She graced us all with her elegance speaking and singing voice. She and Hal Halbrook were beautiful together. The way he looked at her you could tell he cherished her.
I love Julia Sugerbaker too!!! But the true Dixie Carter did not believe this being a true Republican. It's ironic that she played that role. But I love Julia.
*_"And that Marjorie.. just so you will know.. and your children will some day know.. is The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia!!!"_* All time one of the greatest moments Julia got down right biblical defending Susanne.
It makes me cry too. The brutal reality of it. The awful things Imogene was saying is just a little of what people with AIDS had to suffer through. Not only dealing with a terrifying illness, they had to endure very harsh cruelty.
I do this sometimes on TH-cam. But YTers nowadays shame anything longer than 10 words. Snakes change the subject to "writing essays🤣" than reading the content. I miss the forums of early 2000s when people would respond point by point. And conversations happened.
“People with Power will get good sense and the People with Good Sense will get to have Power” --I’mma start praying for that, too, Julia 🙏🏿 @7:45 & the rest of us will be blessed with the patience & strength to survive until …the meantime These Power-suits, tho 💥
Every scene has me balling my eyes out because I forgot how GOOD she was. You can feel that passion exude from her lines. RIP Ms. Dixie Carter. Forgive me for forgetting how incredible you truly were.
:25 when my mom was in college she worked at a phobotomist at the VA and there were some veterans that had AIDS...and there were VA nurses that refused to treat them... My mom was disgusted by that...
@@Trix897 , I'm very proud to be from this great country. No country is perfect. If you are so embarrassed by the greatest country in the world, maybe move. Many have given their lives so you can live free.
Of all the things RuPaul's drag race has introduced me to. This show, and the character of Julia in particular, is one of the most amazing. I'm just gonna start to watch this now.
I’m so glad I had this show to watch while I was growing up! It helped me articulate my point of view to certain self righteous bigoted members of my family...
Julia on jury duty should be among these clips. Same thing when yells at the tourists and the tour guide in her home and they applaud her. And the sweatshop curtains episde! There are just too many good ones! Loved her!
It’s ironic that the actress’ political views were the exact opposite of her character’s. In fact, Dixie Carter had a deal with the producers. Every time she did a rant, they had to write a scene where she sings.
I've always absolutely lived for this show. When it was in syndication, I would watch it 3 to 4 times a day on different networks. One of the best shows ever. RIP to the wonderful people that gave such life to the characters in this show.
rumor has it Dixie was really a conservative, but were talking 90s conservative so anytime she had to do a show where she had to get political the next episode she would get to sing
Julia was an old school conservative, not MAGA. That started with Nixon, unfortunately. That’s when that party changed, and not for the better for all Americans.
Julia was right with what she said To that doctor because it's not right for them to tell us to let them do the worrying when it's not them that has to do the suffering and or the dying. I lost my grandmother a couple months I'm pretty sure that the doctor who was taking care of her probably told her to let them do the worrying and while I know that they meant well I hope that they didn't tell her that because it wouldn't be right for them to tell her that when they weren't the ones who had to do the dying part well they were the ones who had to lose her like we did. Because I know my grandma she was loved by many even by her doctors. Because that's just how wonderful a person she was. But doctors shouldn't tell patients not to worry.
Julia “I’m going to ask you to move your car” Jean “Why” Julia “Because you’re leaving” ICONIC!!! Im definitely going to start saying that lol. I was crying laughing! How did I not know about this show until now! Julia Sugarbaker! What a woman! Omg the third and fourth rants NEED TO HE SAID NOW. This is true woke! Ugh I need a Julia Sugarbaker in my life🙏👏🔥!
What's most great is that Dixie Carter probably didn't believe in any of this. She was a dye in the wool Republican and reportedly hated Julia's progressive rants. The fact that she delivered them with such passion just shows what a great actor she was.
@@gabelogan5877 That sucks to know. 🙄 It makes no sense to me that someone in Hollywood could be a repub since it's a circus and they encounter all kinds of people. Repubs tend to be from more rural places and sheltered and therefore more prejudiced.
