Hated characters from The Golden Girls

Mr. Terrific

Stan. I always hated him - the character and the actor.

I loved Daisy.

Mr. Ha-Ha

Mrs. Claxton

Freida Claxton

Aunt Angela

Uncle Angelo

Gloria

Barbara Torndyke.

^^^Thorndyke.

R6, who could hate Uncle Angelo and Aunt Angela?!

Those irresponsible parents who left their baby, at the house, for two days.

That snippy hotel desk clerk who charged the girls for sleeping on the lobby sofas. (Grab that Dough episode.)

^^^You mean that prudish bitch Eliza Jane from Little House on the Prairie?

Blind Lily

Fat Rebecca

Rose's slut whore conniving sister Holly.

(Inga Swenson was always a two-bit cunt!)

And Fat Rebecca's abusive husband.

R12, yes, that's her.

R15, I hated that abusive character, too. The actor who played him, was excellent.

Of the recurring characters it's Uncle Angelo, that fucking awful accent and bullshit about being a Priest. Plus his character was given some awful lines.

Aunt Angela wasn't much better but at least the acting wasn't as offensively bad and Nancy didn't a neat job of mirroring Estelle's mannerisms. She was just a mean old bitch.

r17 Joe Regalbuto, from "Murphy Brown."

R17, yes, that's him. I wonder if he's still working?

The guy who slut shames Blanche in The Rusty Anchor when all she wants is a little validation. "Yea, Yea Blanche you aren't wearing a bra! Shh Dorothy's about to sing!"

R7 Torndyke hahaha

R19...sorry.

R-17 here....

[quote]Uncle Angelo, that fucking awful accent

I found his accent hysterical.

I loved it.

Aunt Angela was great. Those episodes that feature her and really good ones.

R11 R12 Listing me as one of your most hated characters is an exercise in futility. I should call the police to have you arrested for loitering.

Also…You don’t look like Angie Dickinson to me.

Buzz

I agree with the poster that Mr Terrific is terrible. So is dementia ridden Alvin.

I hated Blanche's abusive boyfriend, Rex Huntington.

R29 he tried to hurt Dorothy too.

Ham Lush-somethingorother.

Dr. Jonathan Newman. He was smug.

Dorothy, the big ole closet case was a real buzzkill.

Dorothy to Lucy: "We loved having you."

Sophia to Lucy: "So did half of Miami!"

R34 Lucy was very loose. She loved the Blanche quote about a horse eating sugar out of her ass

Frieda Claxton and Barbara Thordyke are iconic GG villains. I like Nancy Walker but didn't like her as Angela. Alma Nyland bugged hard. Also, Michael Zbornak was the only tolerable child of any of the characters. Fat or Frizzy haired Rebbeca was exhausting. Upscale, Jaclyn Smith/Dierdre Hall knockoff AND White Trash truck stop Kirstens were both equally horrifying in different ways. That Barrie Youngfellow/Brenda Vacarro hybrid Kate Zbornak sucked but I could also not abide the off-brand Didi Conn Kate either. And of course Bridget was a whore.

Bridget was better than, red-haired cunt Kirsten

That old big mouthed bitch who was in charge of the talent show committee where Dorothy supposedly booked Bob Hope.

I couldn’t stand Miles. Aunt Angela was awesome; Nancy Walker did a great job at being believable as Sophia’s sister. I didn’t like first Gloria, but I thought Dena Dietrich as second Gloria was wonderful.

Dr. Budd.

That annoying girl from Empty Nest who kept appearing

Dena Dietrich was wonderful! Skip E. Lowe interviewed her. She was warm, friendly and delightful. She discussed Bea Arthur, tactfully. It was hilarious.

Rose.

r29 What about her bigamist fiance from the pilot episode?

Blanche's grandson David. He deserved that smack in the face from Sophia.

Rose

Martin Mull's agoraphobic aging hippie.

R44 no, he's the dick who refused to take Blanche out as she was running late, repeatedly stood her up, made digs about her looks, told Dorothy that Blanche was "just a hole to stick it in til something better came along" then tried to grab Dorothy's left tit but ended up twisting her wrist instead.

good one r47!!

r48 I wasn't suggesting they were the same person.

