The Golden Girls another classic comedy from the 80's.

[AdmiraalW238]

There are soo many episodes and scene that are funny I dont know where to start...but how about when the girls buy condoms.

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I remember when the series was on...every Monday night at The Midnight Shift they would show it on the big screen and the whole place was in stitches laughing.

 

[VaseFace808]

I love the episode "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun...Before They Die"

Where Blanche gives Sophia a makeover to impress a man & says "Girls, I have taken an 85 year old woman & turned her into a 70 year old drag queen"

She also gives Rose some lousy boyfriend advice & says "Oh I see what this is. You all think I give bad advice just because it devastated four lives."

I love this show a ridiculous amount

 

[floorrunner]

MmmK...

Annoying Golden Girls trivia:

"Thank You For Being a Friend" was an actual top 40 hit years
before the show ever started....

Name the artist.

One lucky winner will win a year's supply of Turtle Wax, 14 square feet of deep pile bright burnt orange shag carpeting and a
state of the art 19-inch true color TV with remote and plastic
casing to prevent 'fall apart'. From the good folks at Montgomery Wards, the most trusted name in today's electronics.

NO Googling !

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[jensu846]

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"cold hearted Hannah, the vamp of Savannah, GA"

my favorite episode is when Rose dated Dr. Jonathan Newman. (a little person )& whn Blanche came out of the kitchen with a tray & sd "shrimp"? then turned around & walked directly back.. fucking hilarious!!!

 

[Joshua_me]

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Then there was that kinda lame song Rose and Blanche wrote for a local contest...

I have to say what I feel,
Miami has such appeal
A great place to get a seafood meal,
Miiii-am-miiii.....

(Why is that stuff stuck in my head ? God, I'm so gay.... )

 

[CoolBlue71]

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"A Little Romance," from the first season of The Golden Girls, was the episode in which Rose is dating a man named Dr. Jonathan Newman. He's short. And there are a couple hilarious Sophia lines.

When Sophia, gone from the house at first to visit her son, Phil, returns early while the girls have welcomed Jonathan to their home for dinner, Sophia summons Dorothy for a private talk. "Is that a midget?" asks Sophia. Hearing Dorothy answer yes, Sophia says, "Thank god! I thought I was having another stoke."

Later in the episode, after Rose awakens from a wild dream and Dorothy and Blanche have arrived to comfort her, Sophia enters. Rose mentions that, after strong reservations in her dating Dr. Newman, she will continue seeing Jonathan. "Fine," says Sophia. "We're all adults here. You can let the man out of the pillow."

"A Little Romance" won The Golden Girls its one-and-only writing Emmy (for the premiere, 1985-86 season).

 

[LostVegas]

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Updates of the real lives of the "Golden Girls":

Bea Aurthur-"Dorothy" now 85 years old

After Arthur left The Golden Girls, she has made several guest appearances on television shows and even organized and toured with her one-woman show. She made a guest appearance on American cartoon Futurama, in the Emmy-nominated episode "Amazon Women in the Mood" as the voice of the Femputer who ruled the giant Amazonian women.She appeared in an episode of Malcolm in the Middle as Dewey's unfortunate babysitter. She was nominated for a guest-star Emmy for her performance. She also showed up unexpectedly as Larry (Larry David)'s mother on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

In 2002, she made a triumphant return to Broadway starring in Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends, a collection of stories and songs (with musician Billy Goldenberg) and based on her life and long career. The show was nominated for a Tony award for Best Special Theatrical Event, but lost to Elaine Stritch At Liberty.

She primarily lives in the Greater Los Angeles Area and has sublet her apartment on Central Park West in New York City and her country home in Bedford, New York.


