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The Golden Girls

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The Golden Girls	comment	Picture it: Miami, 1985. Four women over fifty (although good luck getting Blanche to admit it)—three widows and one divorcee—sharing a house and having misadventures in life and love. These women are: Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan): A man-crazy Southern Belle socialite from Georgia, who owns the house. Rose Nylund (Betty White): A ditzy rural homemaker from St. Olaf, Minnesota, a town of Ditzes. Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur): A deadpan snarking schoolteacher from Brooklyn. Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty): Dorothy's Sicilian mother with little tact, who evidently taught Dorothy all she knows about snarkery.Created by Susan Harris (Soap), The Golden Girls aired on NBC for seven seasons (1985â€“92), six of which saw it ranked in the Nielsen Top 10. It was followed by the After Show Golden Palace on CBS, which had the characters (save for Dorothy) operating a hotel together and ran for one unspectacular season. It also spun off another long-running sitcom, Empty Nest.Like many sitcoms from The '80s and The '90s, The Golden Girls confronted numerous social issues, but with special attention paid to groups rarely covered by other programs, such as the elderly and the LGBT community. Throughout the years the series covered topics as diverse as homelessness, AIDS, homosexuality, transvestism, prescription pill addiction, sexual harassment, interracial love, assisted suicide, and poor elder care. And many episodes dealt with the women's love lives, since all four were portrayed as sexually active.Over seven years, The Golden Girls featured four hour-long clip shows and at least ten shows made up of multiple original flashbacks. These flashback episodes always centered on a theme, such as birthdays, moneymaking schemes, or bad dates.
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The Golden Girls / int_109bc3e	comment	Eat The Dog: Sophia claims their Chinese-American neighbors do this. Dorothy contradicts her, but she claims that is why their lawn is the only one on the block that dogs don't pee on.
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The Golden Girls / int_10ca13e4	type	Stereotype Flip
The Golden Girls / int_10ca13e4	comment	Stereotype Flip: Pepe the Cuban boxer in "Fiddler on the Ropes" purposely plays into the stereotype of a dumb Latino boxer (including apparently being unable to speak any English outside of "Kill Gonzales!"), and the Girls go along with it without questioning until they discover that there's a lot more to Pepe - he not only can speak fluent English, but he's also a very talented violinist. Dorothy at first expresses indignation that Pepe would think she and her friends were ignorant enough to buy into that stereotype, until Pepe correctly points out that they did buy into it without questioning. Similarly, Marguerite in "The Housekeeper" purposely plays into the stereotype of a woman of Caribbean descent as a practitioner of voodoo and black magic by letting the girls believe that she's blessed them with good luck charms for hiring her and later cursed them with bad luck for firing her. She admits in the end that it was a put-on and she's studying for her law degree, which explains why she's so bad at housework (she's too busy studying to focus on the chores).
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The Golden Girls / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
The Golden Girls / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: This was the cornerstone of Dorothy and Stan's relationship— although they went through a painful divorce brought on by Stan's philandering, they clearly still care for one another and are willing to help each other out in times of need. There are even several episodes about the two considering getting back together, although they never do. The finale confirms this: Dorothy is being taken in a limousine to the church where she's marrying Blanche's Uncle Lucas, only for the driver to suddenly change routes and pull over. He reveals himself as Stan, who delivers a speech about how no matter what, she'll always be the only woman he truly loves, and she agrees that she loves him too. This is shown to be the case in Blanche's relationships with both of her sisters, with whom she has had enmity for years (she reconciles with both during the course of the series), and also with her elder daughter Janet, who really does not understand her mother at all but they do love one another.
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The Golden Girls / int_11630eaa	comment	The Gambling Addict: Dorothy's Compressed Vice in "All Bets are Off," though Sophia remarks that Dorothy had been this once before as well, leading her to deep financial trouble. Sophia claims that she gets this from her father, Salvatore (as she claims: "In fact, his last words were, 'ten bucks says I don't need this oxygen tank.'"). This is a rare example of good continuity for the series, since in "Sophia's Wedding," it's revealed that the Petrillos' and Weinstocks' pizza-and-knish business went under due to Sal's gambling. Sophia herself is no stranger to gambling, being an avid fan of the dog track. (Unsurprisingly, this is never mentioned during said Compressed Vice episode, so it can be assumed that Sophia gambles as an occasional diversion and doesn't have an addiction.)
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The Golden Girls / int_11af5b9f	comment	Funeral Banishment: Played for Laughs in two occurrences: In episode "The Heart Attack", Sophia (who believes that she is dying of a heart attack) requests that Dorothy not to allow a particular aunt to attend her funeral, citing how she will make the whole thing about herself. Subverted as she's neither dying nor having a heart attack, but rather having an acid reflux attack from eating too much. Discussed in "An Accurate Conception" When Blanche's daughter Rebecca admits that she's going to be artificially inseminated to have a baby, Blanche orders her to wait until both she and her friends are all dead, claiming that "the last thing I need is whispering at my funeral!"
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The Golden Girls / int_120d0e3f	comment	Adam Westing: Lyle Waggoner as a Small Name, Big Ego and Sonny Bono as a Drunk with Power Mayor Pain in the All Just a Dream episode "Mrs. George Deveraux."
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The Golden Girls / int_125f3ee4	comment	Cannot Keep a Secret: Rose and Sophia both. Rose accidentally lets slip that Dorothy had her ears pinned back in high school (much to Blanche's amusement). She also once reveals a secret of Dorothy's to Blanche under pressure of Blanche threatening to tickle her. And as for Sophia...
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The Golden Girls / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
The Golden Girls / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: A recurring theme of the series, and the girls have numerous escapades involving such men who insist on making this known to them.
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The Golden Girls / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Golden Girls / int_1320d787	comment	Playing Sick: After recovering from heart surgery, Stan fakes a relapse in order to keep Dorothy waiting on him hand and foot. In "Beauty and the Beast," Sophia fakes the severity of an injury that has confined her to a wheelchair in order to keep Nurse DeFarge waiting on her hand and foot (and annoying the hell out of the other Girls at the same time). The two malingerers team up for the biggest deceit of all in "Bang the Drum, Stanley." After Sophia is whacked on the head by a fly ball at a baseball game, Stan convinces her to pretend she's paralyzed so they can sue the park and get a big cash settlement. Sophia goes along with it at first (although Dorothy is not fooled), but eventually guilt gets the better of her when she sees how many people in the hospital waiting room seem legitimately injured. It's then revealed that everyone in the waiting room is also Playing Sick, as Dorothy put them up to it to shame her mother into confessing.
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The Golden Girls / int_13a9273f	comment	Gassy Gastronomy: There is an instance when Sophia complains about Rose cooking: "Cabbage, she feeds me! In 10 minutes I'll be skywriting!"
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The Golden Girls / int_13e693f4	comment	Calling Your Bathroom Breaks: From "Son-in-Law Dearest": Later in that same episode: Stan exclaims, "Isn't life a gas?" and Sophia has to run for the throne again.
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The Golden Girls / int_146f4e0	comment	Blind Without 'Em and Blind Mistake: Sophia. She tends to make some rather hilarious goofs without her glasses, such as mistaking Blanche for a black man (she was wearing very dark sunglasses at the time), and inadvertently buying condoms when she was trying to use what she thought was a payphone.
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The Golden Girls / int_149ff4b0	comment	Happens in "Ebbtide's Revenge" when Dorothy's six-foot, three hundred pound, cross dressing (but straight) brother Phil dies. His wife has him dressed in a teddy to be buried and Sophia gives the priest an exaggerated story of how smart and gifted Phil was. Dorothy tries to fix the problem Sophia makes by telling the priest. The priest responds that he can just look at a person to know about them. Hilarity Ensues. Taken even further when four shapely, black-clad and veiled figures show up at the funeral. Blanche assumes they're mistresses that Phil had over the years... but his wife Angela informs her that they're actually his poker buddies.
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The Golden Girls / int_151f47fc	comment	Roommate Com: Unusual in that the main foursome that live together are older ladies. Many episodes concern their love lives, and all four women, whether divorced or widowed, are portrayed as dating and being sexually active.
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The Golden Girls / int_158e2891	type	Wondrous Ladies Room
The Golden Girls / int_158e2891	comment	Wondrous Ladies Room: Parodied in an episode where Rose locks herself in a bathroom stall at a high-end venue. The washroom consists of an elaborate lounge outside of the bathroom stalls with a large, circular sofa in the center. When Rose's date enters to see what the trouble is and is informed that he is in the ladies' room, he mistakes the sofa for an extremely large toilet and remarks that guests must be asked to "stand back" when it is flushed.
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The Golden Girls / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: In "The Housekeeper," the Girls fire their Jamaican housekeeper Marguerite, who warns them that they're "making a big mistake." As Marguerite had demonstrated apparently magical abilities before (she gave Blanche what was apparently a love potion and left a painted rock as a charm under Dorothy's bed), Rose and Blanche are convinced that she's cursed them when a string of bad luck hits. Dorothy refuses to believe this and points out that nothing that unusual has happened... cue a man in a crow suit suddenly parachuting onto their lanai. In "Bang the Drum, Stanley," Stan takes Dorothy and Sophia to a baseball game. Dorothy's happy with the empty seat by her, and comments that she usually gets stuck "next to a fat sweaty man who insists on taking his shirt off." Three guesses as to the type of guy who sits down at her side as she's saying this. This crosses over with Inadvertent Entrance Cue when it comes to Stan: Dorothy will comment about something being a "pain in the neck" or horrible, the doorbell will ring, and surprise—Stan is on the porch.
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The Golden Girls / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Gary Hart was a Democratic Senator from Colorado who was considered a front-runner to get his party's nomination for the 1988 Presidential election, until Miami Herald reporters, trying to get dirt on him, noticed an aspiring actress and formerly beauty queen named Donna Rice entering his house one evening, and the story spread (hotly denied by both Hart and Rice) that the two had had an affair. Replace the names "Gary Hart" and "Donna Rice" with "Gil Kessler" and "Blanche Devereaux", change a few other details, and you have the plot of the Season 3 episode "Strange Bedfellows." Hart and Rice themselves provided fodder for jokes in several other episodes (see Take That! below). In another episode, it's implied that Blanche's affair with a man did in fact cost him his party's nomination, and in another, it's revealed that even the Secret Service has a file on her.
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The Golden Girls / int_16417501	type	Perverse Sexual Lust
The Golden Girls / int_16417501	comment	Perverse Sexual Lust: "The Monkey Show" has Rose recently breaking up from a passionate relationship with a Disney World employee. When pressed for the cause, she admits she lost interest when "he took off the Goofy head." In an earlier Christmas episode, Blanche reveals that she has a special fixation for guys in Santa Claus suits. Dorothy's response: "You do realize that you're in the minority here." Blanche has a lot of these. In another episode, Rose was having a bizarre dream, and Blanche wonders why she doesn't have a normal, healthy dream, like "sweaty Argentinian men whipping things as they ride naked on the backs of Brahma bulls." At this point, Dorothy decides she's never going to use Blanche's towels again. Rose admits to the girls right before a wedding that weddings turn her on, and during the episode proceeds to look for men to have sex with. She even asks "if anyone else noticed the buns on that priest!"
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The Golden Girls / int_1777688d	comment	She once tries to invoke this with the IRS upon discovering that she is being audited—she puts on an extremely revealing outfit in preparation for the representative's visit. Unfortunately, the IRS had caught on to her tactics and sent a female agent. Blanche takes one look at her and says "I'll get my checkbook."
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The Golden Girls / int_177ecc0f	comment	Unexpected Positive: Dorothy takes a hearing test to show Sophia it's no big deal. Sophia does not need a hearing aid; Dorothy does.
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The Golden Girls / int_1818d1af	type	Protest By Obstruction
The Golden Girls / int_1818d1af	comment	Protest by Obstruction: In "Room Seven," Blanche handcuffs herself to a radiator in her grandmother's old home, unable to bear letting construction workers tear it down.
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The Golden Girls / int_1822f0b0	comment	Funny Conception Story: In "Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself," Sophia describes how her veal parmigiana, her "luckiest dish," saved her marriage, as after her first fight with Salvatore, he came back, ate the veal with her, and made a beautiful speech comparing it to their love. Dorothy doesn't understand how the dish is lucky until Sophia mentions Dorothy was conceived that night. In "Accurate Conception," Rose recounts how all of her children were conceived on special St. Olaf holidays: While the exact details aren't consistent, the typical story of how Stan and Dorothy conceived their first child in high school was that they had bad sex in the back of his car, something Sophia often berates as slutty.
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The Golden Girls / int_186c2c62	comment	Diet Episode: Several episodes invoke dieting as a plot point, most significantly "What a Difference a Date Makes" (season six), in which Blanche undergoes her annual ritual of crash-dieting in order to fit into her wedding dress. It ends up being equally hard on Rose after Rose inadvertently consumes Blanche's sensible meal of tuna quiche and diet shake as a snack.
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The Golden Girls / int_1881fc5c	comment	Anti-Humor: In "Comedy of Errors", Sophia begins to tell Dorothy a pretty obvious joke that she the changes with the punchline: "Why did Rose throw her clock out of the window? Because she's a moron!"
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The Golden Girls / int_18f2b2b	comment	Hypocritical Heartwarming: The girls bitch and fight with each other all the time. But if anyone else tries to bitch at or fight with the girls, then the gloves come off. That's reserved for the girls specifically...
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The Golden Girls / int_1994ba0b	comment	"If at Last, You Do Succeed" has Rose telling a St. Olaf story about the town's World War II effort: training superintelligent cows to drop behind enemy lines and attack. Unfortunately, they overlooked the fact that as cows, they are unable to pull a rip-cord and essentially fell to their deaths. The only reason why the plan wasn't a complete failure was because "if there's one thing that the Germans hate, it's a mess."
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The Golden Girls / int_19cc20f3	comment	One-Person Birthday Party: Rose flashes back to a time when she celebrated her birthday alone, after the death of her husband.
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The Golden Girls / int_1a09b4f9	comment	The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry: Shown repeatedly in a variety of situations, as all four women have at least one sister, and also have sisterly relationships between themselves. The best example of the trope being played fully straight is the relationship Dorothy has with her younger sister, Gloria. Blanche also has this with her sisters Virginia and Charmaine, as the three are Too Much Alike. The trope is deconstructed with Rose's sister, Holly, who shows what happens when this trope goes on too long and too intensely. Though nice on the surface, Holly proves to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who goes out of her way to make Rose's life miserable for unknown reasons—when Holly visits Miami, she deliberately tries to estrange Blanche and Dorothy from her and even fools around with Blanche's boyfriend. The entire situation is shown to clearly hurt Rose, and she tries to warn the others about it, but only Sophia believes her as Dorothy and Blanche think this trope is in action. Finally, at the episode's end, Rose outright tells Holly that she doesn't want her in her life any more, and the two part on extremely bitter terms.
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The Golden Girls / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Several celebrities played themselves over the years; these included Alex Trebek, Burt Reynolds, Bob Hope, and Sonny Bono. Also, Edwin Newman, who appeared as himself in "A Letter to Gorbachev," was a real-life NBC newscaster for decades.
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The Golden Girls / int_1ba17583	type	The Ghost
The Golden Girls / int_1ba17583	comment	The Ghost: Charlie, both literally (the character is long dead) and figuratively. He's the only one of the husbands whom we never see - Stan, the only living (ex-)husband, is a Drop-In Character, Salvatore appears frequently in flashbacks and the occasional out-of-body experience, George is seen in one All Just a Dream episode, and his eerily similar younger brother visits in another episode. Phil, Dorothy's transvestite brother, is also this. The closest we get to seeing him is the visibly empty coffin at his funeral.
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The Golden Girls / int_1c3f4853	comment	Put Off Their Food: In an early episode, Rose mentions having a creepy feeling about ice cream sundaes after a childhood incident in which a soda jerk in St. Olaf arranged the scoops in her sundae in an obscene way. Happens when the girls mistakenly believe that the dinner Angela cooks for them is the live chicken Rose is pet-sitting.
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The Golden Girls / int_1d8733d3	comment	Overly Narrow Superlative: When posing for a sculptor named Lazlo starts to drive a wedge between the girls, they confront him and make him choose. In order to get him to choose her, Blanche butters him up by saying she thinks he's the greatest Hungarian sculptor of our time. Dorothy then calls her on this, saying that if she can name two other Hungarian sculptors of any time, she will eat the statue they're standing beside. In "Stand by Your Man", after Blanche breaks up with a man she finds out is married, she promises to "never pick up another man... in a library... on a Saturday... unless he's cute... and drives a nice car." She then smiles sweetly and adds, "Amen."
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The Golden Girls / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Stan, believe it or not, in the episode where it's revealed that his daughter's husband cheated on her and broke her heart.
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The Golden Girls / int_1e6eb73	type	Birthday Party Goes Wrong
The Golden Girls / int_1e6eb73	comment	Birthday Party Goes Wrong: An episode aptly titled "A Piece of Cake" explores this trope, with the girls reminiscing about four particular birthday parties that went badly. Dorothy remembers when Rose threw her a surprise bash at a children's restaurant called "Mr. Ha Ha's Hot Dog Hacienda." Things only got worse when it turns out that all of the birthday boys and girls—Dorothy included—were invited onto stage to be recognized. It didn't help that Mr. Ha Ha himself was a Jerkass who enjoyed taunting Dorothy for the situation. Rose talks about the last birthday she ever celebrated in St. Olaf, her hometown. She sets everything up and pretends that her husband Charlie planned a surprise for her but it was actually the year after Charlie had already died, so she spent the whole time talking to him as if he's there and telling him that she's decided to sell their home and move to Florida. Blanche, a Birthday Hater, recalls when Rose threw her a surprise birthday party at the house. She despised the idea at first—until it turned out that Rose invited all of the guys in her address book, which was the perfect present for her. Sophia shares the story of when she turned fifty and felt old and unaccomplished (she thought she was turning 48, but her birth certificate had been messed up at Ellis Island). Dorothy encourages her by pointing out how she managed to raise three healthy, happy children to successful adulthood while always keeping a positive attitude and food on the table, which makes her an incredible person.
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The Golden Girls / int_1e8f4b3b	type	Sextra Credit
The Golden Girls / int_1e8f4b3b	comment	Sextra Credit: Blanche is the target of one sleazy professor when she is studying for her degree. She refuses, as she only sleeps with people she actually likes. She does, however, mention having a fling with a calculus teacher in high school. In "The Audit" (season 3), Blanche promises sexual favors to a night-school Spanish teacher in exchange for the answers to an exam. One could make the case she's only teasing, however, since she's there only to meet men (whereas Rose is trying to learn Spanish to qualify for a promotion at work), and also makes no indication that she plans on following through with the promise.
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The Golden Girls / int_1f4bb5b4	type	Let Me Tell You a Story
The Golden Girls / int_1f4bb5b4	comment	Let Me Tell You a Story: A favorite tool of Sophia's. "Picture it: Sicily..." Sometimes subverted when her story ends up having absolutely no connection to the matter at hand. It's a skill Sophia apparently learned from her own mother, as shown in the Mother's Day flashback episode. Rose's trademark is telling weird stories from St. Olaf that marginally relate to the situation at hand. Her friends hate these, not that she ever catches on. While Blanche isn't quite on the level of Rose and Sophia, she does love to share stories about both her endless bedroom conquests and "the steamy South." They're usually more on-target than Rose's stories, too, although Dorothy still snarks about them, critiquing either Blanche's promiscuity ("I could get herpes listening to this story!") or Southern pride ("Lordy-Lord, are you full of it").
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The Golden Girls / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
The Golden Girls / int_20989d05	comment	Averted with Blanche, who was very hands-off with her kids. But it's abundantly clear that she regrets this, given that she spends most of the series making up for it.
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The Golden Girls / int_21768d3f	type	Seduction-Proof Marriage
The Golden Girls / int_21768d3f	comment	In "An Illegitimate Concern", David, a young man visiting the Girls, delivers a line that shatters Blanche's belief that her relationship with George was a Seduction-Proof Marriage.
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The Golden Girls / int_21af94ed	type	The Prom Plot
The Golden Girls / int_21af94ed	comment	The Prom Plot: The episode "What a Difference a Date Makes" has Dorothy making a date with her would-be senior prom date who was in town to see her and who had ostensibly stood her up. Turns out, Sophia turned him away due to his lousy outfit and attitude to match, which infuriated Dorothy (as she blamed her for losing confidence after this and settling for Stan, who soon got her pregnant) and she momentarily stopped speaking to her mother. Soon after taking the man to be her date as she chaperoned her school's senior prom, he admitted that he wanted to apologize for not treating her right back then and being an overall jerk as well as thanking Sophia for calling him out and forcing him to grow up. Essentially, she made up with her and the end of the episode has Dorothy happily telling Sophia about her lovely evening.
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The Golden Girls / int_21c863c3	type	Plaster Cast Doodling
The Golden Girls / int_21c863c3	comment	Plaster Cast Doodling: Substitute teacher Dorothy refuses to give a passing grade to an athlete who has not earned it, despite being pressured to do so. He ends up breaking his leg at the game, and then she visits him at the hospital. His cast is already signed by the rest of the team.
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The Golden Girls / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
The Golden Girls / int_21cf9301	comment	Another episode has them doing this in a less traditional manner. When bad weather prevents any of them from following through with their holiday travel plans to see family, they find themselves at an all-night diner on Christmas Eve, which has exactly one staff member working. He gives them free cheesecake and helps them realize that they're with "family" after all, and the girls are so thankful for his kindness that they offer to mind the place for him so he can go be with his own family for a couple of hours, and he gratefully accepts.
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The Golden Girls / int_222ca815	type	Bathroom Stall Graffiti
The Golden Girls / int_222ca815	comment	Bathroom Stall Graffiti: In "The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present", Dorothy's got Blanche locked in a bathroom stall and won't let her out. As Blanche is peering over the door trying to talk to her and the others in the bathroom, Dorothy bangs on the door repeatedly with her fist, indirectly hitting Blanche as well. Then the following exchange occurs: In another episode, a minor-league baseball player reveals that he got Blanche's number from a stall at the stadium. And he is having a good time!
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The Golden Girls / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The Golden Girls / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Blanche (old(er) woman, December) briefly dates her much younger aerobic instructor, only to find out that he really is searching for a mother figure rather than a lover.
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The Golden Girls / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
The Golden Girls / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: The second appearance of Sophia's sister Angela had her move to Miami with the obvious intention of having her as a recurring Drop-In Character, but that became impossible when Nancy Walker became ill and couldn't continue. They eventually revived the idea with their brother Angelo.
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The Golden Girls / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Golden Girls / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: In "Ladies of the Evening," whenever Sophia complains about not being invited to meet Burt Reynolds with the others... When the girls are locked up on suspicion of prostitution and Sophia comes to bail them out, only to learn that she's still not invited along, she snatches the tickets out of Dorothy's hands through the bars and responds to her pleas with:
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The Golden Girls / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
The Golden Girls / int_243cbd0d	comment	In "An Illegitimate Concern," Dorothy asks Rose to hand her a newspaper, which is usually a sign that a Dope Slap is incoming. Rose, trying to be Genre Savvy, tells Dorothy that she'll only give it to her if she promises not to whack her in the head. Dorothy promises, takes the newspaper—and gives it to Blanche, who promptly delivers the whack.
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The Golden Girls / int_2538a3c9	type	Big Little Man
The Golden Girls / int_2538a3c9	comment	Big Little Man: When Rose dates a man with dwarfism, she spends the entire episode commenting how she feels about being seen with him. In the end, he reveals that he can't see her anymore anyway because his very religious family doesn't want him dating anyone who isn't Jewish.
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The Golden Girls / int_2600b1e8	type	Toll Booth Antics
The Golden Girls / int_2600b1e8	comment	Toll Booth Antics: In "Rose the Prude," Rose boasts about running a tollbooth with her date.
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The Golden Girls / int_26b2747	type	Alliterative Title
The Golden Girls / int_26b2747	comment	Alliterative Title
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The Golden Girls / int_26e7f210	type	This Is My Side
The Golden Girls / int_26e7f210	comment	This Is My Side: When the Girls are arrested for alleged prostitution, Rose annoys the others with a St. Olaf story while in their holding cell. Dorothy divides the cell by drawing a line the dirt with her foot and demands Rose stay on the other side.
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The Golden Girls / int_26f402a5	type	Trojan Gauntlet
The Golden Girls / int_26f402a5	comment	Trojan Gauntlet: The episode "Valentine's Day" has an incident where Dorothy, Blanche, and Rose are grocery-shopping, in anticipation for their upcoming cruise with their respective date, with Blanche suggesting that they get condoms in case they need protection. When Dorothy and Rose say they feel embarrassed at the prospect of actually buying condoms, Blanche argues that the employees at the grocery store where they're shopping are "discreet professionals", and each of them grabs a package for the cashier to scan. Just their luck, the cashier needs a price check on those condom packages and promptly asks a coworker over the speaker for it.
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The Golden Girls / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Golden Girls / int_2764d432	comment	In "Dorothy's New Friend," Dorothy and Barbara Thorndyke go to a literary-themed restaurant for lunch, and all of the dishes are named after famous books, like For Whom the Stuffed Bell Pepper Tolls and The Crepes of Wrath.
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The Golden Girls / int_2786921e	type	Starstruck Speechless
The Golden Girls / int_2786921e	comment	Starstruck Speechless: Dorothy intends to confront President George H. W. Bush about issues that matter to her when he stops by to visit the girls, but upon meeting him, she can barely speak and can only stutter his last name "Bush".
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The Golden Girls / int_2793e42b	type	Only in Miami
The Golden Girls / int_2793e42b	comment	Only in Miami: None of the characters actually originate from Florida. Blanche, who grew up in Georgia, comes closest. Rose is from Minnesota. Sophia is originally from Sicily and moved as a young woman to New York, where Dorothy was born and raised.
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The Golden Girls / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
The Golden Girls / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Sex and the City, essentially. Hot in Cleveland also shares many similarities with this series, even beyond the presence of Betty White in the main cast. See that entry for more information.
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The Golden Girls / int_280333d4	type	Hollywood Heart Attack
The Golden Girls / int_280333d4	comment	Hollywood Heart Attack: Sophia fakes them frequently, often in order to get through lines at drugstores faster, and once even to get herself, Dorothy and Rose out of jail after they are arrested for trying to scalp tickets to a Frank Sinatra concert to an undercover cop. Dorothy tries faking one in "Bang the Drum, Stanley," an attempt to expose Sophia as a malingerer. It fails. Rose has a real one. She gets better.
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The Golden Girls / int_285b4246	type	Birthday Hater
The Golden Girls / int_285b4246	comment	Blanche, a Birthday Hater, recalls when Rose threw her a surprise birthday party at the house. She despised the idea at first—until it turned out that Rose invited all of the guys in her address book, which was the perfect present for her.
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The Golden Girls / int_28f852ea	type	Wholesome Crossdresser
The Golden Girls / int_28f852ea	comment	Wholesome Crossdresser: Dorothy's brother Phil, who is married with children. Blanche's baseball-playing boyfriend Stevie, in the final season episode "Where's Charlie?", becomes one after Blanche makes him wear lingerie while playing for her own enjoyment.
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The Golden Girls / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Golden Girls / int_2a090d00	comment	After an argument with Blanche, Rose calls her out on all of her far-fetched Noodle Incident sexual encounters of questionable authenticity. One of the stories she doubts is the one about what Blanche did with Buzz (Aldrin) in the lunar module.
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The Golden Girls / int_2ac4a7fd	type	Restaurant-Owning Episode
The Golden Girls / int_2ac4a7fd	comment	Restaurant-Owning Episode: Sophia and her new husband start a pizzeria on the beach at one point, and the entire group collectively toils to ensure its success. The Reset Button is pressed when an electrical short in the oven starts a fire which burns the stand down, although they are reimbursed by the insurance company to financially maintain the status quo.
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The Golden Girls / int_2aefb60	type	Hospital Visit Hesitation
The Golden Girls / int_2aefb60	comment	Hospital Visit Hesitation: In "Great Expectations," Blanche refuses to see her latest beau after his heart attack, to his and the other girls' chagrin. She does eventually see him, only to learn that he had rekindled his relationship with his former wife, who was there for him in his time of need. In "The Operation", Dorothy is scheduled for surgery for a Morton's neuroma, a kind of benign nerve tumor that has been causing her intermittent foot pain and interfering with her daily activities (including an upcoming dance recital). She reveals herself to have a phobia of hospitals that started when she was five—she'd had an emergency tonsillectomy and circumstances kept both of her parents from being there, and she never got over the childhood fear. Her doctor's casual discussion of all that could go wrong doesn't help, either. A conversation with her hospital roommate, who's in for her second mastectomy and is facing it stoically despite her very real fear, snaps her out of it. (And, to top it off, this time Sophia makes sure to stay by her daughter's side until she wakes up from the anaesthetic.)
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The Golden Girls / int_2b851bd4	type	The Scrooge
The Golden Girls / int_2b851bd4	comment	The Scrooge: Rose's deceased husband, Charlie, was quite frugal. Rose's boyfriend Miles also goes through a bout of this in "Ro$e Love$ Mile$." He has a reason, though; he's living on a fixed income, and when he's told he's healthy enough to live to 100, he becomes afraid that he won't be able to afford it. Stan is cheap as well, particularly when it comes to matters of romance. In one episode it's revealed that he got Dorothy's engagement ring by winning it in a carnival crane game. In another, Dorothy remarks that Stan is the only person she knows who owns a time-share dog.
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The Golden Girls / int_2cbcf42e	type	Black Comedy Cannibalism
The Golden Girls / int_2cbcf42e	comment	Black Comedy Cannibalism: Upon smelling Rose's "Speardhoven Krispies" and when Rose offers her a taste, Dorothy remarks that they smell so foul that if they'd been offered to the Donner Party, they still would have resorted to cannibalism.
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The Golden Girls / int_2d023255	type	Embarrassing Ad Gig
The Golden Girls / int_2d023255	comment	Embarrassing Ad Gig: In "Older and Wiser," Blanche and Rose model their hands and face for a penny-saver ad. While initially excited, they're upset to learn that the ad copy reads, "Does your face look like this? Do your hands look like this? You need Ponce de Leon Anti-Aging Cream!" To top it off, extra liver spots are added to their face and hands.
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The Golden Girls / int_2d3d7ec5	type	Stealing from the Hotel
The Golden Girls / int_2d3d7ec5	comment	Stealing from the Hotel: There's an episode where Sophia takes hotel towels, reaches for the Bible, but changes her mind. She then attempts to remove the hotel room's telephone embedded in a decorative clamshell container, but it's secured to the table. Sophia also steals from a hospital while visiting Rose, saying that they expect people to do it as in a hotel. In "The Case of the Libertine Belle," Sophia happily brags that she made off with a whole silver place setting during a mystery dinner. At the end of the episode, she claims that "no crimes were committed after all"... but needs help carrying her purse to the car.
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The Golden Girls / int_2d4d16d9	type	I Know You Know I Know
The Golden Girls / int_2d4d16d9	comment	I Know You Know I Know: An interesting variation occurs; Dorothy returns home after learning the truth behind being stood up the night of her senior prom, and Sophia knows Dorothy knows, and Dorothy knows that Sophia knows she knows. Did you follow all that?
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The Golden Girls / int_2d8da79	type	Clueless Aesop
The Golden Girls / int_2d8da79	comment	Clueless Aesop: "The Bloom Is off the Rose" has Blanche get involved with a verbally abusive man. Dorothy explains how damaging verbal abuse can be. But the episode ignores that the show has Dorothy constantly put down by her mother Sophia, which is usually played for laughs.
