Golden Girls: Classic or Dud?

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I'm sorry Bea Arthur battered Ally, but she still totally rocks my world!

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

She threw me to the ground! She might as well have spit on me, the old bitty bitch!

― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Why was she so enraged? Did you bring up the Star Wars xmas special?

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

More, please.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 August 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic! Was this the first TV series to star older women exclusively? Has there been one ever since? Older actresses don't get that much respect, they're usually offered only the granny/matriarch roles, and they definitely don't get to talk about sex. As mainstream TV is concerned, Golden Girls was groundbreaking indeed.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 August 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I already said classic on the Lifetime thread, but I'll say it again. In fact, I'm watching it right now.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 2 August 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone at work yesterday made a hipster "Bea Arthur" reference and no one laughed. I informed the sad fellow that Rue McClanahan was the new Bea Arthur.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 2 August 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"Golden Girls" was "Sex and the City" -- fifteen years ahead of its time. Think about it.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It says the same thing on the IMDb Golden Girls user comments, Barry. I call shenanigans.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Complete and utter CLASSIC!!! One of the few reasons to even get out of bed in the morning.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Golden. Sex and the City cannot hold a candle to it. Also one of the only funny things on SNL in the past x years was the golden girls skit.

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha, I hadn't seen the comments on IMDb, but I did figure that I couldn't hae been the first person to make that connection.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked watching it for Sophia, but also it was funny how they rarely left the house except to get the mail or something.

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

* *GOLDEN GIRLS Season 3 DVD*

The Girls Are Back!

Cast DVD Signing for the Emmy-Award Winning TV Series
at Barnes & Noble in NYC November 22nd

WHO: "Golden Girls" cast: Bea Arthur, Betty White, and Rue McClanhan

WHAT: America's favorite girls are together again to celebrate the
release of the GOLDEN GIRLS Season 3 on DVD with an in-store
signing. Fans can now enjoy another helping of laughter,
misadventures, and cheesecake with this laugh-filled season of
the Emmy-Award winning TV sitcom -- all 25 episodes in this new
complete DVD set. Included are the original and unedited
"Golden Moments" episode where the girls share fond memories of
their times together, plus hilarious bonus features that prove
good comedy never grows old.

WHEN: Tuesday, November 22, 12:30 - 2:30PM

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers
675 6th Avenue (6th and 22nd)
New York, NY 10010

― Be4 4rhtur ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

I should ask them to sign my tits, Motley Crue-style.

― Rue ƒur¥ McClananan (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

lifetime had a 20th anniversary special (really done in '03 actually, with some new unfunny Mo Rocca-led bumper segments tacked on), The three(Estelle Getty was absent of course) all taped their host segments seperately so there still must be some pretty bad blood between them. Show is classic obv.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

How cruel, Je4nne, to post this mere hours after the event's over!

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm ashamed to say that I just saw a report of this on "Entertainment Tonight". Check your local listings.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

me and my mom used to watch this every weekday in my early teens. sophia was our fav character. why is no one mentioning her? i cant believe estelle getty is still ALIVE. wtf?

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 03:50 (twenty years ago)

she's younger than bea arthur, foo. Nowadays she has pretty advanced parkinson's and doesn't appear in public anymore though. But all the GGs are still with us!

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 05:20 (twenty years ago)

she's comic dynamite btw, it almost goes without saying. The ensemble probably had the best comic timing pound for pound of any television show ever thanks mostly to her (and Bea Arthur)

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

estelle getty - my favorite ever.

also, my little sister loves this story that when they were casting, they kept saying 'we need like, a betty white type' for rose. then they finally got smart and got betty white to do it!

― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Season four of The Golden Girls comes out on DVD on February 14th, with season five following on May 9th.