Betty White-"Rose" now 86 years old

In December of 2006, White began to appear on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful in the role of Ann Douglas, the long-lost mother of the show's matriarch Stephanie Forrester, who is played by Susan Flannery. In February2007, White returned as Ann, who had an intent to move to L.A. to be near her daughters.[3]

On the April 22, 2007 airing of The 2007 TV Land Awards, White starred in a parody of "Ugly Betty", aptly titled Ugly Betty White, in which she played America Ferrera's title character, with Charo playing Betty's sister Hilda and Erik Estrada playing her father Ignacio.[4] Thanks to her performance as Ugly Betty White, the producers of Ugly Betty surprisingly signed White to play herself as the victim of Wilhelmina Slater's temper when they're both heading for a taxi cab in the episode Bananas for Betty, which aired December 6, 2007.

Currently, White has a recurring role in ABC's Boston Legal. She plays the vicious, calculating, blackmailing gossip-monger Catherine Piper, a role she originally portrayed as a guest star on The Practice.

 

[LostVegas]

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Rue McClanahan-"Blanche"Now 72 years old

In May 2005, McClanahan took over the role of Madame Morrible in the hit Broadway musical Wicked, for which she received mixed, but somewhat negative reviews. She received positive notice from the "New York Times" though: "The former Golden Girls star Rue McClanahan, dressed in flamboyant kimonolike costumes, is doing maaahvelous things with vowel sounds as Madame Morrible, the flamboyant headmistress of the witches' school. She steals scenes with a flip of a hand." She has recently been cast in the period epic, The Other Boleyn Girl.


The Dog Care Video Guide featuring Rue McClanahan, 1990 A lifelong animal-rights advocate and vegetarian, McClanahan was one of the first celebrity supporters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). She is also a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party. In December 2003, she wrote a letter informing Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry that his pheasant hunting had cost him her vote. (Which went to Ralph Nader instead.)

She was diagnosed with breast cancer in June 1997 and survived with the help of cancer expert Dr. Larry Norton and her sixth husband, the much younger Morrow Wilson. She is also the mother of one child, a son, Mark Bish, from a previous marriage.

Her autobiography, My First Five Husbands, was released nationwide in the spring of 2007.


Estelle Getty-"Sophia" now 84 years old

Her most important early role was playing Harvey Fierstein's mother on Broadway in the play Torch Song Trilogy; however, she is best known for her role as Sophia Petrillo on the popular 1980s sitcom, The Golden Girls. In it, she played the wise-cracking old Sicilian mother of Dorothy Zbornak, who was the show's main protagonist, played by Bea Arthur. Getty is actually one year and four months younger than Arthur.

She was married to Arthur Gettleman (from whose name she adapted her stage name) from 1946 until his death in 2004. Getty has two grown sons: Carl Gettleman, who lives in California, and Barry Gettleman, who lives in Florida.[1]

In the early days of AIDS hysteria, Estelle opened her heart to her nephew, Steven Scher (age 29), who was in the final stages of AIDS and near death in 1991. With Steve's parents living in England and his friends no longer able to care for him in Greensboro, North Carolina, Estelle had Steve flown out to California where she admitted him to hospice care. Steve died in January 1992. An extensive account of her act of charity was published in STAR Magazine.

In 2000, she stopped making public appearances after revealing that she had Parkinson's Disease and osteoporosis. In 2002, it was revealed to the media that she is also suffering from Alzheimer's Disease. It was later discovered that she actually has Lewy Body Dementia, and both the Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diagnoses were incorrect. In 2003, there was a Golden Girls reunion hosted on the Lifetime television network but unfortunately Estelle did not appear in it due to her failing health. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California, where she is cared for by her longtime friend Paul Chapdelaine and a staff of nurses. [2]

 

[LostVegas]

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Herbert Edelman-"Hey...it's me...STAN"- died at 62 years old


Edelman made appearances in many television shows, films, and TV movies over the years, but may be best remembered for his recurring role as Dorothy Zbornak's ex-husband Stan on the long-running sitcom The Golden Girls.

Edelman had an extensive television career that spanned three decades (even appearing on the 1970s sitcom Maude, his future co-star Bea Arthur's show), Love, American Style, St. Elsewhere and Murder She Wrote. He was married to soap opera actress Louise Sorel from 1964-1970. Edelman was romantically linked with actress Christina Pickles, with whom he costarred on St. Elsewhere, from the mid-1980s until the time of his death.

