Golden Girls: Classic or Dud?

Why?

mincing love it 5 up, 5 down hate it

Two people find a dead body. One puts their mouth over the penis, and the other elbow drops on the dead persons stomach.

uhm. ok.

it's just such a weird verb

adjective

whatever

It's an economical way of summing up all of the various campy and/or dainty gestures he makes.

I went to a mince meet at the swish chalet

my girlfriend's going to dress up in her sophia wig and eat lasagne in estelle's honor tonight.

It was only a matter of time.

I will tell my mom to shoot in Estelle's honor.

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i loved that movie when i was a kid!!

I can see Morbs using Sly's expression around his mom.

my girlfriend's going to dress up in her sophia wig and eat lasagne in estelle's honor tonight.

cosplay + worlds worst euphemism in one post.

:-(

really, she was just barely old enough to be Stallone's mother

dope show, got me thru some bad times

cosplay + worlds worst euphemism in one post.

-- chicago kevin, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 7:43 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

whaaaaat

(btw my mom will be 80 in about a week, and i've kept a couple 25-year-old refrigerator notes from her, I should transcribe them here, by popular demand.)

please do

ogeez PLEASE

I just want to make sure everyone got similar notes.

my ex-roomie's ex-gf used to write small "I hope you have a great day!" in the lunches she prepared us. She was living rent free in our home, eating our food, and stealing our cigarettes - but the lunches/notes were nice.

I was just watching this show last night. It's actually pretty funny. I just remember seeing it on as a kid while waiting for the Gary Shandling Show, understanding jokes from neither show. But I liked Shandling's style.

I'm really sad...I grew up watching Golden Girls reruns; Sophia was always my favorite (though the entire cast is brilliant). RIP x 10000000000000000

this shit is on like three or four times a day on the Lifetime channel kids

why am i not surprised you have the Lifetime channel's line up memorized.

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.

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him asking her his question