Guiding Light Zingers

Guiding Light Zingers

The back-biting comments, humor, or sarcastic remarks often make the show more enjoyable to watch. Here are just a few of the zingers characters have thrown back and forth.


Annie: Holly kidnapped nine children, and they think I'm crazy?


Carmen: You're a treasure.
Ben: Yeah, well, treasures can be expensive.
Carmen: They can also be buried.


Blake: I've been told men and women can be friends without sleeping with each other.
Cassie: You've been told?
Blake: Well, it hasn't been my experience...yet.


India: Drinking before noon? My guess is, that drink you're having isn't the only thing on the rocks.


Carmen: I forgot the camera.
Ben: I'm not sure your nephew would appreciate flashbulbs going off. Knowing his family, he might think someone was shooting at him.


Reva (to a hypnotist): You're not going to make me sing Elvis or walk like a dog or anything, are you?


Ben: What are you going to do? Tie an anchor around my neck and throw me off a pier? I don't think so.


Harley: Well Beth, you got here just in the nick of time. I was almost going to ruin Susan's party with good taste.


Cassie: I know you don't want to hear this, but one day your little Susan is going to leave the nest. And she's going to live her own life and she's going to date a guy you totally don't approve of. And where are you going to be?
Jim: Where am I going to be? I'm going to be living right next door to her with a big baseball bat so I can keep an eye on things!


India (referring to Ben): Oh, Alan, I hadn't realized you had purchased a mangy pet.
Alan: I didn't realize that you two had met.
India: Just please keep him off of the good furniture.


Rick: You could not resist the urge to top me.
Phillip: Top you?
Rick: I get married in a small town outside of Springfield by a minister. And you, you get hitched in New York City by the mayor!
Phillip: Hey, we deserve it. We spent the night in the laundry room.
Rick: Did you get her spin cycle going?
Phillip: That's my wife you're talking about.
Rick: Did you get me a free bathrobe?
Phillip: I didn't get you a damn thing!


Beth: He did give me flowers.
Ben: Two-lips?
Beth: Stop it. I'm not going to go down this road with you. I don't want you on my back, too.
Ben: I prefer your front, anyway.


Alan: Reva, Annie is dead.
Reva: What if she sneaks into my home with more than just an evil coin?
Alan: Get some good garlic.


Harley: Have you ever heard of Spaulding Enterprises? They have branch offices here in New York. This is Phillip Spaulding.
Officer One: Yeah, and I'm Sammy Sosa.
Officer Two: And I'm Mark McGwire.


Jesse: I'm running a little behind.
Drew: I'm not a little behind, but it's a nice one at that.


Frank: It's common knowledge that there's bad blood between the Spauldings and the Lewises.
Alan: it's common knowledge because the Lewises are so common!


India: This reminds me of a New Year's Eve I spent in Greece.
Ben: Dating an old ruin?
Blake: Ben!
Ben: What? I love archeology.


Danny: Don't be scared.
Michelle: Don't be scared? Nearly 24 hours ago, you tried to kill me!


Dr. Morton: If it's none of my business, tell me to shut up.
Vanessa: Shut up.


Carmen: I'm really a very nice person. I go to Mass, I watch the soaps. I'm just like your mother.
Jesse: My mother's dead.
Carmen: A little more lively then.


D.A. Wolf: Letting Annie Dutton out on bail would be like letting a little Bubonic plague out on a subway system.


Ben: So, what did you do to Alan Spalding?
Annie: What do you mean?
Ben: He's one of the most powerful men in this country yet when he's around you, he turns into semi-soft cheese.


Vanessa (to Matt): We never had this kind of problem until that predatory bitch walked into our lives!
Beth: What did you just call me?
Vanessa: You've been on the prowl after anything in pants ever since you lost Phillip.


Annie: You should be happy that I've made such a success of your life.
Teri: Please don't kill me.
Annie: Kill you? What do you take me for? A ruthless maniac?


Reva: I try to protect myself, I live by a few very simple rules. Don't come within a mile of Alan and Annie without backup. Don't do anything that doesn't feel right. And never let your guard down when you're playing checkers with Billy.


Alexandra: When Nick is running Spaulding Enterprises he's going to be meeting some very major people, heads of state, captains of industry. They're going to laugh at him if he comes waltzing into a room with someone like Melinda Lewis on his arm. Face it, she's just Ivana Trump without the charming European accent.


India: Shouldn't you be up to your eyeballs in tarts and times?
Ross: That's torts and tomes.