The little girl in OPs image sings the song that plays at the very end of Weeds.

R51 she is a recording artist. Singer songwriter Jenny Lewis.

Clayton

Elliott

Mario (a total dumbass played by a dumbass)

Pepe

Buddy Rorke and those hideously long brows

Martha Lamont - Sophia’s suicidal friend. Such a downer.

Mary the pregnant teen (boring dumb bitch)

Young Dorothy

Sal

[quote]Clayton

Oh, c’mon, I’d bend over backwards for Clayton!

R61 are you Doug?

R60 I thought Lynnie Greene did a great job as Young Dorothy

Lynnie Greene was PERFECT, as the young Dorothy. She was amazing. She's a wonderful character actress.

R64= Lynnie Greene.

I always hated Miles. Whiny insecure bastard. Rose should've dumped him after the thousand time he asked for reassurance. Plus he was a snitch. Oops I mean a snitch in a tie.

R32 Every man I've known named Jonathan has been smug. Every single one I haven't been proven wrong yet. It seems that's the name you give your son if you want him to grow up an asshole.

EVERYONE on the dreadful backdoor Empty Nest pilot

I agree r68

Surely not Rita?

Rita talks about how awful that episode was behind the scenes

Susan Harris didn't do the rewrites because I was a Latina!

I liked Stan though. He was a lovable maggot.

Miles was the worst, followed by Stan.

[quote]I always hated Miles. Whiny insecure bastard. Rose should've dumped him after the thousand time he asked for reassurance. Plus he was a snitch. Oops I mean a snitch in a tie.

What about Miles's original incarnation -- as Arnie, the horny widower who takes Rose on a cruise?

I guess Rose had a type.

Max Weinstock.

Rose's annoying coworker.

Mickey Rooney as Sophia's criminal boyfriend, Rocco.

Jim Shu

"The fancy man" from the pilot episode. I'm glad they got rid of him. He just didn't fit in.

Apparently Vera on Alice turned Coco gay and then the Golden Girls shunned him.

Big Daddy - both versions

Kathy and Pat, Image Consultants

The dentist who gropes geriatric Rose's old udders when he could have felt my perky bosoms

I know the Mr. Terrific episode is hated but I actually find Bob Dishy a funny man.

Blanche was actually a raging cunt. Her personality made for great television but in real life it would have been difficult being friends with someone like her who was constantly insulting your looks and taking jabs at you.

Blanche was a kind and loving woman, the other girls have as good as they got. Sophia was the most antagonistic bitch in Dade Country

Hi Dorothy r86

Miles' daughter was a raging CUNT. Rose, the ding dong, didn't deserve that treatment.

R89 Your comment made me remember how much I used to love Hostess Ding Dongs. I'd put them in the fridge, they were so good cold. I wish they made a vegan version.

Has anyone mentioned Lorraine and Dorothy's "skinny white boy" son Michael? Those two hooking up didn't make a lick of sense. As rare as the paring can be most white male/black female couples are attractive in my experiences, but that older big boned black woman with that pencil thin whiteboy? Come on now! I do applaud The Golden Girls for not shying away from certain issues and the episode was still funny and didn't hold back on the stereotypes "Is it true what they say about Black men in bed?" LMAO oh Sophia! Lorraine's mother going up against Dorothy was pretty funny too and its the only episode where there's "blackface" but not really.

[quote]I always hated Miles.

Me too! And it's so odd, because I always liked the actor Harold Gould as Rhoda's father and in every other character part I saw him in.

It’s amazing how many actors on Golden Girls were recycled from Mary Tyler Moore. Harold Gould was on MTM at one point, and Nancy Walker played Rhoda’s mother. And there was Betty White of course as Sue Ann Nivens. And a bunch of other minor characters.

I liked Michael in the episode where he's effing Bridget, but he and Lorraine really don't have much to do in their episode, it's really all about their families responses to them as a couple. He bugged a little bit in his last appearance after he left Lorraine (and baby Roger LaMarr), but I found Stan more annoying than him so he gets a pass. Awful fried spiral perm Becky is the only other actor to appear more than once as one of the girls' children,so that's impressive in itself. To be fair, I just thought he was cute.

OT: but does anyone think Blanche took it in the butt/lezzed out?

