Sophia - The one liners, the wit,the sarcasm are second to none.
Dorothy - The put downs and those facial expressions.
Stan - The forgotten Golden Girl amazingly played an episode with Stan made it 20 times better.
Blanche - **** and proud of it no man is safe.
Rose - I was never a big Rose fan she started to get annoying particularly in the last season and never liked Miles.
SITCOM: Golden Girls
On: TLC HD (125)
Date: Thursday 2nd May 2013 (starting in 13 days)
Time: 10:00 to 10:30 (30 minutes long)
The Engagement. Series 1, episode 1.
Four single middle-aged women share a house in Miami Beach, Florida. Featuring witty Dorothy, man-hunting Blanche, spaced-out Rose and Dorothy's out¬spoken mother, Sophia.
(1985)
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Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=25307
Excellent show - one of the best of the 80s, along with Cheers. I was thinking of one of my favourite episodes of all - 'Love Me Tender', in which Dorothy dates a short, bald man with whom she has nothing in common - except for great lovemaking. So many hilarious lines and a great performance by John Fiedler (best known as the voice of Piglet) as Eddie, the weedy guy who is inexplicably a 'love machine' despite having a dreadful personality. So many great lines and exchanges:-
Eddie (Turning up for a date with Dorothy): I suppose I gotta feed ya?
Rose: Don't worry, Rose Nylund can keep a secret; do you know what Rose Nylund means in Norwegian?
Dorothy: No, what?
Rose: I'm not telling you.
Eddie: I'm sorry. I'm still not really recovered. You see, after 25 years of marriage, my wife Roberta sent me a Dear John letter.
Rose: That's terrible. Married 25 years and she doesn't know your name is Eddie?
Dorothy: He took us to his ex wife Roberta's crab restaurant.
Rose: How do you know it was his ex wife's place?
Dorothy: Because she owns the place, runs the place, and calls it 'Roberta's'. As soon as we got there he burst into tears and begged her to come back to him. And after he had wept over his crab cakes, I begged her to come back to him.
Rose: So I guess you're not gonna see him again.
Dorothy: Yes. Yes I will.
Sophia: Listen, pussycat, it's been a long time since you've been out on a date. And it's quite possible you can no longer judge a good one from a bad one. So let me be of help. Bad date, Dorothy.
[Slapping Dorothy's hand]
Bad, bad date.
Eddie: I know I'm plain to look at, but everything I do seems to drive the opposite sex crazy! I don't do it on purpose, it just happens! The way I look at a woman... the way I make love to a woman... the way I kiss a woman... the way I make love to a woman.
Rose: You said "make love" twice.
Eddie: I know. It's my favourite.
They obviously decided to make Sophia less stroke prone after the pilot I wonder if some people thought they were taking the pee a bit out of stroke victims.
They played fast and loose with the chronology in GG, when Dorothy's son Michael appeared he certainly wasn't old enough to have been born when she was still in high school.
I love this series. It gives me one of my favourite lines.
Blanche was desperately fishing for compliments from the others but their responses were clearly not cutting the mustard with her so Dorothy comes out with "No woman has ever looked as beautiful as you do in this moment and no woman ever will"!
There is only scene in the entire 7 series that brought sadness instead of laughter.
SOPHIA PETRILLO
[breaking down in tears] I did love him. He was my son, my little boy. But every time I saw him, I always wondered what I did, what I said, when was the day that I did whatever I did to make him the way he was.
ANGELA
What he was, Sophia, was a good man.
SOPHIA PETRILLO
[sobbing] My baby is gone.
ANGELA
Oh, Sophia... [she and Sophia embrace as the episode ends]
I recall one episode she was trying her hand at stand up comedy. She was talking about the dating scene in your 'latter' years, and having to be none-too-fussy, if my memory serves me right.
"That's the trouble with going out with someone in a coma.... you always have to go over to HIS place."
Shame TLC have dropped it today most smaller channels keep the same schedules on Bank Holidays.
It was genius to give Blanche the initials B.E.D. I wonder if that was planned by the creator or dreamed up during the series.
Definitely 100% dreamed up by a later writer during the series. In an earlier episode, Blanche's old "Mammy" comes to visit and she snaps, 'BLANCHE MARIE HOLLINGSWORTH, YOU COME HERE!'. It was only in a later episode something thought it would be funny if her initials were B.E.D. And they were right!
It's worth every penny buying the entire 7 series. You can cut out the commercials and watch in any sequence you like, plus bonus features on some. Cheaper to buy each series separately than the complete box set at £129 at amazon.
Comments
http://www.uk.tlc.com/tv-guide/?type=day&channel_code=TLCK-ENG&date=02052013&style=day&filter=1800
My fave order:
Sophia - The one liners, the wit,the sarcasm are second to none.
Dorothy - The put downs and those facial expressions.
