Golden Girls: Classic or Dud?

I was home with my baby daughter for 7 weeks.

Lifetime channel is awesome ftw

I didn't realize she had Lewy body dementia. My granddad died of that in 2004. :(

Quote from one of her sons on the BBC report:

"She was loved throughout the world in six continents," said Carl in a statement, "and if they loved sitcoms in Antarctica she would have been loved on seven continents."

Funniest thing I've read all day.

aww.

Lifetime channel is awesome ftw

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 8:01 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

where else can I see Rosie O'Donnell as a mentally handicapped day-glo dork and Fred Savage as a serial date rapist

Designing Women, Project Runway, Tori Spelling

where else can I see Rosie O'Donnell as a mentally handicapped day-glo dork and Fred Savage as a serial date rapist

several people imitate them on ILE daily.

designing women rules!

xp occasionally at the same time

The lines are the weakest element of GG next to the production values, the laugh track, the scenarios and the over-reliance on clip shows, as you pointed out yourself ... so, yeah, I'm aware of their debt to screwball.

I went to a mince meet at the swish chalet

Did you steal that from a screwball? That one's pretty good.

i love the writing on the show, i don't know what you guys are talkin bout! and the production values, laugh track and scenarios are merely vehicles for the performances -- they're not meant to wow.

I will always watch GG when it's on, but Maude (at least the earlier episodes) is the keeper of Bea's two sitcoms.

Sophia could zing better than any ilxor.

i don't understand why people complain about the clip shows. honestly: they were old, estelle especially was already beginning to deteriorate (you can see her relying on cue cards more and more as the series progresses)- they needed time off. bea arthur probably would've quit the show three or four seasons in if not for the breaks provided by the clip shows.

as for the clip shows that were actually framing devices for new material, old folks like to reminisce. it was clever and it was in-character.

the golden girls remains my favorite television show of all time.

yup, and the clipshows were just fine. seldom enough.

You're referring to Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman's mother upthread, right Morbs? She was seriously insane.

and dody goodman, mh's mother, died...exactly a month before estelle. frky!

no, EH, that was one of my rare original jokes, unless I inadvertently ripped it off.

I will always watch GG when it's on, but Maude (at least the earlier episodes) is the keeper of Bea's two sitcoms.

between sleep disturbance and my lack of coffee this morning i read this and thought "whoa, gg allin was on maude?" but then the chronology didn't add up.

the aids scare episode is petrifying

"aids is not a bad person's disease, rose"

i really have trouble figuring out what in life is better than this show.

have i bragged enough about the fact that my boyfriend has held rue mclanahan's hand? i don't think so.

http://photos-847.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v183/221/109/8403847/n8403847_30983762_917.jpg

him asking her his question

rue mclanahan is looking at the love of my life. in the face. (that jacket!)

Betty White on Palin, amazing

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Golden_Girl_vs_Palin.html?showall

she didn't declare Obama to be the new Lincoln like Rue, did she

nopers

What great timing. I just last night had a GG episode watching party with more than just myself.

Though now finding out I could've been watching Jour de fete on TCM is a little bit of a comedown.

I'm surprised you prefer Jour de Fete!

I haven't seen it.

Bea Arthur RIP

:(

So she was 86? I guess I didn't realize she was in her mid to late 60s while she was making the show (seemed younger somehow).

I <3 you Bea. R.I.P. classy lady.

Oh god no.

Thank you for being a friend. :(

omg :(((((((

nooooo I hadn't seen this topic before, and I happily read through only to be hit with that hammer blow at the end. :'( A real staple of my childhood, was Golden Girls.

sophia - "you were brought up a lady. keep both your feet on the floor"

dorothy - "i better go change. blanche, what should i wear?"

blanche - "well if you're gonna keep both your feet on the floor, something you can throw up over your head"

<3 <3 <3

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.cinematical.com/media/2009/05/classic_betty_white.jpg

The bad thing about coming back to work after being off sick for a week is not being able to watch Golden Girls reruns anymore.

So, I was watching some Empty Nest clips earlier today, and I never realized that the worlds of Golden Girls and Empty Nest are apparently one and the same! They live in the same community! Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MA_sgR1FFM

In walks Dorothy! Empty Nest used to follow Golden Girls in primetime, so I guess it's not too big of a leap, but still pretty weird.

Yeah - Empty Nest was a spin-off. They were neighbors iirc. EN was great because it had the Joe Isuzu guy. I wonder whatever happened to him.

I never realized it was a spinoff despite having seen probably dozens of episodes back in the day. Empty Nest may be one of the most boring tv shows ever made. I have no idea how it made it for 7 seasons.

SEVEN? wow.

1988-1995 according to imdb.

insane.

""Empty Nest" is set in Miami and tells of the day to day misadventures of a widowed pediatrician, Harry Weston, and his two adult daughters, Barbara and Carol Weston, who have come back to live with him after failed marriages. Much of the humour is derived from Barbara and Carols' ongoing attempts, and failure, to find the perfect partner, and once again leave the "nest". There is also the skirt-chasing next door neighbour, Charlie Dietz and Harry's southern nurse, Laverne Todd, unique for her unbelievable Hickory stories."

hilarious!!