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The Golden Girls / int_2dcb1d2e	type	Black Gal on White Guy Drama
The Golden Girls / int_2dcb1d2e	comment	Black Gal on White Guy Drama: Occurs in season three when Dorothy's son Michael becomes engaged to a woman named Lorraine. While the latter's mother disapproves since he is white, Dorothy objects because he's about half his bride's age. Despite this, the two mothers-in-law get along famously with each other.
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The Golden Girls / int_2fcf9bbc	type	Gratuitous Foreign Language
The Golden Girls / int_2fcf9bbc	comment	Gratuitous Foreign Language: Rose speaking "Scandinavian" (sometimes identified as Norwegian, other times Swedish) and Sophia (and, on rare occasions, Dorothy) speaking Italian - sometimes specifically Sicilian (which, unlike Rose's "Scandinavian", is usually real, if pronounced with an obvious American accent). Blanche is even guilty of this, speaking Gratuitous Southern.
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The Golden Girls / int_30ed4f7d	type	Sleazy Politician
The Golden Girls / int_30ed4f7d	comment	Sleazy Politician: Gil Kessler. Played with, Gil is actually a wimp and a coward, who doesn't dare dispute accusations that he is having an affair with Blanche and won't take it back when Blanche suffers from the press hounding her and Slut-Shaming by her roommates. He explains that he's doing this because no one's ever considered him a strong-willed person before, and sleeping with her makes him seem like one.
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The Golden Girls / int_323e47e2	type	Chain of Corrections
The Golden Girls / int_323e47e2	comment	Chain of Corrections: When Sophia and Rose attempt to figure out who President Reagan is married to:
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The Golden Girls / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
The Golden Girls / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: Vincenzo in "Rose's Big Adventure".
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The Golden Girls / int_32ec6393	type	Shotgun Wedding
The Golden Girls / int_32ec6393	comment	Throughout the series, Dorothy states that she and Stan (who got married in their teens because she was pregnant) had been married for 38 years, and divorced two years before the beginning of the series. Her son, Michael, varies in age between 23, 29, and 30 (and not in that order, either!), while the two actresses who play her daughter Kate appear to be no older than their late twenties.
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The Golden Girls / int_33a5b3fb	type	Shamed by a Mob
The Golden Girls / int_33a5b3fb	comment	Shamed by a Mob: In "Til Death Do Us Volley," Dorothy has to reveal to her class reunion that Trudy died while they were playing tennis before ultimately breaking down in tears over her belief she pushed Trudy too far. Once Dorothy runs out of the room, who shows up to the house but none other than Trudy who reveals she faked dying as a joke on Dorothy. Everyone in the room is disgusted and the girls call Trudy out for the anguish she caused Dorothy. Thankfully, it turns out Dorothy was able to get Trudy's husband to tell her the truth before the reunion began, and had him help stage a prank of her own as revenge, meaning her whole breakdown was a setup. This trope still applies since no one at the reunion knew Dorothy was acting, too. Patrick in "The Actor," once it's revealed - during the play - that he's romanced not only Blanche, Rose, and Dorothy, but every other woman (and possibly one man) in the cast and crew. Blanche even suggests a good old-fashioned Southern hangin'. It never gets that far, but Dorothy angrily tells Patrick off before throwing him off the stage. The audience responds with applause, having no idea that it wasn't part of the show.
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The Golden Girls / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
The Golden Girls / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang: A Running Gag in the first season. Rose's husband died while making love, and one of Rose's partners also dies after spending a night with her, causing Rose to be reluctant to enter into new relationships because she is convinced that she kills men by sleeping with them. Blanche intends to go out this way, and in the hallucination where they are merely frozen heads on the kitchen table, she does. According to her, she was 92 and invited over a cute tennis instructor. While she was in the tub, she asked him to sponge off her back, made her move, and her last words were "Thank you baby, glub, glub, glub..."
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The Golden Girls / int_342f0ffa	type	Discriminate and Switch
The Golden Girls / int_342f0ffa	comment	Discriminate and Switch: In "Mixed Blessings," Dorothy objects to her son marrying a black woman - but only because she's twice his age. The bride expects her own mother to be upset over the age difference - but she objects because the groom is white. In another episode, Blanche recalls how she dared to attend her prom with Benjamin, despite the scorn of others. Dorothy assumes Benjamin was black. Nope. He was a Yankee from New Jersey. The same episode involves Rose dating a dwarf, and she spends the bulk of the episode learning to accept him as he is, only to be dropped because she isn't Jewish. In "Witness," Blanche has to verify her family tree as "100% percent pure Confederate stock" to achieve membership in the "Daughters of the Old South," only to learn to her shock that her great grandmother was in fact from Buffalo, New York and her last name was Feldman (clubs such as those often were, and in some cases still are, highly Antisemetic.) After her initial plan to lie doesn't work, she confesses at the podium. When she reveals her great-grandmother was Jewish, they barely react. When she reveals her great-grandmother was a "Yankee," the club members begin fainting in the aisles.
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The Golden Girls / int_346063bd	type	Living in a Furniture Store
The Golden Girls / int_346063bd	comment	Living in a Furniture Store: There's very rarely anything out unless it's specifically needed for that scene. The bedrooms are basically furniture and a few knickknacks, and the beds are always perfectly made. It's even more improbable considering they live in Florida and almost surely don't have a basement for storage. They have a garage, but it's at one point home to mink cages (when the girls try to breed minks) and a small collection of stuff, then later empty when they decide to turn it into a guest room. Then suddenly in the first episode of S7, the living room is crammed with junk that the girls are sorting through, deciding what to keep, toss, or bring to storage. Where did it all come from?
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The Golden Girls / int_34717080	type	Aerosol Spray Backfire
The Golden Girls / int_34717080	comment	After the Girls' home is burglarized, Rose takes a number of measures to protect herself. When Blanche tries to maintain her hairstyle with hairspray, she discovers the can she took from Rose's room is actually mace.
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The Golden Girls / int_347c2	type	Inkblot Test
The Golden Girls / int_347c2	comment	Inkblot Test: Sophia undergoes an inkblot test as a sort of psychiatric entrance exam. Dorothy, accusing her mother of making up the answers to the exam, remarks that one of the inkblots looks like "John Forsythe lying naked in a pool of honey." The nun administering the test examines the blot and says a bit giddily, "It does look a little bit like John Forsythe, doesn't it?"
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The Golden Girls / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
The Golden Girls / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: Rose is always happy to cook for the other girls and share her traditional St. Olaf cuisine. However the other girls almost always recoil in horror whenever they see her in the kitchen. Word to the wise, if she every offers you a Herring Surprise just say no.
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The Golden Girls / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
The Golden Girls / int_35e077	comment	Fourth-Date Marriage: How Dorothy and Lucas's marriage eventually comes to be. Blanche tricks them into going on a blind date with each other, because his visit coincides with one of her dates; she doesn't want to completely ditch him but she wants to have fun, so she sets him up with Dorothy to keep them both occupied. She tells Lucas that Dorothy has been absolutely dying to meet him, and vice versa, so they each agree to go as a kindness. When Dorothy and Lucas cotton on to Blanche's deception, they set up a fake engagement in revenge, only for them to fall in love for real. They get engaged for real and marry in the series finale.
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The Golden Girls / int_35e49acc	type	Caffeine Failure
The Golden Girls / int_35e49acc	comment	Caffeine Failure: In "From Here to the Pharmacy," Dorothy, upset with her mother for hoarding money for Dorothy's siblings Gloria and Phil while forcing Dorothy to "go without," remarks that if she had the money, she could have been living "in a swinging condo" instead of with...
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The Golden Girls / int_366f3185	type	Book Burning
The Golden Girls / int_366f3185	comment	When Blanche describes a Book Burning in her hometown in "Stand By Your Man":
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The Golden Girls / int_38b05ae7	type	Poorly Disguised Pilot
The Golden Girls / int_38b05ae7	comment	Poorly Disguised Pilot: "Empty Nests." The "Golden Girls" only appear in about two scenes. By the time Empty Nest debuted as an actual Spin-Off series, the original premise (a middle-aged couple whose children have grown and left) was discarded and the show is about a widower whose grown daughters move back in with him.
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The Golden Girls / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Golden Girls / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: In "The Artist," Sophia goes on a practical joke spree, with Dorothy as her unwitting victim. When Sophia offers her a glass of orange juice, Dorothy asks if she left something burning on the stove, then quickly switches their glasses. When they take a drink, the cup Dorothy is using (originally Sophia's) spills all over her, revealing that Sophia knew that Dorothy would try a switch and Outgambitted her.
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The Golden Girls / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Golden Girls / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: In "Second Motherhood", Blanche mentions how her latest beau insisted on having her meet his family, which she took to mean "his little ol' gray-haired momma and his spinster aunt"note but actually meant his two very young kids. Rue McClanahan's previous series, Mama's Family, featured a little ol' gray-haired Mama and a spinster aunt as two of its main characters, with McClanahan playing the spinster aunt (Aunt Fran). In "Brotherly Love", Dorothy recounts how while on a double date with Stan and his brother at a soda shop, Stan "entertained" them by sticking straws up his nose and pretending to be a walrus. In the "Cousin Maude" episode of All in the Family, Arthur's character Maude recalls Archie Bunker doing the same thing on a double date with her cousin Edith and herself. One of the songs that Dorothy sings at the Rusty Anchor in the final season episode "Journey to the Center of Attention" is "Hard Hearted Hannah (The Vamp of Savannah)" (from Tin Pan Alley), which Bea Arthur had previously sung in an episode of Maude. Another allusion to Maude is in the Season Two episode "A Piece of Cake," in the flashback scene at Mr. Ha-Ha's Hot Dog Hacienda. When Mr. Ha-Ha is about to reveal Dorothy's age in his "birthday roundup," Dorothy yells, "I'll punch your heart out, Ha-Ha!" One of Maude Findlay's (also played by Arthur) catch phrases on Maude was "I'll rip your heart out."
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The Golden Girls / int_39f27cae	type	Bedmate Reveal
The Golden Girls / int_39f27cae	comment	Bedmate Reveal: After hugging George in "Mrs. George Devereaux", we cut to Blanche smiling in bed with her eyes closed. She rolls over in bed and is revealed to be alone.
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The Golden Girls / int_3a02ad13	type	Elder Employee
The Golden Girls / int_3a02ad13	comment	Elder Employee: "Job Hunting" has Rose get fired from her job as a grief counselor and being forced to look for a new job. After much rejection, she ends up as a waitress at a diner, although this is later retconned out of existence, as she remains a grief counselor for the first half of the series. It happens again to Rose in "Rose Fights Back," when Charlie's former sales company goes under, making her lose his pension. Her current job doesn't pay enough to support her, so she has to go looking for other work. She eventually gets a position as the assistant to a television consumer reporter and slowly makes her way up the ladder at the station. AÂ Played for LaughsÂ version has Sophia taking a few jobs in the foodservice industry, first as a server at a pirate-themed seafood restaurant and then an Old West-themed fast food joint where she and two elderly girlfriends confront theirÂ Mean BossÂ for being insensitive to their schedules, who happens to be the one friend's teenagedÂ grandson (played by a youngÂ Scott Menville!)
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The Golden Girls / int_3b2014fb	type	Mad Libs Catchphrase
The Golden Girls / int_3b2014fb	comment	Mad Libs Catchphrase: Sophia begins every story with "Picture it: [City], [Year]. Usually the city is Sicily or Brooklyn.
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The Golden Girls / int_3b657394	type	Mistaken Death Confirmation
The Golden Girls / int_3b657394	comment	Mistaken Death Confirmation: In "The Case of the Libterine Belle", the girls are invited to a murder mystery weekend by Blanche's boss. During the course of the events, the boss is found stabbed to death in Blanche's hotel room. Dorothy puts a mirror under his nose, and when the glass doesn't steam from his breath, they conclude that he really must be dead. It turns out to be all part of the show, but until The Reveal, Blanche is under suspicion of murder and terrified out of her wits.
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The Golden Girls / int_3b8e6af3	type	Karmic STD
The Golden Girls / int_3b8e6af3	comment	Karmic STD: Discussed in "72 Hours" in which Rose is being tested for AIDS because of a possibly contaminated blood transfusion. She rants at Blanche that she doesn't know why this is happening to her when she's a good person, and that it seems like something which should happen to the more promiscuous Blanche. Blanche, understandably offended, fires back that "AIDS is not a 'bad person' disease, Rose! It is not God punishing people for their sins!"
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The Golden Girls / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
The Golden Girls / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: "Love Me Tender" features a Kavorka Man named Eddie who is completely irresistible to every heterosexual woman he meets and absolutely astounding in bed—but he gripes that it's a curse because he has literally nothing else going for him (he's bland, average-looking at best, and an emotional wreck after a divorce that he still hasn't gotten over), which means that any actually decent woman inevitably breaks up with him because sex isn't enough to form a solid relationship.
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The Golden Girls / int_3c598f56	type	Conflict Ball
The Golden Girls / int_3c598f56	comment	Conflict Ball: Blanche's father doesn't tell Blanche that he's dying when he calls her, instead just asks her to visit and mentions that he's not feeling well. Blanche doesn't see him before he passes, and she feels guilty for putting herself before him. Of course, it doesn't make much sense for her father not to tell his own daughter that he's dying, but if he had told her, she would have visited (Blanche is selfish, but it's hard to believe she wouldn't rush home if she knew he was terminally ill) and there would have been no conflict. In "Little Sister," Rose's sister Holly comes to visit and turns out to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who deliberately excludes Rose from the plans she makes with Blanche and Dorothy, then claims that Rose is purposely refusing to spend time with them. Despite Rose outright warning the two about Holly's bad attitude and long history of being nasty, Dorothy and Blanche completely ignore her. Keep in mind that at this point they've known each other for years and are a self-described Family of Choice, but the two still take the word of a total stranger over Rose for no reason at all. Sophia's the only one who listens to Rose, who is only proven right when the other girls see her sleeping with Blanche's current boyfriend.
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The Golden Girls / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
The Golden Girls / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: When Sophia purchases a dog that is identical to Dreyfuss, the dog she is petsitting, she ends up in a conundrum where it is impossible to tell which dog is the original who should be returned to her client. When she asks Rose for help, Rose solves the problem by simply calling Dreyfuss' name, which he responds to.
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The Golden Girls / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
The Golden Girls / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: Rose is the master of this trope.
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The Golden Girls / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
The Golden Girls / int_3d2c6d30	comment	When Blanche comes home with her date late at night without disarming the alarm system, Rose shoots at them believing them to be intruders. When Blanche is aghast that she shattered her beloved vase, Rose remarks that at least she didn't shoot her date. Blanche replies that she would rather Rose have shot her date.
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The Golden Girls / int_3db32baa	type	New Baby Episode
The Golden Girls / int_3db32baa	comment	New Baby Episode: "Blanche Delivers" is about Blanche's pregnant daughter, Rebecca, coming to Miami to have her baby. Blanche spends much of the episode uneasy because Rebecca doesn't have a husband to support her, and disagrees with Rebecca's decision to deliver her baby at a birthing center. Rebecca changes her mind when she visits the birthing center and hears the painful screams of the women in labor, and she has her baby girl, Aurora, in a hospital room, with Blanche by her side.
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The Golden Girls / int_3dca808a	type	Babysitting Episode
The Golden Girls / int_3dca808a	comment	Babysitting Episode: Three of them. "Transplant" (season 1): Rose, Dorothy and Sophia take care of baby Danny for their neighbor Ted, who was involved in a water-skiing accident. After his wife Lucy drives him to the hospital, the couple decide to leave Danny in the care of the three ladies while Blanche visits with her sister Virginia. "And Then There Was One" (season 2): Rose, Blanche, and Dorothy run a temporary day care for the children of individuals participating in a walkathon for charity; Sophia herself participates in the walkathon. By the end of the day, all of the children have been picked up except for baby Emily, whom the girls begin to fear has been abandoned. Emily's father eventually shows up and explains that he couldn't come earlier because his wife had gone into labor, and Emily is now the big sister of triplets. He says that when he phoned to explain, whoever answered the phone had muttered something about a sports award and hung up on him. Sophia says she thought he was calling from Sports Illustrated about her walkathon performance. "Not Another Monday" (season 5): The baby in question is that of a couple from Rose's church, and the girls are sitting overnight. The baby develops a fever while they're caring for him, and their pediatrician neighbor Dr. Harry Weston (the main character of Empty Nest) comes to examine him, with Blanche naturally taking advantage of the chance to flirt. Later, they memorably sing "Mr. Sandman" in three-part harmony to get him to sleep.
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The Golden Girls / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
The Golden Girls / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The B-plot of "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia?" has Blanche intentionally rear-ending the upscale cars of men in order to meet them/get dates with them. She's then baffled as to why one who claims that she caused him to have whiplash wants to sue her.note Of course, as it turns out, he doesn't have whiplash, but still. In "Nice and Easy," Blanche's niece dates a vice cop named Ed who took the job because he's a big fan of Miami Vice. Like the show, he drives a fancy car, wears expensive Italian suits...and is up to his neck in hock. He then says that he can't afford of all of it on a vice cop's salary. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun...Before they Die" has Blanche giving romantic advice to both Rose and Sophia: Rose, who has to remain celibate due to a drought in St. Olaf, should coyly hide the truth from Miles, while Sophia should take charge with her potential suitor Tony Delvecchio. Both approaches backfire spectacularly — Miles ends up breaking up with Rose due to her perceived lack of interest (they get back together, of course), and Sophia ends up storming out after telling Tony that she loves him. "If at Last, You Do Succeed" has Rose telling a St. Olaf story about the town's World War II effort: training superintelligent cows to drop behind enemy lines and attack. Unfortunately, they overlooked the fact that as cows, they are unable to pull a rip-cord and essentially fell to their deaths. The only reason why the plan wasn't a complete failure was because "if there's one thing that the Germans hate, it's a mess." Due to her vain, It's All About Me personality, Blanche did not enjoy being a mother and was VERY hands off, leaving the raising and taking care of her children to nannies and housekeepers. As they got older, she told people they were children from her husband's first marriage. While her vanity is usually Played for Laughs, many instances on the show reveal that her now-grown children want little to nothing to do with her.
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The Golden Girls / int_3ee1eced	type	Sexy Scandinavian
The Golden Girls / int_3ee1eced	comment	Sexy Scandinavian: Olga, Sven's fiancÃ©e in "A Visit from Little Sven." She's such a knockout that she immediately makes Sven forget his feelings for Blanche. Rose herself in "Rose: Portrait of a Woman," in which she gives Miles a photo of herself in sexy lingerie as a birthday present. We never see the picture, but from the reaction Miles (and his professor friends) make upon opening the present at his party (and from the fact that a horrified, embarrassed Rose immediately flees), it's apparently quite a doozy.
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The Golden Girls / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
The Golden Girls / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: Occasionally. This example from "Till Death Do We Volley": Dorothy killing a mosquito after declaring that "All life is valuable." A particularly infuriating one is in "Blanche's Little Girl" when her daughter Rebecca, a former model, is now considerably overweight and has a boorish boyfriend who continuously makes fat-shaming jokes about her that upset her, the girls and the audience. Yet, when Sophia first meets her and begins to make the exact same jokes, it's considered funny.
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The Golden Girls / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Golden Girls / int_40bb59d0	comment	Later, when Blanche has left the room and Patrick has Dorothy in his arms, Rose walks in, and Patrick tosses Dorothy to the floor behind the couch. She "explains" to Rose that she was looking for Patrick's missing contact lens.
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The Golden Girls / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Golden Girls / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bitch: Rose's sister, Holly, is straight-up cruel: Dorothy and Blanche make plans with her and ask her to relay the information to Rose; Holly doesn't tell her, and then claims that she did and furthermore that Rose obviously didn't want to spend time with her, winning Dorothy and Blanche's sympathy. (Sophia is the only one who believes Rose's claims of innocence). It is gaslighting to the extreme, and only when Holly is caught outright cheating with Blanche's boyfriend do the other girls realize what a horrible person she really is.
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The Golden Girls / int_41682f94	type	Delayed Diagnosis
The Golden Girls / int_41682f94	comment	Delayed Diagnosis: The two-part episode "Sick and Tired" has Dorothy experience extreme exhaustion. Her doctor brushes off her symptoms, but she sees a specialist who diagnoses her with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. When Dorothy sees her first doctor at a restaurant, she chews him out for not taking her symptoms seriously. This episode was partly based off show creator Susan Harris' experiences with not being taken seriously by medical professionals (she suffered from adrenal issues, which have similar symptoms to CFS).
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The Golden Girls / int_41feb209	type	Non Sequitur, Thud
The Golden Girls / int_41feb209	comment	Non Sequitur, Thud: "Bang the Drum, Stanley," after Sophia is whacked on the head by a fly ball while at the ballpark with Dorothy and Stan.
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The Golden Girls / int_424feb18	type	That Was Not a Dream
The Golden Girls / int_424feb18	comment	That Was Not a Dream: Sophia becomes convinced that she is going to die after she has a dream where Sal, wearing his favorite fedora, appears at exactly 9:00 PM on a Saturday and says "Sophia, you can come now. There's room for you now." When Saturday night comes, the doorbell rings at nine o'clock, and a figure in a fedora appears, waiting for Sophia...but it's not Sal. It's her friend Mildred, wearing her lucky bowling hat. It turns out that Mildred dropped by earlier in the week to tell Sophia that her friend group was going bowling, and gave her the message by standing outside her window and calling out. In "Room Seven," Sophia briefly goes unconscious after choking and meets Sal in Heaven, thinking that her time has finally come. When she wakes up, she tries to tell Dorothy that Sal has a message for her, but Dorothy waves it off as a simple hallucination brought on by lack of oxygen. However, at the episode's end, Sophia relays the message by calling Dorothy "Spumoni Face," which was a secret nickname that Sal had for her as a little girl—one that Dorothy never shared with her mother, proving that the visitation was real.
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The Golden Girls / int_431dca9b	type	Compressed Vice
The Golden Girls / int_431dca9b	comment	Compressed Vice: Rose's addiction to prescription-strength painkillers and Dorothy's gambling addiction. Neither is ever hinted at before the Very Special Episode dealing with it and neither is ever referenced afterward. Dorothy's smoking is referred to in "Sophia's Wedding," isn't hinted at before then, and isn't mentioned afterward, either.
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The Golden Girls / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
The Golden Girls / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Sophia supposedly grew up and lived in Italy for at least a quarter of her life. She has no Italian accent, not even a trace. Neither do most of her relatives who live in Italy, only cousin Antonio and brother Angelo.
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The Golden Girls / int_43eddd85	type	Door Focus
The Golden Girls / int_43eddd85	comment	Door Focus: The series finale uses the trope as a Bittersweet Ending. Dorothy, who just got married, is moving out and after saying her goodbyes to her friends, she walks out the door. Everyone is focused on the door as they take in the fact that Dorothy is now gone, but she comes back for another round of hugs and goodbyes before leaving again. Dorothy comes back yet again, this time through the patio/back door before leaving again once more. The girls look around the room expecting Dorothy to come back in some other fashion, but she doesn't return.
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The Golden Girls / int_4413d368	type	Standardized Sitcom Housing
The Golden Girls / int_4413d368	comment	Standardized Sitcom Housing: The house differs slightly from the norm in that (like most Florida homes) it's only one story, and where most shows have the staircase, it has the lanai; but otherwise it fits the bill.
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The Golden Girls / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
The Golden Girls / int_443b78cd	comment	In "Dorothy's New Friend," Dorothy calmly tells the prejudiced Barbara Thorndyke to "go to Hell." In "Sick and Tired," she gives an epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech to a doctor who misdiagnosed her Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by insisting that she was just getting old and needed a makeover.
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The Golden Girls / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
The Golden Girls / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: Everyone, but Dorothy especially is made of this trope. To cite one of many examples:
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The Golden Girls / int_44618b9f	type	Small Steps Hero
The Golden Girls / int_44618b9f	comment	Small Steps Hero: Invoked by Blanche, in the episode where she's been exchanging letters with Bill the pharmacist while he serves in the Persian Gulf. Back in the States, they're trying to figure out how to approach dating, and he remarks to her that he's not a hero, he's just a pharmacist, and he realizes they barely know each other. She then watches as he counsels a young Hispanic mother, distraught and speaking broken English, on how best to help her sick child.
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The Golden Girls / int_44e350a4	type	Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title
The Golden Girls / int_44e350a4	comment	Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: "The Stan Who Came to Dinner", "Yes, We Have No Havanas", "Fiddler on the Ropes", "Sophia's Choice", "Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mammy", and "One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest", just to name a few.
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The Golden Girls / int_45b850b7	type	Dead Animal Warning
The Golden Girls / int_45b850b7	comment	Dead Animal Warning: "Feelings" has Dorothy harassed by the high school where she's teaching; the staff and students alike are trying to pressure her into passing a failing football star so he can win a big game for them. At one point, she receives a fish wrapped in newspaper; while she makes light of it by quipping to have white wine with it, Sophia is upset by this, believing that they would harm her. This is justified as the latter's from Sicily and knows what's the big deal about this gesture. In another episode, Sophia receives a black feather in the mail from Sicily and, despite obviously being upset, tries to say it's not important. Dorothy points out that in Sicily, every gift is some sort of coded reference; apparently, a dead rabbit means "My husband knows, get out of town."
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The Golden Girls / int_45d22aad	type	Sweet and Sour Grapes
The Golden Girls / int_45d22aad	comment	Sweet and Sour Grapes: In "Yokel Hero", Rose vies for St. Olaf's Woman of the Year Award. Blanche and Dorothy decide to help her by exaggerating the achievements in her application, and she earns the prize. Upon discovering that the other girls lied, though, Rose refuses to accept the award... and later ends up genuinely winning because of her honesty (it helps that the woman to whom the committee originally tried to give it had a literal skeleton in her closet).
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The Golden Girls / int_46754750	type	Inadvertent Entrance Cue
The Golden Girls / int_46754750	comment	This crosses over with Inadvertent Entrance Cue when it comes to Stan: Dorothy will comment about something being a "pain in the neck" or horrible, the doorbell will ring, and surprise—Stan is on the porch.
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The Golden Girls / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
The Golden Girls / int_469e3e2f	comment	One of the show's most famous examples of In-Universe Ho Yay occurs because of this. Rose has Dorothy and Blanche as guests on a talk show panel that she's arranged, which turns out to be about "Lesbian Lovers of Miami." When the girls take her to task for this, Rose says she didn't know it was going to be lesbian-themed: the producers asked for "two women who love each other and sleep together," pointing out there have been incidents where they've shared a bed and thus slept together before.
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The Golden Girls / int_46e1fd22	type	Walking Disaster Area
The Golden Girls / int_46e1fd22	comment	Walking Disaster Area / The Jinx: After firing Marguerite in "The Housekeeper," all the Girls seem to be beset with bad luck, but Rose seems to get it the hardest: while describing her day to Dorothy (in which she had a flat tire, was late to work, and smashed her hand in a door), she collapses the lawn chair she tries to sit on and a baseball hits her in the chest.
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The Golden Girls / int_470eb35a	type	Hand Puppet Mockery
The Golden Girls / int_470eb35a	comment	Hand Puppet Mockery: At the beginning of "Once, In St. Olaf", Rose is playing with a couple of sock puppets that are part of a care package she's making for patients at the hospital where she's volunteering. She then proceeds to put on a show for Blanche, saying the puppets are Blanche and Dorothy; the latter then walks in just as Rose mocks the Dorothy puppet for being dateless. Cue Dorothy whacking Rose on the head with a newspaper.
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The Golden Girls / int_47198ac4	type	You Do NOT Want to Know
The Golden Girls / int_47198ac4	comment	You Do Not Want To Know: Played for Laughs with regard to "Zbornee" (a potato-peeling device Stan invents and invests in).
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The Golden Girls / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
The Golden Girls / int_4733b5a5	comment	Saying Too Much: Also see Cannot Keep a Secret. In one episode, Rose acts as Sophia's "attorney" regarding setting up her will, and informs Dorothy that the attorney-client privilege prevents her from revealing details about the estate. She then admits that the estate in question is $24,000 and "four gold teeth".
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The Golden Girls / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Golden Girls / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sophia is this. A woman with an insult for everyone she meets, but she is also loving to her roommates - explicitly stating that she loves Rose and Blanche as if they were her own children - and cooks for them whenever they ask. She also works for charity. Specifically, "The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo" shows her volunteering in a hospital, bringing cheer to the patients. Dorothy would count too; she's as snarky and cynical as her mom, but is devoted to her teaching job, socially conscious, and quick to condemn any moral wrong she perceives.
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The Golden Girls / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Golden Girls / int_47fea76b	comment	Rose is Dorothy's Butt-Monkey, Dorothy is Blanche's Butt-Monkey, Blanche is Rose's Butt-Monkey (often completely by accident), and everyone is Sophia's Butt-Monkey.
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The Golden Girls / int_4885c04b	type	Road Trip Plot
The Golden Girls / int_4885c04b	comment	When a train station attendant informs the group that they missed their train during a Road Trip Plot, the group prepares to settle down in the station for the night to wait for the train leaving the next day. The attendant then proceeds to announce the departure of a different train through the station's speaker system, which Dorothy questions as the waiting area contains no other passengers besides him, and all four of them are still standing in front of him within speaking range.
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The Golden Girls / int_48d87e94	type	Planet of Steves
The Golden Girls / int_48d87e94	comment	Planet of Steves: Rose's old boyfriend from St. Olaf, Buzz, comes from a family where all the men are named "Buzz" to avoid confusion. Naturally, this serves to only cause confusion:
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The Golden Girls / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
The Golden Girls / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: While Rose does wonder about her biological parents, any time one of her adopted relatives shows up, she doesn't act as if they're anything less than her real family, and the subject of her adoption doesn't even come up. The season six episode "Once, in St. Olaf" does finally reunite her with her biological father — Brother Martin, a monk.
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The Golden Girls / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Golden Girls / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The B-plot of season four's "Scared Straight" sees Sophia convinced she's going to die at 9:00pm on the upcoming Saturday of that week, and even says at one point "I'm dying, Dorothy. Saturday night, 9:00, don't make any plans." No prize for guessing what show aired Saturday nights at 9:00 on NBC during its original run (though it ended up being moved to 8:00 for season seven).
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The Golden Girls / int_4a5fb630	type	Post-Robbery Trauma
The Golden Girls / int_4a5fb630	comment	Post-Robbery Trauma: Rose becomes extremely paranoid after their home is burglarized in "Break-In", and takes various measures to protect herself, including purchasing a firearm. Hilarity Ensues after Blanche mistakes her mace for a can of hairspray, and Rose's poor marksmanship results in the destruction of Blanche's Priceless Ming Vase.
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The Golden Girls / int_4a6e9fd9	type	Obnoxious In-Laws
The Golden Girls / int_4a6e9fd9	comment	Obnoxious In-Laws: Sophia did not get along with her son Phil's wife at all. Even at his funeral she has trouble treating her with any sort of respect. It is not Played for Laughs. She is also implied to have been no less obnoxious to Stan before the divorce than she is afterward. The one time Blanche's mother-in-law is mentioned, she is said to have wished on her deathbed for Blanche to have the disease that was killing her, and according to Blanche, until George died she would always refer to her as "[George's] first wife." When she did pass, Blanche's only response was "I hope the old witch went slowly." Dorothy's ex-mother-in-law is an interesting take. She liked Dorothy, but treated her poorly so that Dorothy would insist they not visit - Stan's mother didn't want Stan around. When a younger Dorothy learns the truth in a flashback, she's amused and promises to keep the secret. Blanche derisively refers to her unseen son-in-law as "the Yankee." Flashbacks show that Sophia's parents treated Salvatore the same way Sophia treats Stan. According to Sophia, there's a tradition in Sicily that when your mother-in-law dies, you're supposed to wear a hair shirt, eat dirt, and pound your head on a rock: anything to keep you from laughing.
