Favourite Golden Girls guest characters.

Mario Lopez

Margyerite

Eddie, Dorothy’s computer matched date

Freida Claxton tied with Barbara Thorndyke.

Cousin Magda tied with Aunt Angela

Among the worst was Uncle Angelo. Awful acting.

I kinda liked the old guy they had play George, you could have easily seen him and Blanche as a couple

Not knocked up Mary

Not Rita Moreno as the neighbor

Not Dr Jonathan Newman

Not Pepe and Enrique Mass

Not Miles

I hated David and I hated Clayton

Fat Becky was way cooler and fun than sperm bank Becky.

Marguerite

The Black Aunt who asked, "Is she for real!?"

I hated michael’s old black bride.

I also hated Rose’s ignorant daughter, Brigitte. When she said she wanted to share her deepest, darkest secrets with her mom, I almost gagged.

I thought Rue played really well with Debbie Reynolds

Of course, Barbara Thorndyke and Frieda are my top two faves. I also love Cousin Magda and Lorraine's family but not Lorraine. I like Posey McGlinn in theory, though I think she might only have two or three lines, the name is just amazing and her few on-screen moments are great. She was a good foil for Blanche.

Stan's therapist who uses wild and crazy names when he tells his girlfriend about his patients.

Dan & Morothy?

Agreed, R18

Carol: Oh, my God!

Dorothy: What is it?

Carol: You're Dan and Morothy!

Dorothy: Wild and crazy names?

Dr. Halperin: Carol, this is a different Dan and Morothy.

It’s about to get real. What did you all think about Jean?

Jean was a sweet woman who was mezmerized by Rose's big swinging Scandanavian breasts...

The old woman Rose befriends who ran away from the home to visit her daughter’s grave.

Why wasn't Totie Fields ever on?

R23 she was being on the Facts of Life, Rose.

R23 The fact that she died 7 years before Golden Girls premiered might have something to do with it.

Mr. Ha Ha, the mascot clown of Mr. Ha Ha’s hot dog hacienda.

The wife of the guy Sophia cursed for not moving his fallen tree.

I’ve always hated Myles daughter who told Rose to stay away from him

^ Yeah, they should put Myles' daughter into a cage match with Rose's bitchy daughter Kirsten

How long had Rose been dating Miles before she met the daughter?

Don't forget, the daughter might just have been trying to protect Rose from The Cheeseman!

So good of Witness Protection to not only give Miles a cushy Professorship but also relocate his daughter and old friends too!

^ So much unexplored potential...

Please bring back "The Golden Girls"

I wonder if the respective estates of the original cast would consider a reboot with holograms or "deep fakes" reprising the roles...

It's weird that I loved Harold Gould as Rhoda's father on "Rhoda"

but found him so tedious and one-dimensional on The Golden Girls

As a child, I remember thinking Rhoda's dad was handsome and kind of sexy...

That whole "Cheeseman" plot with Myles in Witness Protection was one of the worst in the whole show.

Not as bad as Rita Moreno's backdoor pilot episode, but close.

One of the scorned women at Fidel's funeral. She upstaged Bea with her reading of, "We all have our standards."

[quote]Why wasn't Totie Fields ever on?

They actually cast Totie as one of Sophia's relatives from Italy...

but Totie kept falling on Estelle during rehersal,

causing Estelle to scream, "Someone get this fat bitch off of me!"

Love the glamorous curly haired old woman in the red dress playing the clarinet(?) in that awful episode where Sophia is out and about buying a nectarine.

Dr. Jonathan Newman, the tiniest QUEEN. Queenier than Coco. And the worst guest star since Coco.

They can dance!!!

But the ABSOLUTE WORST was the Rita “Doroshee” Moreno cunt busting, joke swallowing mistake.

Ivanna Trump

I liked the dad who left his baby with the girls overnight without calling...

He seemed kind of hot and clearly trapped in a loveless marriage with some Hilaria Baldwin type who couldn't stop spitting out babies...

Doug and Clayton

No love for Big Daddy and his young wife?

[quote]No love for Big Daddy and his young wife?

Young wife? You mean Mammy Watkins?

No, R44. The widow Spencer.

R41 I know, right?

They already have an infant and now newborn triplets.

Or should I say Irish quadruplets?

