Golden Girls: Classic or Dud?

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.

Bea Arthur as well. Rue McClanahan about 10 years younger (just looked this up to prove my husband wrong about Estelle Getty being the youngest)

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

-- Dr Morbius, Tuesday, July 22, 2008 7:00 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

you've made this same post at least 300 times but that didn't stop you from doing it again

it was a friendly zing at EH, so stfu

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

i don't fucking care

also, a lot of it is about the performers.

I understand that, Sur.

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

With lines like that, it'd have to be...

not sure what that means, but i love the line.

Morbz only likes NEW jokes lolz

like that shirt you've got on! BA DUM

I just think Dody Goodman got shafted in the Crazy Old TV Mom Deathstakes.

Very sad. But, based on reports of her health over the last few years, a blessing.

argh i know.

Yeah, her brain's been being eaten by disease for at least the last 7 or 8 years.

Any doubt that the mincing, unmarried 60-something man in my office is gay was put to rest when he came over to my cubicle just now giggling about some Sophia Petrillo zinger he'd just read in an online obit.

mincing??????

i'm still wondering who's gonna be the first d-bag to follow ilx tradition and piss on her still warm grave.

i thought it was put to rest when he sucked you off in the men's room?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mincing

yeah i know what it means, just surprised that you used it like that

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.