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The Golden Girls / int_4a8f2db4	type	Museum of Boredom
The Golden Girls / int_4a8f2db4	comment	Museum of Boredom: Rose mentions St. Olaf's "Children's Cheese Museum" in "If At Last You Do Succeed": Miles also takes Rose to a thimble museum in "The Bloom is Off the Rose," and mentions wanting to take her to a place called "Zipper Town" in the future. Unlike the above example, however, Rose is decidedly not impressed with either choice.
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The Golden Girls / int_4b25ddd8	type	Prenup Blowup
The Golden Girls / int_4b25ddd8	comment	Prenup Blowup: When Stanley and Dorothy plan to remarry, Dorothy becomes upset that Stanley asks her to sign a prenuptial agreement. This ends the engagement.
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The Golden Girls / int_4c9d226e	type	Formerly Fit
The Golden Girls / int_4c9d226e	comment	Formerly Fit: This is a major plot point in "Blanche's Little Girl." Blanche's daughter Rebecca, who had a falling out with her mother when she left home to become a model in Paris, reaches out and wants to rekindle their relationship. It turns out, though, that Rebecca gained a great deal of weight while overseas, which Blanche has something of a hard time accepting. Her real fear, though, is that Rebecca will marry the man she brought with her—a jerk who makes constant nasty jokes about Rebecca's size. Thankfully, this doesn't come to pass. Also, Ham Lushbaugh, a high-school crush of Blanche's who also happens to be the only man she ever failed to seduce. Although Blanche is stunned by his weight gain, it doesn't dissuade her from trying to get him anyway... which doesn't turn out the way she expected.
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The Golden Girls / int_4dbd3706	type	Clap Your Hands If You Believe
The Golden Girls / int_4dbd3706	comment	Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Parodied in "Henny Penny: Straight, No Chaser." Rose, Blanche, and Dorothy play Henny Penny, Goosey Loosey, and Turkey Lurkey in a grade school production, and Rose hates the ending in which the characters are eaten by Foxy Loxy. At the conclusion of the performance, she rushes back onstage and tells the children that they can choose to save the characters if they applaud. None of the kids do it, and Rose resorts to insulting the children and threatening them with bad dreams as Dorothy and Blanche drag her off. In "A Midwinter Night's Dream," Blanche tells Dorothy that on a leap year's full moon, men are easy pickings— "Anything can happen if you just believe!"
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The Golden Girls / int_4e3dee88	type	Their First Time
The Golden Girls / int_4e3dee88	comment	Dorothy's ex-husband Stan was terrible in bed, a fact that Dorothy frequently brings up when talking about her lousy marriage. For example, when the girls talk about their first times having sex, Dorothy says that Stan only lasted thirty seconds and she wasn't even sure they'd actually done anything until nine months later when she gave birth.
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The Golden Girls / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Golden Girls / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In "Letter to Gorbachev", Rose writes letters to the leaders of the United States and Russia, asking them to disarm their nuclear weapons. The Russians set up a press conference and wish to meet Rose, thinking she's a child because of the simple innocence of her letter. They learn she's a grown woman and call off the conference, and Rose is deeply embarrassed. The situation, along with nuclear war in general, is mostly Played for Laughs throughout the episode. At the end, Blanche offers to read Rose's letter aloud, and her expression visibly darkens when she reads, "It scares the girls in my cadet troop, too. They talk about what they want to be if they grow up, not when they grow up." In "An Illegitimate Concern", David, a young man visiting the Girls, delivers a line that shatters Blanche's belief that her relationship with George was a Seduction-Proof Marriage.
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The Golden Girls / int_4e9fe57d	type	Trauma Button
The Golden Girls / int_4e9fe57d	comment	Trauma Button: Played for Laughs when Rose and Blanche are rehearsing their roles as nuns in The Sound of Music. Rose says, "The Nazis are coming! The Nazis are coming!" and Sophia bursts through the door in a panic telling everyone to hide in the basement. Also happens when Rose buys a doorbell alarm that sounds like dogs barking. Sophia runs out saying, "The dogs are on my tail again, through the river, run through the river." Played very seriously, however, in the episode where the Girls are robbed and Rose develops some PTSD as a result. When she hears Blanche's date talking one night, she thinks the robbers have returned and almost shoots him.
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The Golden Girls / int_4eb04425	type	Squeamish About Slaughter
The Golden Girls / int_4eb04425	comment	Squeamish About Slaughter: When a chicken Rose is pet-sitting goes missing at the same time that Sophia's sister Angela serves a chicken dinner that was sourced from "the garage", the girls are disgusted at the thought of having consumed someone's beloved pet. It turns out the chicken had escaped from its cage, and Angela is referring to the freezer in the garage.
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The Golden Girls / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Golden Girls / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first episode was filmed as a pilot before the series was picked up, hence several interesting discrepancies between it and the rest of the series: Blanche doesn't have a Southern accent; instead Rue McClanahan spoke with her natural Oklahoma dialect. Rue later explained that this was because the director of the pilot had told her not to use a drawl. Once the series was picked up, the new director allowed her to use a Southern accent. There's also Coco the cook, Blanche's last name being Hollingsworth (later turned into her maiden name), and the fact that Dorothy says she's from Queens, not Brooklyn. Also, Blanche's bedroom is shown to be at the left end of the house (where the lanai is usually shown), instead of in the corridor with the rest of the bedrooms. Getty's portrayal of Sophia is markedly different in the pilot, with Sophia being lot more surly and much less motherly than she becomes for the rest of the series. In the first season episode, "Blind Ambitions," Dorothy calls her "Mom," instead of the usual "Ma." A few throwaway lines indicate that Blanche either has been or would have no problem sleeping with a married man. Later, she is emphatic that this is the one line she will not cross. Downplayed, but much more emphasis is made of Rose's worrying nature in the earlier episodes, particularly when dealing with her family.
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The Golden Girls / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
The Golden Girls / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: "Love Me Tender" is all about this trope. Sophia uses a computer dating service to get Dorothy a date with a man named Eddie, who is unattractive, boring, a terrible conversationalist, and still obsessed with his ex-wife Roberta (on said date, he brings Dorothy to the ex-wife's restaurant, which is named Roberta's, and ends up breaking down and sobbing for her to take him back). But Dorothy continues to see him...because despite appearances, he's the best lover she's ever had, to the point where they do nothing but have sex when they're together ("We don't go to dinner, we don't go to the movies—we just go to bed"). The show deconstructs the trope when, at the end of the episode, Eddie sighs that his sexual prowess is a curse—he's self-aware enough to realize that all he has to offer is being great in the bedroom and wise enough to know that any woman actually worth dating inevitably breaks up with him because she needs more than just great sex to have a healthy relationship.
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The Golden Girls / int_4fb23aa8	type	I Have This Friend
The Golden Girls / int_4fb23aa8	comment	I Have This Friend: In "Zborn Again," when Dorothy is trying to explain to Blanche about her renewed attraction to Stan. A variation also occurs in "A Midwinter Night's Dream," when Dorothy is explaining to Rose, in a roundabout way, how she kissed Miles, using the analogy of cupcakes. This leads to one of the most hilarious double entendres of the series, which of course goes right over Rose's head.
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The Golden Girls / int_4fff0dfe	type	Sarcasm-Blind
The Golden Girls / int_4fff0dfe	comment	Sarcasm-Blind: A constant gag is Rose asking a stupid question, receiving a sarcastic response, and then taking the sarcastic response seriously. For example:
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The Golden Girls / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
The Golden Girls / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: One portion of "One for the Money" has the girls showing up one-by-one at a dance marathon.
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The Golden Girls / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
The Golden Girls / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: Dorothy's son marries (and impregnates) a woman twice his age.
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The Golden Girls / int_5233f9ca	type	Calling Your Orgasms
The Golden Girls / int_5233f9ca	comment	Calling Your Orgasms: Rose describing the best sex she ever had with her late husband Charlie, during which he suffered a fatal heart attack and her confusion when he cried out "Rose! I'm going! I'm going!" This was apparently the opposite of what he'd usually say: the opposite of "going".
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The Golden Girls / int_52d1f46e	type	Not What It Looks Like
The Golden Girls / int_52d1f46e	comment	Not What It Looks Like: The trope itself is spoken word for word by Blanche when she practices a dirty dancing routine with Rose, and is caught by Dorothy and Sophia. The routine they practice is the dirty dancing routine - the one from Dirty Dancing. Spoken word for word during this moment, from "Till Death Do We Volley", when Dorothy's friend Trudy catches Dorothy in bed with Trudy's husband: In "Family Affair" (season 2), when the girls catch Rose's daughter and Dorothy's son in bed together. In "Isn't It Romantic?", Dorothy's lesbian friend Jean visits and falls for Rose. The two eventually have an honest conversation about the situation, and Rose says that while she can't offer Jean the love she's looking for, she can offer friendship. Jean gratefully accepts and the women embrace as Sophia walks in, prompting Jean to laugh that "This isn't what it looks like." Sophia admits that she knows... because she was eavesdropping.
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The Golden Girls / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
The Golden Girls / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Besides being a Cloud Cuckoolander, Rose never finished high school and struggles in Dorothyâ€™s night classes.
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The Golden Girls / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Golden Girls / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The series premiere is about Blanche's wedding (and Dorothy and Rose's fears of being left behind), which gets aborted because the guy turns out to be a bigamist and scam artist. The series finale is about Dorothy's wedding, which goes off without a hitch (and Blanche, Rose's and Sophia's fears of being left behind, which come true).
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The Golden Girls / int_532a8261	type	Bookworm
The Golden Girls / int_532a8261	comment	Bookworm: Dorothy. She's never been late to return a library book even once.
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The Golden Girls / int_537b29d1	type	Acquainted with Emergency Services
The Golden Girls / int_537b29d1	comment	Acquainted with Emergency Services: This is implied at one point when Rose intends to call the police about an issue, and Dorothy reminds her that they told her to "Never call them again". Presumably, this is due to repeated frivilous calls, or a Noodle Incident.
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The Golden Girls / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Golden Girls / int_53c9fc92	comment	In one Mother's Day episode Flashback, Rose reminisces about being stuck in a bus station with another elderly woman who was going to visit her daughter. She eventually reveals that her daughter is dead, and that she visits the cemetery on Mother's Day every year. Things look bleak when a cop shows up (the woman had run away from her nursing home to make the trip), but Rose saves the day by claiming that the woman is her own mother.
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The Golden Girls / int_54367e5d	type	Mathematician's Answer
The Golden Girls / int_54367e5d	comment	Mathematician's Answer: Rose provides one when the girls babysit an infant for a neighbor, and Dorothy asks her what gender it is.
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The Golden Girls / int_547b8f44	type	Uncatty Resemblance
The Golden Girls / int_547b8f44	comment	Uncatty Resemblance: Rose interviews people who look like their dogs in "Melodrama".
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The Golden Girls / int_54f38833	type	PostScriptSeason
The Golden Girls / int_54f38833	comment	Post-Script Season/Retool: The Golden Palace.
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The Golden Girls / int_5501256b	type	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated
The Golden Girls / int_5501256b	comment	Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: A newspaper erroneously prints an obituary of Blanche. She can't believe they could print this sort of egregious misinformation... they got her age wrong!
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The Golden Girls / int_555d6a8b	type	Locked in the Bathroom
The Golden Girls / int_555d6a8b	comment	Locked in the Bathroom: Rose does this at a banquet when she finds out that the romantic relationship with her date was fabricated by Blanche and Dorothy who were impersonating her pen pal. Rose locks herself in the only operational stall as the other one is out of order, and by the time the situation is resolved, an enormous line has gathered offscreen to use the washroom. Sophia does this when she is about to marry her boyfriend, Max, but Dorothy refuses to give her blessing to the marriage. Inverted in "The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes A Lousy Wedding Present," where Dorothy traps Blanche inside a bathroom stall.
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The Golden Girls / int_55884325	type	"Stuck at the Airport" Plot
The Golden Girls / int_55884325	comment	"Stuck at the Airport" Plot: In one Mother's Day episode Flashback, Rose reminisces about being stuck in a bus station with another elderly woman who was going to visit her daughter. She eventually reveals that her daughter is dead, and that she visits the cemetery on Mother's Day every year. Things look bleak when a cop shows up (the woman had run away from her nursing home to make the trip), but Rose saves the day by claiming that the woman is her own mother. In another flashback, the Girls end up sleeping in a train station after discovering that all of the locomotives that depart from the town deliberately leave early. The problems only increase when a group of circus clowns appears from another train. When the Girls all try to fly home to their separate hometowns for Christmas, all their flights are cancelled due to a large storm. They end up spending Christmas together with a worker at a small diner near the airport.
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The Golden Girls / int_565ce678	type	Game Show Appearance
The Golden Girls / int_565ce678	comment	Game Show Appearance: Dorothy tries out for Jeopardy! in "Questions and Answers." Though she aces the questions, she's passed over for the show on the grounds that she's too much of a know-it-all for viewers to "root for." However, there is a Dream Sequence in which she imagines herself on the show with Rose and Empty Nest's Charlie Dietz as the other contestants. There's an episode in which all four women appear as contestants on a fictional game show called Grab That Dough!, and pretty much everything that possibly could go wrong for them in the course of the appearance does.
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The Golden Girls / int_582564f5	type	The Gadfly
The Golden Girls / int_582564f5	comment	Sophia is this. A woman with an insult for everyone she meets, but she is also loving to her roommates - explicitly stating that she loves Rose and Blanche as if they were her own children - and cooks for them whenever they ask. She also works for charity. Specifically, "The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo" shows her volunteering in a hospital, bringing cheer to the patients.
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The Golden Girls / int_589243b5	type	Never Say That Again
The Golden Girls / int_589243b5	comment	Never Say That Again: Both of the series' primary storytellers get this one. "Blanche's Little Girl": "On Golden Girls":
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The Golden Girls / int_591a76c9	type	Broken Treasure
The Golden Girls / int_591a76c9	comment	Broken Treasure: "Ebb Tide" has a lodger inadvertently break a commemorative plate Blanche received for a ball. Rose and Sophia spend part of the episode trying to get a replacement so Blanche won't find out (because she didn't know that they were running the weekend rental scheme).
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The Golden Girls / int_592fa231	type	Acquired Error at the Printer
The Golden Girls / int_592fa231	comment	Acquired Error at the Printer: A printing error on the ballot caused a horse to be elected as water commissioner of St. Olaf for six months.
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The Golden Girls / int_59f5238	type	D-Cup Distress
The Golden Girls / int_59f5238	comment	While the other girls liked to tease Blanche about her breasts, the better-endowed Rose expressed a mild form of D-Cup Distress in "Feelings" in which she was sexually harassed by her dentist.
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The Golden Girls / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
The Golden Girls / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: Dorothy, Rose and Blanche all find Laszlo devastatingly attractive... they just aren't his type... Dorothy spends days obsessing about her upcoming date with high-school crush Barry Glick, only to learn that Barry is gay. She takes it in stride, though: at least it means no other woman can have him. Blanche drops out of a night-school Spanish class in "The Audit" because she'd only been there to meet men, and the only man she fancied kept doodling the name "Kenny" in his notebook. In the episode "Isn't It Romantic?", Jean, a lesbian, harbors a crush on Rose, who is straight.
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The Golden Girls / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Golden Girls / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: In-Universe examples. Rose tells Blanche a long, excruciating story about how she won Frank Sinatra tickets during a radio station contest. When she tries to re-tell the story verbatim to Dorothy, Blanche interrupts with the following: Rose condenses the infamous St. Olaf Falling Leif story into one word: "Splat!", when Dorothy demands that she makes the story concise as condition for being allowed to tell the story in question. When Blanche requests the other girls to tell her a story — any story — in which a man refused to get physical with her as a feel-good pick-me-up in "The Commitments", Rose volunteers. Not wanting the drawn-out version, Blanche pleads for Rose to tell it in "ten words or less", so Rose obliges.note Blanche then follows up by asking Rose to explain the details when no one else volunteers, at which point the scene fades.
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The Golden Girls / int_5a71be2d	type	Bad Santa
The Golden Girls / int_5a71be2d	comment	Bad Santa: In "'Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas", the girls are held hostage on Christmas Eve at the grief counseling center by a man dressed as Santa Claus who has no other way spending Christmas with others without forcing them at gunpoint. Sophia ultimately arrives on scene and determines that the revolver is a replica.
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The Golden Girls / int_5b9b6f01	type	Sitting Sexy on a Piano
The Golden Girls / int_5b9b6f01	comment	Sitting Sexy on a Piano: Blanche does this in "Journey to the Center Of Attention," complete with a red dress. Of course, it fails horribly; watch to see just how. Rue McClanahan named this as her favorite musical scene.
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The Golden Girls / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
The Golden Girls / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: Zigzagged in "Brotherly Love." Sophia whips up a self-made sleeping potion for Rose to cure her insomnia, which Dorothy takes instead, and not long after faking this trope to give her mother a little thrill, once Sophia has left, Dorothy drops down in a dead faint right in the midst of wishing Blanche a good night, much to the other woman's confusion.
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The Golden Girls / int_5e4fa749	type	Crossdresser
The Golden Girls / int_5e4fa749	comment	We never see Sophia's son Phil, who is a crossdresser, although he's frequently mentioned. Even in the episode where he dies, the figure in the coffin is never shown. All we see are people reacting to the way he's dressed (in lingerie, as he had requested).
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The Golden Girls / int_5e63fb11	type	Allegedly Dateless
The Golden Girls / int_5e63fb11	comment	Allegedly Dateless: Dorothy. In fact, she's probably had more love interests than Rose or Sophia. Her "alleged" dateless track record is a source of Sophia's jabs at her expense.
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The Golden Girls / int_5e7642df	type	State Visit
The Golden Girls / int_5e7642df	comment	State Visit: The two-part Clip Show episode "The President's Coming! The President's Coming!" has the girls prepare for a visit from President George H. W. Bush during his Miami tour. Everybody gets excited except Dorothy, who is critical of Bush's policies. We only get to see Bush's Secret Service agents and hear his voice (impersonated by Harry Shearer), but he's charismatic enough that Dorothy is too star-struck to call him out.
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The Golden Girls / int_5eecd64c	type	Oh, No... Not Again!
The Golden Girls / int_5eecd64c	comment	Oh, No... Not Again!: When Dorothy is looking for Sophia after the two of them have a fight, she checks under the sink. From "The President's Coming! The President's Coming!"
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The Golden Girls / int_5f798c84	type	Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere
The Golden Girls / int_5f798c84	comment	Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: When Dorothy relapses on her tobacco addiction due to the stress brought on by Sophia's marriage, she resolves to quit the addiction a second time. To her irritation, Rose describes in extended detail the feeling of elation derived from smoking a cigarette, prompting Dorothy to cover her head with a saucepan and hit it with a wooden spoon in frustration.
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The Golden Girls / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
The Golden Girls / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: One of the staples of the show: "A Little Romance" has Rose debating whether or not she should continue seeing her little person boyfriend. Rose eventually has a dream where the two are getting married; this one lampshaes the dream status, and even features noted celebrity psychic Jean Dixon. "Letters to Gorbachev" features one where Rose and the girls are invited to speak in Russia's Red Square after a letter Rose sent to Mikhail Gorbachev about nuclear war leaves a positive impression on him. "Questions and Answers" has Dorothy falling asleep while preparing for her audition for Jeopardy!; she finds herself on a nightmarish version of the show where Rose is the unbeatable returning champion. In the two-parter "Home Again Rose", Rose has a heart attack and makes the girls promise to have their heads cryogenically frozen so they can all be friends forever. After she has open heart surgery, she has a dream about herself, Blanche, and Dorothy all reduced to nothing but heads and talking on the kitchen table. Sophia is part of the deal—but as she tipped the man who froze her, she ends up with the body of a twenty-something woman.
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The Golden Girls / int_6168d81c	type	Mistaken Confession
The Golden Girls / int_6168d81c	comment	Mistaken Confession: "That's for Me to Know": Dorothy is attempting to pry open a locked box of Sophia's, convinced her mother is hiding something from her.
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The Golden Girls / int_61836f3d	type	News Travels Fast
The Golden Girls / int_61836f3d	comment	News Travels Fast: Invoked by Rose in "Old Boyfriends." After Rose reveals she had 56 boyfriends in high school, Sophia walks into the room looking for advice on men and immediately goes to her instead of Blanche. When the group is arrested for suspicion of prostitution, Rose gets upset that her reputation would be damaged if the news of her arrest made its way back to her hometown of St. Olaf. Dorothy mentions that it's fairly unlikely they would find out, but Rose claims that their local newspaper is known for its investigative journalism.
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The Golden Girls / int_618dc1ea	type	Parent with New Paramour
The Golden Girls / int_618dc1ea	comment	Parent with New Paramour: Big Daddy's much younger fiancÃ©e in "Big Daddy's Little Lady". There's also "Sophia's Wedding," in which Sophia marries her husband's widowed business partner Max, and Dorothy is not happy about it for a while.
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The Golden Girls / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
The Golden Girls / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Counsellor: Although she is a Cloudcuckoolander, Rose is shown to be a very proficient grief counsellor. When Dorothy confides in her about how her relationship with her new boyfriend is entirely physical in "Love Me Tender", Rose immediately picks up on her feelings of guilt. She later becomes a successful consumer reporter.
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The Golden Girls / int_61c7d589	type	Bigger Is Better in Bed
The Golden Girls / int_61c7d589	comment	Charlie was implied to have physical endowment that would've made a bull jealous. Blanche has trouble believing this since Rose is so embarrassed to talk about sex. Rose explains that, to her understanding, people who talk about sex don't really do it as much as they claim. All eyes are suddenly on Blanche.
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The Golden Girls / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
The Golden Girls / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: A few episodes feature the girls simply sitting around the table and reminiscing about past exploits. note A few of these episodes also count as inversions, as some of them would center around particular themes (Mother's Day, odd sleeping arrangements, birthdays, etc.). The girls flash back to this original material, which often required new sets, guest stars, and extras—in other words, the very opposite of a Bottle Episode.
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The Golden Girls / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
The Golden Girls / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: In one episode, Rose's cousin Sven comes to visit to get her blessing for his upcoming arranged marriage to a woman he hasn't met before, as is St. Olafian tradition. Since he's handsome and strong, Blanche uses him as part of an Operation: Jealousy, but Sven thinks it's real love and announces that he won't marry his intended because he's fallen for Blanche. When all seems lost, Sven's bride-to-be shows up and proves herself to be a busty young blonde, and Sven immediately decides that he likes her better, much to Blanche's frustration.
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The Golden Girls / int_62b65869	type	And I'm the Queen of Sheba
The Golden Girls / int_62b65869	comment	And I'm the Queen of Sheba:
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The Golden Girls / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The Golden Girls / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Blanche appears to be particularly susceptible to these when dieting. One time she snaps and attempts to choke Rose upon learning that Rose has eaten her "sensible meal" of tuna quiche and diet shake.
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The Golden Girls / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Golden Girls / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Blanche's older sister Charmaine Hollingsworth visits Blanche and tells her she has published a novel, entitled Vixen: Story Of A Woman. She even gives an autographed copy to Blanche. However, Blanche mistakenly thinks the book is about her. Angry and hurt, she confronts Charmaine, who explains she based the book on her own life, not Blanche's.
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The Golden Girls / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
The Golden Girls / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: Rose's husband Charlie is implied to have had one. Her parents taught her about the birds and the bees by showing her a bull's penis and testicles when she was young. The first time she saw Charlie naked on their wedding night, she decided that she hadn't been properly prepared. When recounting this to her friends, she adds, "Boy, that bull would've been jealous."
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The Golden Girls / int_67f3ff98	type	Brake Angrily
The Golden Girls / int_67f3ff98	comment	In "Room 7," Dorothy brakes angrily and kicks Rose out of the car after she tries to play "The Name Game" while driving:
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The Golden Girls / int_68107ace	type	Always Introduces Themselves
The Golden Girls / int_68107ace	comment	Always Introduces Themselves: Dorothy's ex-husband Stan always says "Hi, it's me, Stan" whenever he drops in on the girls, despite all of them knowing who he is.
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The Golden Girls / int_689b05f2	type	I'm Going to Disney World!
The Golden Girls / int_689b05f2	comment	I'm Going to Disney World!: Spoken by Sophia in "Hey, Look Me Over." She goes with the "Disneyland" version (which is strange, since Disneyland is in California and the Girls live within driving distance of Disney World). In "Two Rode Together," Dorothy and Sophia spend a weekend at Disney World. It rains most of the weekend, but on the last day, they ride Space Mountain. The interior of the ride is shown in the last scene just before the credits.
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The Golden Girls / int_6968c6b0	type	Not So Remote
The Golden Girls / int_6968c6b0	comment	Not So Remote: On one vacation, the girls mistakenly believe they are stranded on a Desert Island. It turns out they are on a beach shore on the same mainland they were staying on, and close to a major hotel that is much nicer than the one they were duped into staying at before.
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The Golden Girls / int_6a1e475a	type	Abuse of Return Policy
The Golden Girls / int_6a1e475a	comment	Abuse of Return Policy: Blanche carefully removes the tags from a dress so she can wear it and return it later. Her plan backfires when Dorothy accidentally spills something on the dress. Blanche has it dry-cleaned and tries to return it, but the store employees aren't fooled.
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The Golden Girls / int_6a5cc1d9	type	New Year's Kiss
The Golden Girls / int_6a5cc1d9	comment	New Year's Kiss: One flashback in the clip show "Dateline: Miami" has Blanche surprise Rose with a double date so Blanche can get a New Year's kiss. However, both of the dates turn out to be a bust, leaving Blanche and Rose alone. As they watch the countdown on television, Blanche leans in towards Rose, who tells her, "Don't even think about it."
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The Golden Girls / int_6a937b9f	type	Kinky Role-Playing
The Golden Girls / int_6a937b9f	comment	Kinky Role-Playing: Implied. In "Three on a Couch," Dorothy puts out an ad for a freelancer position, but Rose accidentally sends it to the personals column, prompting strange men to arrive at Dorothy's house as she said she'd do anything for eight dollars. The first man just asks Dorothy to refer to him as "Toto" for the time being, implying some strange fetish for The Wizard of Oz role-play.
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The Golden Girls / int_6aab3ca0	type	Shockingly Expensive Bill
The Golden Girls / int_6aab3ca0	comment	Shockingly Expensive Bill: Dorothy almost gets one after she orders a high-end restaurant's "best" champagne, without actually checking which wine it is or how much it costs. Partway through the meal, Rose points out it is $430 a bottle. Sophia manages to save the day by pouring pepper into the drink and convincing the waiter it has been tainted, prompting him to comp the entire meal.
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The Golden Girls / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Golden Girls / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: A minor one in "The Auction." The girls discover that Jasper DeKimmel, a Jerkass artist, is dying, and needs a donor with a rare blood type to save his life. Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche use the opportunity to buy one his paintings, as Blanche points out that an artist's work is often appreciated by a huge amount after her or his death. At the end of the episode, they're successful and call Sophia to let her know. Sophia tells them that they've wasted their money, as a donor was found with DeKimmel's blood type. The camera then pulls back to reveal Sophia herself lying in a hospital bed as she complains that all she gets for saving a man's life is "juice and a cookie."
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The Golden Girls / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Golden Girls / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Bowling. In "The Competition," the girls get into a major row over picking bowling partners. Any time Sophia attends a competition. A bingo game and a marathon are just two events she takes very seriously. Sophia's cooking. In "Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself," she prepares a dish that Rose and Blanche compliment, but Sophia is convinced it's "garbage" because they don't get "The look" in their eyes when they taste it.
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The Golden Girls / int_6bccf2ba	type	Supreme Chef
The Golden Girls / int_6bccf2ba	comment	Sophia's delicious Italian cooking also serves as this for the girls. When faced with the prospect of Sophia moving, Rose wonders aloud "Who'll make us linguini?" In another episode, Blanche pulls a Cut a Slice, Take the Rest on a lasagna at breakfast time after her class reunion goes sour.
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The Golden Girls / int_6bd6c63f	type	"Shaggy Frog" Story
The Golden Girls / int_6bd6c63f	comment	"Shaggy Frog" Story: Almost all of the stories Rose tells about her hometown, St. Olaf. In "Nice & Easy" she attempts to illustrate "teenage rebellion" by telling a story about the time she sneaked out to a gin mill to meet a boy and ran into her church's (married) pastor having an affair. "A week later we became Lutherans," she concludes, leading Blanche to react this way:
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The Golden Girls / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Golden Girls / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Blanche Devereaux, the vain, man-hungry, aging Southern Belle, is a reference to Blanche DuBois of A Streetcar Named Desire, the vain, man-hungry, aging Southern Belle. The name Blanche is derived from a French verb which means "to make white" - an ironic commentary about the character given that white is a color associated with purity and virginity. The name of Sophia's former retirement home is Shady Pines. When the real reason for why it was burned down is exposed in an episode, the name kind of makes sense. Blanche's younger sister's name is Virginia. Sophia's name means "wisdom," and while she's a bit addled by her age and the stroke, she still manages to dole out plenty of it during the series.
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The Golden Girls / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Golden Girls / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Sophia's friend Martha Lamont decides to kill herself after attending the funeral of her best friend Lydia, and asks Sophia to be with her when she does. She doesn't, in the end, thanks to Sophia's friendship.
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The Golden Girls / int_6d6e3015	type	Cloudcuckooland
The Golden Girls / int_6d6e3015	comment	Cloudcuckooland: St. Olaf, Rose's hometown. Dorothy once refers to it as "The Cradle of Idiocy." We never actually see the town in all its glory. The closest we come is seeing the inside of Rose's old house in one flashback sequence (a monologue, so no other St. Olafians actually appear). The girls manage to make it to the outskirts of town in another episode; it's apparently only accessible by horse-and-buggy and by toboggan. Ironically (and disturbingly), Rose appears to be one of the smartest people to come out of that town. Case in point with Rose's cousin Sven. When he mentions not knowing much about women, Blanche says, "A big strong man like you? Get out of here!" He simply picks up his suitcase and leaves. When Rose chases after him saying that was just an expression, Blanche turns and says to Dorothy, "I never thought I'd say this, but I think Rose got the brains in that family." In-universe, Sicily is portrayed as a land of nothing but goats, animal dung, and vendettas. Sophia mentions the number two export out of her village was piano wire, but can't remember the first. As it turns out, it was ransom notes.
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The Golden Girls / int_6da1d9ae	type	Parental Marriage Veto
The Golden Girls / int_6da1d9ae	comment	Parental Marriage Veto: Sophia was not a fan of Dorothy marrying Stan, but accepted it because Dorothy was pregnant. By contrast, she was vehemently opposed to her son Phil's marriage to Angela, something that only gets discussed in detail when Phil dies. She tries to claim it's because the dowry check from Angela's parents bounced, which leads Angela to erupt at Sophia for treating her badly for years over something so ridiculous. Eventually, however, it comes out that her real objection was Angela's acceptance of Phil's cross-dressing proclivities - Sophia believed that Angela should have put a stop to it.
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The Golden Girls / int_6da90c4d	type	Full-Name Ultimatum
The Golden Girls / int_6da90c4d	comment	Full-Name Ultimatum: Used by Blanche's old mammy in "Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mammy" which stops her in her tracks.
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The Golden Girls / int_6dcfd275	type	Theme Tune Extended
The Golden Girls / int_6dcfd275	comment	Theme Tune Extended / Truncated Theme Tune: The syndicated/Lifetime edits of the episodes features both. The extended version adds a repeat of the "And if you threw a party..." verse, extending the song from roughly 41 seconds to over a minute; the truncated version cuts the "And if you threw a party..." verse altogether, chopping the song down from 41 seconds to 22.
