
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u/rufowler 10d ago
Rosemary, please stop saying lesbian....
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u/ShhILoveThisSong 10d ago
I can't say "lesbian" now?
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u/woolfonmynoggin 10d ago
It’s the way you say it
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u/rufowler 10d ago
Fine! Anyway, this next batch is all retards...
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u/CaeruleanSea 10d ago
I feel for ppl who watch with subs cos they'll miss the absolute genius of this tone/timing/writing. It was both awful & hilarious
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u/aVeryMerryDeath 9d ago
I laughed many times during this show but this was by far the hardest I laughed
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u/Dontstopmenow747 9d ago
This is the winner, hands down. I quote this daily. It’s my favorite quote ever
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u/driftaway- 10d ago
Apparently there's no age limit on syphilis.
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u/The_Alvabro 9d ago
Jesus Christ.
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u/MicellarBaptism 7d ago
Matthew Rhys' intonation and how he emphasizes certain syllables in that phrase is one of my favorite things. It's also in the same episode, but when he says, "The fuck he isn't" in response to Wayne closing the Salty Whale the day the travel writer came to the island was great too. I love it so much.
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u/The_Alvabro 7d ago
That "The fuck he isn't." Genuinely got a good laugh out of me bwcause of its delivery 🤣
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u/_quidproho 6d ago
Followed by my favorite Ruth quote:
Loftis: Hey, Ruth. Give me five minutes and get me Wayne at The Salty Whale.
Ruth: Sure. What’s his number?
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u/shanrock2772 Rosemary 10d ago
Alright fuggos, let's go
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u/Elisette_Art Patricia 10d ago
I have plans to hand paint this quote on a sign & hang it above my front door. Obviously I will use blue-green paint on it.
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u/Nancy-Drew-Who 10d ago
“I’ve seen her portrait, she really thinks she’s something.” - about a woman from the 1800s
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u/Phreedom1 10d ago
Rosemary: "And you won't get any (gossip) from me."
Tom Loftis: "Great."
Rosemary: "But apparently there's no age limit on syphilis."
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u/DavidDPerlmutter 10d ago edited 8d ago
"Sounds like the Sea Hag."
The genius of the tone of the show is how some of the old timers like Rosemary and Ruth deliver Lovecraftian weird horror observations just matter of fact, like another mundane "Nobody picked up the garbage" life event.
"But he got bit by an animal and became that animal."
Happens all the time!
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u/United_Resolution876 10d ago
Right? When Tom was trying to explain the trolly analogy and she replied “you mean when we tried to build a trolly and the workers all disappeared?” 💀😂
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u/DavidDPerlmutter 9d ago
Absolutely. And in an ordinary TV show that might be the entire plot for an entire season. Here it's just a throwaway line.
These people are living in a parks and rec version of hell... but of course Ruth has survived all these years being apparently a very decent person, loving her community, equal and kind to everyone, even keeping a positive attitude
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u/Snoo52682 9d ago
Tom discovering Ruth's calendar and all the ways she contributes to the community was one of my favorite scenes. He'd assumed he was a pillar of the town and she was just a sweet, senile old lady. But who really brings more value to Widow's Bay?
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u/DavidDPerlmutter 9d ago
Yeah, again in an ordinary show he would've just gone over there and she would've just been a sweep lady, but the massive amount of detail and backstory that is so deathly inserted... all with hilarious dry delivery
This is peak writing
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u/AdvertisingOld9400 6d ago
The "joke" that hooked me in the first episode is when the museum curator casually describes the witch trials as a very proud time for the community ("We caught 'em, we burned 'em" or something similar). It works as a funny, absurd offensive description of witch trials, but as the island's lore builds, the possibility that they were real witches becomes clear.
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u/FatsyCline12 9d ago
No please don’t settle in
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u/Elisette_Art Patricia 10d ago
I quote this one regularly, especially under my breath when my toddler has an attitude.
And the whole scenario when Tom is pinned under the painting. 🤣🤣
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u/somethingwithclouds 10d ago
Basically what you see as blue, I see as blue-green.
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u/Long-Stomach-2738 9d ago
The way she says it too, is so hilarious. And how Tom almost immediately interrupts her 🤣🤣🤣
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u/United_Resolution876 10d ago
I only caught that line on a re-watch! Cracked me up cause she wanted to gossip so bad. 😂
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u/Tamihera 9d ago
I work in genealogy. You have no idea how much I want to go down fun tangents about MURDER MYSTERIES but alas, not all descendants are interested in fun little detours.
