Famous people mentioned but never seen on the Golden Girls.

The Beatles

Ronald Regan

Jamie Farr

Ruth Buzzi

Madonna

Gary Hart

Miss Angie Dickinson

Mr. Donald Trump

Burt Lancaster

George " Goober" Lindsey

Regis Philbin

Susan Anton

Shelley Long

Susan Anton. Blanche is much too attractive to be related to HER.

Michael Jackson

Oh fuck you, r4.

Pope John Paul 2.

Anita Bryant

Mikhail Gorbachev

Prince

John Forsythe

Andy Griffith

John Cameron Swayze

Johnny Carson

Jay Leno

Howie Mandel

Lena Horne

Christie Brinkley

Christie's bug-eyed (now ex-)husband

Wilford Brimley

Buddy Ebsen

Fess Parker

And finally, Oprah Winfrey, who wasn't that thin or that bright

Why the hate r7?

What about Cher? I think she was mentioned.

Jimmy the Greek

Pat Robertson

Andy Rooney

Morley Safer

Lucy

Mr. Mel Gibson

Elvis Presley

Danny Thomas

Anita Bryant

Doug Henning

Susan Hayward

Warren Beatty

Burl Ives

John Forsythe

Michael J. Fox

Desi Arnaz

Roseanne Barr

Joe Pepitone

Charles Nelson Reilly

God and Jesus.

I was in one of Coco's scenes from the pilot that ended up getting cut.

President Jimmy Carter

Blanche claimed that when President Jimmy Carter gave his "I have lusted in my heart" speech that it was her he was speaking of.

"NIXON??? Uggghhh.... I can't even picture Nixon nekkid!"

"You son of a…and to think I could have had Andy Rooney!"

The Duke and Duchess of Windsor

PHIL RIZZUTO!

Steve Garvey

I remember the episode where they came home from a Madonna concert. So funny.

Ann Jillian

Suzanne Sommers

Brooke Shields

Ann Miller

Mary Ann Mobley

Gary Collins

Lady Di

Kaye Ballard

Jane Fonda

Glenn Miller

Amelia Earhart

René Descartes

Dorothy's evil pen pal Koo Duk Kim

Søren Kierkegaard

Bert Convy shops at the same supermarket Dorothy's sister Gloria does.

"Why do you always come into a room and say 'girls, girls'? Do you see Molly Ringwald sitting here?"

That other famous Fidel in Cuba, you-know-who.

Isaac Newton

Little Richard was in Bermuda?

The Amazing Kreskin

Donna Rice

Sean Penn. Dorothy can understand why he's always punching photographers.

Billy Barty

You can see Kevin Costner's buns in the movies Dances With Wolves and Bull Durham.

That little black guy, Prince.

Paul Newman's picture on a jar of spaghetti sauce or Sophia Petrillo's picture. Which would you buy?

Miles doesn't want to be compared to Charlie and he sure as hell doesn't want to be compared to Paul Newman!

"Take it easy! I'm not Gumby!"

Old Bush. Though they did show an arm coming through the door if I'm recalling correctly.

Mama Celeste

[The inimitable & always feisty] SQUEAKY FROMME

BETTY GRABLE

RiTA HAYWORTH

TOKYO ROSE

BUSTER CRABBE

ALDO RAY

Mikhail Gorbachev and a map of the Falkland Islands

Pam Dawber

Dorothy: "How is baby, doc?"

Sophia: "I heard they ran him out of Haiti."

"Little Richard was in Bermuda?"

"Yes, Rose. He was burying Fats Domino in the sand."

Pia Zadora,

Christy Brinkley,

Billy Joel,

Sonny & Cher,

Oprah

Meryl Streep, the Phyllis Hammerow of Hollywood

Magic Johnson, before his big announcement.

"It would be better with Shelly Hack, Rose! Just turn it on."

Rose: I don't understand how a thermos keeps things both hot and cold.

Dorothy: Neither do I. But I'll tell you, if ever I sleep with Mr. Wizard, I'll find out what I can.

Robin Givens

Phyllis George

Joan Crawford

Broderick Crawford

Loni Anderson

Dick Butkus

The Beatles

Sam Snead with a hormone problem:

"He bought a department store in Fort Lauderdale and a condominium in Orlando, a baseball team in Tampa, and I think one of the Landers sisters.”