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The Golden Girls / int_6e95f5c1	type	Nutritional Nightmare
The Golden Girls / int_6e95f5c1	comment	Nutritional Nightmare: Rose's Maple Syrup/Honey/Brown Sugar/Molasses/Rice Krispie Log. Rose makes one for her daughter's visit, mentioning she used to make it for her kids all the time when they were young.
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The Golden Girls / int_6f0966ad	type	Real Joke Name
The Golden Girls / int_6f0966ad	comment	Real Joke Name: A particularly funny example comes from "Yes, We Have No Havanas." Dorothy is teaching an adult education course at a local community center, and calls roll:
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The Golden Girls / int_6f214508	type	Foreign Culture Fetish
The Golden Girls / int_6f214508	comment	Foreign Culture Fetish: Played for Laughs in "Sick and Tired," in which Sophia proceeds, in front of Dorothy's doctor (who is Chinese-American), to list off all the reasons why she loves the Chinese.
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The Golden Girls / int_6f465fea	type	The Triple
The Golden Girls / int_6f465fea	comment	The Triple: The show often uses one character as a Straight Man to tell a story or set up a joke. The other three usually respond with straight line, straight line, Punchline. While it's usually Rose who gets the "kicker" in these instances, sometimes it's given to Sophia. The girls' reaction to Sophia's "Thanks for the Medicare" song parody: "Clifton Avenue Memoirs": The Girls are discussing Sophia's depression at losing her memory. "The Actor": After Patrick is exposed as a cad during the play, the Girls admit they'll miss him. In "Once, in St. Olaf", when Rose is telling the others she just met her birth father. When Sophia's sister Angela moves to Miami, they go out to look for a house for her to live in. Angela turns down various suites because of the same list of reasons: Too small, not enough light, and no room for a goat.
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The Golden Girls / int_6f6ab063	type	The "I Love You" Stigma
The Golden Girls / int_6f6ab063	comment	"Girls Just Want to Have Fun...Before they Die" has Blanche giving romantic advice to both Rose and Sophia: Rose, who has to remain celibate due to a drought in St. Olaf, should coyly hide the truth from Miles, while Sophia should take charge with her potential suitor Tony Delvecchio. Both approaches backfire spectacularly — Miles ends up breaking up with Rose due to her perceived lack of interest (they get back together, of course), and Sophia ends up storming out after telling Tony that she loves him.
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The Golden Girls / int_6fed1f70	type	The Thing That Would Not Leave
The Golden Girls / int_6fed1f70	comment	The Thing That Would Not Leave: After the Girls reluctantly allow Dorothy's ex-husband, Stanley, to stay with them as he recovers from open-heart surgery, Stanley takes advantage of them by continuing to stay with them long after he gets better. Dorothy finally kicks him out after realizing he was downplaying the progress of his recovery to take advantage of them. When Sophia marries her boyfriend Max, her husband stays with them until they can find their own place. Max's inconsiderate behavior makes the Girls extremely uncomfortable, but he and Sophia consistently keep stalling for more time to stay there.
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The Golden Girls / int_70bdac19	type	Honest John's Dealership
The Golden Girls / int_70bdac19	comment	Honest John's Dealership: A shady businessman tries to scare the main characters into purchasing an expensive security system they can't afford by taking advantage of them following a burglary.
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The Golden Girls / int_70c73c20	type	TheUnseen
The Golden Girls / int_70c73c20	comment	Speaking of Sophia, there is also the matter of her siblings. In the first two seasons, she says that her only living relative is her sister Angela, who disappeared after two appearances. Later in the series, she is suddenly revealed to have a brother named Angelo. She also apparently has a brother Vito who is the The Unseen, and another unseen relative named Regina who might be either her sister or Salvatore's.
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The Golden Girls / int_717d735a	type	Suicide by Pills
The Golden Girls / int_717d735a	comment	Suicide by Pills: In "Not Another Monday," Sophia's friend Martha decides to commit suicide by overdosing on pills after the death of her friend Lydia, and asks Sophia to sit with her when she does it. Sophia is able to talk her out of it and the two cry together.
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The Golden Girls / int_71a34999	type	Painful Rhyme
The Golden Girls / int_71a34999	comment	Painful Rhyme: In "Big Daddy's Little Lady," Dorothy and Rose are competing in a songwriting contest and can't find a rhyme for "Miami." Rose proposes words like "Mammy," "whammy," "Hootenanny," and "salami" (pronounced as "salammy"). Dorothy responds, "'Hootenanny' is marginal, and I refuse to accept 'salammy.'" (Dorothy is Italian-American, after all.)
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The Golden Girls / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
The Golden Girls / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: Sophia calls Dorothy "Pussycat" throughout the show, and calls Gloria "Kitten" during her appearance. Sophia reveals that Dorothy's nicknames in her youth were "Bigfoot" and "Moose." Her father Sal called her "Spumoni Face" due to their secret ice cream club; Dorothy called Sal "Favorite Parent." Blanche has also dubbed herself "Water Lily," a term which she uses when talking to herself, and her mother also called her "Peacock" as a child. Less frequently, "Stickman" for Stan. But everyone—from Dorothy to Sophia to his own mother—calls him "Yutz."
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The Golden Girls / int_75979171	type	The Cuckoolander Was Right
The Golden Girls / int_75979171	comment	The Cuckoolander Was Right: There are moments when Rose ends up having a deep level of insight on situations that nobody else can solve. She even relates them to St. Olaf stories that actually do make sense in context. In "Mary Has a Little Lamb," Dorothy helps mend the rift between Mary and her father by... telling a St. Olaf story.
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The Golden Girls / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
The Golden Girls / int_762b9223	comment	In "Letter to Gorbachev", Rose writes letters to the leaders of the United States and Russia, asking them to disarm their nuclear weapons. The Russians set up a press conference and wish to meet Rose, thinking she's a child because of the simple innocence of her letter. They learn she's a grown woman and call off the conference, and Rose is deeply embarrassed. The situation, along with nuclear war in general, is mostly Played for Laughs throughout the episode. At the end, Blanche offers to read Rose's letter aloud, and her expression visibly darkens when she reads, "It scares the girls in my cadet troop, too. They talk about what they want to be if they grow up, not when they grow up."
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The Golden Girls / int_762b9ea8	type	The Worst Seat in the House
The Golden Girls / int_762b9ea8	comment	The Worst Seat in the House: Dorothy's ex-husband Stan drags her and her mother Sophia to a baseball game. The seats are high up, but that doesn't bother them too much. Dorothy actually says it's not that bad, as she usually ends up sitting next to a fat sweaty guy who insists on taking his shirt off. After a fat, sweaty guy takes off his shirt and sits down, Dorothy merely quips, "What kept you?" This was later taken up a notch when a player hits a home run that hits Sophia in the head.
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The Golden Girls / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
The Golden Girls / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: How Rose claims St. Olaf was founded. Considering how smart she and other St. Olafians were generally portrayed, this isn't hard to believe, as Dorothy points out.
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The Golden Girls / int_77315f4f	type	You Have to Believe Me!
The Golden Girls / int_77315f4f	comment	You Have to Believe Me!: In "Little Sister," Rose's sister Holly visits and keeps cutting her out of plans with Dorothy and Blanche, all while claiming that she did pass the messages on to Rose and acting wounded. Rose repeatedly tries to tell Blanche and Dorothy that Holly is manipulating them, but they are convinced by Holly's "woe is me" act and assume that Rose is just jealous. Sophia subverts the trope by actually believing Rose from the beginning. "Strange Bedfellows": When Gil Kessler, a candidate for city council, announces that he had an affair with Blanche, Dorothy and Rose don't believe Blanche when she insists she's innocent, due to Blanche's past and the fact that Blanche was photographed going into Kessler's house (for a perfectly innocent reason). Kessler finally admits he was lying, and while Blanche forgives Dorothy and Rose, she admits she's partly to blame because of all her bluster about men she's slept with. "The Triangle": Dorothy's new boyfriend, Elliot, makes a pass at Blanche, and Dorothy doesn't believe Blanche when she tells her about it, because Blanche had tried to come on to Elliot before she knew he belonged to Dorothy. Dorothy accuses Blanche of jealousy, and Blanche is so hurt that she orders Dorothy to move out. This time it's a quick-thinking Rose who saves the day.
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The Golden Girls / int_77759d87	type	Whoopee Cushion
The Golden Girls / int_77759d87	comment	Whoopee Cushion: Sophia decides to pull pranks on her housemates after being on the receiving end of a prank by someone else. She places one of these on a chair, embarrassing Dorothy and Blanche when they sit on it (Blanche especially, after making comments about herself being "graceful and sophisticated"). To top it off, Sophia knows how not to set it off herself when she sits on it.
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The Golden Girls / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
The Golden Girls / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: "Mary Has a Little Lamb" focuses on Mary, a pregnant teenager who lives in the neighborhood. She is depicted as having a long-established relationship with the main characters, and yet is never seen or mentioned outside of the one episode, nor is it ever explained to the audience how the girls came to be so close to her.
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The Golden Girls / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
The Golden Girls / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: Blanche at the end of "An Illegitimate Concern," as she looks at a picture of her late husband, George, who fathered a child with a mistress.
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The Golden Girls / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
The Golden Girls / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: The first-season episode "Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding?" features Dorothy's ex-husband Stan (in his debut appearance), as he attends the wedding reception of their daughter. For said daughter's sake, Dorothy decides to not make a scene and Blanche suggests to Dorothy to squeeze someone else's hand when Dorothy is about to lose her temper. Dorothy does just that during her daughter's reception with Blanche's hand, at one point bringing Blanche to her knees. Early in the third-season episode "The Artist", Laszlo visits the girls. When Rose reveals Dorothy's interest in "helping Laszlo with his work" too much, Dorothy squeezes Rose's hand painfully tight to shut Rose up. Late in the sixth-season episode "Blanche Delivers", Rebecca starts to have contractions. Sophia suggests for Rebecca to hold her hand during her next contraction, but the pain from said contraction causes Rebecca to squeeze Sophia's hand instead, causing Sophia pain as the result. Rose being hit in the chest with a baseball in "The Housekeeper" (funny in context, plus it also apparently isn't hard enough to hurt as she doesn't really react to it). Any instance of Dorothy intentionally hugging someone tightly enough to hurt (i.e. Stan, or Kate's husband Dennis). Dorothy also hugged Rose tightly enough to cause pain in "The Pope's Ring," although it was apparently unintentional.
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The Golden Girls / int_78f6bb9b	type	Translation: "Yes"
The Golden Girls / int_78f6bb9b	comment	Translation: "Yes": When Sophia's friend who only speaks Italian helps the Girls renovate their garage into a guest room, he relies on Sophia to translate his directions to English. At one point, Sophia translates a short phrase into an extended "Picture it: Sicily" story, and Dorothy and Blanche immediately question how he could have told the lengthy story in one sentence of Italian.
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The Golden Girls / int_78fdd115	type	Witless Protection Program
The Golden Girls / int_78fdd115	comment	Witless Protection Program: This turns out to be the case with Rose's boyfriend Miles, as he is really a mob witness named Nicholas, on the run from a boss called The Cheeseman. Later he returns with a new identity as an Amishman, only for Rose's new boyfriend to be The Cheeseman, recognizing Miles and holding everyone hostage until their neighbor, a cop, comes in to save them.
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The Golden Girls / int_794cff5	type	Transatlantic Equivalent
The Golden Girls / int_794cff5	comment	Transatlantic Equivalent: The UK's Brighton Belles in 1993. It was not successful.
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The Golden Girls / int_79cd85f0	type	First Gray Hair
The Golden Girls / int_79cd85f0	comment	First Gray Hair: in "Golden Moments", when Blanche explains there's no cheesecake in the house because "I found two gray hairs." Dorothy, irritated, tells Blanche that finding two gray hairs isn't a reason to eat an entire cheesecake. Blanche then explains that she found the gray hairs in the cheesecake and threw it out as a result. Enter Rose, who's been out shopping and has come home with a fresh new cheesecake, explaining that the store fired an elderly baker who had refused to wear a hairnet.
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The Golden Girls / int_79e43350	type	Bleak Abyss Retirement Home
The Golden Girls / int_79e43350	comment	At one point, Dorothy tries to bond with her mother by taking her on a trip to Disney World. Since she lied about taking her there to drag her off to Shady Pines previously, Sophia becomes extremely suspicious about her intentions.
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The Golden Girls / int_7abba202	type	The Faceless
The Golden Girls / int_7abba202	comment	The Faceless: We never get to see Charlie, Rose's late husband. Dorothy's ex-husband Stan is a recurring character, we see Blanche's late husband George in a dream as well as meet his twin brother Jamie (played by the same actor), and Sal, Sophia's late husband, often appears in flashbacks, dreams, and hallucinations. Charlie, however, remains unseen for the entire series. We're never even given a description of him beyond "six-foot-two and broad-shouldered" (and, as noted above, apparently better endowed than a bull). We never see Sophia's son Phil, who is a crossdresser, although he's frequently mentioned. Even in the episode where he dies, the figure in the coffin is never shown. All we see are people reacting to the way he's dressed (in lingerie, as he had requested). Blanche has two daughters and either three or four sons (she mentions Biff and Doug and it's unclear whether Matthew and Skippy are the same person or not), but while her daughter Janet appears at least once and Rebecca is a recurring character in later seasons, no son of hers ever appears on the show. Likewise, Rose has two sons and two daughters, but the audience only ever meets her youngest child Kirsten.
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The Golden Girls / int_7b5c69c8	comment	Dirty Old Woman: All four of them; if you really analyze it, The Golden Girls was possibly one of the most openly sexual shows on TV at the time. Blanche fit the trope most of all, to the point that even Maxim felt obliged to acknowledge her as #1 of "TV's Best Nymphos." When Rose claims that Bob Hope is her father with no other proof than that she used to dream it, Blanche says it's strange, and wonders why Rose doesn't have a normal, healthy dream, "like sweaty Argentinean men whipping things while they ride naked on the backs of Brahma bulls." Dorothy just shoots her an odd look and reminds herself never to use Blanche's towels again.
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The Golden Girls / int_7b63065f	comment	"Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal: Dorothy attempts this on Sophia. It doesn't work.
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The Golden Girls / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: Shows up a few times: In an early episode, the girls are suffering from a flu and argue over which soap opera they should watch; Blanche wants to see Another World. Rue McClanahan appeared on that particular soap for one season, from 1970-1971. In "My Brother, My Father," Blanche and Rose are cast as nuns in a production of The Sound of Music. Rue McClanahan performed in a production of the same musical at New Hampshire's Hampton Playhouse over two decades earlier, in which she was cast as the Baroness (and just missed being crushed to death by a falling chandelier during one performance). In "Ladies of the Evening," Rose lists off some of the celebrities that will be attending the premiere of Burt Reynolds's new movie. Charles Nelson Reilly is on the list; Betty White made several appearances on Match Game with Reilly during the 1970s and '80s. Also, the later episode "Grab That Dough" sees the girls going on the game show of the same name, and Rose compares the host, Guy Corbin, to several other famous game show hosts of the era; one such host is Gene Rayburn, who hosted the aforementioned Match Game. Sylvester Stallone clearly exists in the Girls' universe, as Rose mentions Rocky IV and Rambo. Stallone appeared with Estelle Getty (Sophia) in the infamous flop Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot In two different episodes, Dorothy, played by Bea Arthur, sings a few bars of songs from Fiddler on the Roof. Guess who played Yente the Matchmaker in the original Broadway production? Dorothy mentions Lucille Ball a few times, and "Son-in-Law Dearest"'s B-plot involves Rose and Blanche watching an I Love Lucy marathon. Ball was a personal friend of Bea Arthur's, and the two even appeared together in the disastrous 1974 film version of Mame, with Ball taking over the role originated on stage by Angela Lansbury. Lansbury, another close personal friend of Arthur's, was the star of TV's Murder, She Wrote, which is also mentioned by Dorothy on at least one occasion.
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The Golden Girls / int_7ba00b55	type	Superstition Episode
The Golden Girls / int_7ba00b55	comment	Superstition Episode: "The Housekeeper." The girls' lives take a turn for the better when they hire Marguerite as the housekeeper, but once they have to fire her because of her incompetence at housework, bad luck comes in spades, and they're convinced Marguerite has put a voodoo curse on them. Sophia also has a habit of casting "Sicilian curses" of her own, which sometimes seem to work.
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The Golden Girls / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
The Golden Girls / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: Overcome with trauma stemming from a robbery, Rose purchases a gun and carelessly shoots towards the front door, hearing a man's voice and thinking it's the robber (it's actually Blanche's date.) The bullet ends up hitting one of Blanche's prized vases. Her hysterical reaction is played for laughs, but the scene still acknowledges Rose could have very well killed or injured Blanche or her date with her stupidity.
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The Golden Girls / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Golden Girls / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Dorothy gives these types of speeches multiple times, most notably when she tells off Barbara Thorndyke, and also when she confronts a doctor in a restaurant who had previously told her she was just insane, and not sick. In the second episode of Season One, Dorothy delivers one to her ex-husband Stan on their daughter's wedding day, calling him out on his cowardice and how he took the easy way out when he left her for another woman. Rose holds her own as well. She gives them to their nasty neighbor Frieda Claxton, to Blanche when Blanche goes too far with making Rose her personal slave, and to her manipulative and two-faced sister Holly after Holly sleeps with Blanche's boyfriend. Blanche even gets in on the act, giving one to her scumbag night school professor in response to him propositioning her in return for a passing grade. Clayton gives one such speech to Blanche after she causes a mass panic with a false alarm by yelling "Fire!" right as he was about to introduce himself and Doug (his fiancÃ©) to an acquaintance of Blanche's.
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The Golden Girls / int_7e38ea1	type	Dead Artists Are Better
The Golden Girls / int_7e38ea1	comment	Dead Artists Are Better: The plot of "The Auction" centers around the girls' purchase of a painting made by an artist whom they are aware will soon die of a disease, which they expect will cause the value of the painting to skyrocket overnight. However, Sophia provides him with a blood transfusion that saves his life.
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The Golden Girls / int_7f080f98	type	Vague Age
The Golden Girls / int_7f080f98	comment	Vague Age: All of the Girls, to varying extents. Sophia is in her early 80s for the entire seven-year run. Dorothy is about 60 (and consistently over 60 in later seasons). Rose is 55 in the first season, but her age is hard to pin down after that. But Blanche is the most famous example - nobody ever figures out her actual age. She usually claims to be around 40, and in "Snap Out of It" where the Girls try to find out, she says 42 - which is presented as an obvious lie. They discover that even her birth certificate has been blanked "by order of the Governor". She seems to be younger than the rest of the Girls (Rue McClanahan was in fact ten years younger than the other three), and is still fertile when the show starts (hitting menopause in an early episode), so 50-ish seems about right. The Mother's Day episode mentions that she was a senior in high school in 1949 (in America, she would be 17-18 for this), which would put her as roughly her mid to upper 50s for the duration of the show and near 60 at its conclusion.
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The Golden Girls / int_7fc7eb02	type	Late Coming Out
The Golden Girls / int_7fc7eb02	comment	Late Coming Out: Blanche's younger brother came out in his fifties after decades of being married to a woman.
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The Golden Girls / int_7fecbc39	type	Marshmallow Dream
The Golden Girls / int_7fecbc39	comment	Marshmallow Dream: Subverted.
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The Golden Girls / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Golden Girls / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: The first season finale, "The Way We Met", consists of flashbacks that tell the story of Blanche meeting the others.
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The Golden Girls / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Golden Girls / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: In "The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo," Blanche tells a story from her youth about going on a blind date with Preston, a man with extremely large ears. She explains that she was so shocked that she mumbled her hello—and when he said he didn't hear her, she blurted out "Didn't hear me? I think you could pick up Radio Free Europe with those ears!" Rather than be offended, Preston laughed, which impressed Blanche and started a great relationship (it helps that, apparently, "the size of a man's ears is directly proportionate to the size of his other bodily organs)."
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The Golden Girls / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Golden Girls / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: From "The Operation":
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The Golden Girls / int_810c980e	type	Serial Spouse
The Golden Girls / int_810c980e	comment	Serial Spouse: Harry, Blanche's fiancÃ© in the pilot, marries multiple women without divorcing them.
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The Golden Girls / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
The Golden Girls / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: By the end of the series, all four Girls are grandmothers (or in Sophia's case, a great-grandmother)... and all four repeatedly prove that they are not to be trifled with. In "Dorothy's New Friend," Dorothy calmly tells the prejudiced Barbara Thorndyke to "go to Hell." In "Sick and Tired," she gives an epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech to a doctor who misdiagnosed her Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by insisting that she was just getting old and needed a makeover. Rose may be a kind person... but there's a reason Beware the Nice Ones is a trope. She once saves a teddy bear that a Bratty Half-Pint was keeping from her by ripping said bear from the girl's arms and shoving her out the door. Rose also stands up to notorious grump Frieda Claxton and tells her to "drop dead"—unfortunately, poor Frieda was so stunned by Rose's outburst that she does. Though Blanche hates the idea of being a grandmother (it makes her feel old), she still shows her mettle when necessary. During a protest to save dolphins from tuna fishermen, she lays a guy flat with a single punch; she once hits a home run without even trying at the batting cages; and she isn't afraid to lay down the law with her children when she sees that her grandson is being neglected. And, of course, Sophia is probably the least afraid to get her hands dirty. She smacks Blanche's unruly grandson across the face when he mouths off to her, and, upon discovering that her boyfriend is cheating on her, lays into him with her purse (she has some backup from her sister Angela on that one).
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The Golden Girls / int_81c4faa3	type	Entertainingly Wrong
The Golden Girls / int_81c4faa3	comment	Entertainingly Wrong: When Dorothy's lesbian friend Jean visits and Dorothy keeps Jean's sexual orientation secret from Blanche and Rose. Blanche begins to suspect something's up when Jean changes the subject every time the topic of men comes up in conversation. Blanche comes to the only logical conclusion:
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The Golden Girls / int_8259a58f	type	Massage of Love
The Golden Girls / int_8259a58f	comment	Massage of Love: A subversion happens in "Dateline: Miami" where Rose talks about a bad date she'd had on New Year's Eve with a man grieving his dead wife. He lured Rose into giving him one of these and tried to let it mutate into a different kind of massage. Rose angrily refused and immediately threw him out of the house after he revealed that his wife wasn't dead, just at a fat farm in Sarasota.
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The Golden Girls / int_825d1062	type	Slogan-Yelling Megaphone Guy
The Golden Girls / int_825d1062	comment	In a later episode, Rose uses the megaphone while leading a protest against the hunting of whales. However, she goes off on a tangent about her experiences in her hometown of St. Olaf, to the annoyance of her friends and the bewilderment of passersby.
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The Golden Girls / int_828b231	type	We Were Rehearsing a Play
The Golden Girls / int_828b231	comment	We Were Rehearsing a Play: Two examples in "The Actor": Visiting actor Patrick Vaughn — who's seeing each of the Girls' behind the others' backs — is in the middle of a romantic moment with Blanche, with her laying across his lap, when Dorothy walks in. He promptly pushes Blanche to the floor and tells Dorothy they were rehearsing a new scene that had been added to his play. Later, when Blanche has left the room and Patrick has Dorothy in his arms, Rose walks in, and Patrick tosses Dorothy to the floor behind the couch. She "explains" to Rose that she was looking for Patrick's missing contact lens.
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The Golden Girls / int_82e40acf	type	Whammy Bid
The Golden Girls / int_82e40acf	comment	Whammy Bid: When the Girls bribe an attractive man to bid on Dorothy at a Bachelorette Auction, not expecting the bid to climb above $50, her ex-husband Stan walks in and bids $100. The bidding quickly climbs from there as Sophia and Blanche frantically try to stop their shill from bidding higher.
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The Golden Girls / int_83445b04	type	Pun
The Golden Girls / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: When Dorothy befriends Barbara Thorndyke, Barbara takes her to a literature-themed restaurant where the menu (which is a full-sized, hard-bound book,) is full of these, "The Crepes of Wrath," "The Old Man and the Seafood Salad," etc. Dorothy has the "For Whom the Stuffed Bell Pepper Tolls," and Barbara has a turkey sandwich on "Catcher in the Rye Bread" with a side of "George Bernard Slaw" and is given "Edgar Allen Poe-tatoes" and The Ice Water Cometh on the house.
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The Golden Girls / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
The Golden Girls / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Blanche's brother, Clayton. His second appearance has him bringing his equally masculine gay fiancÃ© along. Also, guys the ladies take an interest in turn out to be gay a few times. Dorothy's lesbian friend Jean doesn't display any stereotypical behavior either, but of course, all this was supposed to be the point.
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The Golden Girls / int_8414865	type	Aroused by Their Voice
The Golden Girls / int_8414865	comment	Aroused by Their Voice: Sophia remarks that Tony Bennett's voice could do things to her that her husband couldn't do with his hands. Blanche agrees that men's voices turn her on, but Dorothy snarks that men's socks would probably turn Blanche on.
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The Golden Girls / int_84609623	type	If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...
The Golden Girls / int_84609623	comment	If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Dorothy gives a speech to her daughter's husband (with whom she is making up with after he has cheated on her) about not being able to stand her daughter being hurt. When he promises that it won't happen again, she takes his hand and replies that if it does, that she will "break every bone in [his] hand". Stan adds, "Keep it zipped, buddy, she's not kidding."
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The Golden Girls / int_84fe7b3a	type	Revival Loophole
The Golden Girls / int_84fe7b3a	comment	Revival Loophole: Blanche claims to have never slept with a married man, except for one incident which shouldn't count because "those paramedics never give up." It's implied that she slept with a man believing his wife was deceased, only for the paramedics to revive her afterwards.
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The Golden Girls / int_85bcc5a8	type	Lampshaded Double Entendre
The Golden Girls / int_85bcc5a8	comment	Lampshaded Double Entendre: Lots and lots and lots.
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The Golden Girls / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
The Golden Girls / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: Usually Dorothy and Sophia. Most of the time, Rose asks a stupid question and Dorothy gives her a sarcastic answer. But even Rose and Blanche have a snark moment or two in some episodes. In "The Auction," Rose walks out of her room carrying two buckets in her hands and Dorothy asks if the ceiling in her room is leaking, too.
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The Golden Girls / int_86a225fe	type	Fancy Toilet Awe
The Golden Girls / int_86a225fe	comment	Fancy Toilet Awe: In "Love, Rose," Rose has bad dating luck, so Blanche and Dorothy invent a fictional suitor named "Isaac Newton" (Blanche's idea) and send her phony love letters. Things go sour when Rose finds an Isaac Q. Newton in the phone book and invites him to a gala the girls are attending. When Blanche and Dorothy hesitantly tell Rose the truth, she runs into the ladies' room, which is connected to a powder room/lounge. Isaac, who's a nice guy, if a little dense, follows the group into the lounge and, thinking the whole thing is the bathroom, remarks that a giant couch is the fanciest toilet he's ever seen.
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The Golden Girls / int_86bbf6b5	type	Newscaster Cameo
The Golden Girls / int_86bbf6b5	comment	Newscaster Cameo: Rose's Dream Sequence in "A Letter to Gorbachev" features an appearance by former NBC newscaster Edwin Newman, playing himself.
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The Golden Girls / int_8748f851	type	Brainy Brunette
The Golden Girls / int_8748f851	comment	Brainy Brunette: In flashbacks featuring a middle-aged Sophia and a young adult Dorothy, high-school teacher Dorothy's younger self has black hair.
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The Golden Girls / int_876a0cf0	type	Joke and Receive
The Golden Girls / int_876a0cf0	comment	Joke and Receive: Rose brings a chicken into the house, saying she's a professional entertainer. Blanche scoffs at this and, after Rose steps out, sarcastically says to Dorothy: "What does she do? Play the piano?" Immediately, Rose returns and says, "She plays the piano." (It's a small piano, but she does play it.) Happens several other times with regard to Rose's "Scandinavian".
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The Golden Girls / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Golden Girls / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: Plenty of instances occurred during the show, used by each woman at least once: In "One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest", when facing the prospect of going out with Blanche's Uncle Lucas, Dorothy comments that "He's a little bit Country, and I'm a little... too smart for this". "Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom" has Rose put on a few pounds and deciding to go on the St. Olaf "I-Can't-Believe-This-Is-Cheese" diet. In spite of its name, however, you eat nothing but rice. In "Questions And Answers", after Dorothy and Blanche audition to be on Jeopardy!, the former gets a phone call from the producers with exciting news for both of them. While her news has her joyfully being chosen, she expresses the same delight in telling Blanche that she hasn't. In "72 Hours", Rose fears that she was accidentally given HIV through a previous blood transfusion and begins to grow hysterical in reaction to some other, unrelated bad news, while Dorothy tries to tell her to calm down, Sophia finally gives a Get A Hold Of Yourself Man slap. The only problem is that she slaps her daughter instead of Rose. "That Old Feeling" has Blanche meeting up with her brother-in-law Jamie to go over her recently deceased mother-in-law's estate. At one point, he says that she kept repeating "I want her to have it" and while Blanche initially thinks that the mother-in-law was going to leave her something of value, Jamie verifies that she meant her soon-to-be fatal disease. In "Feelings," Rose recalls her earliest childhood memory, which involved a man shooting a gun in front of several farm animals. It's suggested her memory involves seeing an animal killed for meat...but the gun was actually a starting pistol for a race between all the farm animals.
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The Golden Girls / int_87b3d1fd	type	Trans Equals Gay
The Golden Girls / int_87b3d1fd	comment	Trans Equals Gay: Very refreshingly averted with Phil, Sophia's cross-dressing son. He is happily married to a woman for years, and has many children with her—he just happens to like dressing up in women's clothing (something his wife supports, as he enjoys it). It's discussed in the episode where Phil dies; Sophia suggests that Phil might have been "queer," and Blanche corrects her, pointing out that the correct term is now "gay." Sophia counters this by pointing out that Phil was "a six-foot-three, two hundred pound man with kids."
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The Golden Girls / int_87f5a0c	type	Bandage Mummy
The Golden Girls / int_87f5a0c	comment	Bandage Mummy: Dorothy, Rose, and Sophia come across one at the hospital, believing it to be Blanche, whom they expect to be recovering from extensive cosmetic surgery. It turns out to be a stranger, who is unable to communicate that to them due to his face being encased in the full-body cast.
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The Golden Girls / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
The Golden Girls / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Often discussed, as the relationships between parents and children is a common theme in the series. In an early episode, "The Custody Battle", Sophia's other daughter (and Dorothy's only sister) Gloria appears, and she and Dorothy argue over which of them is the favorite. (Their brother, Phil, is decidedly The Un-Favorite). Each of them believe the other to be Sophia's favorite, and although Sophia never says outright which of them she favors the events of the episode suggest that it is Dorothy. Blanche was the favorite of her father, Big Daddy, evidenced by him asking for her to come see him on his deathbed. Of course, Southern formality being what it is, he doesn't actually say he's on his deathbed, and Blanche (self-absorbed at the best of times) doesn't pick up on it when she declines his invitation. When attending his funeral, her sister Virginia tears into her for not coming to say goodbye at his request, with some implied resentment on her part that Big Daddy specifically asked for Blanche. Even though Rose was adopted, she never once expresses any indication that the Lindstroms showed her any less affection than any of their biological children, and she in turn doesn't seem to favor any of her own children over the others. Dorothy seems to favor her son Michael over her daughter Kate; by contrast, Stan is closer with Kate than with Michael. Blanche's favorite seems to be her daughter Rebecca; the two have a falling-out before the series begins that results in their estrangement but once it's patched up, Rebecca becomes a recurring presence in her life. By contrast she has a fairly distant relationship with most of her other children.
