Golden Girls: Classic or Dud?

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

It's a strange world.

oh jesus

only a matter of time i guess?

ridic.

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

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.

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

The first episode ever is on right now!

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!)

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.

whaaaaaaat. amazing

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

See also: Jackee, Morticia Adams

oh i was so grateful to see her in person last year. it was incroyable.

"seeing her in person would make me as jumpy as a virgin at a prison rodeo"

a rue mclanahan, morticia adams and jackee threesome would be... weird

Rue and Jackee go together like French fries and ketchup: they were the comedy floozy archetypes of NBC Saturday-night comedy for years and years! Which, when you're 10 years old, is strangely captivating / confusing / intriguing

fuck nabisco, that is one of my favorite fucking rue quotes evah

I caught an episode recently where Rose was talking about how her husband died during sex, and how his last words were "I'm going! I'm going!"

I had originally watched that episode when I was 12, and only now do I get the reverse "I'm cumming!" bit to the joke. Damn that Rose is risqué.

that's a hilarious episode -- the joke about rose killing off men through sex continues and is falldown funny!

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.

lol fags.

i was definitely in tears when blanche walked out at that bar... i mean, i watch this woman weekly sometimes nightly. she's definitely part of the family now. god what a show.

u know, i was SO PISSED i missed that appearance w/ the three of them -- i found about it the day after! andi worked like right uptown! awful of me.

i miss them

They were just on CBS This Morning! Harry Smith was all like "THey're the original 'Sex & The City' girls! Blanche is like Samantha!"

I can't stand morning news shows.

that's so cool! i knew i was thinking about them for a reason. they still kick satc's ass

CBS Early Show had Patti LaBelle on to sing about three songs earlier this week. Always chasing those elusive demos.

dorothy : "hi blanche"
blanche : "eat dirt and die, trash"

sometimes we just let the dvd's play on lazy sundays like this and the voices of the women ring through the house like the 3 good fairies in sleeping beauty.

Oh man, I would kill to have the Girls on DVD right about now.

it really is such a gift

i would love t owrite a paper about this show

d - so, what do you wanna do tonight? go to a movie?

b - we could do what we normally do... talk dirty and pig out?

no r says that. r for rose.

rue's acting in this show just grows and grows

I SEE LITTLE BALLS OF SUNSHINE IN A BAG

Hope that its not true (since TMZ is not the height of news reporting) but if so R.I.P. Sophia :(

http://www.tmz.com/2008/07/22/estelle-getty-thank-you-for-being-alive/

oh no :( this is awful.

aw, r.i.p. estelle, original queen of zing

Sophia: Look, Rose, God doesn't make mistakes. We were all put on this planet for a purpose. Blanche, you're here to work in a museum, so that art can be appreciated by humanity. Dorothy, you're here as a substitute teacher to educate our youth. And Rose, you're here because the rhythm method was very popular in the twenties.

q.e.d.

http://poolparty.typepad.com/poolparty/images/golden_girls17.jpg

aw, r.i.p. estelle, original queen of zing

true enough

blanche: "i am abhored"

sophia: "we know what you are blanche, it's nice to finally hear you admit it"

blanche: "sophia, i said abhored"

I don't ever remember watching this show.

i'm so sorry.

has anyone seen the episode Ebbtide's Revenge? it's the most heartbreaking thing ever. dorothy's brother dies and sophia is having a really hard time letting go of the shame she felt because he was a crossdresser. she ends up breaking down over it, with his wife, who tells her he was a good man, a good husband and father, no matter what. and estelle getty pulls out the acting stops like i've never seen.

Rose: Don't let that happen to you, Sophia. Let go of the shame. So what if he was different? It's okay that you loved him.
Sophia: I did love him. He was my son, my little boy. And every time I saw him, I wondered what I did, what I said....what was the day that I said or did whatever I did to make him the way he was?
Angela: What he was, Sophia, was a good man.
Sophia: (crying) My baby's gone! (edit)

it's nothing short of crushing.

Blanche: I treat my body like a temple.
Sophia: Yeah, open to everyone, day or night.

I have resisted downloading the Golden Girls, because it seemed redundant, it's not as if I haven't seen them all a million times, but oh maybe.

yeah, i'm wondering why i don't have this on dvd and why i'm not watching it every night. maybe lifetime will run a tribute marathon?

That tranny funeral episode really is a good one.

People do realize the jokes that have appeared here so far are rewrites of SCREWBALL COMEDY lines from the '30s, right?

So how many of her GG castmates were in fact older than EEG? Betty White for sure I think.