I have always been honored when my close friends have called me the MALE Julia Sugarbaker.😂 And I'm still going off every chance I get fighting for the right.
The Ray Don scene is the gift that keeps on giving everytime he reappears. First when Julia gets audited and Charlene recounts the story and then later when Suzanne has her money absconded... and he recites it from memory 😆
There are multiple times that the male actors could not hide their love for their spouses. Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter. Gerald McRaney and Delta Burke. Richard Gilliland and Jean Smart. The talent from everyone was exceptional. Annie Potts was extraordinary, also. I loved seeing Meschach continue to grow. There are so many episodes that were relevant then and now.
@@gabelogan5877 Carter was nominated in 2007 for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role of Gloria Hodge, Orson Hodge's scheming sociopathic mother on _Desperate Housewives_ .
Now that I am grown and out from my momma's thumb. I realize that she barely watched this show and didn't want us watching it because they are independent compassionate women while she was just Catholic and traditional.
Sadly, even in 2008, I worked with nurses who refused to care for HIV patients. Made me sick. I was the only one who would start an IV. The nurse who cared for the patient was an LPN and couldn't.
8:05 -- Today's trivia: Three of the actors in that scene were or were soon to be the husbands of three of the actresses. Dixie Carter and Hal Holbrook. Jean Smart and Richard Gilliland. Delta Burke and Gerald McRaney.
That Imogene. Wow. Who could look an innocent person in the face, a person with a horrible disease no less, and tell them they deserve to die. That's pure evil. This show touched on some serious issues and handled them well.
I was surprised to hear Julia say: "There's one thing I can't stand. It's a prissy man." ....which seems uncharacteristic of Julia. Wonder why the writers had her say it?
There was one rant I remember that Mary Jo was in the background mimicking what Julia was saying and doing - especially the line "has everybody lost their minds???"
I remember that one from the last season of Designing Woman. Mary Jo was right. Julia in anger did say those words after finding out Anthony went to the lobby in his underwear only to buy a magazine in the lobby for a thousand dollars from BJ. Anthony was concerned about his pride, but not his dignity.
Damn, still relevant today. I'm half encouraged that these issues were addressed decades ago but also sad that the same issues persist. Love that she rants so eloquently. Wish there was more shows these days that address things in such a blunt manner.
My favorite Julia Sugarbaker rant was the "the lights went out in Georgia " that was my #1 favorite and Dixie Carter is my #2 all time favorite person right behind SVU'S Mariska Hargitay
It's a crime that Dixie Carter didn't win an Emmy for this role.
She waa never even NOMINATED!!
@@1Cheytown yes we all realize that. A shame.
Agreed!🕎✡🇮🇱
Because she wasn't that great of a comedy actress that's why
@@michaelnelson1128 lol. Trolls got to troll, I guess. Blocked and muted.
I am a 40 year old black lady and my favorite rant since I was 7 years old has ALWAYS been “the night the lights went out in Georgia!!!!”❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
50 years here....I told my 30 year old daughter to study Julia to learn how to elegantly READ a person to the ground 😁😁
My favorite too!!
Mine since I was 15. I’m 52.
I love it too
55 yr old Black woman, always loved her read! Hers and Claire Huxstable on thr Cosbys!
“The night the lights went out in Georgia” is a master class on how to deliver a monologue.
certainly is.
I just love Dixie Carter's voice. I think she has one of the most interesting, soothing, beautiful female voices ever.
I DEFINITELY agree with You.👍
A sweet Georgia Peach 🍑 indeed !! 😊
She graced us all with her elegance speaking and singing voice. She and Hal Halbrook were beautiful together. The way he looked at her you could tell he cherished her.
She was the best ❤me some julie
Yessss ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Everyone needs a big sister like Julia Sugarbaker. She is just amazing. RIP Ms. Dixie Carter!!!!
She's who I try to be like.
More like people need to aspire to be like her
My oldest sister passed away in January this year. She was truly my best friend and always had my back ❤️
She is
I love Julia Sugerbaker too!!!