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The Golden Girls / int_89d001bf	type	Do Wrong, Right
The Golden Girls / int_89d001bf	comment	Do Wrong, Right: When Blanche describes a Book Burning in her hometown in "Stand By Your Man": From "Yokel Hero":
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The Golden Girls / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
The Golden Girls / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: The show's seventh and final season is more overtly comedic and silly than those that came before, with a decided lack of "message" episodes. The writers, knowing this would be the final season, apparently decided to go balls to the wall in coming up with script ideas.
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The Golden Girls / int_8aa0f76	type	Deconstructed Trope
The Golden Girls / int_8aa0f76	comment	The trope is deconstructed with Rose's sister, Holly, who shows what happens when this trope goes on too long and too intensely. Though nice on the surface, Holly proves to be a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who goes out of her way to make Rose's life miserable for unknown reasons—when Holly visits Miami, she deliberately tries to estrange Blanche and Dorothy from her and even fools around with Blanche's boyfriend. The entire situation is shown to clearly hurt Rose, and she tries to warn the others about it, but only Sophia believes her as Dorothy and Blanche think this trope is in action. Finally, at the episode's end, Rose outright tells Holly that she doesn't want her in her life any more, and the two part on extremely bitter terms.
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The Golden Girls / int_8c80a69f	type	YourCheatingHeart
The Golden Girls / int_8c80a69f	comment	Blanche often says this as a joke when she hears something particularly surprising or unbelievable. However, in "An Illegitimate Concern", she says this in a 100% dead serious, angry manner, right after a man named David tells her he's the son of her late husband George and a woman he'd had an affair with while he was still married to Blanche (which is eventually proven true).
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The Golden Girls / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
The Golden Girls / int_8cb1a369	comment	For most of the show, Sophia is portrayed as having no inner filter due to a stroke, but in the last season she increasingly insults and pranks people for her own enjoyment.
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The Golden Girls / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
The Golden Girls / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: Sophia loves this trope. In "And Then There Was One," Sophia describes how she failed a race because she "hit the wall." Dorothy thinks she ran out of steam, but Sophia literally ran into the wall of a Wendy's. Invoked by Rose when she describes how she gave her daughter The Talk. When Rose won the Woman of the Year award, she explained that the frontrunner, Emma Immerhoffer, was found to have a skeleton in her closet. The skeleton was Mr. Immerhoffer.
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The Golden Girls / int_8d55ac31	type	Traveling Salesman
The Golden Girls / int_8d55ac31	comment	Traveling Salesman: Stanley is a wannabe entrepreneur who tends to bounce from one failed career to another throughout the series, but most of his business ventures revolve around this model. At one point he uses a sales convention as a lie to get away from Dorothy so he can have an affair.
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The Golden Girls / int_8dd4a996	type	Identical Grandson
The Golden Girls / int_8dd4a996	comment	Identical Granddaughter: Bea Arthur plays Dorothy's grandmother in one flashback (alongside a different actress playing young Dorothy).
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The Golden Girls / int_8e0ceaf5	type	Finger in the Mail
The Golden Girls / int_8e0ceaf5	comment	Finger in the Mail: In "Old Friends," Blanche accidentally gives Rose's childhood teddy bear to their young neighbor, Daisy, who holds it for ransom. When Blanche refuses to pay, Daisy sends one of the bear's ears in the mail.
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The Golden Girls / int_8f4a4aad	type	Tongue on the Flagpole
The Golden Girls / int_8f4a4aad	comment	Tongue on the Flagpole: When the Girls are gathered to receive their expected Mother's Day calls from their offspring, Rose asks her son if it is cold enough in Minnesota for their tongue to stick to a pole when you lick it. He places her on hold while he goes to find out, but the answer is never revealed to the audience, implying that the answer is yes.
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The Golden Girls / int_8f900ccd	type	Overly Long Name
The Golden Girls / int_8f900ccd	comment	Overly Long Name: Apparently very common in St. Olaf.
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The Golden Girls / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
The Golden Girls / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Rose's excuse for making a fool of herself in front of the man Blanche and Sophia are fighting over.
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The Golden Girls / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
The Golden Girls / int_90c018ac	comment	Rose's boyfriend Miles also goes through a bout of this in "Ro$e Love$ Mile$." He has a reason, though; he's living on a fixed income, and when he's told he's healthy enough to live to 100, he becomes afraid that he won't be able to afford it.
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The Golden Girls / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
The Golden Girls / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: In "Ebb Tide," Blanche's father, Big Daddy, is dying, but she is too obsessed with a local social event to go to visit him in what turn out to be his last days. Later, when she and Dorothy travel to Atlanta for the funeral, Sophia turns the house into a temporary bed-and-breakfast in an attempt to raise cash for a big-screen TV. During the weekend, an expensive ceremonial plate that Blanche received for the social event ends up broken; Rose and Sophia manage to find a new one, but it ends up costing Sophia all of the money she's made. They have the new plate with them just as Dorothy and Blanche return, and the latter, having realized how selfish and inconsiderate she has been lately, proceeds to smash it on the floor. Sophia lampshades the situation:
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The Golden Girls / int_90fbce80	type	Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes
The Golden Girls / int_90fbce80	comment	Everyone Hates Fruit Cakes: "Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas" has some jokes regarding fruit cakes. Early on during the episode, Sophia suggests gathering the fruit cakes they've accrued for the past three years. She's planning on donating them to the soup kitchen where they volunteer to help serve those who need food, though Dorothy's reaction before Sophia finishes her suggestion is "And what, build a bomb shelter?" Unfortunately for Sophia, even the homeless people turn out to like fruit cakes no more than the girls do, as there are more fruit cakes at the end of the soup kitchen dinner than before the dinner began, much to Sophia's disbelief.
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The Golden Girls / int_913c0a60	type	Named After the Injury
The Golden Girls / int_913c0a60	comment	Named After the Injury: In "Take Him, He's Mine", Rose and Sophia start selling lunches at construction sites, but they run afoul of a rival food truck owner called Johnny No-Thumbs. Dorothy thinks that name means he's dangerous, but Rose tries to reassure her by pointing out that he's actually missing several fingers on each hand. Johnny sends some goons to threaten Rose and Sophia, so Sophia strikes back with a letter from her mobster uncle Aldo, who addresses the letter to Johnny No-Knees. Johnny gets the message and sends them flowers in apology.
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The Golden Girls / int_917bed8a	type	Minnesota Nice
The Golden Girls / int_917bed8a	comment	Minnesota Nice: Rose, and her entire community of St. Olaf, Minnesota, are portrayed as incredibly nice as well as being about as bright as a hockey puck.
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The Golden Girls / int_927cce5e	type	Accidental Bid
The Golden Girls / int_927cce5e	comment	Accidental Bid: In "The Auction," the girls try to bid on a painting by Jasper DeKimmel, as he is dying of a rare blood disorder and they believe that his demise will increase the value of his work. At the auction, Rose fans herself with her paddle, which the auctioneer takes as a bid. Blanche and Dorothy admonish Rose for bidding by waving her paddle... which they demonstrate. The auctioneer keeps upping their bids because of it (although since they're sitting in the front row and clearly together, he seems to be doing so deliberately at that point).
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The Golden Girls / int_93b92ca4	type	Lousy Lovers Are Losers
The Golden Girls / int_93b92ca4	comment	Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Dorothy's ex-husband Stan was terrible in bed, a fact that Dorothy frequently brings up when talking about her lousy marriage. For example, when the girls talk about their first times having sex, Dorothy says that Stan only lasted thirty seconds and she wasn't even sure they'd actually done anything until nine months later when she gave birth. The episode "Love Me Tender" inverts the trope. Sophia signs Dorothy up for a computer dating service, and she's paired with Eddie, a short, bald, average-looking, and altogether boring man who's still not over his ex-wife. Dorothy is completely unimpressed...but it turns out that Eddie is amazing at sex, to the point where she calls him the best lover she's ever had. Unfortunately, the phenomenal physicality isn't enough to make up for his complete lack of a personality, and she ends things with him. Surprisingly, Eddie himself knows that he has nothing going for him except his skill in bed, and laments that he's been Blessed with Suck: everything he does turns women on, but anyone who's actually worth dating inevitably breaks things up because they realize that sex alone can't build a relationship.
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The Golden Girls / int_93bd8608	type	Cuckold
The Golden Girls / int_93bd8608	comment	Consider the frequency of Rose and Charlie having sex — seven to midnight, five to seven AM, and until noon on Sundays — the length of time Charlie was in Cuckold after what he did with a farmer's daughter, per Rose's account when told to Blanche, can count.
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The Golden Girls / int_94721d54	type	Your Favorite
The Golden Girls / int_94721d54	comment	Your Favorite: For Dorothy, it's lasagna al forno. So much so that Dorothy automatically knows that when Sophia makes it, it's either because someone has died or because Sophia wants a favor from her.
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The Golden Girls / int_94d7b230	type	Cut a Slice, Take the Rest
The Golden Girls / int_94d7b230	comment	Cut a Slice, Take the Rest: In "Whose Face is This, Anyway," depressed Blanche puts a normal serving of lasagna on a plate, then leaves the plate on the counter and begins eating the rest from the casserole dish.
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The Golden Girls / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
The Golden Girls / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: When one of their relatives comes to visit, the girls spend the night discussing who will share a bed to make room for the guests. After recalling the discomfort from previous cases of sharing a bed, the girls decide to all chip in and let their visitors stay at a hotel.
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The Golden Girls / int_9597a894	type	Sexual Euphemism
The Golden Girls / int_9597a894	comment	Sexual Euphemism: As a show that centered around sex but needed to remain appropriate for television, there were many. The one time Rose walked in on her parents, they were "just playing leap frog". Rose and Charlie used to have a nickname for sex while Charlie was alive, as revealed in the episode "An Illegitimate Concern". When Stan informs the girls about the potato peeler he's pitching commercially (which he named the "Zbornee") in the episode "If at Last You Do Succeed": Late in the Grand Finale episode "One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest", the nickname Dorothy and his newly-wed husband come up with for sex is revealed to be "Mr. Peterson".
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The Golden Girls / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
The Golden Girls / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Sophia discusses this trope in the season five premiere, "Sick and Tired", saying it wouldn't feel right to continue living after losing a child. A season later, her son (and Dorothy's brother) Phil dies.
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The Golden Girls / int_962ece1	type	Mystery Episode
The Golden Girls / int_962ece1	comment	Mystery Episode: "The Case of the Libterine Belle," where they attend a Mystery Dinner Party with Blanche's boss. After Dorothy quickly solves the murder, Blanche's boss is killed for real and another investigation occurs. The killer is Blanche's coworker, but it turns out to be another game.
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The Golden Girls / int_96553833	type	Eagle-Eye Detection
The Golden Girls / int_96553833	comment	Eagle-Eye Detection: Dorothy, in the episode where the girls attend a murder mystery weekend, solves both of the mysteries they encounter thanks to her observation skills.
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The Golden Girls / int_96c812a4	type	Pair the Smart Ones
The Golden Girls / int_96c812a4	comment	Pair the Smart Ones: Discussed when Miles and Dorothy talk about how people would expect them to get together because of their shared intellect and interest in literature.
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The Golden Girls / int_96dea090	type	D.I.Y. Disaster
The Golden Girls / int_96dea090	comment	D.I.Y. Disaster: In "Second Motherhood," Dorothy and Rose try to install a new toilet themselves after dealing with a sexist plumber. Their first attempt leads to them redoing the plumbing such that flushing the toilet makes the sink run, the spigots on the sink control the shower, etc. They do eventually fix the entire bathroom and install the toilet with no male assistance.
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The Golden Girls / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
The Golden Girls / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: In "The Case of the Libertine Belle", Dorothy surmises that Posey killed Kendall by placing a knife in her purse before leaving the dining room to go to Blanche's room to stab him. If you rewind the episode, you can see Dorothy's scenario play out in the background after Blanche gives Kendall her room key.
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The Golden Girls / int_9820c37a	type	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!
The Golden Girls / int_9820c37a	comment	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Sophia's lack of tact is sometimes explained by Dorothy after the fact as a result of the stroke Sophia had in the past, which caused her to be placed in Shady Pines (though this is rarely referenced otherwise). The stroke and her propensity to say rude things are only fully described in the first episode; Rose expresses disapproval for some of Sophia's comments, and Blanche explains that she doesn't mind because she knows Sophia can't help it, since the stroke caused brain damage that, to put it simply, removed her politeness filter.
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The Golden Girls / int_984763bb	type	555
The Golden Girls / int_984763bb	comment	555: "555-GIVE" and "555-EASY." The former is the number of a fundraiser telethon, whereas the latter is to reach Blanche during the campaign.
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The Golden Girls / int_991af300	type	Poke the Poodle
The Golden Girls / int_991af300	comment	Poke the Poodle: A flashback scene to Blanche and Rose's first meeting in "The Way We Met," in which Rose cites several examples of her behavior to prove to Blanche that she's a "wild woman."
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The Golden Girls / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
The Golden Girls / int_9a1d239e	comment	A flashback in the Valentine's Day episode jumps from a sweet moment of Sophia's husband giving her chocolates that he prepared when they left on their trip days ago, to them hightailing it out of there because the wall Sophia's father peed on was right next to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
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The Golden Girls / int_9ae42b50	type	I Have Just One Thing to Say
The Golden Girls / int_9ae42b50	comment	I Have Just One Thing to Say: Invoked by name in "Till Death Do We Volley", after Dorothy pulls a prank on her friend Trudy by pretending to sleep with her husband:
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The Golden Girls / int_9b244dd4	type	Getting the Baby to Sleep
The Golden Girls / int_9b244dd4	comment	Getting the Baby to Sleep: One scene in "Transplant" has Rose coming home with Danny, the neighbors' baby that the girls are presently watching, after having just driven him around the block to get him to go to sleep. In "Not Another Monday", Blanche, Rose, and Dorothy can't get the neighbor's baby, Frank, they're babysitting to stop crying and sleep, so Rose suggests singing "Mr. Sandman" which was how she got her children to fall sleep. The three decide to try it, and turns out it works on Frank, too.
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The Golden Girls / int_9bf3470e	type	Santa Claus
The Golden Girls / int_9bf3470e	comment	In an earlier Christmas episode, Blanche reveals that she has a special fixation for guys in Santa Claus suits. Dorothy's response: "You do realize that you're in the minority here."
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The Golden Girls / int_9ce377f1	type	Cure Your Gays
The Golden Girls / int_9ce377f1	comment	Cure Your Gays: Played with in both episodes in which Blanche's brother Clayton appears (though only Blanche tries it), as well as in "Goodbye Mr. Gordon," where Blanche and Dorothy are mistaken for a lesbian couple on a daytime TV talk show.note Rose got them on the show, at the station where she worked, because she misunderstood the meaning behind a show about 'women who live together.' A man interested in Blanche claims she's only "like this" because she's never been with a "real man". If Blanche actually were lesbian, this trope would be played straight; as she isn't, it's simply Played for Laughs. Blanche even takes it on as a new way to meet men, and gets Dorothy to play along. "Come on, Dorothy, I have to try this." Blanche considers herself capable of causing men to switch teams according to how she treats them, most notably a boyfriend who proposed to her with a cheap, fake ring, and after the relationship ended, supposedly turned gay. When Dorothy argues that it's not possible to just turn gay, Blanche counters that if he had been gay before, he would have had better taste in jewelry. (Dorothy seems to concede the point.) And in the episode in which Clayton comes out to her, Blanche, while talking with her brother in a restaurant which she assumes is a gay bar (it's actually a sports bar that had the few women in attendance leave), announces to the clientele that she'd be proud to have any one of them date her brother. One of the customers says, "I'd rather date you, lady," to which Blanche crows, "I've done the impossible! I've converted one!"
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The Golden Girls / int_9dd2af4a	type	Inspirationally Disadvantaged
The Golden Girls / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Rose's sister Lily is blind, but believes she is able to do anything even without her eyesight. She nearly ends up setting the house on fire while cooking. Later deconstructed with her having a Heroic BSoD. Reconstruction with Lily going to a school for the blind and learning to take care of herself. She says she's even driving by herself.
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The Golden Girls / int_9e80f156	type	Unfortunate Item Swap
The Golden Girls / int_9e80f156	comment	Unfortunate Item Swap: After the Girls' home is burglarized, Rose takes a number of measures to protect herself. When Blanche tries to maintain her hairstyle with hairspray, she discovers the can she took from Rose's room is actually mace. When Sophia loses Dreyfuss, the dog she is supposed to be taking care of, she purchases an identical replacement from the pet store. When the real Dreyfuss returns, she hides both in her room and isn't able to tell which dog is which.
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The Golden Girls / int_9f2ca67b	type	Gaydar
The Golden Girls / int_9f2ca67b	comment	Gaydar: Averted, intentionally or otherwise, in the case of Blanche. Entire episodes hinge on her total lack of it, to the point where she honestly seems to think her gay brother Clayton should continue dating women, despite his having come out of the closet.
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The Golden Girls / int_9f5c935a	type	Long Speech Tea Time
The Golden Girls / int_9f5c935a	comment	Long Speech Tea Time: Sometimes, when Rose starts one of her many meandering stories about St. Olaf, the others feign sleep or run off to the kitchen. On one occasion, while everyone's in the kitchen, the doorbell rings when Rose starts one such story. The other three loudly claim "I'll get it!" before dashing to open the front door.
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The Golden Girls / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
The Golden Girls / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: Frequently said by Dorothy to Stanley, when he drops in unannounced and makes his latest unreasonable, intrusive demand â€” usually to do with his poor financial situation. In one flashback, Dorothy kicks him for trying to sign them up for a multi-level marketing scheme. In "Room 7," Dorothy brakes angrily and kicks Rose out of the car after she tries to play "The Name Game" while driving: Blanche often says this as a joke when she hears something particularly surprising or unbelievable. However, in "An Illegitimate Concern", she says this in a 100% dead serious, angry manner, right after a man named David tells her he's the son of her late husband George and a woman he'd had an affair with while he was still married to Blanche (which is eventually proven true).
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The Golden Girls / int_a17dac32	type	Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket
The Golden Girls / int_a17dac32	comment	Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket:
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The Golden Girls / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Golden Girls / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Blanche gets this big time in "Ebb Tide" after Big Daddy's death. First, when she realizes she passed up her last chance to see her father alive so she could be the belle of the Citrus Ball, and then when she refuses to attend the funeral after she's called out for her selfishness by her sister Virginia, and has to regretfully settle for a brief graveside farewell.
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The Golden Girls / int_a220d528	type	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Golden Girls / int_a220d528	comment	What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: The young Sophia says this to Salvatore in a flashback when he asks her why Phil is dressed in Dorothy's clothes. Phil turned out to be a crossdresser.
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The Golden Girls / int_a27c0c2c	type	Artistic License â€“ Religion
The Golden Girls / int_a27c0c2c	comment	Artistic License â€“ Religion: Sophia, as part of a joke satirizing the opinion of older Catholics to the post-Vatican II reforms, remarks that churches should go back to using Latin — the language Jesus spoke. Dorothy correctly points out that Jesus did not speak Latin, but gets it wrong in saying he spoke Hebrew. He certainly would have understood Hebrew, but the vernacular tongue spoken by the Jews living in Judea at the time was Aramaic, not Hebrew. Dorothy seems to have a very "pop culture" understanding of the Bible in general. When the girls are forced to lug a heavy toilet across the house into the bathroom, Rose optimistically points out that if the Egyptians built the pyramids, they can move the toilet. Dorothy snarks back "Fine. Get me 20,000 Hebrews and I'll have it out of here in no time." This statement is wrong on three counts: The pyramids weren't built by Hebrew slaves, they were built by (native) peasant labor during the off-season when their fields were flooded by the inundation of the Nile river. Ancient Egypt didn't really practice chattel slavery the way other civilizations (like the Romans) did, not least because of this abundant peasant labor. Whether the Exodus story happened at all is fiercely debated, but any mass migration of Hebrews out of Egypt would not be because they were escaping a life in bondage. And most importantly, the pyramids were built about a millennium before there even were Hebrews, with the Great Pyramid going up in approximately 2600 BC. At that time, the Ancient Canaanites practiced a polytheistic religion quite similar to the Ancient Egyptian pantheon. Ramses II, the most commonly held Pharaoh of the Exodus, reigned over 1,300 years later.
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The Golden Girls / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: Dorothy, Sophia, Rose, Miles, and even Stan, who, for all of the bad that could be said about him, would do anything for Kate and Michael. Averted with Blanche, who was very hands-off with her kids. But it's abundantly clear that she regrets this, given that she spends most of the series making up for it.
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The Golden Girls / int_a31c79f3	comment	Paparazzi: When Sophia participates in a marathon for the elderly, she becomes convinced that she is a celebrity athlete and falls under the delusion that she is being hounded by journalists. This leads her to tell off a caller and hang up on them, without realizing that they were actually a parent trying to inform the other girls that he would be late picking up the infant they were babysitting due to an emergency.
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The Golden Girls / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
The Golden Girls / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: A few instances. Possibly the most prominent example is the ages of Dorothy's son Michael and daughter Kate. Even though one of the two was born when Dorothy was still in high school, and thus should have been in at least their mid-forties, both were consistently played by actors in their twenties and early thirties. Another example is the episode in which Rose stubbornly adopts a puppy despite a prior agreement between the housemates that they can't get a dog; yet in another episode, Blanche and Dorothy get Rose a dog from a shelter. "The Way We Met" states that Rose, before moving in with Blanche and Dorothy, was thrown out of her apartment because she secretly had a cat and was caught; another episode has her reminiscing about Rusty, a dog she had when her children were growing up, who saved the family cat from a house fire. However, Rose is later shown to be very allergic to cats. In "The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo," Dorothy states that her grandmother died at age 94 when she herself was 6. Yet in a flashback episode, Dorothy is shown as a young woman (played by Lyn Greene) with her grandmother (played by Bea Arthur), already married to Stan. Granted, it could have been Dorothy's paternal grandmother who died when she was 6, since the grandma in the flashback was Sophia's mother; but in another episode, Sophia and her brother talk about their mother dying in Sicily before they moved to the US. Speaking of Sophia, there is also the matter of her siblings. In the first two seasons, she says that her only living relative is her sister Angela, who disappeared after two appearances. Later in the series, she is suddenly revealed to have a brother named Angelo. She also apparently has a brother Vito who is the The Unseen, and another unseen relative named Regina who might be either her sister or Salvatore's.
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The Golden Girls / int_a3cf9ef6	type	…And That Little Girl Was Me
The Golden Girls / int_a3cf9ef6	comment	â€¦And That Little Girl Was Me: A Running Gag with Sophia's Sicily stories from the past. Her stories typically describe a highly outrageous situation, which end with her revealing she was one of the persons involved. Blanche did this in "The Operation" while telling Rose about a case of stage fright she'd dealt with while performing in a dance recital with a group of twelve other girls: "They opened the curtain and the music started and twelve little girls started to dance. And one little girl wet her pants. That girl in the puddle was me."
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The Golden Girls / int_a3d65f56	type	Megaphone Gag
The Golden Girls / int_a3d65f56	comment	Megaphone Gag: When the protagonists prepare for a cruise they are taking with their male friends, they feel embarrassed buying condoms at a store. When they work up the courage to discreetly add the protection to their order, the clerk requests a price check over the store's PA system and describes in great detail the specifics of the items they are purchasing. Even more outrageously, his associate responds over the speaker system, and they engage in an explicit 2-way conversation describing the brand and model each protagonist has selected, which is broadcast to the entire store. Customers begin to point and starenote It doesn't help that immediately prior, Dorothy had an outburst where she shouted "Condoms, Rose! Condoms! Condoms! Condoms!" in frustration due to Rose not understanding what "protection" meant., prompting Blanche to commandeer the microphone and go on a rant about how they are mature adults behaving responsibly and have no reason to be embarrassed. When Rose finds her old megaphone while cleaning up the house, she reminisces about using it to publicly chastise rule-breaking park visitors as a forest ranger. Later, Dorothy uses the tone generator function to get Sophia's attention after she fails to answer to her name being called. In a later episode, Rose uses the megaphone while leading a protest against the hunting of whales. However, she goes off on a tangent about her experiences in her hometown of St. Olaf, to the annoyance of her friends and the bewilderment of passersby. When Rose is selected to deliver the eulogy for a deceased relative, her roommates accompany her on the journey to support her. When their flight turns around due to extreme weather and she realizes she will never get to deliver the speech she worked so hard on, one of her friends suggests she simply present the speech to the passengers on the plane. Rose uses the flight attendant's microphone to orate the speech and the passengers are moved, but the flight attendant tells her to sit back down and berates her for using the plane's speaker system. When a train station attendant informs the group that they missed their train during a Road Trip Plot, the group prepares to settle down in the station for the night to wait for the train leaving the next day. The attendant then proceeds to announce the departure of a different train through the station's speaker system, which Dorothy questions as the waiting area contains no other passengers besides him, and all four of them are still standing in front of him within speaking range.
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The Golden Girls / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
The Golden Girls / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: In universe, Rose and Dorothy compose "Miami Youâ€™ve Got Style" in hopes of winning a song writing competition. They end up getting second place but their performance is guaranteed to put a smile on your face.
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The Golden Girls / int_a41f13e5	type	Bad Job, Worse Uniform
The Golden Girls / int_a41f13e5	comment	Bad Job, Worse Uniform: Sophia has two fast food jobs during the series' run. One is at "Pecos Pete's Chow Wagon," which has a western theme where she dresses as a cowgirl and has to greet customers with "Howdy Partner, how about a saddlebag of fries with that Ranch House Burger?" The other is at "Captain Jack's Seafood Shanty" where she dresses like a pirate, complete with a parrot on the shoulder.
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The Golden Girls / int_a431b0e6	type	The Butler Did It
The Golden Girls / int_a431b0e6	comment	The Butler Did It: Parodied when the girls participate in a murder mystery weekend. Rose immediately stands up and points to the waiter.
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The Golden Girls / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
The Golden Girls / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: "Old Friends" can refer to both Sophia and Alvin (with "old" meaning their physical ages), as well as to Rose and her teddy bear Fernando (with "old" meaning the length of time she possessed him).
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The Golden Girls / int_a4b66569	type	Embarrassing Relative Teacher
The Golden Girls / int_a4b66569	comment	Embarrassing Roommate Teacher: Inverted. When Dorothy teaches a class for adults that never received their high school diplomas, she discovers that Rose is one of her students. Rose never graduated high school because of a nasty case of mono in her senior year, and felt too embarrassed to get it later until she saw that Dorothy would be teaching her.
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The Golden Girls / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Golden Girls / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: "Break-In" (season 1, episode 8) deals with Post-Robbery Trauma. Rose is in a parking garage, still paranoid after the girls' house has been burglarized. Suddenly, she hears footsteps, and they sound like they're following her. Panicked, Rose realizes a man is running after her and runs off frantically, and ends up having to hurry down sets of stairs — but she's out of breath, and eventually has to stop for sheer fatigue. The man is right behind her, and she turns with a terrified expression on her face... and we Smash Cut to the very next scene, featuring Sophia playing Scrabble, claiming her word really exists and joking that the robbers stole the dictionary, meaning it can't be disproven. A scene in "Sophia's Choice" has them jump between a serious discussion about the state of the elder care system to jokes about the pictures of topless women Blanche has spread out over the coffee table (she was considering implants and was trying to decide which ones). At one point mid-line. A flashback in the Valentine's Day episode jumps from a sweet moment of Sophia's husband giving her chocolates that he prepared when they left on their trip days ago, to them hightailing it out of there because the wall Sophia's father peed on was right next to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
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The Golden Girls / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
The Golden Girls / int_a536f3a3	comment	There are several characters named Charlie - Rose's late husband; her never-seen son, Charlie, Jr.; her granddaughter who is named after them (who appears in one episode); and the girls' neighbor, Charlie Dietz (who mostly appears on Empty Nest).
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The Golden Girls / int_a54534a0	type	Parental Neglect
The Golden Girls / int_a54534a0	comment	Parental Neglect: Blanche is strongly implied to have been a "hands-off" mother, which factors into any episode that features her children and grandchildren; it's particularly clear in her relationship with her older daughter Janet, who seems to hold lingering resentment for it. She tries to reverse this tendency with one of her granddaughters, but ends up forcing her into a beauty contest she clearly doesn't want to be in.
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The Golden Girls / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Golden Girls / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Sophia was conceived as a recurring character, but positive response to her in the pilot led to her being added to the main cast.
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The Golden Girls / int_a6971841	type	Dining in the Buff
The Golden Girls / int_a6971841	comment	Dining in the Buff: Averted in a flashback in "Valentine's Day" where Dorothy, Blanche and Rose visit a nudist community. They show up for dinner naked only to find out that clothes are required for meals.
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The Golden Girls / int_a6c677c4	type	Not Hyperbole
The Golden Girls / int_a6c677c4	comment	Rose's version of it with her daughter Kirsten involved taking the bull by the horns - literally - "and showing her what makes a bull a bull." Her mother did the same thing, which Rose admits affected her expectation of what a naked man would look like, leading to a surprise on her wedding night.
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The Golden Girls / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Golden Girls / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: When the girls only have three tickets to an event to meet Burt Reynolds, Sophia is aghast that she isn't invited. On two occasions, the girls say "She'll get over it. And if she doesn't, who cares? We're going to meet Burt Reynolds!" After the girls are arrested on suspicion of prostitution, Sophia snatches the tickets and says, "You'll get over it. And if you don't, who cares? I'm going to meet Burt Reynolds!"
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The Golden Girls / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
The Golden Girls / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: From the very first episode, every time it seems like one of the Girls might leave the house for whatever reason (marriage, moving in with their children), something happens which results in everyone staying put. Even when Sophia marries her husband's business partner, they decide to live apart, realizing that they'll never love each other as much as their late spouses, but not wanting to divorce. The status quo only changes in the series finale, when Dorothy gets married and moves away.
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The Golden Girls / int_a73c667a	type	Captivity Harmonica
The Golden Girls / int_a73c667a	comment	Captivity Harmonica: Stan plays one when he and Dorothy must serve a period of house arrest in an infested apartment.
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The Golden Girls / int_a78c385f	type	Umpteenth Customer
The Golden Girls / int_a78c385f	comment	Umpteenth Customer: One episode has Dorothy befriending a man with agoraphobia. She eventually convinces him to leave his apartment and go grocery shopping with her. He's nervous, of course, but does okay until he crosses the store's threshold, where there had apparently been a sensor counting the number of shoppers. Balloons and confetti rain down, lights start flashing, buzzers go off, and a banner reading "10,000th Customer" drops from the ceiling. The manager rushes over to congratulate him and present his prize, but he runs out of the store terrified and holes back up in his apartment, vowing never to leave it again.
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The Golden Girls / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
The Golden Girls / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: When Rose purchases a gun to defend herself from burglars, she tells the roommates she took a course at the gun range. She then pulls out a paper target with no holes in it. Later, she mistakes Blanche and her date for an intruder and fires at them, but only hits Blanche's Priceless Ming Vase.
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The Golden Girls / int_a81216dc	type	Too Much Alike
The Golden Girls / int_a81216dc	comment	The best example of the trope being played fully straight is the relationship Dorothy has with her younger sister, Gloria. Blanche also has this with her sisters Virginia and Charmaine, as the three are Too Much Alike.