The season five will apparently feature commentaries from Betty White.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Saturday, 4 February 2006 13:28 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

seriously upset that I missed this:

http://www.laweekly.com/a-considerable-town/12958/that-golden-moment/

no dish on the bea/betty/shit/dressing room incident. I'd like to think that if Bea showed up, she would have told the story without prompting.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 1 April 2006 04:39 (twenty years ago)

I have so few opportunities to dig up the "drunk and everyone else applauds" thread, so this thread will have to do.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 1 April 2006 07:10 (twenty years ago)

also, my little sister loves this story that when they were casting, they kept saying 'we need like, a betty white type' for rose. then they finally got smart and got betty white to do it!

They were? I thought the whole point was that they got Betty and Rue but they decided to switch it around from their MTM days where Betty was the slutty one and Rue was the naive one.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 1 April 2006 07:32 (twenty years ago)

Rue was on MTM?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 1 April 2006 07:33 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm... she was on Lou Grant it seems.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 1 April 2006 07:34 (twenty years ago)

Wait, I thought she was also on a few eps of MTM... Because I have barely seen one or two eps of Lou Grant but I remember finally seeing Rue as naive.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 1 April 2006 07:38 (twenty years ago)

She was on Maude frequently as... I guess a normal person.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 1 April 2006 07:39 (twenty years ago)

more importantly, rue was in starship troopers

― gear (gear), Saturday, 1 April 2006 07:42 (twenty years ago)

Which only makes it all the sadder that Bea turned down Showgirls.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 1 April 2006 07:49 (twenty years ago)

someone shat in the dressing room?

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Saturday, 1 April 2006 08:07 (twenty years ago)

every version I've heard: Bea shat in the middle of Betty's dressing room floor(my favorite); Bea took a mean shit in Betty's dressing room toilet and didn't flush, on purpose; upthread: Bea apparently once shat in Betty's shoe which would be unfuckwithable but seems...beneath her somehow.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 1 April 2006 10:31 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

the golden girls is the best show ever ; )

― surmounter (rra123), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

and i still can't decide who's funnier, bea, rue or betty

all are outrageously good

― surmounter (rra123), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

i love the scene, i don't remember what season it may be the 3rd or 4th

where dorothy lets rose in on her little trick for public speaking - imagining everyone naked

and then blanche and rose try it, looking at each other, but it doesn't seem to do anything

but then they look at dorothyh and crack up hysterically

kills me

― Surmounter (rra123), Sunday, 11 February 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

It's a strange world.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

oh jesus

only a matter of time i guess?

ridic.

― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

This is like my favourite sitcom ever.

MIAMI IS NICE
SO I'LL SAY IT TWICE
MIAMI IS NICE
MIAMI IS NICE
MIAMI IS NICE

rofl

― The Brainwasher, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

I went to a golden girls dvd signing at Barnes and noble last year that had all of them there except for Sophia and it was the biggest freakshow ever. The collection of homosexuals in attendance had an oddly Slovenian Michael Jackson fan quality, I saw a guy wearing bleached denim jacket with massive shoulder pads 100% non-ironically and a weeping fan who had to be escorted out by security.

― saudade, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

"Jean's a lesbian."
"So? Isn't Danny Thomas one?"
"Not *Lebanese* Blanche. Lesbian."

― pisces, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

The first episode ever is on right now!

― ENBB, Friday, 21 December 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

haha with Coco!!

omg i've been watching Murder She Wrote a lot -- Jean from GG is in a few!!!

i love the Jean's a lesbian episode (esp since i'm lebanese, always tickles me pink!)

― Surmounter, Friday, 21 December 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

While I will forever be a GG fan, I HATE MSW but mainly because my Mom used to make me watch it all the time when I was little. Even the opening music is enough to annoy me! You're right, btw - that's a great episode. I had lunch next to Rue once which was pretty great.

― ENBB, Friday, 21 December 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

whaaaaaaat. amazing

― Surmounter, Friday, 21 December 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

Seeing Rue McLanahan in person would stir up all sorts of problematic childhood "learning things about sexuality via sitcoms" stuff for me.