Just having a Golden Girls binge

I like parts of season 6, but that's such a lousy episode, and an example of how the writers had trouble coming up with Dorothy plots that didn't involve Stan.

The Blanche plot is decently written, but I can never get past how the girls damn well know Blanche's birthday. We watched them throw her two birthday parties in A Piece of Cake. (I know, I know, continuity was a foreign concept for the show.)

I am usually team Dorothy, but I don't like her in that episode. She's supposed to just deliver the meals, not become an hra worker.

It's one of the lesser seasons in my view, with too many family subplots. But "Zborn Again," Ruby Dee as Mammy, and the return of Clayton were good. The Mel Bushman episode and Henny Penny are highlights.

Now we have Sophia setting Dorothy up with a matchmaker, awful too.

Next one has Rose having her tits grabbed by her Dentist. Lol

Speaking of the heatwave, remember Dorothy's stand-up comedian routine in the "Comedy of Errors" episode?

Dorothy: You'll, uh have to excuse me. I'm a little nervous. I'm not really a comedian. Boy, it's a little hot up here. Sophia: How hot is it? Dorothy: I don't know, but it's really hot. Sophia: Hi-ho! [Later, after Dorothy has found her confidence] Dorothy: And that's the trouble with the guys here in Miami. They simply cannot say those three little words: "Quick, call 911." So, that's who I am. A substitute teacher with hot flashes who still lives with her mother who heckles her. [laughter] And I wanna thank you for finding my life more amusing than I do. Good night. Thank you.

[quote]Next one has Rose having her tits grabbed by her Dentist. Lol

Who could resist those big Swedish breasts of hers?

And how could I know the internet and this whole #MeToo thing was going to come along?

[quote]Who could resist those big Swedish breasts of hers?

I know...

if only Rose had been Lebanese...

The actor was awful, OP???

Martin Mull would like to have a word with you.

Speaking of heatwave...Dorothy wearing those ugly white boots in the Miami heat/humidity.

^ with heavy sweaters and other layers with high neck collars and scarves....

I like the episode where Rose is fondled by her dentists because I loved how the other women reacted and pushed her to denounce him, especially when almost 30 years later #Me too tried to pretend they were the first women to stand up for themselves in that sense.

GG was really kind of prescient in many ways - and they wonder why we discuss, analyze, and revere it.

In the original version of "Letter to Gorbachev"

Rose spoke cryptically about a dream, involving the end of the Soviet Union, and the emergence a new Russian dictator named Putin who would attack one of the largest countries in Europe...

but all of that got cut from the final edit...so they'd have more time for the B plot.

The acting in some episodes is so much better than others.

R3, you must not watch the first season too much either with 8 episodes devoted to visiting family members.

R3, just goes to show how differently people respond to different episodes. I agree with Zborn Again and Melodrama being highlights, but the episode with that awful bitch Mammy Watkins and the terrible Henny Penny episode are lowlights I always skip.

The Henny Penny episode sucked Rose’s big titties. I always skip that episode.

I also rewatched the Mammy Watkins episode and thought she was a horrid woman too. No apology for what she did to Blanche's mom.

It's the musical number that fully redeems the otherwise mediocre Henny Penny for me.

The first season also contained a lot of relatives running amok, as R16 mentions, but I'll take Blanche's slutty niece and or Big Daddy's awful singing over "Ebbtide's Revenge," "Blanche Delivers" or Rose's biological dad. To be clear, though, when it comes to this series I rarely skip anything when I rewatch, though I don't pay nearly as much attention to the clip episodes.

Why did Bea shit on Betty’s dressing room floor?

This sort of behavior is indicative of a heat stroke, OP. Turn the TV off immediately.

Lol R22 you know you love it

I just watched the epiosde where Michael sleeps with Bridget and that's pretty much the only episode with their children that I like. I don't like the other two episodes with Michael or either of the two with Kate. I don't like either Kirsten episodes or any of the Rebecca episodes, Also, how many kids were each of them supposed to have? Dorothy was just supposed to have Michael or Kate, but I believe Blanche was supposed to have three sons plus her other daughter Janet, besides Rebecca. With Rose we only see Bridge and Kirsten but for some reason I always assume she had more children that they never showed.

