― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 12 April 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 12 April 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)
*ducks*
― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 12 April 2003 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.mariasducktales.com/FaithBabiesParade.jpg
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 12 April 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)
No on both counts, 'cause she gets boring and icky when locked on earnest-mode.
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 12 April 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 12 April 2003 02:05 (twenty-two years ago)
Well, now we know who would make a great Sophia
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 12 April 2003 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 12 April 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 12 April 2003 03:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 12 April 2003 03:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 12 April 2003 05:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Saturday, 12 April 2003 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)
i love how betty white's (character's) husband had a heart attack during sex! i mean, what are the odds?
― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 12 April 2003 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)
Bea Arthur kicks ass. LITERALLY - I have shared my Bea Arthur story, yes? SHE KNOCKED ME ON MY ASS!
― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 12 April 2003 05:17 (twenty-two years ago)
The best episode ever was where Bea Arthur did Jerry Orbach.
― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 12 April 2003 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 12 April 2003 05:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Saturday, 12 April 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)
What happened to the gay cook they had on the first epsiode? Did he run off to live with Chuck Cunningham or something?
― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 12 April 2003 05:59 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.nexusdomain.org/pics/misc/BIG%20BANG!.jpg
― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 12 April 2003 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)
Said fucking cunt was Betty White. Bea apparently once shat in Betty's shoe - which is another reason WHY I LOVE HER
― j0e (j0e), Saturday, 12 April 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Saturday, 12 April 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)
Those who have forgot/blanked it out or are outside the UK are quite privileged.
So Bea had *sex* with Jerry Orbach? Have I got that right? I didn't see that. I thought for a second 'did' meant she impersonated him... which I somehow didn't find remotely surprising...
― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Saturday, 12 April 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 12 April 2003 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Saturday, 12 April 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 12 April 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 12 April 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 12 April 2003 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 12 April 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 12 April 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 April 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Saturday, 12 April 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 12 April 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)
Bea Arthur in drag---as a woman
― Skottie, Sunday, 13 April 2003 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)
"The Old Comedy of the Greeks had three stock characters whose interactions constituted the standard plot: the alazon, or imposter and self-deceiving braggart, the eiron, or self-derogatory and understating character, whose contest with the alazon is central to the comic plot; and the bomolochos, or buffoon, whose antics add an extra comic element....Northrop Frye has revived these old terms [and] added a fourth, the agroikos -- the rustic or easily deceived character."
Obviously: Alazon = Blanche; Eiron = Dorothy; Bomolochos = Sophia; Agroikos = Rose
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 13 April 2003 07:02 (twenty-two years ago)
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 14 April 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 14 April 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 August 2004 21:34 (twenty years ago)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 August 2004 21:48 (twenty years ago)
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 2 August 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago)
― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 2 August 2004 21:52 (twenty years ago)
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:35 (twenty years ago)
― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:57 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 01:18 (twenty years ago)
― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago)
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 04:10 (twenty years ago)
― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 14:20 (twenty years ago)
The Girls Are Back!
Cast DVD Signing for the Emmy-Award Winning TV Series at Barnes & Noble in NYC November 22nd
WHO: "Golden Girls" cast: Bea Arthur, Betty White, and Rue McClanhan
WHAT: America's favorite girls are together again to celebrate the release of the GOLDEN GIRLS Season 3 on DVD with an in-store signing. Fans can now enjoy another helping of laughter, misadventures, and cheesecake with this laugh-filled season of the Emmy-Award winning TV sitcom -- all 25 episodes in this new complete DVD set. Included are the original and unedited "Golden Moments" episode where the girls share fond memories of their times together, plus hilarious bonus features that prove good comedy never grows old.
WHEN: Tuesday, November 22, 12:30 - 2:30PM
WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers 675 6th Avenue (6th and 22nd) New York, NY 10010
― Be4 4rhtur ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:03 (nineteen years ago)
And I don't think the murder mystery episode is anywhere near the best of the lot, but like I said, not a whole lot separates the great GG eps from the non-great ones.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Monday, 15 September 2014 19:52 (ten years ago)
So, am I to buy my first LEGOs since I was 6?