Ben: I ran into Alan Spaulding.
Blake: Hard, I hope.


Ross: India, I don't need a tux!
India: That's the point. Indulge in something you don't need.
Ross: All right. On the way home I'll buy myself some socks. That always makes me feel special.


India: Alexandra is my stepmother. The Brothers Grimm depiction of the breed is quite correct, if you know what I mean.


Phillip: What is this?
Harley: This? This is our song!
Phillip: I've never heard it before.
Harley: Oh well, every song is our song.
Phillip: Well, that's something you neglected to mention to me.


Annie: Bastard!
Frank: Is that any way to talk to your soulmate?


Drew: It's obvious you don't have anything important to say, so make like lightning and bolt!


Dinah: Thank God I found you. I need your help. Hart found out that Cassie's baby is his.
Teri: Oh great.
Dinah: And he's on his way to go find her right now.
Teri: To what? Stick a little flag on her belly and claim the baby is his?


India: When was the last time you were with a woman other than your soon-to-be ex?
Ross: India! I am not going to answer that.
India: Oh, you want me to guess? Bush administration? Reagan?


Dinah: I was sick.
Annie: Sick? Well, I guess that's a better excuse than "The dog ate my eulogy."


Ross: That sounds like a tango.
India: You've got something against the tango?
Ross: No, the tango's got something against me. I've got two left feet.


India: Father may be in his grave, but you still look the same.
Alex: Aren't you sweet?
India: Aren't I?


Annie: I'm the gift that just won't stop giving.


Alex (to Annie): You're nothing but a caged animal here. You're Alan's pet rat.


Alex (to Annie): This little lip quivering vulnerable act of yours may work with men, it obviously does, but it just makes me want to vomit all over your new face.


Alex (to Annie): Well, your new face seems to suit you. When you go in for a makeover, you don't kid around.


Alex (to Alan, about Annie): Mistakes? There isn't enough carpet in all of the orient to sweep her stupid mistakes under.


Alex (to Alan, about Annie): I am calling the police. And just for insurance I'm gonna call an exorcist.


Alex (about Annie): Alan this isn't love, this is sickness. And once she's behind bars I'm going to see that you get the help you need to get over her.


Alex (to Alan, about Annie): I don't understand that you're in love with a lunatic, no. I don't understand electricity either, but I know if you put your finger in a light socket you can die.


Alex (to Alan): You look like Alan Spaulding, you're wearing his suit, his clothes, but I don't have any idea who you are.


Drew (to Selena): What would you be - a hostess/hooker?


Selena (to Drew): Even the most expensive clothes can't hide what you are - trash.


Drew: We're not going to be friends.
Selena: Oh no! I already sent out the invitations to my slumber party!


Hart: My wife, she's really happy. My girlfriend, on the other hand, she's mad as hell.


Jenna: Where's your man, Selena?
Selena: Oh, he's probably doing five to 10 at Leavenworth for armed robbery, but I'll wait forever.


Teri: Rest in peace, Annie Dutton. or, according to the coroner, several pieces.


Dinah: You are the most self-centered person in the universe.
Teri: And you're just realizing this now?


Lizzie: She has everything a real bride has except the bouquet.
Harley: No, they left that at Holly's.


Cassie: I love smoked salmon.
Hart: What about me?
Cassie: The jury's still out on that one.


Alan: Come on, Beth, never say die.
Beth: Actually, at this moment, death seems like a preferable alternative.


Harley: It's supposed to make you feel more...virginal.
Phillip: I hate to break it to you, but I think that horse is already out of the barn.


Beth (to bartender): Hi. Give me a shot of rubbing alcohol and a glazed doughnut - kidding!


Lizzie: Is cooking fun, Mommy?
Beth: Not as much fun as ordering out.


Ross: Who was that?
Ben: My psychic healing network.


Alan: Listen, Detective DiCaprio, I'm a very busy man.
Teri: Detective DeMarco.
Alan: Whatever. I'm still a busy man.


Meta: I'm ready. General Schwarzkopf went to war with less equipment!


Jesse: We went to the beach, and our day at the beach wasn't exactly a day at the beach.


Selena: That's why I never married a cop. That -- and other obvious reasons.


Harley: You're acting like she's a piece of bad real estate you want to unload.
Alan: Would anyone like to make a bid?


Phillip: Do you ever stop? I am trying to welcome you into the family!
Vicky: Would that be by a knife in the back or a bullet betweent he eyes?