But the true Dixie Carter did not believe this being a true Republican. It's ironic that she played that role. But I love Julia.
*_"And that Marjorie.. just so you will know.. and your children will some day know.. is The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia!!!"_* All time one of the greatest moments Julia got down right biblical defending Susanne.
Oh it's great moment
Best moment ever.
That was the best I,ve seen by her!.
That's my favorite rant of hers!! My mother and I used to say that when we were trying to make a point. It still gives be goosebumps!!!
I love it when Julia reads Marjorie down the road!
The AIDS episode brings tears to my eyes. I have loved Julia for years and still do.
Before it’s time 💜✊🏿
It makes me cry too. The brutal reality of it. The awful things Imogene was saying is just a little of what people with AIDS had to suffer through. Not only dealing with a terrifying illness, they had to endure very harsh cruelty.
I love her point tho, why did we need aids to start valuing monogamy?
Same ❤️🥹
Mind too
Julia Sugarbaker, classy, brutally honest and shrewd...Standing ovation.
yep.
We all need a friend like Julia. Dixie Carter is truly missed.
She was so beautiful
I love Julia. She always fought fiercely to defend the people she loved.
Yes MA'AM!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤😢
Dixie Carter was AMAZING in this role! She made this show!!!
I totally agree, she was my favorite❤️❤️
Although the Aids rant is my fave bc it’s so touching, I love the beauty pageant ep-the way she corners Marjorie is hysterical😂
Yeah me too 😂🤣
And the way she said Georgia at the end 😂
The crazy rant is mine!!!😂
I always wanted to be a combo of Julia sugarbaker and Murphy brown. Such groundbreaking shows
Me, too.
This is so relevant decades later. What a terrific show! I used to watch it with my parents, who loved it.
A lot of these issues unfortunately are still relevant. We will always need a Julia
no doubt !.
I love the proud smile on Hal Holbrook's face when Julia finishes her rant about the historic failures of male entitlement.
He has that look of this is why I love her. 😊🥰
Especially, since he was her actual husband.😁❤
Yep, that’s my lady!
I thought I was the only one who noticed.
Julia is my spirit animal. I get so frustrated some times and going on a 10 minute rant of righteous truth telling can be so satisfying.
Righteous truth telling, best kind of story telling.
I do this sometimes on TH-cam. But YTers nowadays shame anything longer than 10 words. Snakes change the subject to "writing essays🤣" than reading the content.
I miss the forums of early 2000s when people would respond point by point. And conversations happened.
My spirit guide 💯
My husband always says that when I go on a rant that I " go all Julia " on someone / something ! 😂
Yes, ma’am… me too! Spirit animal & righteous truth telling rants (once I’ve heard enough)😂😂😂❤❤❤
She barely even breathes when she does these tirades. What a classic woman!
I know. I feel winded just watching. She's awesome
Ms. Dixie Carter was MADE for this part and her depiction of Julia SugarBaker will ALWAYS be one of my favorite tv characters ever!!!✌🏾💜
“People with Power will get good sense and the People with Good Sense will get to have Power” --I’mma start praying for that, too, Julia 🙏🏿 @7:45 & the rest of us will be blessed with the patience & strength to survive until …the meantime
These Power-suits, tho 💥
Forget David Banner, Julia Sugarbaker is the one you don’t want to make angry
"THAT'S IT!" Always the beginning of a classic moment.
At 1:57 I love the way Julia narrows her eyes and straightens her posture. That's when you knew she was getting ready to obliterate Imogene!😂😂
I just now noticed that. She looked like she was ready to kill her!!!!!!
I noticed that!
Every scene has me balling my eyes out because I forgot how GOOD she was. You can feel that passion exude from her lines. RIP Ms. Dixie Carter. Forgive me for forgetting how incredible you truly were.
The scriptwriters were amazing on this show but Dixie’s delivery is beyond words
AGREE💯💯💯💯💯💯
When she defended her sister about the beauty contest, I cried, because that's love.
I never watched much TV but that rant, I remember! Incredible!
@@mickyalberta3484 it wasn't a rant...it was a truthful display of brutality.