Luther Vandross

Marilyn Quayle

Tina Turner

Imogene Coca

George Moscone (though not by name)

Adolphe Menjou

(Dorothy: "I haven't taken you to the movies lately, have I?")

Valerie Harper Fess Parker Susan Dey

Step and Fetchik

"MISS ANGIE DICKINSON"

Menudo

"Oh wait....it's Mamie!"

Can Ella shatter glass?

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Huey Lewis and The News

Mussolini

Winston Churchill, finding "inspiration" in a beautiful peasant girl, wise beyond her years...

Charles de Gaulle

It has not been mentioned yet: SHELLY HACK!!!

R81, please meet R62.

I’m stunned, just stunned! I’m stunned! No one mentioned Madonna!

R62 , I'm sorry! I thought I combed through this pretty well, but I guess not!!

r83 Madonna was mentioned twice already.

But not Bruce Springsteen!

Broderick Crawford.

Simon and Garfunkel

The Pointer Sisters

This painting no more echos Monet than any of you echo a beauty queen, and you will waste no more of my time!

I was a [italic]Golden Palace[/italic] reference since Roland was one of my biggest fans. Does that count?

I can’t believe Alan Thicke has a hit TV show, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true...

Dave Garraway once told me I could be his gal Friday if I ‘treated him right’

Cary Grant

^ But he was NOT the one buried in Grant's tomb. Ulysses S. was!

Maybe the killer who left behind a tan purse was on his way to a Peter Allen concert...?

Blanche's brother Clayton stole the MONTGOMERY CLIFT poster off her wall when she left for college.

someone remind me the pam dawber line please.

^ Dorothy (referring to Frank, the priest): My luck, the first really wonderful guy I've met in a long time, and I find out he has a more serious involvement...

Rose: With whom??

Dorothy: PAM DAWBER!!!

Morley Safer and Andy Rooney.

Linda Ronstadt Frances Farmer

Thank you R98!!!! I just watched that episode and was cracking up and had to explain to someone who Pam dawber was but couldln't remember the line!

I always liked the reference in julie brown's Medusa Dare to Be Truthful when she does a parody of Madonn's Vogue called "Vague" and during the spoken word breakdown she goes:

"Vanna White, Ed McMahon Nico--lette She--ri---dan

Mary Hart, Chuck Woolery Are as vague as they can be

Brooke Shields, DAWBER, PAM Personality of Spam"

^That's hilarious!

By the way, Brooke Sheilds takes HER mother everywhere.

Patrick Vaughn: Ladies, there are no small theatres, no small parts, only small actors.

Rose: Like Herve Villechaize.

Don Johnson and Johnny Carson.

It's about time somebody threw up on Gene Shalit.

God.

^ HE would want Kevin to play in Friday night's high school football game.

“And horizontal stripes make you look like Roger Ebert.”

Sophia: I told you, to me, you've always had the elegance of a young Lauren Bacall.

Dorothy: Oh, thank you, Ma. (SIGHING) A young Bacall.

Sophia: (CHUCKLING as Dorothy walks away) Amazing. Sixty years old and she still falls for that "young Bacall" bit.

Mary Ann Mobley gets to sleep with Gary Collins every night. EVERY NIGHT.

Be appalled that Joe Isuzu isn't played by an Asian actor.

The Artwork of Adolf Hitler

Danny Thomas, lesbian.

I've probably met a bunch of lesbians who owned a shirt like that, R113.

That thin, uppity white woman, Shelley Long.

I want you to know that Tootie was my favorite on The Facts of Life.

I have been told I bear a striking resemblance to Miss Cheryl Ladd, although my bosoms are perkier.

Don Johnson couldn't be here tonight but here's the cream colored suit he was planning to wear.

If Sophia could afford to buy a celebrity, she would’ve been showering every morning with Trini Lopez

Cheryl Ladd

Shelley Hack

Sophia: Oh, no. Not this time. I'm tired of being Tonto of the group. I missed out on Evita.

Sophia: Fidel is taking me to the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theater to see Ruth Buzzi in Evita.

Karen Lynn Gorney

Frank Sinatra

Damn those bitches were sure name droppers.

William F. Buckley

It would be better with Shelley HACK Rose!

The Chicago Seven

The Solid Gold Dancers

^ stole my answer