Ken: I'm not allowed to use straws.


Cassie: This is not Gilligan's Island, this is Springfield, and this is not appropriate.


Vicky: You're forgetting that Brandon's blood courses through these veins, Alan.
Alan: I don't care if gasoline courses through those veins.


Drew: Come on, Michelle, you're pre-med!
Michelle: That doesn't mean I carry a scalpel around with me. Although, that's not a bad idea.


Ben (to Holly): You might want to have a cup of coffee in between those Bloody Marys.


Cassie: There has to be something you can do besides sit there and wait.
Sean: Well, I thought about pacing around the room, but you seem to have that pretty well covered.


Beth: She's slept her way through most of the Spaulding Mansion.
Ben: Well, maybe she wanted a better room.


Dinah (to Hart, referring to Cassie): She's talking about nothing. She's lying through her rotten teeth.


Alan (to Frank): I will hit you with a harassment suit so hard, the likes of it would make the man in the Oval Office pale.


Dinah (to Cassie): You're about as subtle as your dye job.


Vanessa (to Dinah): Right, Maureen has a kidney. Maybe I should concentrate on finding my other daughter a heart.


Reva: Maybe we should call the police.
Josh: What are we going to tell the police? Alan Spaulding has kidnapped our clone?


David: You guys really look alike.
Cleva (posing as Dolly): Oh ya, ya, we do, I get that all the time. The whole time I was growing up all I ever heard was Reva, Reva, Reva.


Cassie (to Sean): Do you ever wear a shirt? This Tarzan routine may have worked on my sister but it's being wasted on me.


Cassie: Why don't you go out in the waiting room and give me a minute alone with Dinah?
Hart: Well, this is a hospital, how bad could you hurt each other?


Cassie: The baby needs iron and these things are full of it.
Dinah: Yeah, well, they're not the only things that are full of it around here.


Blake: Why don't you just slap a scarlet letter on my chest and be over with it?


Ben: We've got to stop meeting like this. People are going to talk.
Beth: We made the front page of The Journal. Don't you think people are already talking?


Beth: I'm always laying my problems at your feet.
Ben: That's okay, it's like watching a soap opera.


Cassie: Seems like we're in the same boat.
Harley: Yeah, it's called the Titanic.


Ben: This must be my lucky day.
Blake: Well, I wouldn't book a flight to Vegas.


Cleva (to Josh): I grew up in a petri dish and you're looking for logical explanations?


Beth: Phillip and I haven't been this close in a long time.
Ben: Well, I don't usually think of murder as an aprhrodisiac, but whatever floats your boat.


Abigail (referring to jail): Why do you keep coming back?
Selena: I like the food.


Drew: I didn't mean to interrupt, I just wanted to make sure you were here.
Jesse: Well, you're looking at me.


Harley (to Phillip): I've said adios to you so many times, I'm becoming fluent in Spanish!


Cleva: Oh - she liked to get a rise out of people.
Josh: Where'd you hear that?
Cleva: The Playboy Channel.


Cleva: Take me dancing.
Josh: I can't do that.
Cleva: I rest my case! I heard that on Judge Judy.


Josh (referring to Cassie): It's got to be as if you adore her.
Cleva: If I can pull that off, then you're going to have to talk to thos people who work in TV and give people those statue things.


Buzz (to Josh, talking about Cleva): Okay, who's that Pod Person in my diner?


Selena (to Abby): This is great. You can't hear me and I love to talk. We're going to make great partners.


Selena (to Abby): Men, can't live with 'em, can't kill all of them.


Rick: Everything I say to her is wrong.
Phillip: Yeah, because you're a man.


Phillip: Who needs women?
Rick: Except late at night.
Phillip: Mornings are good.
Rick: And afternoons.
Phillip: Want another beer?
Rick: You bet.


Reva: What are these?
Annie: They are invitations.
Reva: To your funeral? Because if they are, we'll try to clear our schedules.


Billy: She probably just wants to get some people in the church to fill up the pews.
Reva: We should accept. Then we could give Alan a condolence present.


Annie: I don't know why you insist on using the front door. You know the service entrance is around back.
Harley: Annie, you behave, or I'll tell Alan you're out of your cage again.


Buzz: It's for medicinal purposes.
Jenna: And what exactly is this disease you have?
Buzz: Alan Spaulding. If I have to look at him all night, I need some fortification.