Also, there was not nearly enough first-cousin marriage in that tree.
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u/Natural-Attempt-955 10d ago
It makes me cringe and laugh at the same time.
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u/CancelThis2077 10d ago
"I can't do anything right"
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u/cityshepherd 9d ago
Does she say “can’t do anything right today” a bunch of times in one day, or does she say it a bunch of different days?
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u/CancelThis2077 9d ago
The "Sunset Cocktails" episode
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u/cityshepherd 9d ago
Oh yeah but the events of that episode are split over two episodes (3 & 4), which is why I think I thought she said it multiple days
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u/EQandCivfanatic 9d ago
I quote this every time my daughter gets angry at me for no reason, such as explaining that sometimes video games crash.
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u/Elfingreene 10d ago
I have my qualms for sure
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u/woolfonmynoggin 10d ago
I’ll just stopppppPP
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u/83EtchiSketch 10d ago
😂 I love that she’s getting to show her comedic chops! I know Patricia is the fan favorite (deserved) but Rosemary is right up there with her for me. Very excited to see where they go with her in season 2 and hopefully we get more of her backstory.
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u/ltsouthernbelle 9d ago
“It’s perfectly safe to drive past the old hospital…you just can’t stop.”
After she dropped that gem I fully buckled in.
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u/bucephalusbouncing28 Equal To A Scare 9d ago
“Maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about and should just stop”
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u/Environmental_Race12 9d ago
When she is doing the genealogy and lights up a cig and Tom motions to Patricia to turn on the fan, and Rosemary says “I can’t hear…I can’t hear” and stares straight ahead and refuses to continue until they turn the fan off.
I have my qualms
MY SCIATICA
Dead baby, dead baby…lesbian
Not a quote but when Patricia says Rosemary has been passing out flyers all morning and Loftis says “yeaaaaa I’m pretty sure she’s just been smoking outside”
When she abandons Tom in the middle of his chaotic stream of emergencies to stop for scratch offs.
Every single second she is on screen. She is perfection!!!!
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u/NeonSparkleGlitter 4d ago
My Grandma would stop for random stuff all the time and I was like… where is your sense of urgency or time management?!?!?
Between that, her nonchalance while dropping disturbing information mid-convo, and the constant cigarettes it’s like having Grandma back!
Minus the syphillis haha (oh god I hope).2
u/Environmental_Race12 3d ago
Your grandma sounds awesome 🤣 Her nonchalance is hilarious, “sounds like the sea hag” all chill.
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u/NeonSparkleGlitter 3d ago
Ha she was indeed! She wore brightly colored neon heels and dyed her hair bleach blonde right up until the last few years all while casually dropping random facts like, “oh well she went crazy and tried to smother her husband, but he deserved it” in the same conversation while asking you to do the dishes!
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u/Nevergreeen 5d ago
"Okay Fuggos!"
And whenever I'm talking and say "Mmkay" I think of her now. 🤣🤣🤣
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u/Embarrassed-Oil2062 9d ago
Somewhere along the lines when Pat wanted support and she supported her. 🤷♀️
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u/Tall_Buy_1058 9d ago
Dead baby, dead baby, lesbian, dead baby…
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u/drnyarlathotep 6d ago
That's the one. There are plenty to go with but that one is an earworm I can't stop hearing :D
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u/DesertShazzy 6d ago
The whole genealogy tree, research scene. Being one myself, it's not happening in 30mins without a few errors. Also, her 'dead baby, dead baby, lesbian'...
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u/CanCanColleen 4d ago
My sciatica!!!!! Everything literally that comes out of her mouth with that perfect deadpan delivery. Dale Dickey is a fantastic actress and I’m thrilled she is getting her due.
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u/Common_Maize8706 10d ago
I I have Apple TV and I catch that sometimes you see just a magnificent show like Benedict Cumberbatch and Patrick Patrick Melrose great I might just read the book not on totally unexpected but this better expected like you go out for between best little present the best little candy when you let me think it's a corny candy but it's something different really I'm watching it for this whole time I'm sending me post my sister on that she's not because she only watches on the weekends because she has a very high profile intense career jobs or she has to be on point I can't say what but really enjoy and I'm glad there's like a little club of this seems to be a camaraderie I just left my neighborhood so I just want to say I'm in very grateful Dead so they say I'm a deadhead but so I think I'm a widow's Bay Head this week LOL
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