Boy do I love me some Julia Sugarbaker on a tirade!! There’s nothin better than watching her go off on someone and putting them in their place!!
We really need JULIA back and another Designing Women show!!! I do miss all these women so much!!
You’ll need a Ouija board to bring Dixie Carter back for the role
I can't think of anyone who could do the role, maybe Bellamy Young (Melody from 'Scandal')
@@JazzyMamaInAK
It will never be the same without the original cast
No one could replace any of them!!!!! So don't try!!
She should have won a Golden Globe for many of her performance ❤️
Julia Sugarbaker will always be one of my all-time favorite TV characters. Loved it when she went off on people!
Mine too
:25 when my mom was in college she worked at a phobotomist at the VA and there were some veterans that had AIDS...and there were VA nurses that refused to treat them...
My mom was disgusted by that...
That is so sad. Nurses are supposed to take care of people regardless.
The 3rd rant needs to be shown on a 24 hour loop on every network for the rest of our lives.
Yes!!!
I agree.. but both sides do it.. a lot.
Agreed. It’s an embarrassment that people are actually proud to be from the US when we fail so badly at so many basic things.
@@Trix897 , I'm very proud to be from this great country. No country is perfect. If you are so embarrassed by the greatest country in the world, maybe move. Many have given their lives so you can live free.
@@alisonwinston2547 Well said!
Julia is what every woman wants to be and does finally become after "the change" she is someone to aspire too!
In real life Dixie Carter was a conservative! A very intelligent and patriotic woman!
I just loved Julia's rants! They were epic!❤️
Me too
Julia was one of the main reasons I watched Designing Women! To see her go off! I loved her 😊.
Of all the things RuPaul's drag race has introduced me to. This show, and the character of Julia in particular, is one of the most amazing. I'm just gonna start to watch this now.
Yeah, me too, she's spectacular!
It’s an amazing show
It's all on Hulu!!! I love this show
Please watch!! This so was so ahead of it’s time!
I'm definitely performing spoken word pieces of Julia. I love her.
The south have a Julia Sugarbaker in every community. No joke
3:27 Sugarbaker's monologue on "The Beauty Contest" is now a lipsync challenge on _RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars_ .
Sometimes, in a public place, if I feel I’m not being heard….I put on my Suzanne Sugarbaker persona. “Excuse me…excuse me”…🤣
Lol🤣 I read that in Suzanne's voice 😄
I do that too. It's amazing how quickly people will notice...
Sometimes you gotta 🤗😇
I do that occasionally too, and I give no apologies for doing that at all.
I’m so glad I had this show to watch while I was growing up! It helped me articulate my point of view to certain self righteous bigoted members of my family...
Julia on jury duty should be among these clips. Same thing when yells at the tourists and the tour guide in her home and they applaud her. And the sweatshop curtains episde! There are just too many good ones! Loved her!
My mom and I loved watching Dixie Carter get fired up over anything in this show.
Julia is Dorothy of the Designing Women.
NO....Dorothy *IS* JULIA! (or at least she tries b/c NOBODY can replace Julia)
Damn…she was amazing. But it’s devastating that it’s 2022 and nothing has changed…
Ikr
It’s ironic that the actress’ political views were the exact opposite of her character’s. In fact, Dixie Carter had a deal with the producers. Every time she did a rant, they had to write a scene where she sings.
Wondered how far down I'd have to scroll before I'd find someone who knew that!
I knew that, at least not too long after the show started. It amazed me that Dixie wasn't influenced by her character's rants. They sure convinced me.
Dixie was old school conservative. She had way more common sense than to believe what MAGA has been pushing since Nixon.
I've always absolutely lived for this show. When it was in syndication, I would watch it 3 to 4 times a day on different networks. One of the best shows ever. RIP to the wonderful people that gave such life to the characters in this show.
Dixie Carter was so beautiful and elegant. Fantastic actress. What a character Julia was!
rumor has it Dixie was really a conservative, but were talking 90s conservative so anytime she had to do a show where she had to get political the next episode she would get to sing
Wasn't a rumour. It was fact.