Wedding Guest: Lovely blonde attendant. Who is she?
Harley: One of the bride's girlfriends. Or, I should say, the bride's one girlfriend.
Guest: She certainly carries herself very well.
Harley: Well, with her new medication, she doesn't drool or twitch or anything anymore.


Roger: You think he's telling the truth?
Amanda: If somebody told me Annie started World War I, I'd believe it.


Josh: This sucks.
Cleva: No, this sucks. This is your idea of fashion, Michael? I look like the lost Spice Girl. You know, Dork Spice. The one they never talk about, but they hide in the attic.


Rob: Cassie used to say that I was the best thing to ever happen to her.
Dinah: News flash - she gave that title to someone else.


Alan: Why would a sane man like Micahel have a bomb?
Vanessa: I'm looking at the reason.


Vanessa (to Alan): Call Mike Wallace and 60 Minutes. If you are going to make an idiot of yourself, you might as well make a national idiot of yourself. Call Geraldo or Oprah or what's his name -- Captain Kangaroo.


Reva (to the press, in reference to Alan saying she's been cloned): The next thing he'll be saying is that Springfield has been taken over by aliens, and Mulder and Scully are being called in.


Alan: That's the thing with Josh. He lets his conscience get int he way of his business sense.
Michael: I know. That's why I came to you. I knew you wouldn't have that problem.


Hawk (to Rick): I'm gonna make Bauer-bits out of you!


Teen Cleva: I want to go on a trip to the most wonderful place in the world. I think it's called Genoa City.
Josh: I've never heard of that -- have you ever heard of that?
Cassie: Yes, I have. Genoa City is the setting of a TV show, The Young and the Restless -- it's a soap opera.
Josh: Billy and Wanda watch that on their lunch hour. What are you doing watching soap operas?
Teen Cleva: Anyway, can we go? I want to meet this, like, Mrs. Chancellor. She's really rich, and I know since you're really rich, you can introduce us.
Josh: No, we can't go, okay? Genoa City isn't a real place. It's fiction.
Teen Cleva: Of course, it's real, I saw it on TV.


Cassie: You've only known Josh for a month. That's not long enough.
Teen Cleva: It is for me, that's my whole life!


Harley: I have been the kinder, gentler Harley. And look where it's gotten me! I hav ebeen stepped on royally. Hey, you know what? We don't even need a doormat. You can just use me because I have Beth's footprints all over my back.


Harley: Oh, I'm in love.
Phillip: With me or the pizza?
Harley: That's a tough question to ask a starving woman.


Abby: I can think of one thing that I want more than anything else in the world.
Rick: Hmmm. Me too.
Abby: Well, yes, there's that...but what I really want is breakfast.


Selena: Oh, so you decided to call him Rocky?
Jenna: No, that's Coop calling his little brother Rocky. He's going through a Sylvester Stallone period, and we thought it was appropriate since we are coming to blows over what to call him.


Teri: Well, don't you look comfy, like you don't have a care in the world. Almost as if you hadn't been charged with rape.
Ben: Almost as if you hadn't played me like a violin before you cuffed me?


Beth: Are you nuts? Are you completely bananas?
Ben: Is that a rhetorical question or a dessert option?


Jenna: We're supposed to be re-enacting a murder, but with that gargling, you sound like you're adutioning for a mouthwash commercial.


Abby: Everything is fine.
Meta: What is this, the official "Let's Keep Meta In The Dark Day?"


Dinah: I knew that Cassie was good at the bump-and-grind, but I had no idea she was so good at tap-dancing.


Ross: I'm angry, and I have every right to be.
Abby: Yes, and the last time you were this angry, you shot your wife


Hart: No offense, Reva, but you could get a better wig at a car wash.


Hart: Now, we can get back to normal.
Cassie: Normal? I wouldn't know normal if I tripped over it.


Dinah: How do I know you're not the clone?
Reva: The same way I know you're not the Wicket Witch of the West -- wrong shoes.


Dinah: For your information, I don't eat red meat. I don't eat anything with eyes.
Sean: Well then, I'll keep my eyes closed.


Abby: Where is your heart?
Ben: If you find it, let me know.


Frank: Do you honestly think Annie's out there eating a Happy Meal, chuckling to herself how clever she is?


Josh: All right, Lillian and Nola are on their way over.
Reva: And Rick and Abigail will be here, too.
Josh: Okay.
Reva: I suggest we flip a coin to see who calls Roger.
Josh: Maybe we should play strip poker instead?
Reva: Oooh...loser dials Thorpe?
Josh: Naked!
Reva: You are so bad!

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