Lorraine was only 44 but looked 64. She was wrong for Michael as a boring school teacher Black woman

Michael gave me closeted vibes R94 but perhaps that was just wishful thinking 😉 I almost forgot he hooked up with Rose's hot in the pants daughter. That paring also made little sense even if Bridget was an undercover freak, I always thought Michael's inability to settle down was because he was on denial about his sexuality. But again wishful thinking most likely but I was in such lust for the actor who played Michael. I definitely would've blew his saxophone.

I can see Michael fucking Bridget. He didn’t give a shit about her personality. She was young and blonde.

R94 You could figure Lorraine miscarried, being so old, so Roger Lamar avoided a big mess not being born into that family.

Becky #2 wanted to have a baby as a working single mother. Who would do that but an immature idiot? Yes, her hair was ugly, but her life choices were uglier.

Stan was a great character, and perfectly cast. My only quibble is his greeting "Hi, it's me Stan." Every single time the door opened. I know they did it for new viewers, but it was unnecessary. They would've known his name when the girls greeted him, and after a few minutes of seeing how he and Dorothy interacted, would've been able to figure they were divorced.

No r98 it was his given line not for new viewers it was his calling card and the writers and actor thought it was funny.

R95 - i thought she was a singer in his band.

[quote]As rare as the paring can be

[quote]That paring also made little sense

Are you trying to say Michael was cut or something?

R101 [quote] Are you trying to say Michael was cut or something?

Why Yes! How did you know? I mean it's not like everyone else purposely misunderstood what I was trying to say... hey let's see if you can interpret this: Y_U ARE A C_NT Would you like to buy a vowel before you fuck off?

I always wanted Bridget's first time to be special.

Rose

I hated curly Sue aka Melissa

I come to DL for posts like r103

^^Fuck off

r106 = Freida Claxton

Hijacking the thread for a question that I'm sure DL has answered many, many times (or, as Blanche would say, "Maneh, maneh times.") ... is Melissa supposed to be Janet's daughter, or does she belong to one of Blanche's sons? Skippy/Matthew, Biff or Doug? We can assume that Janet and her Yankee husband were conceiving Sarah while on vacation when David visited.

When Rose was near death in the hospital, her daughter, Kirsten, banned the girls from seeing Rose. She was such a bitch...I hated her.

When Rose said that Michael was a loser and Bridgett was a tramp, that scene was uncomfortable. It was real and chilling considering their off screen relationship. There was major Method acting between Bea and Betty. It was jarring to see Rose meaner and harsher than Dorothy.

R109 here. Of course Kirsten relented AFTER she knew that the girls would take care of Rose, regardless. She was such a bitch.

Right, R111? When Kirsten realized she wouldn't be on the hook for her own mother's medical bills. What a cunt.

Rose had good insurance at the TV network. Say what you want about Enrique Mas, but he knew how to care for his employees!

^ And he had a big hairy chest...Enrique, mmmm, mas, mas....

Marguerite, the maid whom the girls fired and then kissed her ass.

R115 why? Marguerite was great! She admitted to being a lousy maid and laughed off the girls thinking she had some kind of voodoo powers. There's worse things she could have been doing in Blanche's bedroom rather than studying for her finals..

I’m a lot like Marguerite except I’m a white male

Do you have rocks that help people sleep better?

Barbara Thorndyke is celebrated on the DL.

A lot of people who post to the DL are like Freida Claxton

In reality, too many of DL folks are like Phil.

Phil was a wonderful man, wonderful provider and a wonderful husband.

Dammit!

^ and a really snappy dresser...once I convinced him he was too big to wear plaids

Lucy was a whore!

[quote]^ and a really snappy dresser...once I convinced him he was too big to wear plaids

Dorothy was always angry that Phil looked better in her clothes than she did.

Most DL posters want to be Barbara Thorndyke, think they're Frieda Claxton, are actually Ida, Sophia's friend living at the homeless shelter.

No, if anything, we're Lillian, thinking we're Pinky Lee.

I hated Sophia in every single episode.

R127 she was really a mean old bitch

R127 I liked Sophia, but sometimes the writers made her character excruciatingly cunty. Like when she pretended to be channeling Charlies spirit.