A "90s conservative" was just a precursor to today's conservative. You ever hear of Newt Gingrich's "Contract with (on) America?"
What does that mean she would get to sing?
Julia was an old school conservative, not MAGA. That started with Nixon, unfortunately. That’s when that party changed, and not for the better for all Americans.
@01:01 Mary jo: you about to get fired up?!😂🤣😂🤣😂
No one has ever or will ever be able to recreate this greatness!!
Julia was right with what she said To that doctor because it's not right for them to tell us to let them do the worrying when it's not them that has to do the suffering and or the dying. I lost my grandmother a couple months I'm pretty sure that the doctor who was taking care of her probably told her to let them do the worrying and while I know that they meant well I hope that they didn't tell her that because it wouldn't be right for them to tell her that when they weren't the ones who had to do the dying part well they were the ones who had to lose her like we did. Because I know my grandma she was loved by many even by her doctors. Because that's just how wonderful a person she was. But doctors shouldn't tell patients not to worry.
Look at a young tony goldwyn! Is that him👀🔎👁
Isn't he gorgeous?
Julia we need you now more than ever.
Not Ranting It's Reading Julia built the library and wrote all the books when it comes to Reads
lol I like that comment!
Julia “I’m going to ask you to move your car”
Jean “Why”
Julia “Because you’re leaving”
ICONIC!!!
Im definitely going to start saying that lol.
I was crying laughing! How did I not know about this show until now! Julia Sugarbaker! What a woman!
Omg the third and fourth rants NEED TO HE SAID NOW. This is true woke! Ugh I need a Julia Sugarbaker in my life🙏👏🔥!
What's most great is that Dixie Carter probably didn't believe in any of this. She was a dye in the wool Republican and reportedly hated Julia's progressive rants. The fact that she delivered them with such passion just shows what a great actor she was.
Katherine Hepburn said something similar to a longtime friend in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. She walks her out to her car.
@@gabelogan5877 That sucks to know. 🙄 It makes no sense to me that someone in Hollywood could be a repub since it's a circus and they encounter all kinds of people. Repubs tend to be from more rural places and sheltered and therefore more prejudiced.
@@BigBirdy100 Bakersfield (which feels pretty rural) is close to LA. California is redder than I initially thought.
@@gabelogan5877 I've always thought her rants were great because this is what ranting like a lady looks like.
I have always been honored when my close friends have called me the MALE Julia Sugarbaker.😂
And I'm still going off every chance I get fighting for the right.
The Ray Don scene is the gift that keeps on giving everytime he reappears. First when Julia gets audited and Charlene recounts the story and then later when Suzanne has her money absconded... and he recites it from memory 😆
RIGHT? My favorite Julia moment. 😂🤣
There are multiple times that the male actors could not hide their love for their spouses. Hal Holbrook and Dixie Carter. Gerald McRaney and Delta Burke. Richard Gilliland and Jean Smart. The talent from everyone was exceptional. Annie Potts was extraordinary, also. I loved seeing Meschach continue to grow. There are so many episodes that were relevant then and now.
It's insane at how relevant this still is in 2022.
thanks to Monet and Jinkx sjjs
And 2024
Still LOVE Julia Sugerbaker and the rest of the Designing Women! Thanx for posting ❣️❣️👏🏼👏🏼❤️
wow the rant from aids and standing up for her sister!!!
Legend
We all need a friend like Julia. Dixie Carter is truly missed.
We need to turn Julia Sugarbaker loose in Washington LOL. I loved this show and DVR reruns for when I want to binge watch.
The second rant is the best. My middle sister, Michelle participated in a pageant. One of my best days ever.
I agree I think Miss Carter should have at least won one Emmy Award for her role on this Show
The real travesty is she was never even nominated
@@1Cheytown she was never nominated for Designing Woman. She was however, nominated for Desperate Housewives.
But her character will live on forever. There are many who have won awards that we never hear from again.
@@Hotrodchef89 So - So TRUE
@@gabelogan5877 Carter was nominated in 2007 for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role of Gloria Hodge, Orson Hodge's scheming sociopathic mother on _Desperate Housewives_ .