― Eric H., Wednesday, 8 April 2015 14:37 (ten years ago)
Apparently the new Animal Collective song samples some GG dialogue, but I still don't want to listen to it.
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 20:45 (nine years ago)
Oral history.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Saturday, 5 March 2016 04:15 (nine years ago)
The Golden Girls puppet show runs through Dec. 11 at DR2 Theatre
― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 30 September 2016 20:47 (eight years ago)
http://dlisted.com/2016/10/03/open-post-hosted-by-the-only-thing-i-want-for-christmas/
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 October 2016 21:36 (eight years ago)
maybe you want this for Christmas too
https://twitter.com/keithuhlich/status/811685290305789952
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 December 2016 21:54 (eight years ago)
Golden Girls Clue
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Friday, 19 May 2017 14:15 (eight years ago)
Bea doll appears to be throwing the gaze she did after knocking over Allyzay
http://mentalfloss.com/article/551922/the-golden-girls-action-figures-neca-comic-con
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 August 2018 17:06 (six years ago)
Now in cereal form!
https://thetakeout.com/share-this-golden-girls-cereal-with-a-pal-or-a-confidan-1829974755
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 25 October 2018 06:01 (six years ago)
I tasted a piece. It was dry and tasteless.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:05 (six years ago)
like ILX wit
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:07 (six years ago)
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2015-09/1/10/enhanced/webdr08/anigif_enhanced-32687-1441116940-14.gif
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:20 (six years ago)
https://media.giphy.com/media/tcXc0LOuZcGzK/giphy.gif
― You like queer? I like queer. Still like queer. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:22 (six years ago)
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4tN2MCoJ9K0/WzTcT_rdTEI/AAAAAAAAjVY/qQFQ8zYPCacughpdEYSJVT9nAb557HWNQCLcBGAs/s400/giphy.gif
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:34 (six years ago)
there's a whole bunch of them, here is the second roll out
https://www.funko.com/blog/article/coming-soon-funkos-cereal-wave-2
― F# A# (∞), Thursday, 25 October 2018 16:24 (six years ago)
luv u Elaine Stritch
Stritch entered a room of black suits. “I hope you all don’t mind that I’ve rewritten some of these lines to fit me,” she told them. “I’m Catholic, so I don’t want to say, ‘oh God.’ I can’t stand that.” She tried a curse instead. The suits stared back at her, aghast.
“I’m just glad I got out of there alive,” Stritch said years later. “I hate that show. Who’d be crazy enough to live in Florida with two other women and their mother?”
“For me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/theater/elaine-stritch-broadway-roles.html
https://variety.com/2002/film/columns/stritch-almost-a-golden-girl-1117860373/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 2 November 2019 10:08 (five years ago)
Classic. Both Stritch and the Golden Girls. I’m glad she botched that audition.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Saturday, 2 November 2019 12:06 (five years ago)
https://imgur.com/8eEhf3I
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 29 June 2020 20:09 (four years ago)
just leaving this here
https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/the-real-mud-on-golden-girls.html
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 July 2020 23:20 (four years ago)
It's really wild how the only difference between a "zoomer shocked to find piece of old media problematic" clickbait article and "Northwestern professor wrestles with TV show that's been off the air for 25 years" is peppering your piece with "As epidemiologist Julia Marcus explains"
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 2 July 2020 23:33 (four years ago)
No surprise that a sitcom from the 80s would be full of questionable material. I think we even discussed some of its hypocritical queer affirmation above, so no need to re-litigate that; the racial stuff works much the same way (pleas for tolerance on one hand, scoring easy punchlines on the other) but Sophia's many racist/homo- and trans-phobic zings are generally shown to be embarrassing to her daughter (yes, I know, the audience still gets to laugh).