I loved the episode where the cast from 'Designing Women' showed up and told them how to redecorate the home for the 90s. It was fun watching Julia Sugarbaker knock Dorothy down a few pegs.

R46 go hide your face in the woods, right?

I liked Posey McGlinn and really all the characters from "The Libertine Belle" episode - it's one of the best episodes of the entire run.

Blanche Devereaux: Oh, Kendall is sitting down with Posey MacGlinn. She is my main rival for that assistants job. Oh, look at the shameless way she's flirting with him. Disgusting!

Rose Nylund: You flirted with him.

Blanche Devereaux: I'm from the South. Flirting is part of my heritage.

Rose Nylund: What does that mean?

Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak: Her mother was a slut, too.

The murder mystery episode is definitely one of the funniest and one of my favorites from the entire series, but it never made sense to me why they'd make Blanche the butt of the joke and have Posey in on it when they were framed to be rivals vying for the same promotion. Either Kendall is a sadistic puppet master of a boss, Posey is an excellent sport, or they were both playing the long game and she was an actress hired at the museum under an assumed name months prior solely to set the stage for that weekend's payoff. For a show as dedicated to accuracy and realism as The Golden Girls, this is a rare, overlooked detail that spoils the otherwise documentary-style aspects of the episode.

Re the murder mystery weekend episode: the actor who played the waiter who discovers Nesbitt's body is Leland Orser, who was once married to Roma Downey but has been with Jeanne Tripplehorn for over 20 years.

My brother knows him as 'Father Romero' on RAY DONOVAN.

More recently, he was a main cast on that AMERICAN GIGOLO series on Showtime with Jon Bernthal.

A lot of the good ones have been named ... how about Ed, the Miami vice cop who was clearly seriously considering screwing Rose rather than Lucy?

R52 Rose and Ed were like minded

I enjoyed Nancy, the hotel desk clerk (Lucy Lee Flippin). She told the girls that seeking out a different hotel room would be an exercise in futility. Then, of course, Blanche goes into her ridiculous claim of being Angie Dickinson.

“Miss Angie Dickinson” no less

The sexy blue collar chef that Blanche felt was uncouth. He was a got guy. And of course Dorothy's lesbean friend Jean, who's late wife Pat, causes all sorts of misunderstandings. This episode makes me so proud of this show; I love these ladies..they practically raised me!!!

Just watched "All Bets Are Off" where Dorothy's gambling problem re-emerges. Great episode filled with no filler! The actor who plays Blanche's colleague who rejects her after she drops his robe and uncovers her perfect body is sorta hot.

Anyway, great credit to Betty. It's Bea's storyline but she steals the show here, which is hard to do. From getting high on paint thinner, actually being a decent artist, stressing trying to paint autumn in St Olaf, then her scene where she proves she's clever by guilting Dorothy into taking her bank card and telling her how much she cares.

Great work all round and some terrific zingers. A pleasure to watch an episode that's even better than you remembered!

Another vote for Dr. Newman

R50, I hated the murder mystery show. It was pure frippery.

I liked the weird train depot guy who responds to Dorothy's admission that she'd secretly love to go to a nudist colony with, "Some pots are best left on the back burner."

Daisy, the ginger haired monster who wouldn’t give back Rose’s Teddy bear.

Bitch performance. So exquisite.

R60 which episode is that?

R62 "Bedtime Story" (Season 2, Episode 17)

I can't say that I like Barbara Thorndyke...

but I love that episode

I liked the mean little old lady who said she was still "P.O.'d" that Sophia wasn't dead after attending her wake.

Was Sophia pleased with the turnout at her wake? Looked rather sparse to me

R66, she was in her mid-80s, most of her peers would have been dead.

I always get a kick out of the gypsy they interview before Marg-yoo-reet gets the job. Same goes for the butch prison guard.

The big doberman that ate Ida Perlberg.

^ Ida Pearlberg was the most reliable predictor of Hurricans in the state of Florida...

R69 0/10

Giuseppe Mangicavallo and his socks that were cursed to always slide down.

I loved the train station guy's accent!

Ken Howard who does the unthinkable; he makes Blanche feel like a lady.

R67 she was still popular, all those people at the hospital she secretly volunteered at, the oldies from the boardwalk, the people she went on holiday with, her bowling friends plus all the old geezers she shagged!