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The Golden Girls / int_a990828b	type	Holiday Volunteering
The Golden Girls / int_a990828b	comment	Holiday Volunteering: In "Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas," Stan (once again) attempts to get the girls to invest in his business. They're not interested and instead head off to the soup kitchen to volunteer, where they find Stan in the line. Another episode has them doing this in a less traditional manner. When bad weather prevents any of them from following through with their holiday travel plans to see family, they find themselves at an all-night diner on Christmas Eve, which has exactly one staff member working. He gives them free cheesecake and helps them realize that they're with "family" after all, and the girls are so thankful for his kindness that they offer to mind the place for him so he can go be with his own family for a couple of hours, and he gratefully accepts.
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The Golden Girls / int_aa07ca54	type	Obfuscating Disability
The Golden Girls / int_aa07ca54	comment	The B-plot of "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia?" has Blanche intentionally rear-ending the upscale cars of men in order to meet them/get dates with them. She's then baffled as to why one who claims that she caused him to have whiplash wants to sue her.note Of course, as it turns out, he doesn't have whiplash, but still.
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The Golden Girls / int_aa5b4f2c	type	Wedding Episode
The Golden Girls / int_aa5b4f2c	comment	Wedding Episode: Common throughout the show's run - both the series premiere and the series finale feature a wedding. Notably three of the four Girls (Blanche, Sophia, and Dorothy) attempt to get married at some point, though not all of them are successful.
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The Golden Girls / int_aa79bac	type	Parting-Words Regret
The Golden Girls / int_aa79bac	comment	Parting-Words Regret: A variation occurs in "Mrs. George Devereaux." Blanche reveals that on the day George died, she was alone in the house and heard the phone ringing; when she went to answer, she tripped over a pair of shoes he'd left in the hall, and in her haste she thought "Damn it, George, I just hate you!" It turns out the call was the police, telling her that George had been in a fatal car accident. Blanche remarks that she's always felt guilty that the last thoughts she had about him before hearing the news were so angry, especially since she didn't mean them.
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The Golden Girls / int_abb9ebaa	type	Dramatic Pause
The Golden Girls / int_abb9ebaa	comment	At the start of "Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas", Dorothy names a list of aggressive acts people would do to their fellow shoppers "just for a Batman hat... but I did it anyway. I got the hat."
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The Golden Girls / int_abc55125	type	Character Filibuster
The Golden Girls / int_abc55125	comment	Dorothy, usually the strongest character, is the one dealing with a gambling addiction. She's also diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (after a number of doctors initially dismiss it as just age or laziness) â€” Truth in Television, as this had happened to one of the writers, and Dorothy's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to her doctors seems much like a Character Filibuster â€” but a completely understandable one.
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The Golden Girls / int_ac4ac8e5	type	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming
The Golden Girls / int_ac4ac8e5	comment	Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Many of the episode titles are references to classic movies, books, or popular songs. For example: "Two Rode Together", "Like the Beep-Beep-Beep of the Tom-Tom" (lyrics from the Cole Porter standard "Night and Day"), "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun... Before They Die", and so on.
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The Golden Girls / int_ac8cc568	type	Acronym Confusion
The Golden Girls / int_ac8cc568	comment	Acronym Confusion: Blanche's (second) middle name is Elizabeth, and she keeps a journal with her initials on the cover. Her initials spell BED, and the girls mistake it for a logbook of people she's slept with.
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The Golden Girls / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
The Golden Girls / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: The ladies collectively have cheesecake as this. They apparently have a stockpile of them in their refrigerator and crack them open like emergency rations whenever someone has a problem and wants to talk. Although, in real life, Bea Arthur (Dorothy) didn't really care for it that much, and knowing that, you can see she usually just pokes at it with her fork without really eating it.
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The Golden Girls / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Golden Girls / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Both Dorothy and Sophia. Blanche has her moments too, and so does Rose on occasion, although Rose always apologizes or qualifes the remark afterward:
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The Golden Girls / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
The Golden Girls / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Blanche hates her youngest granddaughter's name, Aurora, and at one point refers to her as "Oreo". When Rose's cousin Sven comes to visit, Blanche spends the entire episode calling him Swin. In Sophia's first letter home after joining the convent in "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia?", she calls Rose "Rita."
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The Golden Girls / int_af8a9084	type	Black Is Bigger in Bed
The Golden Girls / int_af8a9084	comment	The other Girls (who are all grandmothers) avert this trope — particularly Blanche, who frequently defies her Southern heritage by showing an interest in African-American men. In "Mixed Blessings," she rushes to get a pencil when Greta mentions that she knows plenty of young, wealthy black men. Later, when Sophia asks if the myth about black men in bed is true, it's Blanche who immediately answers, "Oh yes, definitely... oh yes, definitely, that is something I'd like to know about, too."
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The Golden Girls / int_afab5e94	type	Reunion Show
The Golden Girls / int_afab5e94	comment	Reunion Show: The Golden Girls: Their Greatest Moments aired in 2003 on the Lifetime television network, which at the time was the only place The Golden Girls could be seen on television in America. Bea Arthur, Betty White, and Rue McClanahan took part; Estelle Getty, by this time, was too ill to participate.
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The Golden Girls / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Golden Girls / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: An implied version in "The Auction." Sophia fully supports the Girls' plan to purchase an original Jasper DeKimmel painting due to his imminent death (which only they know about thanks to Sophia herself volunteering at the hospital where he's being treated), and even encourages them when they start to have doubts; she explains that since the doctors can't find anyone with DeKimmel's rare blood type, they might as well use the opportunity. However, once she learns (off-screen) that she is a match, she ultimately decides to make the donation, presumably deciding that as long as she is able to help, she has to do so.
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The Golden Girls / int_b097493c	type	Madonna-Whore Complex
The Golden Girls / int_b097493c	comment	Madonna-Whore Complex: Of a sort, in "Journey to the Center of Attention", when Dorothy becomes popular at the bar Blanche frequents; whereas Blanche is known for being easy and the men usually tell dirty jokes in front of her, a man chides another for attempting to make such a joke in the presence of a lady... Dorothy.
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The Golden Girls / int_b1191cb2	type	I Ate WHAT?!
The Golden Girls / int_b1191cb2	comment	I Ate WHAT?!: In "Long Day's Journey into Marinara," Dorothy eats some snacks Rose left behind while the latter was taking care of a live chicken. Then the following dialogue happens: In another episode, Sophia recalls an event where she made a meal with "what she thought" was chicken, and we don't learn what it really was she served because Dorothy cuts her off, asking, "Oh God, it wasn't my confirmation dinner, was it?!" In "Clinton Avenue Memoirs," Dorothy and Sophia look at an old photo album and discover a picture of Sal dressed as an organ grinder. Dorothy remarks that he somehow managed to put meat on the table every night despite his low salary, then asks, "Where's the monkey?" Cue a guilty look from Sophia. Sophia's miracle cure for the flu in "The Blind Date" - consisting of red peppers, oregano, garlic, chicken fat and lard. A sick Dorothy and Rose force it down their throats and after Dorothy complains about how terrible it tastes, Sophia mentions it's meant to be used in a vaporizer, not eaten. In the earlier episode in which Dorothy, Rose and Blanche all come down with the flu, Rose makes the girls her special hot toddy recipe from her folk medicine book. We never learn what's in it exactly, but Dorothy, after taking a sip, remarks, "This stuff should have an octane rating!" Rose's reply, without a hint of irony: "I know."
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The Golden Girls / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Golden Girls / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: In season 1, a whole episode revolves around Rose losing her job because the grief center where she works is shut down, and she takes a job as a waitress. In season 2, she's working at the center again... or working there still (or possibly working at another center).
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The Golden Girls / int_b3de4c5b	type	Sex God
The Golden Girls / int_b3de4c5b	comment	Sex God: Rose explains that she and her husband Charlie, when he was alive, always had sex every night and the following morning during their entire marriage (save for one night). Seven to midnight, five to seven AM, and until noon on Sundays. Charlie was implied to have physical endowment that would've made a bull jealous. Blanche has trouble believing this since Rose is so embarrassed to talk about sex. Rose explains that, to her understanding, people who talk about sex don't really do it as much as they claim. All eyes are suddenly on Blanche.
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The Golden Girls / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: In one of Rose's stories about her home town, she mentions that her cousin fell into a vat of milk. He wasn't injured and it turned milk-swimming into a sport in St. Olaf.
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The Golden Girls / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Golden Girls / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Blanche, for all her promiscuity, will not betray a friend or go to bed with married men. Oh -- except for that one time. Dorothy would never subject anyone, not even her worst enemy, to Rose's St. Olaf stories... unless she needs to use it to do the right thing and get the father of a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl to take his daughter back.
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The Golden Girls / int_b4a6fef1	type	Tough Room
The Golden Girls / int_b4a6fef1	comment	Tough Room: Fans of the show love Rose's St. Olaf stories, but in-universe, her friends dread having to listen to them.
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The Golden Girls / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Golden Girls / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Phil, Dorothy's transvestite brother, is also this. The closest we get to seeing him is the visibly empty coffin at his funeral.
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The Golden Girls / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Golden Girls / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The show made frequent references to pop culture at the time. See the examples on this page.
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The Golden Girls / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Golden Girls / int_b58b4e3c	comment	In "Questions and Answers", Rose's account with Rusty the dachshund that she and Charlie used to have as a pet ends with Rusty dying... after running back into the burning house that everyone escaped from in an attempt to fetch the TV.
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The Golden Girls / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
The Golden Girls / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Season 7 episode "Mother Load" has Blanche dating a local newscaster, only for his overprotective mother to start meddling in their relationship, and it's clear this isn't the first time she's gotten between him and a potential girlfriend. He finally gets fed up with her behavior and, with Blanche's encouragement, tells her he's not going to let her push him around anymore and do what he really wants — which, to Blanche's stunned shock, is to go back to an ex-girlfriend named Christina. His mother is last seen following him out the door, still trying to control him by saying "We don't like Christina, remember?"
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The Golden Girls / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
The Golden Girls / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: Dorothy once has complaints about Sophia's latest boyfriend and tells Rose about Sophia coming home one night with his surgical stockings in her pocket and NyQuil on her breath. Rose, for once, has an understandable reason to be confused by what Dorothy just said.
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The Golden Girls / int_b688bbfc	type	Pregnancy Scare
The Golden Girls / int_b688bbfc	comment	Pregnancy Scare: In "The End of the Curse", Blanche believes that she's pregnant and spends the first part of the episode trying to work out who the father might be. As it turns out, she's not pregnant — she's entering menopause.
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The Golden Girls / int_b6927d71	type	Hot for Preacher
The Golden Girls / int_b6927d71	comment	Hot for Preacher: "Rose the Prude" features Blanche talking about how she and the reverend who spoke at her husband George's funeral had their eyes on one another, and after a time of trying to deny their impulses finally decided to "consummate [their] relationship". (It took about ten minutes, he wore his watch and his socks, and they never saw each other again.) In "Forgive Me, Father", Dorothy develops the hots for a coworker only to discover that he's a priest, and is subsequently wracked with guilt when he tells her he's decided to leave the church. Turns out he meant he was leaving his post as a parish priest to teach at another church, not leaving the Catholic Church. That same episode, Blanche recalls a time she had an affair with a "man of the cloth," and Dorothy, thinking Blanche is talking about a priest, is horrified. Turned out Blanche was talking about a man of actual cloth - a fabric salesman. Minor example in the final season episode "The Pope's Ring". After the Pope visits the hospital where Sophia's friend Agnes is a patient, Rose mentions what beautiful blue eyes the Pope has. Sophia adds: "Yeah, all the cute guys are either married or Popes."
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The Golden Girls / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Golden Girls / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: At the start of "Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas", Dorothy names a list of aggressive acts people would do to their fellow shoppers "just for a Batman hat... but I did it anyway. I got the hat." "All Bets Are Off" features Sophia chewing out Dorothy for gambling at a horse racing track, based off some betting slips she'd found while going through Dorothy's purse.
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The Golden Girls / int_b790a174	type	Metaphorical Marriage
The Golden Girls / int_b790a174	comment	Metaphorical Marriage: Blanche's gay brother, Clayton, plans a commitment ceremony with his boyfriend, Doug. Blanche has a hard time adjusting to the idea. It appears she would be okay with him being gay if he were also celibate. However, when Clayton makes it clear he will choose Doug as his family over Blanche if she doesn't accept them, she makes her peace with it and assures Clayton she will consider Doug her brother-in-law.
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The Golden Girls / int_b8fa003b	type	Once More, with Volume!
The Golden Girls / int_b8fa003b	comment	Once More, with Volume!: Rose Nylund does it frequently:
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The Golden Girls / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Golden Girls / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Played with in "End of the Curse" when Rose named some of the minks.
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The Golden Girls / int_b9fc31d3	type	Victoria's Secret Compartment
The Golden Girls / int_b9fc31d3	comment	Victoria's Secret Compartment: After the Girls believe they have lost the tickets to Grab That Dough, the game show they've travelled to Hollywood to appear on, due to their purses being stolen, Sophia is revealed to have kept the tickets safe in her bra.
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The Golden Girls / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
The Golden Girls / int_ba236071	comment	A scene in "Sophia's Choice" has them jump between a serious discussion about the state of the elder care system to jokes about the pictures of topless women Blanche has spread out over the coffee table (she was considering implants and was trying to decide which ones). At one point mid-line.
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The Golden Girls / int_ba3b41d6	type	Ironic Echo Cut
The Golden Girls / int_ba3b41d6	comment	Ironic Echo Cut: Dorothy, visiting the concession stand Sophia and Max (then-husband of Sophia) are running at the time, worries that the weather might cause Sophia to get sick. Sophia responds by saying, "Please, I haven't had a cold for 40 years!" Cue the cut, followed by Max and Sophia being sick and treated at home, while the latter moans: "This is the worst cold I've had in 40 years."
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The Golden Girls / int_ba440e1	type	THeUnfavorite
The Golden Girls / int_ba440e1	comment	In an early episode, "The Custody Battle", Sophia's other daughter (and Dorothy's only sister) Gloria appears, and she and Dorothy argue over which of them is the favorite. (Their brother, Phil, is decidedly The Un-Favorite). Each of them believe the other to be Sophia's favorite, and although Sophia never says outright which of them she favors the events of the episode suggest that it is Dorothy.
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The Golden Girls / int_ba94e7ad	type	Low Count Gag
The Golden Girls / int_ba94e7ad	comment	Low Count Gag: This trope is in place during the dialogue regarding the previous winner of the "St. Olaf Woman of the Year" award, who won by saving the local St. Olaf library books when said library was burning.
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The Golden Girls / int_babd94bc	type	Very False Advertising
The Golden Girls / int_babd94bc	comment	Very False Advertising: When Rose books a vacation at a tropical location on behalf of the whole group, she falls for a dingy hotel's false claims of comforts. Since the room was paid for in advance and all of the features advertised turn out to be Metaphorically True, the Girls have no means of obtaining a refund and decide to stick it out for the weekend.
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The Golden Girls / int_bac9f95d	type	Sweet Tooth
The Golden Girls / int_bac9f95d	comment	Sweet Tooth: Rose has a notorious sweet tooth. Once, when she can't sleep, she mentions how her nightly ritual involved eating a painful amount of sugar. ("A handful of Sno-caps, a couple of Devil Dogs, some Oreos, and a Ho-Ho chopped up in a bowl of fruit cocktail with heavy syrup.") When Dorothy hears this, she snarks, "Couldn't sleep? I'm surprised you didn't try to kill the mayor of San Francisco." Several of Rose's St. Olaf recipes are examples of this. Either lampshaded or parodied with Rose's Maple Syrup Honey Brown Sugar Molasses Rice Krispies log. Literally just four layers of sugar stacked on top of each other.
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The Golden Girls / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Golden Girls / int_bb18a227	comment	Due to her vain, It's All About Me personality, Blanche did not enjoy being a mother and was VERY hands off, leaving the raising and taking care of her children to nannies and housekeepers. As they got older, she told people they were children from her husband's first marriage. While her vanity is usually Played for Laughs, many instances on the show reveal that her now-grown children want little to nothing to do with her.
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The Golden Girls / int_bbf08a2b	type	Gender-Inverted Trope
The Golden Girls / int_bbf08a2b	comment	Blanche's Big Daddy is a male version. "They're admitting who into my country club?"
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The Golden Girls / int_bc6c6c90	type	Drop-In Character
The Golden Girls / int_bc6c6c90	comment	Charlie, both literally (the character is long dead) and figuratively. He's the only one of the husbands whom we never see - Stan, the only living (ex-)husband, is a Drop-In Character, Salvatore appears frequently in flashbacks and the occasional out-of-body experience, George is seen in one All Just a Dream episode, and his eerily similar younger brother visits in another episode.
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The Golden Girls / int_bd8aa92a	type	Negative Continuity
The Golden Girls / int_bd8aa92a	comment	Negative Continuity: Probably the best way to describe this show's infamous problems with keeping character details consistent. By the end, it's obvious they weren't even trying: Rose's family backstory. Was she left on a doorstep in a basket as a baby, or did she spend part of her childhood in an orphanage before being adopted? (They eventually try to combine those by saying she was left in a basket on the doorstep of an orphanage.) Dorothy's senior prom. It was said that she was stood up (although later Dorothy discovers that Sophia really just sent him away for not being dressed to her liking); but in another episode, it's said that she went with Stan, even though Dorothy stated that she didn't meet Stan until a full two weeks after the senior prom. And yet another episode said she went with her brother, Phil. The story of Blanche's husband George's death. One version is that Blanche was out getting a pedicure when he died, after he had been comatose for a few days. Another is that she got a phone call at home from a rude, food-munching cop, who informed her that he died (presumably instantly) in a car accident; and Blanche mentions another time that a cop came to her house to let her know about George's death. Another is where Blanche lived and how old she was when she moved to Miami. In "Accurate Conception," when talking to her daughter, she mentions how, when said daughter was a baby, she would have to go downstairs in the middle of the night to scream for the governess when she was crying, implying she lived at her family home of Hollingsworth Manor and her Miami home was a retirement property. However, when considering selling shares of the house to the other girls, she's initially reluctant because she claims it was the house where she raised her children. Even an element as simple as the characters' names are inconsistent. In the pilot, Blanche's last name is Hollingsworth. In the entire rest of the series, it's Devereaux (Hollingsworth is retconned into being her maiden name). Rose's maiden name is well-established as Lindstrom, but a notorious goof in the Bob Hope episode gives her parents the name Nylund, her married name. In two episodes, Blanche is given two different middle names, in each case strongly implied to be her only middle name: Marie and Elizabeth (the second was chosen so that her initials would form the word "B.E.D."). Dorothy's children are a great big continuity error. It is stated numerous times that she had to drop out of high school because she got pregnant, was married for 38 years, then divorced two years before the show began, meaning she should be 57 with a child near or over 40. Yet whenever Kate and Michael appear on the show, both are in their 20's. It can't even be claimed that Dorothy has an unseen third child, because Stan's third wife explicitly states that Dorothy raised two children. Rose's love interest, Miles Webber, is initially shown to have a grown daughter living in Miami, who does not approve of his relationship with Rose at first, because she believes he is still too vulnerable after his wife's death. Later, however, Miles is revealed to be in the witness protection program, living in Miami under an alias, and all of his relations reside in his hometown of Chicago. Rose mentions almost any honor she competed for as being "her town's highest honor." She claims this about Butter Queen, St. Olaf's Woman of the Year, and Small Curd Cottage Cheese Queen (well, after Large Curd Cottage Cheese Queen.) An early episode has Dorothy and Sophia playing cards for money. Later, in "All Bets Are Off", Dorothy is revealed to have a gambling addiction and isn't supposed to do any gambling at all.
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The Golden Girls / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Golden Girls / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Rose and Charlie apparently had the healthiest relationship of the four couples, although Sophia and Sal (who were shown capable of arguing) clearly loved each other and never had any serious issues. Blanche was fully committed to George, but then it turned out George had an affair and fathered a son with another woman, and it's frequently clear that Dorothy and Stan's marriage was riddled with problems (not even starting with how Dorothy believes Stan got her pregnant by slipping her something to knock her out). Hopefully, Dorothy's marriage to Lucas Hollingsworth will be an extremely satisfying improvement over her previous marriage since Lucas treats her with love, dignity, and respect. Of all the Petrillo siblings, Dorothy's brother Phil has the only stable marriage while Dorothy and Gloria both end up getting divorced. Phil's wife Angela never has any problem with Phil's crossdressing and often applauds him for having wonderful taste. She even goes as far as to honor Phil's wish to have him buried in a teddy he picked out himself.
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The Golden Girls / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
The Golden Girls / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Blanche.
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The Golden Girls / int_c0068b0f	type	FlowerMotif
The Golden Girls / int_c0068b0f	comment	Flower Motif: In-universe, Rose's parents apparently invoked this when naming their children. During the course of the series, viewers are introduced to two of her sisters, Lily and Holly. The Golden Palace also reveals another sister, Iris.
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The Golden Girls / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
The Golden Girls / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: Mentioned as threats. Blanche once tells Sophia that either she goes along with Blanche's young-age pretense or she gets slapped with a big rent raise. In another episode, Sophia makes Dorothy talk about her gambling addiction relapse with her on the threat that, if they don't discuss it right away, they'll talk in her bedroom after Sophia eats a bowl of chili. Dorothy threatens to cut off Sophia's Metamucil supply if she comments on the conversation between her and a failing student. Everybody uses Rose's famous St. Olaf stories as a punishment, including Rose herself. Once, when Dorothy and Blanche try to use lame excuses to duck out on one, she threatens to follow them to their room and act out the story with sock puppets. In another, when Sophia is considering helping a friend commit suicide, Dorothy encourages Rose to tell a story, and then after the story is over, she turns to Sophia and says, "You see what happens. You kill someone, and you end up a Rose story."
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The Golden Girls / int_c086ab0e	type	Buses Are for Freaks
The Golden Girls / int_c086ab0e	comment	Buses Are for Freaks: When Dorothy asks where Sophia met the Blind Date she is setting her up with, she starts her explanation with, "I was on the bus." When the girls immediately interrupt to express their shock that she would match Dorothy with a stranger she met on transit, she adds that she actually used a Dating Service which she learned about when she saw their ad on the bus.
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The Golden Girls / int_c0961831	type	Interrupted Suicide
The Golden Girls / int_c0961831	comment	Interrupted Suicide: Sophia prevents her dear friend Martha from killing herself.
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The Golden Girls / int_c0ea845	type	Wrong Restaurant
The Golden Girls / int_c0ea845	comment	Wrong Restaurant: Inverted — when the Girls lose their winning lottery ticket in "Brother, Can You Spare That Jacket?", Rose pleads their case to the lottery commission over the phone in the hopes they can offer a solution. The friendly man on the phone is sympathetic to their plight, but explains that she dialed his Chinese restaurant, not the Florida Lottery, so there's nothing he can do for them in relation to the lost ticket. As consolation, he offers them free egg rolls the next time they visit his restaurant.
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The Golden Girls / int_c132c0c5	type	I Have No Son!
The Golden Girls / int_c132c0c5	comment	Partly averted when Blanche's sister Virginia, who had appeared just once in season 1, returns for Big Daddy's funeral in season 5, but her other two siblings, Clayton and Charmaine, are unseen — although it is implied that the family are shunning Blanche for not visiting Big Daddy on his deathbed at his request, and that Virginia has been chosen to communicate this to her. Clayton may also have simply not been allowed to attend either after having come out of the closet in the previous season. There's no similar excuse, however, for Blanche's own children, Big Daddy's grandchildren, not being seen or mentioned attending the funeral.
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The Golden Girls / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
The Golden Girls / int_c145f69b	comment	Blanche, for all her promiscuity, will not betray a friend or go to bed with married men. Oh -- except for that one time.
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The Golden Girls / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
The Golden Girls / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: Blanche's full (married) name is "Blanche Elizabeth Devereaux", which means that her initials spell BED.
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The Golden Girls / int_c2c15b23	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comment: In "Blanche's Little Girl:"
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The Golden Girls / int_c30b3981	comment	Mistaken for Prostitute: "Ladies of the Evening" has Blanche check the girls into a hotel which turns out to be a brothel and then the cops come to arrest them thinking them to be prostitutes like the other women there. In one clip show, Dorothy puts out a newspaper ad looking for work, saying she's "willing to do anything for eight bucks an hour." Rose accidentally sends this ad to the personals column, prompting a variety of men to drop by and proposition Dorothy to act out their wildest fantasies in exchange for eight bucks.
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The Golden Girls / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
The Golden Girls / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: All four of the main group. They may all be markedly different and bicker constantly, but they are closer than family, to the point that they all have a pact to take care of one another if something ever happens to one of them. In "Home Again, Rose," Rose suffers a severe heart attack and needs quadruple bypass surgery. When her daughter expresses concern that they won't be able to pay for the rehab, Blanche immediately remarks that the Girls will help, commenting, "That's why houses have mortgages." In other words, she's willing to take out another loan on her property if it means helping Rose. Earlier in the series, Blanche actually makes the women co-owners of the house rather than renters, something she was initially reluctant to do.
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The Golden Girls / int_c339d8fb	type	Genius Book Club
The Golden Girls / int_c339d8fb	comment	Genius Book Club: Blanche clearly enjoys Lady Chatterley's Lover, as she is seen reading a paperback copy of it several times throughout the series. In "Dorothy's New Friend," Dorothy and Barbara Thorndyke go to a literary-themed restaurant for lunch, and all of the dishes are named after famous books, like For Whom the Stuffed Bell Pepper Tolls and The Crepes of Wrath.
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The Golden Girls / int_c344b4fc	type	Faked Food Contaminant
The Golden Girls / int_c344b4fc	comment	Faked Food Contaminant: In one episode, after Dorothy takes them out to a restaurant and orders a bottle of champagne they can't afford, Sophia pours salt into her glass, complains that it's swill, and they get the meal for free.
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The Golden Girls / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
The Golden Girls / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: "And Estelle Getty" (though in a subversion of this trope, it wasn't done to signify that Getty was a big-name star—actually, she was the least known of the four actresses when the show began).
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The Golden Girls / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
The Golden Girls / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: One incident when Dorothy and Sophia are fighting, Dorothy asks Sophia to hand her a magazine. When Sophia sits on the magazine instead, Dorothy says that next time she'll ask Sophia to hand her the candlestick.
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The Golden Girls / int_c5330897	type	NaÃ¯ve Everygirl
The Golden Girls / int_c5330897	comment	A textbook example. Rose is the NaÃ¯ve Everygirl, Dorothy is the tough, mannish Deadpan Snarker, Blanche is the promiscuous one, and Sophia is the wise Team Mom.
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The Golden Girls / int_c5606510	type	Social Semi-Circle
The Golden Girls / int_c5606510	comment	Social Semi-Circle: When all four women are at the kitchen table, Sophia pulls up a stool next to Dorothy rather than sitting on the camera side. There isn't even a chair on the camera's side. We're probably meant to assume that the table and the stove (which is stage left of but lined up with said table) are up against the Fourth Wall.
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The Golden Girls / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
The Golden Girls / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: How Rose's home town, St. Olaf, treats any crime. Every year in St. Olaf, they assemble all the children in the town square who have lied and the mayor points at them. During Rose and Blanche's first meeting:
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The Golden Girls / int_c6355c0a	type	Celebrity Lie
The Golden Girls / int_c6355c0a	comment	Celebrity Lie: Rose claims that she was the daughter of Bob Hope in order to get him to perform for a benefit—the variation being that she genuinely believes this to be true. (She was an orphan and reminisced about seeing Hope on a movie screen as a child, becoming convinced that he was her father). Luckily for her, he turns out to be the old vaudeville partner of Sophia's boyfriend and shows up anyway. Rose once tells a story about her mother dating race-car driver Andy Granatelli, though no indication is given as to the veracity of this story. Blanche likes to engage in this frequently. Probably her biggest case of this is when she claims to have slept with Elvis Presley in order to convince Rose to elect her president of their newly-established Elvis fan club. (After Rose leaves the room, Dorothy calls her out, and she admits that she never slept with Elvis himself - but she did once sleep with "an unattractive man named Elmer" and called him by Elvis's name, and she feels that counts.) In the most extreme example, Blanche claims to be Angie Dickinson in "Grab That Dough." After an argument with Blanche, Rose calls her out on all of her far-fetched Noodle Incident sexual encounters of questionable authenticity. One of the stories she doubts is the one about what Blanche did with Buzz (Aldrin) in the lunar module.
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The Golden Girls / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
The Golden Girls / int_c691d3f4	comment	Rose does this at a banquet when she finds out that the romantic relationship with her date was fabricated by Blanche and Dorothy who were impersonating her pen pal. Rose locks herself in the only operational stall as the other one is out of order, and by the time the situation is resolved, an enormous line has gathered offscreen to use the washroom.
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The Golden Girls / int_c6b4b048	type	Dropped After the Pilot
The Golden Girls / int_c6b4b048	comment	Dropped After the Pilot: The pilot gave the housemates a gay male live-in cook named Coco. When Sophia turned out to be unexpectedly popular and was made a permanent part of the cast, Coco vanished without further mention. Justified as he is merely an employee, it's entirely possible he was fired or let go, possibly to make room for the newly-homeless Sophia.
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The Golden Girls / int_c6c73b3b	type	Undesirable Prize
The Golden Girls / int_c6c73b3b	comment	Undesirable Prize: The girls go through a lot of trouble to fly to California to be on the fictional game show Grab That Dough!, so they decide to split up to increase their chances of winning. Rose and Sophia lose, and each take home $100. Blanche and Dorothy win, and bet their cash on a mystery prize. After showing them Window 1 (new living room furniture) and Window 2 (a sports car) they open Window 3 and show them their prize... an electric skillet. And a lifetime supply of soup.
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The Golden Girls / int_c6ed4005	type	Candy Striper
The Golden Girls / int_c6ed4005	comment	Candy Striper: Downplayed in Season 6, Episode 2, "Once, In St. Olaf". Rose volunteers at the local hospital, but the hospital's volunteer uniform is a solid pink pinafore.
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The Golden Girls / int_c6f45871	type	Fake Orgasm
The Golden Girls / int_c6f45871	comment	Fake Orgasm: Implied in the episode "Bang the Drum, Stanley". Sophia is pretending to be paralyzed after an accident to file a lawsuit, and, as Dorothy talks about it, Blanche mistakes what she's saying:
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The Golden Girls / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Golden Girls / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When Dorothy is working on the kids' show, Mr. Terrific has a puppet sidekick named Kolack from Twilar. This is very likely a shout-out to Danny Thomas, who appeared on a The Dick Van Dyke Show episode ('It May Look Like a Walnut') as "Kolack from Twilo." Tony Thomas, one-third of the production team, is Danny Thomas's son. "A Piece of Cake": In the flashback sequence at Mr. Ha-Ha's, when Mr. Ha-Ha is about to reveal Dorothy's age to all present, Dorothy yells, "I'll punch your heart out, Ha-Ha!" One of Maude Findlay's (also played by Bea Arthur) trademark catchphrases is "I'll rip your heart out." During the "Condoms, Roses!" scene from "Valentine's Day", there's a plush toy of Mr. Tickle sitting on a shelf in the background.
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The Golden Girls / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
The Golden Girls / int_c87660d5	comment	In "72 Hours", Rose fears that she was accidentally given HIV through a previous blood transfusion and begins to grow hysterical in reaction to some other, unrelated bad news, while Dorothy tries to tell her to calm down, Sophia finally gives a Get A Hold Of Yourself Man slap. The only problem is that she slaps her daughter instead of Rose.