Charlie Junior, R24 .

I actually like "Hole in My Heart" because it's catchy and funny, also very silly. I don't think she sings it on tour anymore.

Oops, wrong thread

R24, Adam, who was conceived on the Day of the Princess Pig when they had the pig crowning, and Jeanella,, who was conceived on Hay Day. You may have forgotten since you don't like Rebecca's second episode.

Blanche said that her son Skippy has asthma.

Dorothy and Stan had a third child who died in childhood (the one conceived in high school). Dorothy then went to College (rooming with Jean) while Stan served in Korea. The reu ited and she had Michael and Kate.

R30, that certainly makes more sense than it's depicted in the show, since they cast the kids too young.

Yes R31 there's no way Sophie would not say something if Kate was getting married at almost 40 in the second episode.

Michael is clearly referenced as 30 years old when he's leeching of Dorothy in season 5.

And yet a year and a half earlier in Mixed Blessings he was 23.

It's a shame that, due to lacklustre writing and avoidance of taboo matters, we never really got to understand all the complexities of Dorothy.

If people as smart as us had been writers for the show we could have cleared up so many inconsistencies with just a well-placed line here and there.

For instance, in "Ebbtide's Revenge" I would have Dorothy say something like: "My heart just breaks for Ma. After Stan and I lost the baby, I couldn't get out of bed for a month, and I was only a kid, not an old lady."

[quote] avoidance of taboo matters

The fuck? Jean, Clayton, Rose may be poz, whoring in your 60s. The show didn't avoid taboo matters.

R36 au contraire it avoided discussions of Dorothy's miscarriage/dead child.

It's the problems of most sitcoms... characters don't tend to evolve, they either jump the shark, become flanderized or adopt cousin oliver... though perhaps keeping Blanche's grandson for added more to the dynamic.

It might had benefited the show had one of the failed attempts of spinoffs taken off. . . like the one focused on the combining the youth/senior rec center even if it was just so bloody awful.

Empty Nest didn't really mesh and unfortunately, GG was towards it's end when Nurses came around.. which could have more easily been worked into regular crossovers.

They got to perform for the queen, but it's a damn shame they never got to play on Waiting For God. Dorothy could finally come out.

During the Moonlight Madness episode in s7 they had some annoying bitch turn up who must have been from one of the spinoffs. She was insufferable and a bad actress with as much comic-timing as a shart in white pants.

I can see the asshole who is hell bent on creating the myth that Dorothys first child died is back. Why dont you follow this allleged baby's example please.

R41 I knew you would show up to shit on our parade. No one wants you in these threads, and YOU are the asshole for erasing Dorothy's truth! Now kindly fuck off.

R40= Didi Conn

R14 Is that the episode were Rose was due give a speech to the whole world about Russia via their living room? And yet strangely in the previous episode she was freaking out about having to give a eulogy at a funeral as she hates speaking in public.

Who is the nutter at R30 who is the only person ever to suggest that Dorothy had a dead third child? He keeps on trolling these threads trying to convince himself that it actually was a thing. Not one person connected to the show has ever mentioned this so enough already with your deluded fantastical fairytale.

R45 sod off sad sack, its just another theory to make sense of what we saw.

I love the way EVERY thread turns into a slap fight between to angry queens.

^two angry queens

What about the clip episode that starts with the ladies arriving at a therapist‘s office because they aren’t getting along and realize they shouldn’t be living together?

We saw no hints of this in the prior episodes.

And then it all gets resolved by the end of the episode and it’s never mentioned again.

TV shows these days have arcs. There was no concern for continuity on GG.

[quote]GG was towards it's end

Oh, dear!

Yea I got that as well R49, there was no build up to it and they were getting along well before that silly episode

Among the many terrible episodes, the one where Sophia enters a convent was definitely the worst.

They should have kept that old bitch there R52. Dorothy was a fool to demand she come home, she could have left her there. Much cheaper than Shady Pines.

I loved that one R52! You want to talk terrible episodes - The Mangiacavello Curse and Rose The Prude top that list.

Rose turned into a slut over the years

r54, the "always on your back" kitchen scene alone keeps Rose the Prude from being a terrible episode.