Now that I am grown and out from my momma's thumb. I realize that she barely watched this show and didn't want us watching it because they are independent compassionate women while she was just Catholic and traditional.
Ah. It's a shame your mom was so closed off.
Sadly, even in 2008, I worked with nurses who refused to care for HIV patients. Made me sick. I was the only one who would start an IV. The nurse who cared for the patient was an LPN and couldn't.
Wow. How ignorant of them to not treat them.
True woke writers back in the 80s.
‘I’m sorry..I’m gonna have to ask you to move your car….why….because you’re LEAVING……I’m gonna use that one day
I fogot how much I loved Julia Sugarbaker and her Rants! I want to be like her when I grow up.
8:05 -- Today's trivia: Three of the actors in that scene were or were soon to be the husbands of three of the actresses.
Dixie Carter and Hal Holbrook.
Jean Smart and Richard Gilliland.
Delta Burke and Gerald McRaney.
Dixie Carter was a Conservative in real life.
Shameful
Being a conservative isn't inherently bad or shameful
Old school conservative, not maga.
@@yaassss5531 I agree.
@@taylorqueensbury170 what is shameful...
That Imogene. Wow. Who could look an innocent person in the face, a person with a horrible disease no less, and tell them they deserve to die. That's pure evil. This show touched on some serious issues and handled them well.
Julia "The Terminator" Sugarbaker 😍
I always loved Dixie Carter. This show was the absolute best.
One of her rants that wasn’t shown was when she had to do jury duty😂😂😂 ahhhh gotta love Julia Sugarbaker❤
She is simply just Fabulous stunning so convincing so eloquent yaaaaaaaasssss gurl 😍
I was surprised to hear Julia say: "There's one thing I can't stand. It's a prissy man." ....which seems uncharacteristic of Julia. Wonder why the writers had her say it?
Yall, I can't tell you how much I miss this show! That second read she did in that red jacket would go well today! That 3rd one about women too!
Rest in peace Dixie Carter 💗
Dixie was epic in the AIDS episode.I loved Alice Ghostly here too
Alice Ghostly was wonderful! I was always excited for what she would say when she was in a scene 🤣.
THe Candidate clip was on fire 5:48 she was head of time on that one
What about when julia got cat called and she repeats it in the best way ever..ooh bAby ooh got. To. Get. Me. Some. Of. That. 🥰👍😉😂
One of my very favorite Julia-rants!!
"How'd you get so smart?" "Well, we read."
Dixie waa a legend!!
Ya about to get all fired up?
Just a little...
She was always
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
There was one rant I remember that Mary Jo was in the background mimicking what Julia was saying and doing - especially the line "has everybody lost their minds???"
I remember that one from the last season of Designing Woman. Mary Jo was right. Julia in anger did say those words after finding out Anthony went to the lobby in his underwear only to buy a magazine in the lobby for a thousand dollars from BJ. Anthony was concerned about his pride, but not his dignity.
Julia Sugarbaker for President
Holy cow! Fantastic.These rants are so relevant today!
Apparently, her contract promised her a musical number for each rant.
Sheldon should see Meemaw in action haha
Julia Sugarbaker has the best rants!❤
Damn, still relevant today. I'm half encouraged that these issues were addressed decades ago but also sad that the same issues persist.
Love that she rants so eloquently. Wish there was more shows these days that address things in such a blunt manner.
I do seriously miss this fine actress. No one could deliver a rant like Dixie!
My favorite Julia Sugarbaker rant was the "the lights went out in Georgia " that was my #1 favorite and Dixie Carter is my #2 all time favorite person right behind SVU'S Mariska Hargitay
Mine too
I have always loved watching Julia tell someone off. It was a true delight and I miss it.
No one can do a rant like Julia!
AIDS was no joke. People just didn’t know and were afraid. We know better now.
Annie Potts is so precious too lol
This takes me back. Listening to her rant reminds me so very much of my own dearly departed mom. RIP both great ladies. You are missed deeply.
Loved You Julia!!!😘
Always Will...