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The Golden Girls / int_ca39433f	type	The Game Never Stopped
The Golden Girls / int_ca39433f	comment	The Game Never Stopped: The episode where they go to a murder mystery party weekend with Blanche's Maltese Falcon Club, and Blanche is accused of murdering her boss. Turns out Rose participated in the ruse at the request of the hotel as revenge for Blanche's borrowing her earrings without permission and then kicking Rose out of their shared hotel room.
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The Golden Girls / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
The Golden Girls / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: In the pilot, Blancheâ€™s bedroom was located on the other side of the house, in the direction that later led to the lanai. Subsequent episodes would place her room in the same hallway as the other three. Also in the pilot, Blancheâ€™s surname is Hollingsworth, and is strongly implied to be her married name. Future episodes would clarify Hollingsworth was her maiden name and Devereaux her married name. Blancheâ€™s middle name was originally Marie, but was later changed to Elizabeth to accommodate a joke about her initials spelling B.E.D.
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The Golden Girls / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
The Golden Girls / int_caa28b82	comment	In "Henny Penny: Straight, No Chaser," Dorothy, who is producing a first-grade play, finds out that her cast has all been quarantined because of a case of measles; rather than cancel, she suggests to the director that adults play the roles instead. The director is reluctant: "Where are we going to find an adult with the childish naivete to play Henny Penny?" At that point, Rose walks in and happily declares that she just saw a cloud that looks exactly like a ball of cotton. The director: "My God, she IS Henny Penny!"
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The Golden Girls / int_cad80e66	type	Blame the Paramour
The Golden Girls / int_cad80e66	comment	Blame the Paramour: In "Strange Bedfellows", the girls volunteer for the campaign of a local politician, but when Blanche delivers some paperwork to his house late at night, the press accuses the politician of cheating on his wife with her. The other girls are furious with Blanche for the affair, ignoring her pleas of innocence, while treating the politician like an unfortunate victim of Blanche's lust. The public response similarly demonizes Blanche while actually improving the politician's image, since he'd previously been seen as a milquetoast bore who wouldn't take risks.
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The Golden Girls / int_cb0743c0	type	Lame Pun Reaction
The Golden Girls / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: Dorothy and Rose at the piano:
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The Golden Girls / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Golden Girls / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Played with regarding Sophia's "Sicilian curses." In "Big Daddy" (first season), Sophia casts a curse on a neighbor for refusing to remove a tree that fell into the girls' yard during a storm, and the neighbor pooh-poohs it... until unfortunate things begin to happen to him. His wife later confesses that she was behind all of her husband's misfortunes (except for the boil on his behind, which was purely coincidental). However, in "The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present," her curse on Giuseppe Mangiacavallo seems to work without any extra help... although it apparently took decades to take effect.
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The Golden Girls / int_cc7a0386	type	Dating Service Disaster
The Golden Girls / int_cc7a0386	comment	Dating Service Disaster: Twice involving Dorothy, thanks to Sophia. The first time she's matched with a rather plain-looking man named Eddie, who has a strange magnetism about him that makes him irresistible to women (in fact, all four Girls end up attracted to him), while the second time she's matched with a white collar ex-con.
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The Golden Girls / int_cd48c1f2	type	BlondBrunetteRedhead
The Golden Girls / int_cd48c1f2	comment	Blond, Brunette, Redhead: Almost exactly with Rose being the ditzy blonde (though not naturally; Betty White herself was a natural brunette), Blanche the passionate redhead and Dorothy (whose actress had naturally black hair before going grey, and who still sported dark grey hair for parts of the series) being the intellectual, sardonic "brunette".
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The Golden Girls / int_ce165390	type	Casting Couch
The Golden Girls / int_ce165390	comment	Casting Couch: Even sleeping with the director of the local theatre production of Macbeth can't land Blanche the role of Lady Macbeth; that went, inadvertently, to Rose.
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The Golden Girls / int_ce9d25a6	type	Shady Scalper
The Golden Girls / int_ce9d25a6	comment	Shady Scalper: When Frank Sinatra comes to town, nobody believes Sophia when she says that she has connections who can easily obtain the notoriously hard-to-come-by tickets. Each protagonist subsequently goes to lengths to buy tickets themselves, only for Sophia to come through in the end with tickets for all of them. They are subsequently arrested for scalping the extra tickets, causing them all to miss the concert.
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The Golden Girls / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
The Golden Girls / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: Dorothy is one of these - she's quite well-liked by her students, as seen in multiple episodes.
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The Golden Girls / int_d0347bf0	type	Four-Girl Ensemble
The Golden Girls / int_d0347bf0	comment	Four-Girl Ensemble: A textbook example. Rose is the NaÃ¯ve Everygirl, Dorothy is the tough, mannish Deadpan Snarker, Blanche is the promiscuous one, and Sophia is the wise Team Mom. It's even invoked in-universe when Rose has a hard time making friends with a coworker. She explains that everyone has to like her, as she's the "nice one," then goes to list the other girl's attributes: Dorothy is the "smart one," Blanche is the "sexy one," and Sophia is the "old one" (which Sophia herself isn't crazy about).
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The Golden Girls / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
The Golden Girls / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Mostly averted since the girls are all at least middle-aged, i.e. either in, near, or post-menopause. However, "End of the Curse" deals with Blanche — the youngest of them — beginning to go through menopause, and this leads to them relating stories of their first periods.
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The Golden Girls / int_d0d90308	type	Bizarre Taste in Food
The Golden Girls / int_d0d90308	comment	Bizarre Taste in Food: Rose. She has a massive sweet tooth (her nightly snack includes about seven kinds of sugary treats) and loves to combine fish with every possible dish (her "Lindstrum Surprise" is a pastry shell that contains herring). A quote from "Mary Has A Little Lamb" sums it up:
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The Golden Girls / int_d2725671	type	Still Fighting the Civil War
The Golden Girls / int_d2725671	comment	Still Fighting the Civil War: While hints of this trope appear in regard to Blanche's family background, the most egregious example would be the members of the Daughters of the Old South in the "Witness." These women are unapologetically pro-Confederate - to the point where a woman is denied entry if it turns out one of her ancestors did so much as sell a horseshoe to a Union soldier. Their meetings even feature re-enactments of Confederate victories during the war, leading Dorothy to snark: "It's hard to believe they couldn't get Federal funding for this." Thus, Blanche is horrified when researching her family tree to apply for membership, and it turns out one of her ancestors is Jewish - and from Buffalo, New York.
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The Golden Girls / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
The Golden Girls / int_d2b59903	comment	Sophia, the Cool Old Lady and Mama Bear, deals with issues afflicting people in her age group. She befriends a man with Alzheimer's, talks a sick, old, lonely woman out of suicide, tries to break a (slightly senile) friend out of a substandard nursing home and care for her, deals with her estrangement from her cross-dressing son Phil and his untimely death, and eventually gets over her animosity toward her daughter-in-law.
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The Golden Girls / int_d2d7288e	type	Bad Omen Anecdote
The Golden Girls / int_d2d7288e	comment	Bad Omen Anecdote: Inverted when Rose, hoping to keep Dorothy from remarrying Stan, tells a story about a woman from St. Olaf who, after being divorced, made major life changes in an effort to feel better about herself. Blanche thinks the story will end with the woman being alone and sad, only for Rose to cheerfully reveal that she actually found love again, became wealthy, and lived happily ever after.
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The Golden Girls / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Golden Girls / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: When Rose is waiting for the results of her AIDS test, she tells Blanche that this shouldn't be happening to her because she's a good person. Blanche angrily informs Rose that AIDS is not a disease that discriminates between good people and bad, and it's "not God punishing people for their sins". Granted, Rose has been very badly frazzled by the ordeal and the waiting, but Blanche is justifiably angry because Rose makes it sound like this situation should have been happening to someone like Blanche and not her.
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The Golden Girls / int_d42626f9	type	Fake Boobs
The Golden Girls / int_d42626f9	comment	Fake Boobs: At least once with Blanche (air-filled, they deflate). Blanche gives Sophia a makeover for a date in "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun... Before They Die", which includes this trope.
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The Golden Girls / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
The Golden Girls / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: Usually involving Sophia, from jokes about her urinating or defecating in the wrong place... ...at the wrong time... ...or not at all. Rose's slow cousin, who does bird imitations.
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The Golden Girls / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Golden Girls / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: There's really no other way to describe Rose's high school gym teacher openly identifying herself as Eva Braun.
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The Golden Girls / int_d4db580f	type	And Your Reward Is Edible
The Golden Girls / int_d4db580f	comment	And Your Reward Is Edible: Dorothy and Blanche's prize for winning Grab That Dough: an electric skillet, and a lifetime supply of soup to go in the skillet. The trophy that Rose receives for winning St. Olaf's Woman of the Year in "Yokel Hero" is made entirely of chocolate, wrapped in gold foil.
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The Golden Girls / int_d4e586b4	type	Aftershow
The Golden Girls / int_d4e586b4	comment	After Show: Golden Palace, which has Blanche, Rose, and Sophia buying and operating a hotel. Dorothy appeared in a two-part episode.
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The Golden Girls / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Golden Girls / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: When Stan finds out from Dorothy that their daughter Kate had been cheated on by her husband Dennis, Stan goes on a long tirade about how disgusting and shameful it is. Blanche chewing out Trudy for her prank in "Till Death Do We Volley" by pointing out that things we do when we're kids aren't always appropriate once we grow up - like staying out all night dating multiple men. She then realizes she's lost credibility and clams up.
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The Golden Girls / int_d5687477	type	Estranged Soap Family
The Golden Girls / int_d5687477	comment	Estranged Soap Family: Very common. It isn't the main reason fans tend to dislike the girls' relatives, but it certainly doesn't help their case: Dorothy and Stan re-marry twice, once apiece, and almost re-marry to each other besides (calling off the wedding right before Dorothy is about to walk down the aisle). Neither of their two children, Kate and Michael, attend any of these three weddings.note This is given a Hand Wave in "Stan Takes A Wife" when he remarries to another woman and he informs Dorothy that he talked to "the kids" and they'll "try and fly in". Dorothy's sister Gloria also doesn't attend either of Dorothy's weddings, though their brother Phil at least has the excuse that he died beforehand.note Gloria gets a very weak "out" for skipping Dorothy's remarriage to Stan as Sophia had opposed the wedding and probably warned her away from it. That's being more than charitable, though, since as noted she also skipped Phil's funeral. Stan's brother Ted, who only appeared once but apparently idolizes Stan, also is not seen at either of his weddings. Speaking of Phil, Gloria is also a no-show at her own brother's funeral; Kate and Michael also fail to attend their uncle's funeral. Sophia's wedding to Max Weinstock is excused in that Rose mixed up the guest list (which presumably included the bride's relatives) with a list of Elvis Presley impersonators, who attend the wedding in their stead. Partly averted when Blanche's sister Virginia, who had appeared just once in season 1, returns for Big Daddy's funeral in season 5, but her other two siblings, Clayton and Charmaine, are unseen — although it is implied that the family are shunning Blanche for not visiting Big Daddy on his deathbed at his request, and that Virginia has been chosen to communicate this to her. Clayton may also have simply not been allowed to attend either after having come out of the closet in the previous season. There's no similar excuse, however, for Blanche's own children, Big Daddy's grandchildren, not being seen or mentioned attending the funeral. Blanche's family in general don't seem to like attending big events. None of them are seen at Dorothy's wedding to their Uncle Lucas, Big Daddy's younger brother. When Blanche finds out that her late husband had an illegitimate child, there is no mention of David and his half-siblings wanting to know each other.
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The Golden Girls / int_d5b6d628	type	Black Comedy Pet Death
The Golden Girls / int_d5b6d628	comment	Black Comedy Pet Death: In "Comedy of Errors", according to Rose, the coworker of hers who doesn't like her recently suffered the loss of his pet dog... due to his dog peeing to an electric fence. The trope is in place once Rose mentions the name of the dead pet dog. The episode "From Here to the Pharmacy" starts with Rose trying to prepare Sophia's will, but Sophia acts rather flippant, prompting Rose to recount the incident where Charlie, in an attempt to be funny while preparing a will for the Nylund family, left all inheritances to a pet cow in his will, only for a lawyer who got a hold of the will to try to enforce it on contingency, which resulted in Rose spending six months to get the farm back (presenting her piece to a jury of cows, at that, according to Rose). Then Rose exacted some payback... In "Questions and Answers", Rose's account with Rusty the dachshund that she and Charlie used to have as a pet ends with Rusty dying... after running back into the burning house that everyone escaped from in an attempt to fetch the TV.
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The Golden Girls / int_d6707631	type	Waxing Lyrical
The Golden Girls / int_d6707631	comment	In "One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest", when facing the prospect of going out with Blanche's Uncle Lucas, Dorothy comments that "He's a little bit Country, and I'm a little... too smart for this".
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The Golden Girls / int_d7d8e447	type	Depraved Dentist
The Golden Girls / int_d7d8e447	comment	Depraved Dentist: A perverted dentist sexually harasses Rose. Don't worry, though, he gets it in the end.
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The Golden Girls / int_d7ecd363	type	Status Quo Game Show
The Golden Girls / int_d7ecd363	comment	Status Quo Game Show: When the girls appear on the Show Within a Show Grab That Dough, Dorothy and Blanche end up being in the winning group, despite the mishaps along the way. However, their choices during the final round cause them to win only a lifetime supply of canned soup, and a skillet to cook it in.
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The Golden Girls / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Golden Girls / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Dorothy and Stan typically have this interaction with one another; despite Dorothy's anger at Stan, and Stan's ineptitude, the two do care about one another. In the series finale they even acknowledge that they love each other. The Girls' relationship in the show is basically this. They often snark and bicker with each other while still being close friends. It's only at times when their relationships are threatened that they're not this trope.
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The Golden Girls / int_d80e9526	type	Sex for Services
The Golden Girls / int_d80e9526	comment	Sex for Services: Blanche sleeps with two city council members - because she wants to. Their approval of the petition she is sponsoring is an added bonus she's expecting, though.
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The Golden Girls / int_d85c505	type	Racist Grandma
The Golden Girls / int_d85c505	comment	Racist Grandma: Sophia, Depending on the Writer — half the time she's very much this trope, and the other half she is perhaps the most tolerant and open-minded octogenarian who ever lived. Blanche's Big Daddy is a male version. "They're admitting who into my country club?" An interesting take occurs in "Mixed Blessings" where it's Greta, the black mother of the fiancÃ©e of Dorothy's son, who is against their marriage because he's white; in many other situations, this would be played as downright despicable. The other Girls (who are all grandmothers) avert this trope — particularly Blanche, who frequently defies her Southern heritage by showing an interest in African-American men. In "Mixed Blessings," she rushes to get a pencil when Greta mentions that she knows plenty of young, wealthy black men. Later, when Sophia asks if the myth about black men in bed is true, it's Blanche who immediately answers, "Oh yes, definitely... oh yes, definitely, that is something I'd like to know about, too."
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The Golden Girls / int_d8fad039	type	Weird Currency
The Golden Girls / int_d8fad039	comment	Weird Currency: When Sophia tells a story about her first job in Sicily. The story comes up because her first paycheck, a brightly painted rock, is found under Dorothy's bed. When the Girls are dieting, they find a box of cookies on the kitchen shelf. Blanche starts to open them, and Rose asks her if she's going to eat them. Dorothy replies, "No, Rose, we're going to go to some dumb country and try to use them as money."
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The Golden Girls / int_d9ee7048	type	Spin-Off
The Golden Girls / int_d9ee7048	comment	Spin-Off: Empty Nest is about Dr. Harry Weston, the ladies' neighbor. That show in turn spun off the series Nurses. The Shared Universe of all these shows naturally led to a few Crossovers. After The Golden Palace was canceled, Estelle Getty's Sophia became a regular on Empty Nest.
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The Golden Girls / int_d9f15207	type	Food Shove Gag
The Golden Girls / int_d9f15207	comment	Food Shove Gag: Given Sophia's nature, Dorothy has preemptively told her to shut up or covered her mouth. One moment has her shove a fork full of cheesecake Sophia is eating into her mouth.
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The Golden Girls / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
The Golden Girls / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Throughout the series, Dorothy states that she and Stan (who got married in their teens because she was pregnant) had been married for 38 years, and divorced two years before the beginning of the series. Her son, Michael, varies in age between 23, 29, and 30 (and not in that order, either!), while the two actresses who play her daughter Kate appear to be no older than their late twenties. There are various indications that Dorothy and Stan had married in the late 1940s or even the early 1950s when Dorothy became pregnant; the series starts two years after their divorce in 1985, not quite the full 38 years as is consistently stated by Dorothy. The most egregious instance of this Continuity Snarl comes in season three when a now 23-year-old Michael becomes engaged to 44-year-old Lorraine; the resulting dilemma is hilariously misplaced when one considers that Michael cannot possibly be this young given the aforementioned facts, and his having apparently become six years younger since his last appearance in season two. A minor case, but "Foreign Exchange" revolves around Dorothy possibly having been switched at birth with the daughter of a family friend, Gina. The issue comes to light when Gina takes a blood test for an arranged marriage (and we know it is indeed an arranged marriage because Dorothy is also expected to marry the groom). The plot is resolved when the groom reveals he will marry Gina anyway. There's one slight problem with the whole mess: why the hell would someone Dorothy's age, a post-menopausal, middle-aged woman, be put into an arranged marriage? Given that Gina has been living with her family up until this point, her parents would have literally waited until she was too old to have children to marry her off.
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The Golden Girls / int_da72023b	type	Back to School
The Golden Girls / int_da72023b	comment	Back to School: In "Yes, We Have No Havanas," Rose explains that she never actually finished high school because she developed a case of mono and was too ill to attend. She enrolls in a class taught by Dorothy. Blanche also goes back to take classes for a necessary degree for a promotion at work. While there, her professor sexually propositions her for a passing grade. In "The Audit," Rose takes a Spanish class at night school to qualify for a promotion at the counseling center which requires that she become bilingual. Blanche (who initially confuses "bilingual" with "bisexual") signs up too, but only because she hopes to meet a man. Both eventually drop out, Rose because "Norwegians are notoriously bad at Spanish" and Blanche because there was only one man in the whole class who caught her fancy, and he was apparently gay because he "kept doodling the name 'Kenny' over and over in his notebook." A few episodes also have Dorothy studying for exams in order to qualify for promotions or pay raises.
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The Golden Girls / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
The Golden Girls / int_dbb414ed	comment	Dorothy and Stan re-marry twice, once apiece, and almost re-marry to each other besides (calling off the wedding right before Dorothy is about to walk down the aisle). Neither of their two children, Kate and Michael, attend any of these three weddings.note This is given a Hand Wave in "Stan Takes A Wife" when he remarries to another woman and he informs Dorothy that he talked to "the kids" and they'll "try and fly in". Dorothy's sister Gloria also doesn't attend either of Dorothy's weddings, though their brother Phil at least has the excuse that he died beforehand.note Gloria gets a very weak "out" for skipping Dorothy's remarriage to Stan as Sophia had opposed the wedding and probably warned her away from it. That's being more than charitable, though, since as noted she also skipped Phil's funeral. Stan's brother Ted, who only appeared once but apparently idolizes Stan, also is not seen at either of his weddings.
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The Golden Girls / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
The Golden Girls / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: In "The Housekeeper," the girls hire a housekeeper named Marguerite who proves to be underwhelming, so they have to fire her. She warns them that they're "making a big mistake," and sure enough, it seems like she's put a curse on them when they all start suffering from horrible luck (it helps that Marguerite claims to have mild Hollywood Voodoo abilities like brewing love potions and making charms). At the end, though, there wasn't any sort of curse, meaning that the string of odd incidents was all coincidental. Now, some of it is possible to understand—Blanche's boyfriend cheating on her, Dorothy having trouble sleeping—but then there are the completely outlandish things, like the sink exploding just after Marguerite leaves or Rose getting smacked with a baseball immediately after the chair she's sitting on collapses. It's then exaggerated when a man in a crow costume parachutes onto the lanai: "This isn't the Orange Bowl, is it?" In "You Gotta Have Hope," Dorothy desperately tries to get entertainment for a ladies' auxillary talent show. Rose firmly believes that Bob Hope is her father, having always envisioned him as such after seeing him in a movie while living at an orphanage, and swears that she can get him to help. Just when she gives up, though, it just so happens that Sophia's boyfriend, who's appearing in the talent show, used to be in vaudeville with Hope and is able to get him to make an appearance. It's lampshaded by Rose herself as a "lucky coincidence," but perhaps it can be forgiven because of its heartwarming nature.
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The Golden Girls / int_dc59fb35	type	What's a Henway?
The Golden Girls / int_dc59fb35	comment	What's a Henway?: When Rose inherits a pig named Baby from her deceased uncle, she calls a vet to treat the pig when it gets sick. When the live-in nurse taking care of Sophia begins to act increasingly more like she is Sophia's daughter, Sophia begins calling her "Pussycat" also. However, the nurse doesn't realize that she shares a nickname with Dorothy, at first. Blanche is upset when she learns that her baseball-playing boyfriend is moving away to join a team in Japan.
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The Golden Girls / int_dca6a9d	type	Start My Own
The Golden Girls / int_dca6a9d	comment	Start My Own: A variation in a first-season episode. Dorothy, Blanche, and Rose are planning their annual vacation, and leaving Sophia out of the plans. Later, Sophia shows up with a large group of elderly women, explaining that she's formed a "vacation club" out of other mothers who get left out of getaways.
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The Golden Girls / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
The Golden Girls / int_dcd423d2	comment	Sophia calls Dorothy "Pussycat" throughout the show, and calls Gloria "Kitten" during her appearance.
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The Golden Girls / int_de763115	type	Hollywood Board Games
The Golden Girls / int_de763115	comment	Hollywood Board Games: Cool Old Lady Sophia is a comedic case of Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior! and something of an In-Universe Unreliable Narrator. Combine the two and you get her to indulge in Loophole Abuse by claiming that since the robbers stole the dictionary, it cannot be proven that her word is not Scrabble Babble. Fortunately, it's just a good-natured joke.
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The Golden Girls / int_dee1124e	type	Pooled Funds
The Golden Girls / int_dee1124e	comment	Pooled Funds: A variation of this occurs in "Triple Play," in which it's revealed that Sophia has received more Social Security money from the government than she should have due to a computer error. Dorothy convinces her to send the overpay back, and Sophia reluctantly agrees but notes that she hopes they'll want the money back after an 83-year-old woman rolled around naked in it.
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The Golden Girls / int_def77269	type	Never Bring a Friend to an Audition
The Golden Girls / int_def77269	comment	Never Bring a Friend to an Audition: Played with in "High Anxiety". A nationwide pizza chain is filming a commercial with Dorothy and Sophia as its stars. While both women were originally the lead characters for it, Dorothy's lousy acting and second-guessing the script caused the director to cast the young actress playing the server to be Sophia's granddaughter while Dorothy plays the server. It ends up being all for naught when Sophia dislikes the pizza itself and walks off the set.
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The Golden Girls / int_df4d868c	type	Battleaxe Nurse
The Golden Girls / int_df4d868c	comment	Battleaxe Nurse: Nurse DeFarge, according to Sophia.
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The Golden Girls / int_df582b0b	type	Continuity Snarl
The Golden Girls / int_df582b0b	comment	The most egregious instance of this Continuity Snarl comes in season three when a now 23-year-old Michael becomes engaged to 44-year-old Lorraine; the resulting dilemma is hilariously misplaced when one considers that Michael cannot possibly be this young given the aforementioned facts, and his having apparently become six years younger since his last appearance in season two.
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The Golden Girls / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
The Golden Girls / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke: Sophia made a lot of these. It's usually unclear if she's lying or joking, her memories have really been twisted by old age, or both. Among other things, she's claimed to have had affairs with Pablo Picasso (she ended it when she was offended by his portrait of her) and Sigmund Freud (Sophia recalls that he loved to drive through tunnels), to have been friends and business partners with Mama Celeste until they fought over a man, to have been a contestant on a game show called Torture that was hosted by Mussolini, to have caused the Yalta Conference (which was apparently actually convened by FDR, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin to determine which of them loved her the most), and to have been present at the Valentine's Day Massacre with her husband and father when their car broke down in Chicago (although she does concede that it might have just been a Valentine's Day Massacre). Since the entire main cast is over 50, the others all engage in this to a lesser extent. For example, Andy Rooney wanted to have an affair with Blanche but she turned him down, and Rose's high school history teacher may or may not have been Adolf Hitler after he faked his death and was hiding under an alias. Rose's high school gym teacher openly went by Eva Braun. Humorously averted with both Sophia and Blanche. Blanche recalls spending the evening with "the President" at the 1972 inaugural ball and awaking in his arms the next day. Dorothy, thinking Blanche meant Richard Nixon, is shocked... but Blanche was referring to the president of the local chamber of commerce, and actually expresses disgust at the idea of sleeping with Nixon. In another episode, Sophia tells a story suggesting that she had an affair with Charles DeGaulle but then clarifies she was referring to a gangster named "Charles the Mole".
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The Golden Girls / int_e075da76	type	Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond
The Golden Girls / int_e075da76	comment	Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: Rose simply can't get past this, much to the annoyance of the coworker she keeps trying to please — and failing at it. In the end, he finally manages to get her to go away by promising to be her friend; as a pal, Rose has to do what he says, including leaving him alone, to make him happy.
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The Golden Girls / int_e0b6edec	type	OnlySaneWoman
The Golden Girls / int_e0b6edec	comment	Only Sane Woman: Dorothy is the only character who regularly thinks and talks through issues rationally and without derailing the conversation with wild stories or irrelevant anecdotes from her past.
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The Golden Girls / int_e107430e	type	Tour Guide Gag
The Golden Girls / int_e107430e	comment	Tour Guide Gag: The pilot makes this type of joke when the main characters join Rose on a flight to make a speech at a relative's funeral.
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The Golden Girls / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Golden Girls / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: Often comes up in episodes involving the girls' children. One of the biggest examples is when Rose's daughter and Dorothy's son both visit at the same time and are caught in bed together, and Rose and Dorothy lash out at each other and protect their respective child's honor while shaming the other.
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The Golden Girls / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
The Golden Girls / int_e150c4c7	comment	In Stan's first appearance, he is a relatively normal person, and Dorothy delivers a scathing speech to him about how much he hurt her by cheating on her and leaving her, precisely because she valued what they had together. Later, his Manchild tendencies get turned up to eleven and their marriage is always described as an absolute disaster from start to finish.
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The Golden Girls / int_e18a3c59	type	Hilarious Outtakes
The Golden Girls / int_e18a3c59	comment	Hilarious Outtakes: It had a few. The final season episode "From Here to the Pharmacy" ends with a set of flubs from the scene where Sophia reads her will to Rose playing over the credits.
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The Golden Girls / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
The Golden Girls / int_e1fa8421	comment	Rose talks about the last birthday she ever celebrated in St. Olaf, her hometown. She sets everything up and pretends that her husband Charlie planned a surprise for her but it was actually the year after Charlie had already died, so she spent the whole time talking to him as if he's there and telling him that she's decided to sell their home and move to Florida.
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The Golden Girls / int_e2c91d45	type	Comfort Food
The Golden Girls / int_e2c91d45	comment	Comfort Food: Cheesecake - to the point where Blanche becomes alarmed in the middle of one crisis when she opens the refrigerator and there's no cheesecake. Fortunately Rose saves the day by buying another one while out shopping. Cookies. In particular, Blanche has been shown to be quite fond of Chips Ahoy! on more than one occasion. And in "Feelings," Sophia remarks, after Dorothy refuses to cave in regarding a failing grade that would keep one of her students from playing in a crucial football game, that in all her life she's never been prouder of Dorothy... Sophia's delicious Italian cooking also serves as this for the girls. When faced with the prospect of Sophia moving, Rose wonders aloud "Who'll make us linguini?" In another episode, Blanche pulls a Cut a Slice, Take the Rest on a lasagna at breakfast time after her class reunion goes sour.
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The Golden Girls / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
The Golden Girls / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Rose, primarily. Blanche and Sophia have their moments as well, the former due to occasionally misunderstanding anything not traditionally Southern, and the latter due to occasional bouts of senility.
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The Golden Girls / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
The Golden Girls / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: A fairly obscure one — "Fiddler on the Ropes" has Sophia plot to win money by managing a boxer who is also a talented violinist afraid of injuring his hands in a fight. The protagonist of the 1937 play and 1939 movie Golden Boy is a boxer and violinist who faces the same dilemma.
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The Golden Girls / int_e41a9801	type	All Women Are Lustful
The Golden Girls / int_e41a9801	comment	All Women Are Lustful: When Burt Reynolds shows up to take Sophia to lunch, he casually asks her, "Which one's the slut?" - to which Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose all raise their hands and cheerfully exclaim, "I am!" In "Rites of Spring," the girls stop for a haircut at what Dorothy describes as "one of those Miami Beach shops for little old ladies," and are about to leave... until they meet the handsome stylist, Eduardo. In "The Artist," in which they meet the Hungarian sculptor, Laszlo:
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The Golden Girls / int_e4c0b2b6	type	Primal Scene
The Golden Girls / int_e4c0b2b6	comment	The one time Rose walked in on her parents, they were "just playing leap frog".
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The Golden Girls / int_e4c89b67	type	Attending Your Own Funeral
The Golden Girls / int_e4c89b67	comment	Attending Your Own Funeral: One of Blanche's stories about her youth involved her faking an accidental death because she wanted to see how many people really liked her. In a later episode, Sophia decides to hold her own wake for the same reason, except without the deception inherent in Blanche's story. However, it backfires when Rose forgets to mention in the invitations that Sophia isn't dead - and the guests arrive in tears and are actually mad when they learn that Sophia is in fact alive.
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The Golden Girls / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
The Golden Girls / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": Happens in "Ebbtide's Revenge" when Dorothy's six-foot, three hundred pound, cross dressing (but straight) brother Phil dies. His wife has him dressed in a teddy to be buried and Sophia gives the priest an exaggerated story of how smart and gifted Phil was. Dorothy tries to fix the problem Sophia makes by telling the priest. The priest responds that he can just look at a person to know about them. Hilarity Ensues. Taken even further when four shapely, black-clad and veiled figures show up at the funeral. Blanche assumes they're mistresses that Phil had over the years... but his wife Angela informs her that they're actually his poker buddies. In "It's a Miserable Life", despised neighbor Frieda Claxton dies of a sudden heart attack after Rose tells her to "drop dead!" Mrs. Claxton has no family to take care of the final arrangements, so to assuage Rose's guilt, the housemates undertake the matter. The only person who attends besides the four main characters is a woman who gives a beautiful eulogy... then realizes she's at the wrong funeral. When she finds out whose funeral it really is, she kicks the coffin. Then the funeral home cremates Mrs. Claxton by mistake.
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The Golden Girls / int_e502e268	comment	Family Theme Naming: Rose, and her sisters Holly and Lilly, are all named after flowers.
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The Golden Girls / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Dorothy does this to Sophia in "Whereâ€™s Charlie?" when the latter pretends to be possessed by Roseâ€™s late husband to scam her, which almost costs Rose her relationship with her boyfriend Miles.
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The Golden Girls / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Golden Girls / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: There are many comparisons between these four and the four from Sex and the City. Bea Arthur took exception whenever someone described Dorothy Zbornak as an Expy of Maude Findlay, since she felt she played the two characters very differently. Arthur initially balked at signing up for Golden Girls since she wasn't interested in doing, in her words, "Maude and Vivian Meet Sue Ann Nivens." She came around once she realized Rue McClanahan would be playing the "Nivens" character and Betty White had been cast as the "Vivian" Expy.
