What are the best Delta Burke episodes of Designing Women

I just watched one (Annie Potts wanted breast implants).

I thought Delta Burke was great. I guffawed a bunch of times to her but then she disappears from the end.

Any experts know the episodes that feature her and are really good?

Stranded - the one where Suzanne and Anthony have to share a motel room in the middle of a snowstorm.

The Last Humorously-Dressed Bellboy in America with the return of Reggie Mac Dawson.

And the one where she demonstrates her exercise routine with her baton but doesn't have the music. (forgot the name)

And the Atlantic City episode.

And that other one I can't remember right now because there are so many great moments flying around my head right now.

“Blame It on New Orleans”. Charlene and. Suzanne go out on Bourbon street, get drunk, and see a drag queen doing Ann Margaret. Suzanne is sure it is a real woman. “I’ve been backstage at enough pagents to know padding, and that was no padding”. “That was a woman, pretending to be a man, pretending to be a woman. Haven’t you ever seen Victor/Victoria”. Charlene tracks down the drag queen and hauls her into breakfast. Wigs come off, including Suzanne’s which doesn’t prove anything. Suzanne drags her into the bathroom. Closing line “Call the police, there’s a man in the ladies room”. Bonus is a classic Julia Sugerbaker rant.

Good picks, R3. The baton routine was from the spa episode, "La Place Sans Souci."

Another great one was "There She Is", when Suzanne lost her Miss Georgia crown to that fat whore Donna Jo Carnes.

My personal favorite Suzanne moment, though I don't think it was from a Suzanne episode:

"HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, LOIS AND SHIMMY!!"

Julia’s rant at R4 was just stupid. Her Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia is a classic.

I’m surprised she agreed to do the one at the link.

I like the one where Suzanne goes on about Miss Valdosta Feed & Grain

When they go to Japan and she’s the international voice of racism.

"They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?" was a good one. Suzanne goes to her HS reunion and, as was the case with Delta Burke herself at the time, everyone talks about how she's heavier than she used to be. Her old classmates are catty, and she gets voted "most changed." She makes a speech embracing the "most changed" label, because she's changed in good ways too.

I don't know if it's Burke's most HILARIOUS episode, but It's a good script by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, and it has one of her best performances.

The one where she's patrolling her mansion with a big gun.

The one where Suzanne fostered the Asian girl and turned her into a Suzanne clone was a great one.

The episode Charlene kept her breast milk in the lil fridge at work.

The episode with the nail glue.

The episode with Bernice's sanity hearing.

The episode with the Trivia Pursuit.

Honestly, she was an awful actress. Hammy and noxiously dumb in comic moments, and unbearably maudlin (as was the show) in the rare dramatic moment.

Not a Suzanne-centric episode, but "Reservations for 12, Plus Ursula". Suzanne sends the attention seeking temporary nanny packing.

[quote] "I want you to take your big knockers and hit the road, if you wouldn't mind."

The one where Julia has jury duty becomes of Charlene and Suzanne tells Charlene to get her and her baby out of there in order to escape Julia's wrath when she's finally released.

[quote] "Reservations for 12, Plus Ursula".

That was a nasty, spiteful episode. The nanny doesn’t do anything yet the women hate her because of big bosom. That’s the plot of the whole episode.

[quote] The one where Julia has jury duty

She’s barely in that one. Subplot is Mary Jo and Charlene trying to win a radio competition.

I love all of the above, along with the episode (I think it was Delta's last one) where she commandeers the PA system at the kids' softball game.

"EXCUSE ME! EXCUSE ME! WILL THE PARENTS OF THE JUVENILE DELINQUENT WHO BROKE MY WINDSHIELD PLEASE COME TO THE ANNOUNCER'S BOOTH—AND BRING YOUR CHECKBOOK! THANK YOU!"

the episode where Mary Jo dents Suzanne's bumper.

I like the one when Suzanne smokes and keeps catching her wigs on fire.

