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DL, I need your help. Was the Bill the Pharmacist really lying about being a soldier? He admits he's just a pharmacist, but was that because he feels he is inadequate since the war is over and he's returning to normal life, or was it all a scam?
And had he been on a date with Blanche before or was that all a scam?
This is the only episode that ever confused me.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 17, 2018 5:33 AM |
The GGs often put characters in age-inappropriate roles (Remember Stevie, the pro baseball player who's obviously pusing 60?).
In the Bill episode the Gulf War was just finished, so the topic had appeal. The WW2 generation got a nostalgic romance between a soldier and his "girl" who waited for him to come home (even though they're both 55+) from "over there." The younger folks got an acknowledgement of their little three-month War in the form of an episode about a Soldier Returning Home, even though that soldier would never have been fighting at his age in real life. It's just a peculiar little episode pandering to American nostalgia for WW2 and its war fetish in general, with characters old enough to fit into the GG world.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 11, 2017 3:08 AM |
[quote]The GGs often put characters in age-inappropriate roles (Remember Stevie, the pro baseball player who's obviously pusing 60?).
Tim Thomerson, who played Stevie was 45.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 11, 2017 4:38 AM |
He's an actor playing a role, his ACTUAL age is irrelevant
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 11, 2017 4:39 AM |
Fine. A 45-year-old pro baseball player, then.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 11, 2017 5:08 AM |
He’s really BILL TAYLOR... making one last attempt at heterosexuality.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 11, 2017 5:18 AM |
^ So? And?
The vast majority of pro athletes are under 40, Persnickety Persnickerson.
Golden Girls was a fun, frivolous 80s sitcom with many inconsistencies and unrealistic storylines. The OP is taking it too seriously, wondering if Bill the Pharmacist was lying about being in The War or sleeping with Blanche, instead of rolling his eyes at the silliness of the whole episode and what it was representing to an early 90s Saturday night sitcom audience.
GGs ridiculous plots and characters were just delivery devices for funny dialogue and situations. Like that Stevie-the-baseball-player episode that was basically a riff on the movie Bull Durham, featuring a guy in the Golden Girls' age bracket as a pro athlete, unironically no less, is just a set up for all the jokes taking off on Bull Durham. Taking it too seriously by pointing out that well, in FACT, that actor was ACTUALLY 45 at the time and there HAVE BEEN baseball players that old because I just found one on Wikipedia (let's just ignore that it was 100 years ago when athletic standards were much lower than today), misses the point.
Get a sense of humor.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 11, 2017 5:59 AM |
In this case, I think everyone's taking it TOO seriously.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 17, 2018 5:33 AM |
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