You should've taken another stab at Switzer's.
― pplains, Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
man
― balls, Thursday, 24 July 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
jesus i don't think i realized til now just how fucking young most of the little rascals died. spanky was a relative methuselah making it to 64. darla died at 47, buckwheat died at 49. froggy died at 16. petey lived to 119 in dog years.
― balls, Thursday, 24 July 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
I had a grave-rubbing of Mel's epitaph for a long time
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 24 July 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
the mel blanc coma story is one of the best stories i've ever heard
― balls, Thursday, 24 July 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
Tomorrow is Cheesecake Day!
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls1g0dCLGP1r0xiug.gif
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
happy belated cheesecake day, y'all
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 1 August 2014 16:59 (nine years ago) link
I forgot to eat a cheesecake. I only looked at pictures of cheesecake.
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Friday, 1 August 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
http://rankings.gawker.com/golden-girls-episodes-ranked-1633984767
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 September 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
"the Actor" way too low at #80. "Fiddler on the Ropes" way too high at #142.
― MaudAddam (cryptosicko), Sunday, 14 September 2014 05:10 (nine years ago) link
IKR. Gah, disqualifying clip eps and "Empty Nest," it seems pretty clear to me "Fiddler" is the show's lamest ep.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 September 2014 06:38 (nine years ago) link
U guys
― jaymc, Sunday, 14 September 2014 07:56 (nine years ago) link
Remember ally ?
God ilx in 2003 listening to tATu and Stacie orrico
― jaymc, Sunday, 14 September 2014 07:57 (nine years ago) link
Thank you for being a friend.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 September 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
I will always watch GG when it's on, but Maude (at least the earlier episodes) is the keeper of Bea's two sitcoms.― Eric H., Tuesday, July 22, 2008 5:21 PM (6 years ago)
How much has changed in the Obama years!
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Sunday, 14 September 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
idk any of these by title! I want to watch the worst and the best to see what's up
― Gay Fire Beautiful Dong (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 15 September 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
jaymc was inebriated Sunday, September 14, 2014 1:56 AM (Yesterday)
― mattresslessness, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link
"Empty Nest" has next to nothing to do with the Golden Girls. It has almost nothing to do with the eventual GG spinoff Empty Nest. It's all quite confusing.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Monday, 15 September 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
And I don't think the murder mystery episode is anywhere near the best of the lot, but like I said, not a whole lot separates the great GG eps from the non-great ones.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Monday, 15 September 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
So, am I to buy my first LEGOs since I was 6?
― Eric H., Wednesday, 8 April 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
Apparently the new Animal Collective song samples some GG dialogue, but I still don't want to listen to it.
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
Oral history.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, 5 March 2016 04:15 (eight years ago) link
The Golden Girls puppet show runs through Dec. 11 at DR2 Theatre
― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 30 September 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
http://dlisted.com/2016/10/03/open-post-hosted-by-the-only-thing-i-want-for-christmas/
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 October 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link
maybe you want this for Christmas too
https://twitter.com/keithuhlich/status/811685290305789952
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
Golden Girls Clue
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Friday, 19 May 2017 14:15 (six years ago) link
Bea doll appears to be throwing the gaze she did after knocking over Allyzay
http://mentalfloss.com/article/551922/the-golden-girls-action-figures-neca-comic-con
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
Now in cereal form!
https://thetakeout.com/share-this-golden-girls-cereal-with-a-pal-or-a-confidan-1829974755
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 25 October 2018 06:01 (five years ago) link
I tasted a piece. It was dry and tasteless.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:05 (five years ago) link
like ILX wit
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:07 (five years ago) link
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-09/1/10/enhanced/webdr08/anigif_enhanced-32687-1441116940-14.gif
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/tcXc0LOuZcGzK/giphy.gif
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:22 (five years ago) link
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4tN2MCoJ9K0/WzTcT_rdTEI/AAAAAAAAjVY/qQFQ8zYPCacughpdEYSJVT9nAb557HWNQCLcBGAs/s400/giphy.gif
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:34 (five years ago) link
there's a whole bunch of them, here is the second roll out
https://www.funko.com/blog/article/coming-soon-funkos-cereal-wave-2
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 25 October 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
luv u Elaine Stritch
Stritch entered a room of black suits. “I hope you all don’t mind that I’ve rewritten some of these lines to fit me,” she told them. “I’m Catholic, so I don’t want to say, ‘oh God.’ I can’t stand that.” She tried a curse instead. The suits stared back at her, aghast.
“I’m just glad I got out of there alive,” Stritch said years later. “I hate that show. Who’d be crazy enough to live in Florida with two other women and their mother?”
“For me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/theater/elaine-stritch-broadway-roles.html
https://variety.com/2002/film/columns/stritch-almost-a-golden-girl-1117860373/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 November 2019 10:08 (four years ago) link
Classic. Both Stritch and the Golden Girls. I’m glad she botched that audition.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Saturday, 2 November 2019 12:06 (four years ago) link
https://imgur.com/8eEhf3I
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 29 June 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
just leaving this here
https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/the-real-mud-on-golden-girls.html
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 July 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
It's really wild how the only difference between a "zoomer shocked to find piece of old media problematic" clickbait article and "Northwestern professor wrestles with TV show that's been off the air for 25 years" is peppering your piece with "As epidemiologist Julia Marcus explains"
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 2 July 2020 23:33 (three years ago) link
No surprise that a sitcom from the 80s would be full of questionable material. I think we even discussed some of its hypocritical queer affirmation above, so no need to re-litigate that; the racial stuff works much the same way (pleas for tolerance on one hand, scoring easy punchlines on the other) but Sophia's many racist/homo- and trans-phobic zings are generally shown to be embarrassing to her daughter (yes, I know, the audience still gets to laugh).
Re: the rape--the show's notorious inconsistency complicates things a little bit, I think, in that we are given so many versions of Michael's conception that it is hard to take any one of them as definitive. In the case of "he must have slipped me something," I'm willing to read this variant on the story--which generally sets up a joke about Stan's lack of sexual prowess and/or Dorothy's insecurity--as a convenient set up to a punchline ("Apparently!"). More to the point, the kind of date rape scenario proposed in this scene likely would not have been uncommon mid-twentieth-century, and would have resulted in a young woman marrying her abuser and carrying around the "shame" of it (I once had a similar combination re: Biff's attempted rape of Lorraine in Back to the Future). If it is shitty of the series to make light of this, I'd argue that there is enough pathos in Dorothy's character (and Bea Arthur's performance) that the viewer isn't unconscious of it.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Thursday, 2 July 2020 23:41 (three years ago) link
i find contemporary culture full of questionable material
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 July 2020 01:03 (three years ago) link
Good calls, crypto. (Also, the series has tons of fat jokes and low blows about Dorothy's looks that are impossible to overlook. Still my favorite sitcom.)
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 July 2020 12:16 (three years ago) link
the series has tons of fat jokes
Have Oliver Hardy and Jackie Gleason been cancelled yet?
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 July 2020 13:03 (three years ago) link
Fatty Arbuckle sure was.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 July 2020 13:12 (three years ago) link
never found guilty in 3 trials
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 July 2020 13:14 (three years ago) link
A prince of a man, then.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 13:42 (three years ago) link
But thanks for willfully overlooking the point.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
Really good piece.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
Saw a couple of episodes of this the other day and they were not very good. One of the storylines was about the possibility that Estelle Getty was not Bea Arthur's real mother and that's when I realized they're supposed to be Italian - the fear of having actual Jewish characters writ large.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link