Re: the rape--the show's notorious inconsistency complicates things a little bit, I think, in that we are given so many versions of Michael's conception that it is hard to take any one of them as definitive. In the case of "he must have slipped me something," I'm willing to read this variant on the story--which generally sets up a joke about Stan's lack of sexual prowess and/or Dorothy's insecurity--as a convenient set up to a punchline ("Apparently!"). More to the point, the kind of date rape scenario proposed in this scene likely would not have been uncommon mid-twentieth-century, and would have resulted in a young woman marrying her abuser and carrying around the "shame" of it (I once had a similar combination re: Biff's attempted rape of Lorraine in Back to the Future). If it is shitty of the series to make light of this, I'd argue that there is enough pathos in Dorothy's character (and Bea Arthur's performance) that the viewer isn't unconscious of it.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Thursday, 2 July 2020 23:41 (four years ago)
i find contemporary culture full of questionable material
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 3 July 2020 01:03 (four years ago)
Good calls, crypto. (Also, the series has tons of fat jokes and low blows about Dorothy's looks that are impossible to overlook. Still my favorite sitcom.)
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Friday, 3 July 2020 12:16 (four years ago)
the series has tons of fat jokes
Have Oliver Hardy and Jackie Gleason been cancelled yet?
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 July 2020 13:03 (four years ago)
Fatty Arbuckle sure was.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 July 2020 13:12 (four years ago)
never found guilty in 3 trials
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 July 2020 13:14 (four years ago)
A prince of a man, then.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 13:42 (four years ago)
But thanks for willfully overlooking the point.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 13:48 (four years ago)
Really good piece.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:15 (four years ago)
Saw a couple of episodes of this the other day and they were not very good. One of the storylines was about the possibility that Estelle Getty was not Bea Arthur's real mother and that's when I realized they're supposed to be Italian - the fear of having actual Jewish characters writ large.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:18 (four years ago)
designing women is better anyway
― clouds, Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:21 (four years ago)
You take that back!
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:23 (four years ago)
XD
― clouds, Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:26 (four years ago)
One of the storylines was about the possibility that Estelle Getty was not Bea Arthur's real mother
IIRC that's a later season episode. Even a lot of die-hard fans have their issues with the last couple seasons.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:24 (four years ago)
That episode sucks.
Some gems in the later seasons: I love the murder mystery weekend, Dorothy singing "What'll I Do," and Alan King as Mel Bushman. But yeah, it was definitely where the show's famously sloppy writing got even more ridiculous.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:29 (four years ago)
On a GG recap podcast I used to listen to until I realized I couldn't stand one of the hosts anymore, one of their guests made the bold assertion that he preferred the later seasons for their "more flexible sense of reality." Which I took to mean, yes, sloppiness.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:31 (four years ago)
But yes, the "What'll I Do" ep is top 3.
That's the same reaction some fans have about the last couple Rosanne episodes
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:34 (four years ago)
Yes, but which series had more indefensible fat jokes?
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 19:45 (four years ago)
The Cosby Show.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 July 2020 20:04 (four years ago)
At the same time, Golden Girls had more punchlines about The Cosby Show than The Cosby Show had indefensible fat jokes.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 July 2020 20:13 (four years ago)
I prefer the latter seasons of Seinfeld because of their more flexible sense of reality.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 16 July 2020 23:52 (four years ago)
btw all silent film buffs now call Fatty Arbuckle "Roscoe" (as his colleagues did)
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 July 2020 01:16 (four years ago)
I wish that more film buffs were silent.
― pplains, Friday, 17 July 2020 01:29 (four years ago)
disappointed that a ctrl+f for "rattan" yields zero (0) results itt
― the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 17 July 2020 01:44 (four years ago)
we're all disappointed in life from time to time, but we find the hope to carry on.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Friday, 17 July 2020 02:43 (four years ago)
Oh please, it’s wicker.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Friday, 17 July 2020 06:04 (four years ago)
I saw a bumper sticker for “St. Olaf College”; took a pic and sent it to my wife, thinking it was a GG joke… she was like, “Yeah, that’s a real school.”
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Sunday, 19 February 2023 01:18 (two years ago)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/14/theater/tituss-burgess-moulin-rouge.html
Those four ladies and the writers together made television magic. It’s like a fine wine: The jokes somehow are even funnier now, or I’m just getting older and maybe I understand the references a little more. On some level, every creator can reference it as a source of inspiration. For me, TV’s never been funnier.
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 15:27 (one year ago)