Fantasy Island
Mondays 9:00 PM on FOXFantasy Island Quotes
Nora: I don’t blame you for being a criminal. Sounds so exciting.
Rosemarie: Are you forgetting the shattered table? And the blood?
Nora: I just feel so boring next to you.
Rosemarie: Boring? Or bored? There’s a difference.
You said something once, I remember, about how it was more important to love yourself than be loved by any man. It was bad enough when my husband stopped loving me, but I had to leave before I stopped loving myself.
Marsha
Nora: I’ve lived my life doing everything I was expected to do and now…
Rosemarie: …you feel like you haven’t lived.
Elena: I just thought of something nice that I can do for you.
Segundo: As long as I don’t end up back in the eighties. Polyester gave me a rash.
Roarke: Welcome to Fantasy Island, and happy anniversary! Thirty-four years!
Dutch: And it only feels like seventy.
Is their marriage a source of mutual strength … or a handcuffed march to the grave?
Host
Elena: Good morning!
Ruby: Mmm, that is your opinion. And can you please turn the sun down a notch? What is the point in having a magical island if it doesn’t have a dimmer?
Welcome to This is Your Marriage, the game of malicious assumption.
Host
Ruby: I put back on my wedding ring just to signal to the world that I am done. I mean, what’s the point?
Helene: Yes! Yes, yes, what is the point is very twenty-something.
Ruby: Yay. Cheers to nihilism.
Dolly: It’s supposed to be about how sometimes, the thing you want is closer than you realize.
Dutch: Right. And yet that doesn’t make it any easier to find.
And as the sun rose, dripping from the sea / The truth shone there, in front of me / That farther from the sky from land / Is the gap between two grains of sand.
Dolly
Roarke: And the rings are off.
Ruby: Wow. Marriage goes poof, just like that?
Roarke: We’ll see. People steer their own futures, even here.