[quote]Rose turned into a slut over the years

I wish I'd know...I could have satisfied her!

Continuity is overrated!

Well the ink blot scene and Blanche in a nurses outfit chasing after that guy keeps How Do You Solve A Problem Like Sophia? from being a terrible episode.

Whenever there is a restaurant scene or any scene requiring extras/background artists, there is alway a black couple featured. Is it always the same couple throughout the series? The lady always has the same hairstyle, and we know how much the show tended to use the same actors.

^ that's so racist!

Do all black people look alike to you, Arthur?

Just the phrase "Golden Girls binge" makes me feel all warm and cozy inside...

I have some St. Olaf stories I could tell.

I can kick your ass with my white boots from here, Rose!

Did anyone on the set ever question the sweaters and heavy boots? “I thought this was supposed to be Miami?”

I did once.

And then Bea shit in my dressing room.

I’d love to know who scooped up Bea’s huge doo doo that she left in Betty’s dressing room. Was it the Zbornack guy?

R65 I just watched the dancing episode were Dorothy needs an operation on her foot. In that episode all three of them are wearing a heavy coat. The other bizarre thing is that Dorothy is terrified of having the operation but there is no mention of her new son in law. Just a few episodes previous we were introduced to him as a foot doctor. Also in this episode Blanche has a fear of flying, she obviously somehow conquered this and passed this fear onto Dorothy for a future episode.

In the "'Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas" episode Blanche gives the girls "The Men of Blanche's Boudoir" Calendar:

Rose: ... "The Men of Blanche's Boudoir".

Blanche: It's a calendar! Each month has a picture of a man who has brought special joy into my life.

Dorothy: Aww Blanche, oh honey, this is so thoughtful. *turns page* ... WHOA!

Blanche: ...September?

Dorothy: Yup.

Sophia: I'm surprised you were able to walk in October!

How was Blanche able to walk in October?

^ She had been practicing with members of the local fire department.

I can see in her bedroom windows from my house.

I think some of the things she does in there are illegal - I'm looking into it,

Trivia about "'Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas" episode from IMDB:

Unbeknownst to the actresses, several members of the prop department took photos of themselves in exaggerated erotic nude or semi-nude poses and compiled them into the prop calendar "The Men of Blanche's Boudoir." Filming ground to a halt when the Girls saw the calendar for the first time on set and promptly fell into hysterical laughter. Afterwards each woman received her own copy of the calendar, signed by the prop department.

McClanahan's copy was auctioned after her death, selling for over $4000.

R71 Was that the auction by her family selling all kinds of old crap?

R72 They’ll never get their hands on Big Daddy’s music box!

^ Or my grammy's wind chimes from the Hollingsworth plantation!

r73, one of the few good parts of that episode is that that bitch Mammy Watkins had to walk away without her damn music box.

Whilst I appreciated that Mammy watched Blanche blossom from afar, she was very insensitive not to explain why she left sooner, or indeed to lead with that when they met again in the episode.

She showed little interest in what Blanche was feeling, more interested in the music box.

When it turns out to be the wrong music box and she says they went through all that for nothing--so much cringe. What a bitch.

And then when Blanche says, "Not for nothing," and Viola (or Ruby Dee) cringes as Blanche hugs her--awful.

I don't buy that wedding story. That bitch didn't care about Blanche at all.

Big Daddy liked her music box.

If Blanches husband was a lawyer, why does she habe to take in roomates? Plus, there must have been insurance after his accident.

He may have been a lawyer, but presumably he was working in some sort of business, since Blanche dreamed he'd faked his death because the family business was collapsing and his partner framed him.

Blanche was wealthy but mentioned her money was tied up in investments. He probably left a fortune to his kids too

George was a lawyer? I don’t remember that.

Apparently he was, though I don't remember when it was mentioned.

Big Daddy liked a lot of black boxes...he was a real tomcat back in the day!

Ruby Dee deserved a better part than that bitch Mammy Watkins.

On the Golden Palace, R83. And Eddie Albert was a dead ringer for Charlie.

Ah, in that case, it doesn't count, since The Golden Palace isn't a thing that ever existed.

How rich was George?