I'm glad "There She Is" was mentioned. It's a great Suzanne episode, and has such a good ending.

The ship of fools episode where they are all stuck at the house/business because of a tornado with a hillbilly, Bernice, a henpecked husband and Anthony’s tacky girlfriend Vanessa.

As r9 mentioned, "They Shoot Fat Women, Don't They?" It was Delta's Emmy submission that year when she was nominated (Candice Bergen won the second of her five instead). Definitely a key Suzanne episode (though that terrible music they have running under her big speech is an unfortunate distraction).

I didn't like that episode. It just kind of... flops there.

The Golden Girls was more effecting when they had Blanche go to her reunion and mixed it with the subplot of Rose making a film. I don't know what point world hunger subplot was supposed to be making.

Her Emmy submission the next year, "The Bachelor Auction." Some great Suzanne and Anthony moments (and Meshach Taylor gets the biggest laughs).

The one where Julia mooned Atlanta.

Julia: What I don’t understand is why didn’t somebody tell me?

Suzanne: “What I don’t understand is where were your underwear?” Hilarious!

The one where Rose reminisces about Saint Olaf.

Not an episode, but a moment- when Charlene had that really bad business meeting, Suzanne's mortified but self-involved "Oh my Lords" always cracked me up.

"Suzanne Goes Looking for a Friend"

Suzanne is reunited with a former fellow pageant contestant who turns out to be a lesbian. Delta was definitely in top form in this one.

Oh, I can't believe that one slipped my mind, R31. The woman talks about how she's "come out" since Suzanne last saw her, and Suzanne says things that make her sound liberal and supportive ("Maybe you should have come out in college, but better late than never!"), but it's really that she's completely oblivious to what it means. She thinks her friend is the oldest debutante.

THey shoot fat women don't they was probably Delta at her best.

She was the only funny one on that show!

[quote]"Suzanne Goes Looking for a Friend"

That episode didn’t work because in the final scene in the sauna Delta is so covering her girth in sheeths of towels that it makes it look like she’s worried the lesbian friend is trying to look at her body.

Threw the whole thing off.

R24. That would be my favorite epidode, ‘Tornado Watch’.

I hated Potts’ manner of speaking, i.e., how she pronounced words such as “now.” It came out as “neeah”. I haven’t noticed that on Young Sheldon though.

I HATED. DIXIE. CARTER'S. WAY. OF TALKING. LIKE. THIS. DID. SHE. INVENT. THE MODERN. JEZEBEL/SLATE/VOX. WAY. OF. DOING. THIS.

I hated Jan Hooks' lip-smacking between lines. Aren't I cute and dumb, he, he? : )

I hated Alice Ghostley's [beat] pauses and 'Well..."s before every thing line.

I hate Jean Smart's way of just drifting off.... like this....

The great Julia Duffy gave those bitches a lesson in acting in the Mame episode where she explained acting to Julia. Too bad Dixie didn't apply that in real life...

^This thread is about me! Thank you!!

I think the show would've been better with Morgan Brittany as Suzanne.

The one where she comes back and eats everybody.

I finished all the ones recommended.

What are some other good episodes not necessarily Delta centered.

^Have you seen the episode when Charlene has her baby? I always enjoy that one.

"That was a nasty, spiteful episode. The nanny doesn’t do anything yet the women hate her because of big bosom. That’s the plot of the whole episode."

It all went over your head didn't it?

Suzanne was the only single person on that trip, all the others were coupled off. Episode was what many other DW were about, women and their relationships to men and each other.

Suzanne Sugarbaker was in her element as she had Ursula's number from the start, and quite frankly was bewildered by the responses of Julia, Charlene, and MaryJo.

Susanne (as she tells Ursula before also telling her to hit the bricks), is often a "bit too much" in terms of being center of attention. Suzanne knew what that big bosomed au pair was up to because she herself had pulled similar sort of stunts.

