"Hold me, David. I''m scared."

Where is that from? I don''t get it.

• It was a line uttered at the end of an episode of One Day At A Time by the main character, Ann Romano (played by Bonnie Franklin), after her boyfriend David leaves her. Bonnie Franklin often did this simultaneous laughing-while-crying thing that was very campy, and she did it in this scene.

• I don''t know, but it''s always attributed to Ann Romano/Bonnie Franklin, so I would guess "One Day at a Time". But you never know with the freaks around here.

• It''s Bonnie Franklin as Ann Romano from ONE DAY AT A TIME doing her best to be a liberated woman who is brave but appealingly vulnerable in the face of peril.\ \ Isn''t it?

  I Love to Tap

• I forget the original context, but basically when Ann (Bonnie Franklin) said it to her boyfriend David (Richard Masur), she was saying, "The outside world is a scary place I cannot control; hold me so I at least feel secure in your arms."\ \ It''s become a standard DL line when the Nervous Nellies start in with the apocalyptic scenarios.

• The original context was that her boyfriend had just broken up with her. She was sitting alone in a dark room, talking to herself while laughing and crying at the same time, and ended the monologue with "Hold me David... I''m scared..." Fade to black.

  Created by: Whitney Blake

• I usually cry out for Auntie Em. But then the wicked witch bursts in with her famous "I''ll give you Auntie Em, my pretty! (wicked laugh)"

• That sounds... dreadful, R5.

  Pat Harrington, Jr.

• Eldergay stuff.

• Ann Romano = the one person you would LEAST want to hold, even in a dark room.

• I think it has something to do with Bonnie Franklin.

• It was a line from "Who''s The Boss?" when they spoofed a musical. Katherine Helmond, as Mona, had just met a man named David when an earthquake struck while they were shopping in a Ben Franklin store. She said, "Hold me, David, I''m scared." As soon as the snaking stopped, he began to sing "I found a million dollar baby in a five and ten cent store" and they went into a tap-dance routine.

• Yes, I remember this. Wasn''t this early on? \ \ I remember Julie''s boyfriend Max....always thought he was so hot!

• Didn''t Tea Leoni say "Hold me, daddy, I''m scared" to Maximillian Schell at the end of DEEP IMPACT?

• No no no, you''re all wrong.\ \ It was from that Very Special Episode where Ann was gang raped by those friends of Julie''s who had stopped by to "watch the Jerry Lewis Telethon".

  B. Cooper

• Was it Bonnie Franklin?

• Weird. For some reason I remember her actually clutching Richard Masur while uttering the line. I thought there was a riot or something going on outside. Maybe she said it more than once?

• Why is there no youtube video of this moment?

• [quote]Weird. For some reason I remember her actually clutching Richard Masur while uttering the line.\ \ You''re right: she was. r5 is either being funny (and I don''t get the joke) or misremembering it.

• Is she the one with the famous lady ham?

• That season is on Hulu or Crackle. I watched them all, but don''t remember that line.

• Wasn''t it after Julie ran away to live with Chuck in his van, and Ann Romano couldn''t convince her to come back?

• [quote]Eldergay stuff\ \ You''re not getting any younger, princess.

• The beauty is that younger generations will live longer than any humans ever. You bitches are going to get very, very old, in an unstable, fucked-up world. Enjoy! The world is your polluted, corrupt oyster!

• I thought it was after Florida smashed the glass bowl and in the Romano nabe they were gearing up for riots.

• Is this another Eldagay thread?

• Is this the same episode where Natalie and Tootie brought home a bong from the head shop?

  Mrs. G.

• It''s from the Bible, OP. Goliath said it to David after the condom broke.

• No it''s the one where Natalie gets ass raped by a blind man.

• I always thought Ann''s mushroom hairdo looked like the head of a penis.

• If someone can remember what episode it''s from, and it''s from the first season, I have those episodes on DVD and I will upload the clip to YouTube.

• You''re a peach, r30. I just wish I could remember...\ \ My vote would be the Julie runs away episode.

• I just posted something to a One Day at a Time message board (yes, that''s a thing), so hopefully we can find out the episode origin of this favorite DL quote.

  R30

• God, I must be drunk tonight, but this is yet another DL thread I absolutely adore.%0D\ %0D\ It''s got everything, including bizarro left turns like R23.%0D\ %0D\ Carry on, ladies!

• R23''s post is a modern classic.

• Didn''t Julie run away a few times?

• Yes, R22, but no matter how old we get, we will ALWAYS be younger than you.

• God will get you for that, Walter.

  Maude Findley

• Even if we can''t see this particular clip, a clip showing the laughing/crying trope would be most appreciated. I definitely remember that being a "thing" in my ''80s childhood.

• I remember an episode of Love Boat where a lady said "Hold me, Gopher" to Gopher. My sister and I annoyed our parents my repeating it for the next six months.

• I was almost certain it was from "2001, A Space Odyssey."

• I''m tapping as I type!

• what's not to love, bitches?

  http://youtu.be/M82CUd6isyY

• [quote]Didn't Julie run away a few times? With a mother like that, wouldn't you?

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• No it's not. It is from the film Artificial Intelligence (A.I) The mechanical teddy bear says it to Haley Joel Osmond (David).