[quote]Most DL posters want to be Barbara Thorndyke, think they're Frieda Claxton, are actually Ida, Sophia's friend living at the homeless shelter.

So you're saying Ida was an insatiable bottom?

Jeff and Rich and Randy, who wouldn’t put out on the Valentine’s Day Bermuda cruise.

Also the discrete professional who loudly called for a condom price check before the cruise.

I better not see Fat Sally...err I mean Sally on this list, bitches!

Mel Bushman

That young Thurston Howell the Third knock off in the shared bathroom at the awful resort somewhere. God he was awful.

[quote]Stan was a great character, and perfectly cast. My only quibble is his greeting "Hi, it's me Stan." Every single time the door opened. I know they did it for new viewers, but it was unnecessary.

[quote]No [R98] it was his given line not for new viewers it was his calling card and the writers and actor thought it was funny.

Agreed, R99. In one episode Blanche even says "Oh, it's you, Stan."

[quote]is Melissa supposed to be Janet's daughter, or does she belong to one of Blanche's sons? Skippy/Matthew, Biff or Doug? We can assume that Janet and her Yankee husband were conceiving Sarah while on vacation when David visited.

Yes, R108, Melissa is Janet's daughter.

Thank you, R136.

R130 no Ida was old and unhoused

I don’t care if she wore pantyhose or not!

Gladys Goldfine

The guy who jumped overboard when Dorothy said she felt romantic

Toto.

Any mention if Dr. Budd the sexist doctor who didn't believe Dorothy had chronic fatigue syndrome? The scene where she confronts in in the fancy restaurant is classic Golden Girls: "You dismissed me, you made me feel like a child!" and when he attempts to talk over Dorothy his wife tells him to shut up. Ive known quite a few smug doctors in my day so that episode was cathartic for me. If he's already been mentioned my apologies.

^ Oh dear my post R143 had a few errors. My apologies

R144 don't sweat it. He has been mentioned upthread but always good to get a second opinion ..

The chronic fatigue story is one of the worst in GG history

Rose’s sister Holly

Sofia’s guests from Sicily who may have been Dorothy’s parents.

Buzz

Granddaughter- Melissa

[quote]Mel Bushman

Mel has chlamydia...and I should know...he gave it to me...it's the main reason I can't get pregnant anymore.

Charisma, Blanche!

[quote]it's the main reason I can't get pregnant anymore.

Really, Blanche?

You mean it's not because your vagina is as old and dry as an Old West ghost town during a dust storm?

I hated Jamie and George Deveraux

How about Sophia's "boyfriend" whom she brought a tangerine for?

I didn't like the episode where the girls meet this weirdo artist guy who wanted one of them to pose for a sculpture he was working on and they all started fighting over which girl they thought he wanted. Does anyone remember the episode I'm talking about? In the end the fighting was for nothing because he ended up being gay. Am I remembering it right? Somebody please help me lol. Anyways I didn't like him because I didn't like seeing the girls fight over a man.

You’re thinking of that fancy boy, Lazlo.

Yes, we remember it and you were correct on the details.

Lazlo r153

Gee, thanks, r155.

We hadn’t read that on the post before yours a half hour ago.

WTG, Magoo!

[quote]Does anyone remember the episode I'm talking about?

r153 you're posting on DL, dear. There's probably a caftan-wearing poster who owns the original script, autographed not only by the four main cast members, but also Tony Jay ("Laszlo Glagorian"); a ticket from the live audience taping; and a pair of boots worn by Bea Arthur during the episode.

Hey!

Did you peek in my safety deposit box?

My only GG connection is having been in the audience for "The Mangiacavallo Curse" episode.

Was there ever a character called Lezlo?

Just Jean.

I still suspect that Rose teased Jean with her big Scandinavian titties...

I never liked Jean

Well, she was Lebanese. Danny Thomas was too.

Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sophia.

r165 = Frieda Claxton

The City Official who tried to rape Blanche's purse for 10k

All of Dorothy’s boyfriends except her ex husband Stan

I loved all interactions between Dorothy and Stan

Stanley, shut up and put your hair on.

So I originally said Aunt Angela but I recently rewatched her two episodes and she was actually solid. Angelo is still terrible

I love Aunt Angela tender

Phyllis Hammerow, the Meryl Streep of Dade County.

