― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 12 April 2003 23:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
Bea Arthur in drag---as a woman
― Skottie, Sunday, 13 April 2003 06:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
"The Old Comedy of the Greeks had three stock characters whose interactions constituted the standard plot: the alazon, or imposter and self-deceiving braggart, the eiron, or self-derogatory and understating character, whose contest with the alazon is central to the comic plot; and the bomolochos, or buffoon, whose antics add an extra comic element....Northrop Frye has revived these old terms [and] added a fourth, the agroikos -- the rustic or easily deceived character."
Obviously: Alazon = Blanche; Eiron = Dorothy; Bomolochos = Sophia; Agroikos = Rose
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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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rue ƒur¥ McClananan (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 02:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lovelace (Lovelace), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 05:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 05:26 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
The season five will apparently feature commentaries from Betty White.
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Saturday, 4 February 2006 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 1 April 2006 07:10 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
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― surmounter (rra123), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
all are outrageously good
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 (seventeen years ago) link
It's a strange world.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:36 (sixteen years ago) link
oh jesus
only a matter of time i guess?
ridic.
― Surmounter, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:59 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
"Jean's a lesbian." "So? Isn't Danny Thomas one?" "Not *Lebanese* Blanche. Lesbian."
― pisces, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
The first episode ever is on right now!
― ENBB, Friday, 21 December 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
whaaaaaaat. amazing
― Surmounter, Friday, 21 December 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
You take that back!
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
XD
― clouds, Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:26 (three years ago) link
One of the storylines was about the possibility that Estelle Getty was not Bea Arthur's real mother
IIRC that's a later season episode. Even a lot of die-hard fans have their issues with the last couple seasons.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
That episode sucks.
Some gems in the later seasons: I love the murder mystery weekend, Dorothy singing "What'll I Do," and Alan King as Mel Bushman. But yeah, it was definitely where the show's famously sloppy writing got even more ridiculous.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:29 (three years ago) link
On a GG recap podcast I used to listen to until I realized I couldn't stand one of the hosts anymore, one of their guests made the bold assertion that he preferred the later seasons for their "more flexible sense of reality." Which I took to mean, yes, sloppiness.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:31 (three years ago) link
But yes, the "What'll I Do" ep is top 3.
That's the same reaction some fans have about the last couple Rosanne episodes
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
Yes, but which series had more indefensible fat jokes?
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
The Cosby Show.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 July 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
At the same time, Golden Girls had more punchlines about The Cosby Show than The Cosby Show had indefensible fat jokes.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
I prefer the latter seasons of Seinfeld because of their more flexible sense of reality.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 16 July 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
btw all silent film buffs now call Fatty Arbuckle "Roscoe" (as his colleagues did)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 July 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
I wish that more film buffs were silent.
― pplains, Friday, 17 July 2020 01:29 (three years ago) link
disappointed that a ctrl+f for "rattan" yields zero (0) results itt
― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 17 July 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
we're all disappointed in life from time to time, but we find the hope to carry on.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Friday, 17 July 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link
Oh please, it’s wicker.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 17 July 2020 06:04 (three years ago) link
I saw a bumper sticker for “St. Olaf College”; took a pic and sent it to my wife, thinking it was a GG joke… she was like, “Yeah, that’s a real school.”
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Sunday, 19 February 2023 01:18 (one year ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/14/theater/tituss-burgess-moulin-rouge.html
Those four ladies and the writers together made television magic. It’s like a fine wine: The jokes somehow are even funnier now, or I’m just getting older and maybe I understand the references a little more. On some level, every creator can reference it as a source of inspiration. For me, TV’s never been funnier.
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 15:27 (five months ago) link