Should have held it on a weekend

You're a 0/10, R71.

Geraldine Fitzgerald who played Martha Lamont, the woman who wanted Sophia to help her commit suicide.

What a downer it was r75

[quote]Geraldine Fitzgerald who played Martha Lamont, the woman who wanted Sophia to help her commit suicide.

Wouldn't it have been a hoot if Sophia reached into her purse, pulled out a loaded pistol, pointed it at her and said, "Picture it. A shallow grave. Tonight."

Eubie Blake's parents.

I liked the Mother Superior who kicked Sophia out of the convent.

R76, it wasn't a downer. It showed how many elderly people are alone, depressed and afraid of dying. The Golden Girls occasionally tackled some serious subjects. I liked Geraldine as an actress. I think she was a great guest star.

R80 it was a downer episode for me

Did Sophia ever give back that diamond ring?

No she stored it in her pussy

I didn't know Sophia had a cat! Did she keep him in her ensuite I wasn't allowed to use?

No Rose, she kept in her panties.

Liked the older cop who stayed at the house so he could stake out the criminal neighbors. He had great chemistry with Bea and was responsible for her most surprisingly girlish moment: "I am crazy nuts about this guy!!!"

R86, that was Jerry Orbach. He was also the guy she went back to after he left his wife. I can't remember the name of the actor who played the still-married lover. Anyone remember who that was?

Who was the guy that Blanche liked but dumped because he was low class?

R87 Glen O'Brien played by Alex Rocco. Their affair began in season 1 episode 14 "The Was No Lady". Sophia was horrified that Dorothy would degrade herself by allowing a married gym teacher to "plow her pussycat". Rose was horrified that Dorothy would have "afternoon delight" while skipping school. Blanche was horrified she hadn't met him first!

R88 that was Jake Smollens played by Donnelly Rhodes in Season 4 episode 22 "Diamond In The Rough".

There was a proposed scene where he breaks wind in front of Blanche, but Rue objected as she felt it disgusting. A subplot where he'd uses the girls' bathroom and leaves a mess in the toilet, which leads to Dorothy blaming Sophia and banning her chilli was eventually cut due to time.

Thanks, R90. I always thought he was kind of hot.

Kinda like that ugly man who gives Dorothy screaming orgasms, the actor was a good sport as he was basically cast for not being attractive. Back in those days they had to say "fantastic in bed" instead of "beer can cock"

Thank you, R87! In the episode with Jerry, Sophia told Dorothy to keep both feet on the ground. Dorothy asked Blanche what she should wear and Blanche said "something you can take off over your head."

Fun fact: both Jerry and Dick Van Dyke were nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor for their appearances in that season and both played Dorothy's lovers

Didn’t know Jerry at all never heard of his ass

Phil’s poker buddies.

Nurse DuFarge!

R87, the cop in the stakeout episode wasn't Jerry Orbach but Joe Campanella, though I can imagine the two were up for the same roles a lot.

Cesar Romero!

Merril!

Have we forgotten this guy who takes Dorothy head on!

Dorothy was the ultimate gaslighter for convincing everyone Blanche was the slut when she was the one banging a new guy week after week.

We can't forget Phyllis Hammerow the Meryl Streep of Miami community theater! I do love the idea of a middle-aged woman playing Anne in The Diary of Anne Frank.

I didn't realise that the girls each bought a share of Blanche's house and used their monthly rent money to pay it off. I wrongly remembered they had each paid upfront.

Anyway, that pig City Inspector who gives them 48 hours to bring the house up to code is not a favourite!

What the hell needs 10k work to make it a boarding house?!

Must of the work need was for additional storage for beaded gowns needed on short notice for all the charity functions

R104 I agree with you

[quote]Fun fact: both Jerry and Dick Van Dyke were nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor for their appearances in that season and both played Dorothy's lovers

Jerry was never on GOLDEN GIRLS (1985-1992). He received four Emmy nods, but it was for his supporting role on COACH (1989-1997)..

[quote]Didn’t know Jerry at all never heard of his ass

Jerry Van Dyke was the younger brother of Dick. He was the lead in the notorious flop MY MOTHER THE CAR (1965-1966).

