Pilot
- As Pray Tell fits Damon for his first ball outfit, he complains that Damon is too skinny and his robe makes him look like an upside-down traffic cone.
- Blanca tries to explain the concept of tops and bottoms to Damon, who asks what he should do if he's a bottom but the guy he's with also turns out to be a bottom.Blanca: What? You gonna be bumping purses all night?
- Elektra's excuse for her cruelty: "Some mothers raise their children with the soft touch of a velvet glove. I prefer being the mother who slaps them with it."
- Everyone is getting tired of hearing that damn song.Lulu: Another weekend, and that same goddamn song. We're trapped in some tired old queen's Hell.
- Gets funnier when Elektra immediately responds with a complaint that the young kids these days don't appreciate this old classic.
- There is something grimly amusing about Stan discussing the fallout from his attacking Matt; apparently, beating up his boss actually earned him a promotion.
- In a bit of gallows humor in the opening of season 2, Pray Tell and Judy Kubrak compare how many AIDS-related funerals they've attended. Judy tells him that the first one of them to attend a thousand funerals gets a toaster.
- Moments after Elektra blows up at the dinner table and leaves the apartment, everyone is shocked...except for Papi, who responds with a “Can I have her bed?”
- As soon as Elektra announces her new House, Cubby and Lamar immediately go scurrying back to her, even though she treated them like crap and the Evangelistas offered them shelter for several years.
- Elektra, in desperate need of advice for dealing with a dead client, goes to Candy. Her assessment is hilariously blunt.Candy: He white? You fucked.
- Elektra and Candy consult with Miss Euphoria, another trans woman who's been on the wrong end of the law. She happens to know an expert in getting rid of inconvenient bodies. Said expert turns out to be Miss Orlando, the Back-Alley Doctor who sold Candy her dodgy silicone injections back in "The Fever". They are not exactly happy to be reunited, especially since Candy has been warning other trans women about Miss Orlando's shoddy medical practices.
- Pray Tell tries to cure his HIV with alternative medicine. Said alternative medicine involves butter. Lots and lots of butter.
- The funeral home director earnestly tells Blanca, Elektra, and Angel how he personally prepared Candy's body for viewing and how he was happy to do it for all the times she showed up for other people's funerals. And then they actually see the body. The poor man meant well, but it's clear he doesn't know much about makeup or fashion, and his work leaves much to be desired.Angel: That makeup is tore up from the floor up.
- When Lulu finally finds the courage to walk into the church and face her best friend, when she's looking into the coffin she quickly realizes that Candy is wearing her jewlery - which she then promptly and angrily tries to tear away from her dead body.
- Elektra becomes convinced that her destiny is to befriend Madonna, and that the way to do this is through Ricky becoming one of her back-up dancers. But she doesn't want to expend any of her own effort to preparing Ricky, so she makes her other children do it. And then, when she learns that Ricky will be competing with Damon, she consults the spirit of Candy, who convinces her to have one of her children break Damon's foot. With Candy's hammer, no less.
- Lulu, Ricky, and Damon launch a caper to put a massive condom on Frederica Norman's house.
- Lil Papi starts introducing himself to Angel's upscale friends and her employers as "Esteban". He also tries to take things off of the catering table at Angel's photo shoot.
- What brings the family back together after several years apart? A watch party for the O.J. Simpson Bronco chase.
- Angel has absolutely no clue who the Hell OJ is.
- Concerned about Pray's worsening drinking problem, the Evangelistas all consult with Leisha, an addiction counselor from the hospital, who walks them through how to stage an intervention and how to set up an inpatient program. When someone asks how the hospital can afford all that, Leisha points out that they are the ones who will pay for the treatment. She then sheepishly concedes that it will cost at least $2,500.
- In the flashback to 1984, Elektra tries to direct her burgeoning House to break into her mother's house. It goes about as well as you'd expect, considering that most of her children are still teenagers.
- "I thought someone without a hammer said something."
- The House of Abundance's first rivals were the House of Capricorn, whose costumes were hilariously awful.
- In the last big scene of the episode, after Pray explains his final wishes to his aunt (who has assumed power of attorney on his behalf), he warns her about "this bossy bitch named Elektra".
- In the opening, Elektra narrates the story about how she rebounded from the shutdown of the Hellfire Club and turned her phone-sex business into "the McDonald's of phone sex" - "It began in the unlikeliest of places... at lunch with Miss Orlando..." It turns out that her money comes from the Mafia. And she is not the least bit ashamed of this.
- After a rude boutique owner refuses to sell Angel a wedding dress, Elektra goes to her new Mafia friends with a proposition that they break into the boutique and steal the dress for Angel. When one of the bosses points out that stealing that specific dress would make it very easy to figure out who was behind the theft, Elektra clarifies that she wants them to steal all the dresses, and they can bestow the unused dresses on the wives and girlfriends of favored partners. The bosses grin and tell her that she would make a really good Mafia boss.
- Papi enlists Ricky to babysit Beto while he's at work, telling him not to let Beto watch cartoons until after dark. Almost immediately after he leaves, Ricky asks Beto if he wants to watch some cartoons.
- Angel tries to babysit Beto, but ends up begging Blanca to come over and help because she thinks Beto is "possessed or something". Blanca arrives and manages to calm Beto down in under five minutes.
- During their catch-up luncheon, Angel, Blanca, and Lulu start talking about Sex and the City, while Elektra huffs that she doesn't watch TV because it rots the mind.