Melissa

Charley - Rose’s grand daughter

Emily

Celia Rubinstein. That bitch never worked in a leper colony. She spent her days eating bon bons and watching her stories, and harassing her Latinx maid.

Holly was such a duplicitous little slut.

The man who throws himself overboard when Dorothy says she's feeling frisky. What a cunt

Rose’s mother

Rose’s bio father

Mario, his "hi teech" thing was cringy.

The space cadet nymph fairy that Sophia and Rose sprung from the home

Rose's mother was an annoying old tart who scammed Sophia and terrorised Rose

I never bought that she was a mother to rose. They were probably the same age. Their personalities were so different and seemed so opposite. They dressed the mom like an old lady from 1890.

Why, in that episode did it never come up that she was Rose’s adoptive mother? And why couldn’t they cast someone that looked like she was the sort that could handle life on a farm?

Lazy writers and their lazy writing.

[quote]Barbara Thorndyke is celebrated on the DL.

bullSHIT!

That’s one very dull, very persistent troll.

Michael with the mustache

I adore Harold Gould AND Miles.

And he adored Rose, and Gould wasn’t afraid to play a boob sometimes, himself.

Apparently Bea caught Gould peeping on her when she was in her dressing room, doing some womanly things. She had to be physically restrained from ringing his neck. He tried to explain it was an accident and he was just looking for Betty to work on their lines but she was having none of it. That's why he didn't appear in the heart attack episode or finale, Bea threatened to break off his arm and shove it up his ass.

The actress who played young Dorothy was perfect, IMO (just like the actress who played young Eunice on Mama's Family).

I also liked the Stan Zbornak character a lot. He was perfect as a man that Dorothy would marry only because she got knocked up while losing her virginity.

[quote] I didn't like the episode where the girls meet this weirdo artist guy who wanted one of them to pose for a sculpture he was working on and they all started fighting over which girl they thought he wanted.

I loved that Lazlo the sculptor episode. It was hilarious, IMO.

The sweet old world couple AND Gina

Elliot

R192 how can you like that insensitive husband who cruelly told Sophia her beloved pussycat wasn't delivered from her pussy? That she'd had a cuckoo in the nest? He could have given her a heart attack!

Murray Guttman

Miles' cunty daughter.

Cousin Sven. He was a terrible actor & looked like a ‘70s Castro clone, totally unbelievable as a presumably heterosexual country bumpkin.

I hated the City Inspector who threatens to report Blanche if she doesn't bring the house up to code. I also hated Rose for reporting Blanche's hottub in the first place, trouble-making bitch. L

Mary the pregnant teen

Curly Sue Blanche’s granddaughter also called Melissa .

[Quote] Lucy was very loose. She loved the Blanche quote about a horse eating sugar out of her ass

R34 lol

Sophia’s friend Lilian whom she sprung out of a home and brought her to stay with them. I think she shit in the bathtub.

Glenn O’Brien. I thought it was so obvious that Dorothy was a lesbian that it was cringy AF to see her raving about sex with any man, esp that married creep.

I hated Mrs obrian’s husband

What about that one bitch Rose went to see because her husband died in her bed?

I did not like Barbara Thorndyke. I thought she was a phony.

Honorable mention for the Cuban boxer turned violinist, turned Juilliard actor known as Kid Pepe whom Sophia apparently bought at a bus stop. It is probably the Wokest episode of The Golden Girls, but with every cuban stereotype in the book. Watching Pepe use his race and play on ignorant stereotypes to get into a prestigious school was annoying as fuck. Tv showsbin the 80s were annoyingly transparent.

Pregnant Mary. One because she was full and two because when she shows up, they’re all so thrilled and I kept asking myself, has she been on it before because they were all so familiar with her. But no. She was another random person.

Fat Kirsten (the second version) was awful. Bad sitcomy acting. And terrible attitude - chastising the girls for having too much fun.

Lorraine-Dorothy's daughter-in-law.

Rex was a real son of a bitch and easily the worst in the history of the show. That episode was upsetting and I think everyone has known a jerk like that in their lifetime.

r210 Lorraine was bad. Miscast.

I absolutely hate Sal. He molested Dorothy.