R90 I doubt that's true. Network TV was not doing graphic toilet humor like that at the time.

R107, that comment was in reference to Jerry Orbach’s appearance on GG, not the van dyke.

Indeed, R98, Alex Campanella, aka the erstwhile husband of one Ms Romano of One Day at a Time.

Sorry of course I meant Joe. ^^^

Was 101 the same actor who instructed Dorothy on her bridal gait “remember, small steps! We’re not Godzilla trampling the city..”? I guess I’ll vote for the confused Great Pretender with the trumpet.

R108 hehe you caught me, I did add that, but I'm sure they made the odd toilet humor joke. They certainly had Sophia wetting the bed and peeing in the hall

Thank you, posters for correcting me regarding Jerry Orbach.

Have we all forgotten the wedding caterer for Sophia's wedding??!!

R109 was he Jo’s dad on FOL?

R110 Oh, would that be JOE MAMA?

R92 came back here to say your comment had me in convulsive, uncontrollable laughter all day yesterday, and inspired me to watch that episode. It really is one of the best, with tons of great physical comedy and iconic lines from start to finish. From Dorothy's sultry pose, Blanche's earrings for petite ears, and Sophia wrapping her legs around the guy in the end, it's now one of my favorite GG episodes.

I love Golden Girl threads.

R116 very glad you loved it, an underrated gem! Perfect casting of someone you could imagine might be a revelation between the sheets!

I liked Jim Shoo aka Gym Shoe!

Blanche's penpal from prison, Meryl. I liked when he called Sophia "cutie."

R112, and Sophia farting and running to the toilet...the show did have a lot of scatalogical humor when it came to Sophia.

R121 they knew you love scat.

Anyone mentioned Mark Moses and his vpl which would have titillated Blanche had he not been George's illegitimate son!

Jerry Hardin as Blanche's sex pest professor.

John Schuck as the political candidate with a secret past.

I like the actor who played George, he was well cast as a charming older man. I know it was the perfect opportunity to use Sonny Bono and the other one as both being desperate for Dorothy (SPOILER as the episode was Blanche's dream!) but there was too much attention on them and not enough focus on the devastation and betrayal Blanche must have felt at the return of her one true love.

It's a travesty Rue wasn't nominated for an Emmy!

I'd liked Lyle Waggoner...

and imaging him without his clothes on

I liked the old lady who was dying, secretly trying to punish her husband from beyond the grave by fixing him up with that old bag Sophia

She was a veteran actress r127. She was also a regular cast member on Laverne & Shirley

Betty Garrett played that loud commie broad Irene Lorenzo that always came pokin her big Irish nose where it don't belong.

Who was the Empty Nest neighbour who made a cameo appearance at the Midsummer party in S7?

I liked "Mean Old Lady Hickenlooper"

She was so good at standing on her head, waving, and smiling.

[quote]Who was the Empty Nest neighbour who made a cameo appearance at the Midsummer party in S7?

Interesting how fondly we remember "The Golden Girls"...

and we barely remember "Empty Nest"

On rewatching, I find Guy Corbin, the host of "Grab That Dough" more and more attractive

And I love his line, "Wonderful Dorothy, you ought to make quite a haul with those big meat hooks".

Empty Nest was just a generic sitcom about a guy married to his daughters instead of to a wife.

Has Harry fucked them?

I liked Empty Nest, in part because I like Richard Mulliagn, Diana Manoff, and Kristy McNichol as actors. I also liked it because it was in the GG universe and had the same set style/color scheme, which I find very comforting. With that said, a little David Leisure and Park Overall goes a long way. It was also attempting to do a variation of what GG did, showcase the life of those in their 60s or older, however with only one of the characters (Mulligan's) being in that age range, that was a bit diluted. Also, it wasn't a terrific showcase for Mulligan's talents the way Soap had been. I actually thought Manoff was the standout on the show.

[quote]On rewatching, I find Guy Corbin, the host of "Grab That Dough" more and more attractive

Guy was played by Jim McKrell, who actually was a game show host.

And he's still with us (born 1937.)

There was pissy nest

I like the old English gold-digger Chester who dumps Sophia as soon as he finds out she isn't wealthy

Watching The Golden Girls really messed me up. Now I'm addicted to geriatric lesbian porn.