Edelman succumbed to emphysema in 1996 at the age of 62.

 

[LostVegas]

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Golden Girls was only one of three sitcoms where the whole cast won emmies for their roles...can you name the only other two series to accomplish this?

 

[CoolBlue71]

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…All in the Family and Will & Grace.

 

[LostVegas]

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Give this man a silver dollar.

 

[Mitsukuni]

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here is the episode you were talking about.

 

[dark_spice]

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Loved this show! Never fails to put a smile on my face or make me burst in laughter. Hope I could get the whole series in a boxset dvd.

 

[Joshua_me]

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Blanche: " I am at my peak of physical perfection. I consider my body a temple."

Sophia: "That explains the line to get in every Saturday night !"

 

[VaseFace808]

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Sophia: Rose, what are you doing?
Rose: I'm making omelets without the egg yolks to cut down on cholesterol, but then I'm left with all these yolks that I don't want to throw away...so I'm giving them to the homeless.
Sophia: Fine, give them to the homeless. They'll have heart attacks; they won't need homes.
Rose, your heart is in the right place, but I don't know where the hell your brain is.


This is just one of those shows that never gets old

 

[Syn]

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I just watched this episode the other day:
Rose: I've been on the phone for a half hour and you'll never guess what happened.
Dorothy: You realized you forgot to dial first.
Rose: No.
Blanche: You were holding the receiver the wrong way.
Rose: No.
Dorothy: You were talking into the TV remote instead of the phone.
Rose: No.
Blanche: A shoe?
Rose: No, I'm not an idiot. - The TV has a remote?

And this one, the one where Blanche's gay brother returns for a visit, bringing along his partner:
[Blanche commenting on her brother's lifestyle]
Blanche: I don't really mind Clayton being homosexual, I just don't like him dating men.
Dorothy: You really haven't grasped the concept of this "gay thing" yet, have you, Blanche?
Blanche: Well there must be homosexuals who date women.
Sophia: Yeah. They're called lesbians.

And this is hilarious:
[trying to get animals to breed]
Dorothy: What they need is an aphrodisiac.
Rose: An African what?
Dorothy: An aphrodisiac, Rose. Something that makes you feel sexy... like Spanish Fly.
Rose: [disgusted] Spanish flies?
Dorothy: Fly, Rose. One Fly. Spanish Fly.
Rose: Oh, come on Dorothy. I've been to Spain. It's not the cleanest country in the world, they must have thousands of flies.
Dorothy: It is not a fly Rose! It's a beetle!
Rose: They call it a fly but it's really a beetle?
Dorothy: Yes.
Rose: How do they know it's Spanish?
Dorothy: Because it wears a little sombrero, Rose!

And this my favorite episode, the one where Rose gets the job as the consumer and has to test different products:
Rose: [discussing hair removal products] Dorothy, would you like to try this thing?
Dorothy: What is it?
Rose: Well, that wire vibrates and it's supposed to whisk hair away from below the skin line.
Dorothy: Yeah, I don't know whether I wanna use this. It says it's gonna hurt.
Rose: Well, you can try it on your right leg and then use the hot wax on your left one.
Dorothy: Why don't we just set each other on fire?
Rose: Dorothy...
Dorothy: All right, all right. Let's see if they sent a bullet to bite on.

 

[willsboy84]

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ya know what i HATE? they almost never play the opening theme in it's entirety...one of my favorite themes to sing along with(that's so sad) and they always cut me off.

 

[JB1986]

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This is probably my favorite scene ever on the show:

Blanche: Dorothy, at two in the morning I was entertaining a gentleman caller, when she barged in, at the MOST innopportune time! Told us we had to keep it down!

Rose: You think that's rough. The same thing happened to me last night while I was re-enacting the gang plank scene from "Peter Pan!"

Dorothy: WHAT THE HELL GOES ON AT NIGHT IN THIS HOUSE?????!!!!!!!!

 

[Syn]

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^^I would have loved to have lived in the house with these girls.

Sometimes I just wish this would have been real life.