Awesome / Golden Palace

• In the pilot, a man in a ski mask comes in to rob the hotel. He meets Rose at the counter and, holding her at gunpoint, demands to know where the safe is. Rose's response: "Oh, my! Aren't you warm in that?" Rose tells the robber she doesn't know where the safe is, and calls up Roland to come down and show her. Eventually, the robber gets fed up and leaves for the Carlton. Once he's gone, Rose immediately picks up the phone, dials a number, and proceeds to give a detailed description of the would-be robber. When the person on the other end asks who she is, she refers to herself as someone who's not as stupid as everybody thinks she is. She's then informed that she actually called 411 instead of 911.
• In Tad, we learn that Blanche has an older brother who is mentally disabled. When he unexpectedly shows up at the hotel, he starts spending time with Rose and develops a crush on her. But as Rose is trying to let him down gently Blanche interrupts and tells Tad "she doesn't love you" and it causes Tad to have a fit because she's basically yelling at him. Rose tells Blanche off for how selfish she's being, for worrying more about the possibility of a guest seeing Tad's reaction. She calls Blanche out on how she's treated her brother like a dirty secret, visiting him once a month, never mentioning him to her friends, embarrassed at the idea of him finding someone to love or being seen by other people because of how it would make her look.
  Rose: Blanche, you're ashamed of him! And I'm ashamed of you!
• Rose gets an epic The Dog Bites Back moment when Dorothy was visiting and freaking out over Sophia's disappearance. Rose tells her off and when Dorothy dares to ask "or what?" Rose hit her with a newspaper.
  • Even better, when Sophia finds out and gets confirmation that it indeed happened, she tells Rose "You shall lead us now."
• During Dorothy's visit, she helps out in the hotel restaurant and lays into a rude customer, as only she can:
  Dorothy: Look, in the 45 minutes that I've served you, you complained about the food, the coffee, the service, and said that in my case, a sprinkle a day wasn't quite doing the trick. I don't care if you have a pulse, much less a nice day.
  • It gets better. After the customer demands a free slice of pie because Dorothy didn't say "Have a nice day," she goes into the kitchen and picks up a whole pie:
  Dorothy: Rose, do we have anything to get stains out of clothes?
  Rose: I don't think so. Why? (Dorothy exits the kitchen with the pie)
  Rude Customer (off-screen): Hey! This is my best suit!
  Dorothy: (returns to the kitchen with the empty pie pan) I spilled something.