Stan - The forgotten Golden Girl amazingly played an episode with Stan made it 20 times better.
Blanche - **** and proud of it no man is safe.
Rose - I was never a big Rose fan she started to get annoying particularly in the last season and never liked Miles.
I'm so glad they're showing it on TV soon, hopefully I'll get to see from season 5 onwards for the first time since it originally aired.
Thursday, 2nd May, 2013
10:00am: The Golden GirlsSeason 1 Episode 1: The Engagement
10:30am: The Golden GirlsSeason 1 Episode 22: Job Hunting
6:00pm: The Golden GirlsSeason 1 Episode 8: The Break-in
6:30pm: The Golden GirlsSeason 1 Episode 2: Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding
http://www.locatetv.com/uk/listings/tlc#02-May-2013
Eddie (Turning up for a date with Dorothy): I suppose I gotta feed ya?
Rose: Don't worry, Rose Nylund can keep a secret; do you know what Rose Nylund means in Norwegian?
Dorothy: No, what?
Rose: I'm not telling you.
Eddie: I'm sorry. I'm still not really recovered. You see, after 25 years of marriage, my wife Roberta sent me a Dear John letter.
Rose: That's terrible. Married 25 years and she doesn't know your name is Eddie?
Dorothy: He took us to his ex wife Roberta's crab restaurant.
Rose: How do you know it was his ex wife's place?
Dorothy: Because she owns the place, runs the place, and calls it 'Roberta's'. As soon as we got there he burst into tears and begged her to come back to him. And after he had wept over his crab cakes, I begged her to come back to him.
Rose: So I guess you're not gonna see him again.
Dorothy: Yes. Yes I will.
Sophia: Listen, pussycat, it's been a long time since you've been out on a date. And it's quite possible you can no longer judge a good one from a bad one. So let me be of help. Bad date, Dorothy.
[Slapping Dorothy's hand]
Bad, bad date.
Eddie: I know I'm plain to look at, but everything I do seems to drive the opposite sex crazy! I don't do it on purpose, it just happens! The way I look at a woman... the way I make love to a woman... the way I kiss a woman... the way I make love to a woman.
Rose: You said "make love" twice.
Eddie: I know. It's my favourite.
5 years makes a lot more sense than 15 anyway.
SOPHIA PETRILLO
If you didn't come here to apologize, why don't you leave?
ANGELA
Why should I apologize?
SOPHIA PETRILLO
I'll tell you why, because you're nothing but a back-stabbing Judas in sensible shoes!
ANGELA
Oh, yeah? Well, you know what you are? You're a two-lire tramp with cheap bridgework!
SOPHIA PETRILLO
May you put your dentures in upside down and chew your head off!
ANGELA
May your legs grow old and gnarled and withered like an olive branch... [looking at Sophia's legs] you should be so lucky.
SOPHIA PETRILLO
May your moles grow hair thicker than Jerry Vale's!
ANGELA
May your marinara sauce never cling to your pasta!
SOPHIA PETRILLO
Oooooh [biting her own fist], that's it! Come back here and say that to my face!
SOPHIA PETRILLO
Everything I have, you try to steal. May the bags under your eyes grow so large your head falls in 'em!
ANGELA
May your shampoo get mixed up with your Preparation H and shrink your head to the size of a mushroom!!
Blanche was desperately fishing for compliments from the others but their responses were clearly not cutting the mustard with her so Dorothy comes out with "No woman has ever looked as beautiful as you do in this moment and no woman ever will"!
Now THAT is a compliment!
Dorothy immediately shouted: "Foul! send the judge over here, this woman is trying to send us to sleep!"
It was genius to give Blanche the initials B.E.D. I wonder if that was planned by the creator or dreamed up during the series.
SOPHIA PETRILLO
[breaking down in tears] I did love him. He was my son, my little boy. But every time I saw him, I always wondered what I did, what I said, when was the day that I did whatever I did to make him the way he was.
ANGELA
What he was, Sophia, was a good man.
SOPHIA PETRILLO
[sobbing] My baby is gone.
ANGELA
Oh, Sophia... [she and Sophia embrace as the episode ends]
I recall one episode she was trying her hand at stand up comedy. She was talking about the dating scene in your 'latter' years, and having to be none-too-fussy, if my memory serves me right.
"That's the trouble with going out with someone in a coma.... you always have to go over to HIS place."
http://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/great-golden-girls-comebacks
Definitely 100% dreamed up by a later writer during the series. In an earlier episode, Blanche's old "Mammy" comes to visit and she snaps, 'BLANCHE MARIE HOLLINGSWORTH, YOU COME HERE!'. It was only in a later episode something thought it would be funny if her initials were B.E.D. And they were right!
As Ma would say, she did put it about a bit, though!
Seriously though, that a great keepsake.
Sophia: I'm not in England I'm having a heart attack.