Golden Girls: Classic or Dud?

She was winning Worst Dressed Awards in '88 and '89, an acknowledgment of how horrible they looked even then.

I have been wearing a lot of oversized sweater and scarves lately and feel like I've been having a Dorothy moment. In her defense, that stuff is very comfortable.

Holy shit I have watched SO MUCH GG in the past month now that it's on TV Land.

even her nightgowns have like three scoop necks and two extra sets of sleeves

― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, April 9, 2013 3:42 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Totally want one of these.

This and Roseanne are pretty much all I've watched for a month straight. It's been awesome.

where i live it seems like GG is syndicated on like 5 different channels and it's amazing

yeah it's on 24/7

Am I wrong in thinking that the show really got its groove going in Season Three (1987-88)? Several episodes I watched this weekend suggest so.

par for the course for sitcoms afaict. first couple seasons are always a little rough, characters finding their notes, then you get a few seasons of A material, and then the decline due to cast turnover/exhaustion of ideas etc

(says the guy who doesn't like sitcoms)

the first two seasons are golden. show definitely got KOOKIER in s. 3 -> onward. maybe some higher highs, but also some lower lows.

A good poll option. "The Cosby Show" didn't peak imo until Season Three.

that i don't own the complete series on dvd is a mystery even to me

S3 and S4 had, I think, easily the highest number of nominees for my top 10.

Lloyd Bochner as Patrick Vaughn is a favorite, mostly because the one woman's excessively drawled "It sho' is Biff" has become something of a catchphrase for me, to the point that my bf looks about ready to strangle me whenever I answer any of his questions with it these days (ie - "do you have my car keys?" "i sho' do Biff," and so forth).

"Sorry ... It must be the heat!"

I'm watching the episode in which Dorothy dates Dick Van Dyke, the attorney turned clown.

there's an episode of 'the nanny' with an almost similar plot line

I spent waaaaay too much time thinking about this show last year

http://www.splicetoday.com/moving-pictures/the-golden-girls-increasing-decrepitude-part-seven

Alfred we JUST watched the clown episode here, for real

It wasn't particularly memorable, alas.

Heh. When you first mentioned that you were watching that episode, I struggled to come up with a memorable quote from it to post here, but couldn't think of one!

The courtroom scene was painful.

and Dick got no good lines!

Lloyd Bochner as Patrick Vaughn is a favorite, mostly because the one woman's excessively drawled "It sho' is Biff" has become something of a catchphrase for me, to the point that my bf looks about ready to strangle me whenever I answer any of his questions with it these days (ie - "do you have my car keys?" "i sho' do Biff," and so forth).

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:41 (6 days ago) Permalink

amaaaaaaaaazing there need to be more people in the world like you

They slowly but surely ratcheted up Rose's assertiveness over the years, didn't they?

anyone who remembers Rose's first joke gets instant brownie points

It was something to do with Coco the gay cook, right?

LOL, I love that two of the episodes in your top 10 were in my bottom 5.

Lloyd Bochner as Patrick Vaughn is a favorite, mostly because the one woman's excessively drawled "It sho' is Biff" has become something of a catchphrase for me, to the point that my bf looks about ready to strangle me whenever I answer any of his questions with it these days (ie - "do you have my car keys?" "i sho' do Biff," and so forth).

― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 22:41 (6 days ago) Permalink

amaaaaaaaaazing there need to be more people in the world like you

― surm, Sunday, April 14, 2013 8:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It sho would Biff.

lol

xp well coco was around but it was when dorothy was talking about getting older, and she says something like " well, i looked in the mirror and i didn't even recognize the woman staring back at me "

and rose goes " who was it? "

Rose's first punch line!

A+ joke

Coco had a couple good lines iirc.

Dorothy: "Rose, Charlie's dead."
Coco: "Why tell her?"

I keep forgetting about Coco.

The wedding coordinator was a much more grating stereotype. I can't even watch that scene anymore.

Still, the show wins back a lot of gay cred with Blanche's brother Clayton. And Dorothy's lesbian friend whose name I forget.

Jean.

NOT LEBANESE, BLANCHE

incidentally both the actress who played jean and blanche's 2 sisters have been on more than one Murder She Wrote episode, fun fact

Right! Also lead to that great exchange:

BLANCHE: I don't think you should tell [Rose that Jean is gay]. She's not as worldly and sophisticated about these things as I am.
SOPHIA: Yeah, if she found out Danny Thomas was a lesbian, it would break her heart.

I have seen the Jean episode 3x this week.

<3

I'VE JUST BEEN KICKED OUT OF AN UNAYTHORIZED ELVIS PRESLEY FAN CLUB, I'LL TRY TO PUT THE PIECES OF MY LIFE BACK TOGETHER

Sophia: too trill

lol dorothy is great in that scene

I MEAN THERE MUST BE A SUPPORT GROUP FOR PEOPLE LIKE ME

The one where Dorothy's friend is in love with Rose was on this afternoon. I think the whole scene where Blanche finds out (from "isn't Danny Thomas one?" to "to think she'd prefer Rose over me?!" to Sophia's diss at the end of the scene) is my fave Blanche moment in the entire series run.

I love it when the writers get slap happy and show their hand on this show

as a Lebanese gay man the general public's intense appreciation of that Blanche moment means a lot to me

the episode was just on where Rose tries to seduce Dorothy's date to get him to show his true (vile) colors. she's p good at it

Haha

REX HUNTINGTON

"No, that was my MINOR point. My MAJOR point was..."

Yikes - Huntington was from a different episode, he was an asshole Blanche was dating until Dorothy made it apparent just how big an asshole he was.

Anyone ever notice how Sophia's sister Angela morphed into her brother Angelo in the later seasons?

Yeah

Because the actress playing the sister died and they couldn't bear to hire another actress to replace her