Suzanne was the only female in that group not threatened by Ursula and told the other women where they were falling short. Lying about in their flannel nightclothes while that au pair was out on the beach in a bikini jumping up and down for the pleasure of the men who followed her everywhere.

When another woman is making a play for your man, sitting around and stuffing your face with ice cream and moaning about plight isn't exactly a way to win.

Suzanne Sugarbaker speaks the truth.

Just don't sit next to Suzanne on a long haul flight from Atlanta to Japan...

I don't know about Suzanne, but Anthony's best was definitely the "Cindy Birdsong" episode.

I always hated seeing interviews with Dixie Carter... "MY HUSSSS BAND..HAAAAL HOOOOLBROOOK." such an affected way of speaking. It was like a bad impression of Patricia Aulshul.

I've been watching it again on Pluto TV. "Foreign Affairs," where Consuela is going to be deported so Suzanne pays Anthony to pretend to be her to INS, is a great episode for both of them and hilarious.

"Wonder what's keeping Suzanne and Anthony?

"Charlene, are you serious? A six-foot black man dressed like Hazel just left here with Suzanne, his co-conspirator to defraud and deceive the United States Government and you're wondering what's keeping 'em? Well. It's been 3 and a half hours; I don't think you need to wonder anymore. I think it's pretty obvious. They are in prison."

Thanks to everyone, or the someone, who has been posting these episodes. I’ve been feeling kind of blue the last few days (it’s too hot and I hate this part of summer), so watching these episodes again after a few years has cheered me up a bit.

[quote]And the one where she demonstrates her exercise routine with her baton but doesn't have the music.

Love the episode where Charlene gets married and the ladies throw her a bachelorette slumber party and perform a mini-variety show, complete with lip-synching and choreography to the "Wedding Bell Blues." Whatever went down between those women at their lowest, that scene proves there was genuine affection between them. Also love Charlene's dream sequence that flashes back to WWII, in a different episode.

“It was a hillbilly prom. She probably just fell off!”

"Full Moon." It's amazing to think the hilarious center of the episode is not Julia's embarrassing moment at the fashion show (which is never shown) but rather the four women EXPLAINING Julia's embarrassing moment at the fashion show.

"Yes I do.... My most humiliating moment,,, was when Julia mooned twelve hundred people."

That line could not have been delivered more perfectly.

It's amazing watching it now and realizing Jean Smart was the best actress of the four, since most of the time she's just delivering straight lines to the others.

Both Delta Burke and Dixie Carter were absolutely hilarious. Annie Potts was fine, although I always wish she should be better remembered for a better role, since I think she could have been funnier than the Mary Jo character allowed her to be.

The episode where she dates the blind guy is funny. The Golden Girls also did this storyline with Blanche, somehow airing within a month or so of each other.

The episode where Julia's purse is mistaken for a work of art has Suzanne accidentally gluing her lips shut, which was an amusing but pretty spiteful way to ensure Delta had no lines. Same with the episode about Bernice's sanity hearing that has Suzanne hobbled by a severe sunburn she suffers while sailing in the Greek islands.

Annie Potts is the most popular character on Young Sheldon. Her Meemaw is hilarious.

The show, mentioned above, where the women and their boyfriends + Suzanne stay at a beach house with Ursula the nanny is an awful episode. Designing Women could be terrible at times.

The episode where Suzanne needs some quick cash and the gang all go to a casino to gamble and she wins big to Julia’s horror . And she keeps asking for Mr. Pit bull (pit boss)

When the four go on an all-woman camping trip with Bernice, and eventually Suzanne sends for Anthony... who disguises himself as a woman named "Cindy Birdsong."

64. YES. ‘Some white girl’

“Mary Jo, men do not come up and talk to a woman who's wheeling around a 25-pound sack of dog food and a big box of Kotex.”

Suzanne: How 'bout one of them? No, wait, forget it.

Mary Jo: Well, what's wrong with them?

Suzanne: Two guys, one cart, fresh pasta—figure it out.

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