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The Golden Girls / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
The Golden Girls / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Pretty much all four main characters tended to become increasingly exaggerated in later seasons, though the extent to which they were caricatured would vary from one episode to another. It usually depended on the seriousness of the episode's tone, the importance of each character's role within it, and who wrote the episode. This is most notable with Blanche after season four; earlier in the series, the writers make a point of establishing that Blanche's promiscuity is something she does for her own enjoyment, and at one point lectures her niece about using sex and relationships as a crutch for low self-esteem. Later seasons highlight Blanche's insecurity being at the root of her sexy behavior. The major change is when she starts self-identifying as a slut. In Stan's first appearance, he is a relatively normal person, and Dorothy delivers a scathing speech to him about how much he hurt her by cheating on her and leaving her, precisely because she valued what they had together. Later, his Manchild tendencies get turned up to eleven and their marriage is always described as an absolute disaster from start to finish. For most of the show, Sophia is portrayed as having no inner filter due to a stroke, but in the last season she increasingly insults and pranks people for her own enjoyment.
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The Golden Girls / int_e621b159	comment	A-Cup Angst: The size of Blanche's breasts was a source of occasional gags, which were usually played for laughs in the context of Blanche apparently being as in denial about the size of her breasts as about her true age. While this was usually Played for Laughs, the episode "Sophia's Choice", in which Sophia rescued her friend from an ill-equipped nursing home, also featured a B plot in which Blanche was planning to undergo breast augmentation surgery with a bonus she received from work, even exclaiming, "What God didn't give me, Dr. Myron Rosenzweig will!", suggesting that she had some real insecurity about the size of her breasts. Blanche eventually decided not to undergo the surgery and, in an unusual act of selflessness, donated the funds for it to help find Sophia's friend a better nursing home. While the other girls liked to tease Blanche about her breasts, the better-endowed Rose expressed a mild form of D-Cup Distress in "Feelings" in which she was sexually harassed by her dentist.
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The Golden Girls / int_e6382176	type	Ignore the Disability
The Golden Girls / int_e6382176	comment	Ignore the Disability: The scene involving Rose's boyfriend, who happens to be a dwarf. Another in "Stand By Your Man" where Blanche is dating a paraplegic:
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The Golden Girls / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
The Golden Girls / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: Dorothy: "This is ridiculous!" Blanche: "I am stunned!" and "Get outta here!" Stanley: "Hi, it's me, Stan."
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The Golden Girls / int_e74e8d62	type	Weather Dissonance
The Golden Girls / int_e74e8d62	comment	Weather Dissonance: The "Full Moon Over Miami" Crossover event depicts a full moon on Leap Day (February 29, 1992). The actual moon on February 29, 1992 was a waning crescent, almost as far from a full moon as you can get (the New Moon was on March 4th).
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The Golden Girls / int_e825295c	type	End-of-Episode Silliness
The Golden Girls / int_e825295c	comment	End-of-Episode Silliness: The final season features several episodes with a "tag" scene playing over the closing credits instead of the normal music.
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The Golden Girls / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
The Golden Girls / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Consider the frequency of Rose and Charlie having sex — seven to midnight, five to seven AM, and until noon on Sundays — the length of time Charlie was in Cuckold after what he did with a farmer's daughter, per Rose's account when told to Blanche, can count.
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The Golden Girls / int_e853bdb8	comment	Plagued by Nightmares: Blanche had a recurring nightmare where she was in a room full of bald men, then heard the voice of God, and the room fell into the ocean. She then accompanies Rose and Dorothy when they take a flight to a funeral and is shocked when all of the passengers aside from them are bald men. note They are all former Mr. Cleans on their way to a convention. Then the pilot, Captain Lord, makes his pre-flight announcement which just agitates her further. Fortunately, the falling into the ocean part doesn't come into play and they return home safely.
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The Golden Girls / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
The Golden Girls / int_e88e8a8f	comment	Writer on Board: Creator Susan Harris was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and gave it to Dorothy to raise awareness about it, and probably so she could have Dorothy ream out a doctor who said she was just "getting old."
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The Golden Girls / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
The Golden Girls / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: Kind-hearted Cloudcuckoolander Rose acts as the balancing Ego to hedonistic Blanche's Id and stern, sensible Dorothy's Superego.
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The Golden Girls / int_e9550e66	type	Nun Too Holy
The Golden Girls / int_e9550e66	comment	Nun Too Holy: A woman posing as a nun assists a man in scamming Blanche and Sophia at a local shopping mall. This trope is directly evidenced when the nun is seen lighting a cigarette and smoking it. As part of Sophia's elaborate plot in "My Brother, My Father," Blanche and Rose, dressed in nuns' habits after rehearsals for The Sound of Music, end up having to pretend they really are nuns. Needless to say, Blanche doesn't quite pull that off... In another, Sophia, after a friend of hers who was a nun passes away, decides impulsively to join a convent. Sophia being Sophia, she fails horribly at it, getting the other nuns to gamble at cards (and cheating), suggesting a "Monks of the Midwest" beefcake calendar to raise money, and hiding a picture of some young stud behind her photo of the Pope. Her Mother Superior gets in on it as well; when Sophia tries to butter her up, she quickly shuts her down with, "Save it, Sister Suck-up!"
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The Golden Girls / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Golden Girls / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: In "Melodrama," Rose attempts to become a live news reporter at the television station where she works. While she practices interviewing Dorothy, Sophia tells her that "a good reporter gets the story, no matter what." Later, Rose is sent to cover a dog show for her audition for the reporting job, and things take a turn for the exciting when an armed man shows up to rob everyone. Rose, as the only reporter on the scene, remembers Sophia's advice to get the story... and proceeds to continue to cover the dog show. Her audition tape consists of her examining and talking to the various dogs while the crook robs their terrified owners. In "A Midwinter Night's Dream," a two-parter, Sophia, fearing a curse that a village witch (who lived in Brooklyn) put on Dorothy as a child, must complete three tasks: "Kiss a fool, help a holy man, reveal the betrayal of a loved one." This trope comes into play for the second requirement: the rules say that Sophia has to help the holy man in some way... there's nothing stopping her from hurting him first, then helping him. She does just that by tripping a rabbi whom Blanche invited to her "Moonlight Madness" party, then assisting him in getting up from the floor. In the same episode, this causes Sophia problems when she has to kiss a fool. When Blanche asks the obvious question of why Sophia doesn't just kiss Rose, Sophia explains that it wouldn't work because technically Rose isn't a fool, she's a simpleton. When Sophia goes out with Tony Delvecchio in "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun... Before They Die", the following exchange takes place: One of the show's most famous examples of In-Universe Ho Yay occurs because of this. Rose has Dorothy and Blanche as guests on a talk show panel that she's arranged, which turns out to be about "Lesbian Lovers of Miami." When the girls take her to task for this, Rose says she didn't know it was going to be lesbian-themed: the producers asked for "two women who love each other and sleep together," pointing out there have been incidents where they've shared a bed and thus slept together before. In "An Illegitimate Concern," Dorothy asks Rose to hand her a newspaper, which is usually a sign that a Dope Slap is incoming. Rose, trying to be Genre Savvy, tells Dorothy that she'll only give it to her if she promises not to whack her in the head. Dorothy promises, takes the newspaper—and gives it to Blanche, who promptly delivers the whack. In "Joust Between Friends," Blanche gets Dorothy a job at the art museum where she works. Mr. Allen, their boss, gives Dorothy the responsibility of planning an upcoming banquet for an exhibition Blanche has worked on for months—largely because it's going to be held in her honor as a reward for all she's done for the show. Blanche, thinking that Dorothy has betrayed her by "stealing" the banquet and then not telling her why, gets very nasty, prompting Sophia to reveal the truth. Dorothy protests that she was sworn to secrecy, and Sophia points out that it was Dorothy's secret to keep—she never agreed to keep it hidden. In "The Truth Will Out," Sophia claims that she never lies. Dorothy tries to prove her wrong by asking how much money she lost on a trip to the dog track. Her response—"None of your business!"—is technically not a lie.
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The Golden Girls / int_e9fb38	type	The Talk
The Golden Girls / int_e9fb38	comment	The Talk: When Dorothy is preparing for a wedding, Sophia realizes she never gave Dorothy "The Talk". Dorothy says that she's had plenty of sex over the years, Sophia replies that she thinks Dorothy is "doing it wrong". However, in "72 Hours," it's stated that Sophia and Dorothy did have The Talk when Dorothy was a teenager - well, sort of. Rose's version of it with her daughter Kirsten involved taking the bull by the horns - literally - "and showing her what makes a bull a bull." Her mother did the same thing, which Rose admits affected her expectation of what a naked man would look like, leading to a surprise on her wedding night.
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The Golden Girls / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The Golden Girls / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Blanche dreams her husband had faked his death and comes back to her in "Mrs. George Devereaux." The ending is a bit of a Tear Jerker. The episode also features an increasingly absurd B-plot about Dorothy being courted by Lyle Waggoner and Sonny Bono, and a particularly absurd story about Sophia spying on the Germans. Finding out it's all part of Blanche's dream makes everything fall into place.
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The Golden Girls / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
The Golden Girls / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Blanche has this down to a science. If a handsome guy is anywhere near her, she'll immediately turn on the charm, and it is usually enough to get her a date (or at least a phone number). If given more time to prepare, she tends to invoke the trope by deliberately wearing revealing outfits and practicing her sexy banter. In one instance, her attempts to woo her old boyfriend, Ham, in a restaurant don't work on him—but five other guys hurriedly follow her out when she leaves.
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The Golden Girls / int_eb6da8ef	type	Crossover
The Golden Girls / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: Frequently, with Spin-Off Empty Nest, in both directions. All four of the girls appeared at least once on Empty Nest, and all five members of the original cast of Empty Nest appeared at least once on The Golden Girls. Empty Nest had its own spin-off, Nurses, and all three shows aired back-to-back-to-back for one season (1991-92); this led to characters from all three programs appearing on the others. Rose, Blanche, and Sophia all appeared on Nurses (though technically Sophia didn't appear until after she'd moved over to Empty Nest), however none of the Nurses characters ever appeared on The Golden Girls. An episode of The John Larroquette Show had Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty appearing as themselves, with White collaborating with Larroquette's character to write The Golden Girls: The Musical. The episode is a Whole-Plot Reference to Sunset Boulevard.
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The Golden Girls / int_eb6ed797	type	Children Raise You
The Golden Girls / int_eb6ed797	comment	Children Raise You: A couple of episodes play with this trope with regard to the girls looking after their mothers the way their mothers once looked after them, simply because their mothers are old and infirm. Some of Dorothy's interactions with Sophia resemble a mother dealing with a teenage daughter, except with the roles reversed. In "Rose Fights Back" it's mentioned Dorothy gives Sophia an allowance, and "Larceny and Old Lace" ends with this: Season one's "Blanche and the Younger Man" handled this between Rose and her mother, Alma, but more seriously and less Played for Laughs. Rose is overbearing and smothering toward her mother out of fear of losing her, and Alma chafes at Rose's overprotective behaviors. At one point, Sophia even tells Dorothy she's grateful that Dorothy doesn't treat her the way Rose treats Alma.
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The Golden Girls / int_eb7c34cf	comment	The "Full Moon Over Miami" Crossover event depicts a full moon on Leap Day (February 29, 1992). The actual moon on February 29, 1992 was a waning crescent, almost as far from a full moon as you can get (the New Moon was on March 4th).
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The Golden Girls / int_ec1d6a6f	comment	Baldness Mockery: Dorothy's ex-husband, Stan, is frequently insulted over his baldness and his affinity for wearing a Dodgy Toupee, namely by Sophia. One of Rose's St. Olaf stories had her talk about a girl she went to high school with whose life was eerily similar to Dorothy's, right down to getting pregnant as a teen by a bald guy named "Yutz".
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The Golden Girls / int_ed5d82eb	type	Crooked Contractor
The Golden Girls / int_ed5d82eb	comment	Crooked Contractor: The girls deal with one when they try to remodel the garage into a guest bedroom.
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The Golden Girls / int_ee4535b9	type	"Kick Me" Prank
The Golden Girls / int_ee4535b9	comment	"Kick Me" Prank: Dorothy, being a substitute teacher, rather predictably gets this treatment.
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The Golden Girls / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted, surprisingly enough. There are several characters named Charlie - Rose's late husband; her never-seen son, Charlie, Jr.; her granddaughter who is named after them (who appears in one episode); and the girls' neighbor, Charlie Dietz (who mostly appears on Empty Nest). Angela is the name of both Sophia's sister and Sophia's son Phil's wife. Dorothy's author friend, Barbara Thorndyke, and the girls' neighbor, Barbara Weston. Dorothy's childhood best friend, Trudy, and her daughter-in-law's Aunt Trudy.
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The Golden Girls / int_ee919707	type	Improbably Predictable
The Golden Girls / int_ee919707	comment	Improbably Predictable: Stan walks out the front door. Someone is about to say something when Dorothy cuts them short and counts down. "Three... two... one..." Stan walks back in and Dorothy shouts, "Out, Stan!" This is used to contrast a later moment in the episode when she attempts the same prediction and fails, indicating that Stan has changed.
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The Golden Girls / int_eef90616	type	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
The Golden Girls / int_eef90616	comment	Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In "Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself," Dorothy confronts her fear of flying. Dorothy pressing Sophia on what it means that someone from Sicily sent Sophia a black feather in the mail.
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The Golden Girls / int_ef255e28	type	Brain Freeze
The Golden Girls / int_ef255e28	comment	Brain Freeze: While visiting America, Stan's Czechoslovakian cousin Magda develops a fondness for Slurpee slushies.
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The Golden Girls / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: The traffic cone with a monkey's head that Stan carries around in "The Monkey Show" appears in the background in Stan's psychiatrist's office in "Mother Load".
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The Golden Girls / int_f05444a4	comment	Usually Dorothy and Sophia. Most of the time, Rose asks a stupid question and Dorothy gives her a sarcastic answer. But even Rose and Blanche have a snark moment or two in some episodes.
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The Golden Girls / int_f0c41e30	comment	Bachelor Auction: The season six episode "Love for Sale" sees Dorothy participating in a Bachelorette Auction for charity, being emceed by Rose. Unfortunately for her, recently-wealthy Stan shows up and ends up winning her for a $500 bid.
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The Golden Girls / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Blanche occasionally distracts herself by describing an erotic scene... or a scene that wouldn't be erotic at all, if it weren't Blanche describing it. Blanche is so skilled at this that she is quite literally able to become aroused by a single line in the nursery rhyme "Humpty Dumpty" (specifically the one about "all the king's men"). She once tries to invoke this with the IRS upon discovering that she is being audited—she puts on an extremely revealing outfit in preparation for the representative's visit. Unfortunately, the IRS had caught on to her tactics and sent a female agent. Blanche takes one look at her and says "I'll get my checkbook." Sometimes combined with Comically Missing the Point, as in...
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The Golden Girls / int_f1356f5e	comment	Speaks Fluent Animal: When the girls discover a mouse in their home, Rose begs them to allow her to ask it to leave as an alternative to having pest control eliminate it. After her efforts to negotiate with the animal turn out to be futile, Dorothy successfully encourages the mouse to exit through the hole under the sink that she believes it entered though.
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The Golden Girls / int_f548c926	comment	Dorothy remembers when Rose threw her a surprise bash at a children's restaurant called "Mr. Ha Ha's Hot Dog Hacienda." Things only got worse when it turns out that all of the birthday boys and girls—Dorothy included—were invited onto stage to be recognized. It didn't help that Mr. Ha Ha himself was a Jerkass who enjoyed taunting Dorothy for the situation.
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The Golden Girls / int_f5b7b990	comment	Verbal Backspace: Quite often. One particularly hilarious example is from "What a Difference a Date Makes" when Dorothy attempts to plot revenge against the boy who ostensibly stood her up for her senior prom where she planned to dress up nice and then lie about them having plans to go out and stand him up. She wanted to try it out, but upon seeing him again, her plan quickly folds: And again a short time later:
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The Golden Girls / int_f645ee0d	comment	Never Win the Lottery: The girls win a significant amount of money on a scratch ticket in "Brother, Can You Spare That Jacket?", but Rose mistakenly leaves the ticket in the pocket of a jacket that they donate to the poor. They eventually track the jacket to a homeless shelter and pose as homeless individuals to stay there for a night and retrieve it... but decide to donate the money to the shelter instead after hearing the stories of the shelter's other occupants.
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The Golden Girls / int_f65c014c	comment	Conveniently Interrupted Document: Blanche's birth certificate. Rose tracks down it down with the hope of finding out Blanche's true age, only to discover that the "Date of Birth" field reads: Deleted by authority of the governor.
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The Golden Girls / int_f688816f	comment	Priceless Ming Vase: When Blanche comes home with her date late at night without disarming the alarm system, Rose shoots at them believing them to be intruders. When Blanche is aghast that she shattered her beloved vase, Rose remarks that at least she didn't shoot her date. Blanche replies that she would rather Rose have shot her date. On one occasion, Stanley breaks a plate which was one of Rose's family heirlooms. Stanley regrets using it to eat a sandwich off of after Rose explains that her family members traditionally consummate their marriages on the plate.
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The Golden Girls / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: In "The Audit," Dorothy and Stan face the wrath of the IRS after the latter reveals that he was "creative" with (read: avoiding) his taxes for years. When they're being audited:
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The Golden Girls / int_f7155e6e	comment	Escalating Punchline: A Running Gag on the show. In "What a Difference a Date Makes," Blanche is struggling with a diet:
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The Golden Girls / int_f727b9c5	comment	The Body Parts That Must Not Be Named: When the girls are changing diapers: Rose's story about her mother dating Indy 500 racer Andy Granatelli. In "That Was No Lady," Blanche tells a story about a relative of hers who got revenge on her cheating husband by shooting him "down below." The original script used the term "vajoovies" to refer to said organ, but NBC disallowed it. However, Rue McClanahan thought the rewritten line - "shot the cork off his junk" - was even dirtier and refused to say it, because "My father watches this show." Hence, the final line was written as "shot him in the... [pause] boxer shorts."
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The Golden Girls / int_f7a1f3dc	type	Insomnia Episode
The Golden Girls / int_f7a1f3dc	comment	Insomnia Episode: "Brotherly Love" in Season 3. Rose goes without sleep for three nights in a row before Dorothy discovers the cause: Rose has been drinking tea loaded with caffeine in the evenings.
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The Golden Girls / int_f8fe0279	type	Impossibly Delicious Food
The Golden Girls / int_f8fe0279	comment	Impossibly Delicious Food: Rose's famous "Speardhoven Krispies" smell absolutely horrible, but apparently taste like "cheesecake, fresh strawberries, and chocolate ice cream." Blanche and Dorothy sample them and can't stop eating, saying it's the most delicious food they've ever tasted.
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The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Golden Girls / int_f8fe0279
The Golden Girls / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
The Golden Girls / int_f9876f7e	comment	In "Til Death Do Us Volley," Dorothy has to reveal to her class reunion that Trudy died while they were playing tennis before ultimately breaking down in tears over her belief she pushed Trudy too far. Once Dorothy runs out of the room, who shows up to the house but none other than Trudy who reveals she faked dying as a joke on Dorothy. Everyone in the room is disgusted and the girls call Trudy out for the anguish she caused Dorothy. Thankfully, it turns out Dorothy was able to get Trudy's husband to tell her the truth before the reunion began, and had him help stage a prank of her own as revenge, meaning her whole breakdown was a setup. This trope still applies since no one at the reunion knew Dorothy was acting, too.
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The Golden Girls / int_f9b36fec	type	Stripper/Cop Confusion
The Golden Girls / int_f9b36fec	comment	Stripper/Cop Confusion: When Dorothy nearly marries Stan a second time, the girls (minus Sophia) hold a bachelorette party for her, and a cop comes because of a noise complaint filed by a neighbor. Blanche mistakes him for the stripper she'd called earlier, who was supposed to have been dressed as a cop, and grabs the officer's butt a few times before the stripper himself actually comes in right behind her. Later, the two officers try on each other's hats, and things get, in Dorothy's words, "really weird."
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The Golden Girls / int_f9cc3ee0	type	Group Hug
The Golden Girls / int_f9cc3ee0	comment	Group Hug: Shows up a couple of times, in celebratory moments (i.e. before Sophia's wedding) and in tenser moments, such as when Sophia is in the hospital in "Stan Takes a Wife" and even Stan joins in.
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The Golden Girls / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Golden Girls / int_f9f2c33	comment	Stan frequently suffered this—Dorothy would say something along the lines of "I can't imagine anything worse," only to find Stan on the other side of the door. The other girls occasionally get in on this too:
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The Golden Girls / int_fb724048	type	Real After All
The Golden Girls / int_fb724048	comment	Real After All: In "The One That Got Away," Rose thinks she sees a UFO; skeptical Dorothy tries to convince her otherwise, but eventually admits her own belief when the military sends a representative to confirm the story. The end of the episode reveals that the craft is actually an experimental Air Force plane, explaining the cover-up; as Rose talks about her belief in the unknown, Dorothy nods off, and another set of flashing lights and strange sounds comes from the sky. It's implied that this is a real UFO. Played for laughs in "The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present." The girls attend Dorothy's goddaughter's wedding, and Sophia reveals that the groom is the grandson of Giuseppe Mangiacavallo, a man she was originally supposed to marry in Sicily; he left her at the altar, prompting her to place a curse upon him and all of his descendants, including a provision: "May your socks always slip down into your shoes." At the wedding, Giuseppe discredits this and claims there are no curses... but as he walks away, he pulls his socks up. Cue a satisfied grin from Sophia.
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The Golden Girls / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
The Golden Girls / int_fbd285b7	comment	Sometimes combined with Comically Missing the Point, as in...
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The Golden Girls / int_fbedab85	type	Landline Eavesdropping
The Golden Girls / int_fbedab85	comment	Landline Eavesdropping: A running gag is Sophia listening to her roommates' conversations through the extension in her bedroom.
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The Golden Girls / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
The Golden Girls / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: "Well, I am stunned. Just stunned. Stunned is the only way to describe how... stunned I am."
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The Golden Girls / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Golden Girls / int_fccd06b6	comment	Rose may be a kind person... but there's a reason Beware the Nice Ones is a trope. She once saves a teddy bear that a Bratty Half-Pint was keeping from her by ripping said bear from the girl's arms and shoving her out the door. Rose also stands up to notorious grump Frieda Claxton and tells her to "drop dead"—unfortunately, poor Frieda was so stunned by Rose's outburst that she does.
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The Golden Girls / int_fcf82917	type	Wacky Cravings
The Golden Girls / int_fcf82917	comment	Wacky Cravings: Played with in a scene where Rose is talking to a pregnant neighbor girl:
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The Golden Girls / int_fcf82917	featureConfidence	1.0
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The Golden Girls / int_fdc4fab4	type	Depending on the Writer
The Golden Girls / int_fdc4fab4	comment	Sophia, Depending on the Writer — half the time she's very much this trope, and the other half she is perhaps the most tolerant and open-minded octogenarian who ever lived.
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The Golden Girls / int_fdf7d23d	type	Lady in Red
The Golden Girls / int_fdf7d23d	comment	Lady in Red: Blancheâ€™s signature look, to the point where she wore red to her own wedding and Philâ€™s Funeral.
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The Golden Girls / int_fe3bf3a4	type	Four-Man Band
The Golden Girls / int_fe3bf3a4	comment	Four-Man Band:
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The Golden Girls / int_ffae1b5e	type	Larynx Dissonance
The Golden Girls / int_ffae1b5e	comment	Larynx Dissonance: The episode "You Gotta Have Hope" starts with a burly black man singing Puff the Magic Dragon in falsetto. None of the girls auditioning the performers is impressed. Here's the clip.
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The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Acceptable Ethnic Targets / int_d4efb984
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The Golden Girls	hasFeature	All Just a Prank / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	All Part of the Show / int_d4efb984
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The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Allegedly Dateless / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Alternate Aesop Interpretation / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Always Introduces Themselves / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	And Another Thing... / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	And I'm the Queen of Sheba / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	And There Was Much Rejoicing / int_d4efb984
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The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Assumed Win / int_d4efb984
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The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Blind Without 'Em / int_d4efb984
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The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Gotta Pass the Class / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Grandparent Favoritism / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Gratuitous Italian / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Group Hug / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Hand Puppet Mockery / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Handbag of Hurt / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	He Who Must Not Be Seen / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Head-Tiltingly Kinky / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Healthy in Heaven / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Heartbreak and Ice Cream / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Height Angst / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Hikikomori / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Historical In-Joke / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Holiday Volunteering / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Hollywood Board Games / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Hollywood Giftwrap / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Hollywood Heart Attack / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Hollywood Mid-Life Crisis / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Hollywood Pudgy / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Honorary Uncle / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Hospital Visit Hesitation / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Huge Schoolgirl / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Hypothetical Casting / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	I Call Him "Mister Happy" / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	I Have Just One Thing to Say / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	I Take Offense to That Last One / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	I Was Quite a Looker / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Identical Grandson / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	If I Wanted X, I Would Y / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	If We Survive This / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her... / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Ignore the Disability / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	I'm Going to Disney World! / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Imagine the Audience Naked / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Impossibly Awesome Magic Trick / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Impossibly Delicious Food / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Improbably Predictable / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	In the Dreaming Stage of Grief / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	In with the In Crowd / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Inadvertent Entrance Cue / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Incessant Music Madness / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Incredibly Lame Fun / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Infant Sibling Jealousy / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Informed Poverty / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Inherently Attractive Profession / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Inkblot Test / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Instant-Win Condition / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Insufferable Genius / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Interchangeable Asian Cultures / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Intimidating Revenue Service / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Invisible Celebrity Guest / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Invisible President / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Ironic Echo Cut / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Irony / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Irrational Hatred / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	It Is Not Your Time / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	It's Always Sunny in Miami / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Jail Bake / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Jeopardy! Intelligence Test / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Jerkass at Your Discretion / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Joke and Receive / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	"Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Just One Extra Ticket / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Karmic STD / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Kavorka Man / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Kindhearted Simpleton / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Kinky Role-Playing / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Knocking on Heathens' Door / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Known by the Postal Address / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Lady in Red / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Lampshaded the Obscure Reference / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Larynx Dissonance / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Last Disrespects / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Last-Second Word Swap / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Late Coming Out / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Late Spin-Off Transplant / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Lesbian Jock / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Let Me Tell You a Story / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Let There Be Snow / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Let's Wait Awhile / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Library Episode / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Life Will Kill You / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Limited Social Circle / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Live Mink Coat / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Living in a Furniture Store / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Locked in the Bathroom / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Lonely Funeral / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Long Last Look / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Lost Pet Grievance / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Lost Toy Grievance / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Lousy Lovers Are Losers / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Lovable Sex Maniac / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Love Hotels / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Low Count Gag / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Lucky Charms Title / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Lying to the Perp / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Magic Realism / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Maligned Mixed Marriage / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Marshmallow Dream / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Masculineâ€“Feminine Gay Couple / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Massage of Love / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Mathematician's Answer / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Matron Chaperone / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Mayâ€“December Romance / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Meaningful Background Event / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Megaphone Gag / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Memorial for the Antagonist / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Metaphorical Marriage / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Microphone Swinging / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Midnight Snack / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Milestone Birthday Angst / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Miniature Senior Citizens / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Minnesota Nice / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Mistaken Death Confirmation / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Mistaken for Pregnant / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Mistaken for Prostitute / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Mistaken for Toilet / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Mocking Sing-Song / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Multi-Part Episode / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Multiple-Choice Past / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Museum of Boredom / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Music/Age Dissonance / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	My Life Flashed Before My Eyes / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	My New Gift Is Lame / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Mystery Episode / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Named After the Injury / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Never Bring a Friend to an Audition / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Never Got to Say Goodbye / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Never Mess with Granny / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Never Win the Lottery / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	New Baby Episode / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	No Such Thing as Bad Publicity / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	No-Tell Motel / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Nobody Over 50 Is Gay / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Not Blood, Not Family / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Not Even Bothering with the Accent / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Not Hyperbole / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Not My Driver / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Nun Too Holy / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Obvious Stunt Double / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Of Corsets Funny / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Of Course I'm Not a Virgin / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Old, New, Borrowed and Blue / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	On One Condition / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	On Second Thought / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Once More, with Volume! / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	One-Person Birthday Party / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Only in Miami / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Only One Who Likes Spam / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Open Mouth, Insert Foot / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Operation: Jealousy / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Or Are You Just Happy to See Me? / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Or My Name Isn't... / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	...Or So I Heard / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Orphaned Punchline / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Out with a Bang / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Overly Narrow Superlative / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Painful Rhyme / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Parents for a Day / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Parting-Words Regret / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Passive-Aggressive Kombat / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Perfectly Arranged Marriage / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Perverse Sexual Lust / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Pest Episode / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Phrase Catcher / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Pick Up Babes With Babes / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Pig Latin / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Plagued by Nightmares / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Planet of Steves / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Please Put Some Clothes On / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Poke the Poodle / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Post-Robbery Trauma / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Post-Stress Overeating / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Preemptive "Shut Up" / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Pregnancy Scare / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Premature Eulogy / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Prenup Blowup / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Pretentious Pronunciation / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Previously onâ€¦ / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Priceless Ming Vase / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Prison Rape / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Production-Related Period Piece / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Profound by Pop Song / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Protest By Obstruction / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Proud Beauty / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Psmith Psyndrome / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Quirky Girl, Quirky Tux / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Racist Grandma / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Ratings Stunt / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Real Joke Name / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Real Song Theme Tune / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Really Gets Around / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Reckless Gun Usage / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Repeated Cue, Tardy Response / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Required Spinoff Crossover / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Retail Riot / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Reunion Show / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Rhyming with Itself / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Ridiculously High Relationship Standards / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Road Trip Plot / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Romantic Fakeâ€“Real Turn / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Roommate Com / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Rummage Fail / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Saving the Orphanage / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Scatterbrained Senior / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	School Play / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Scout-Out / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Scrabble Babble / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Screaming Birth / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior! / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful! / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Second Love / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Seduction-Proof Marriage / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Seen-It-All Suicide / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Sex for Services / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Sex with the Ex / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Sextra Credit / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Sexy Scandinavian / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Sexy Shirt Switch / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	"Shaggy Frog" Story / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Shock Value Relationship / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Shotgun Wedding / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Show Some Leg / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Signature Line / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Significant Monogram / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Silly Will / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Simple-Minded Wisdom / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Singing in the Shower / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Sitting Sexy on a Piano / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Situational Sexuality / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Small Parent, Huge Child / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Snowball Lie / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Social Semi-Circle / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Someone's Touching My Butt / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Southern Gentleman / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Spelling Song / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Spexico / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Spin-Off / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Spiteful Spit / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Squeamish About Slaughter / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Standardized Sitcom Housing / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Starstruck Speechless / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Starving Artist / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	State Visit / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Status Quo Game Show / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Stealing from the Hotel / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Stripper/Cop Confusion / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	"Stuck at the Airport" Plot / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Stupid Sexy Flanders / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Subverted Catch-Phrase / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Suck E. Cheese's / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Sue Donym / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Suicide by Pills / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Superstition Episode / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Surprise Party / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Surprise Pregnancy / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Sweet and Sour Grapes / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Sweet Tooth / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Talk Show Appearance / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Talking Down the Suicidal / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Talking in Your Sleep / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Talks Like a Simile / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Tastes Better Than It Looks / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Taught by Television / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Televisually Transmitted Disease / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Test Subject for Hire / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	That Cloud Looks Like... / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Butler Did It / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Cameo / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Cast Showoff / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Couch / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Dog Was the Mastermind / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Exit Is That Way / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Farmer and the Viper / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Gambling Addict / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Game Never Stopped / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The "I Love You" Stigma / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Joy of X / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Killer Was Left-Handed / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Loins Sleep Tonight / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The MÃ¼nchausen / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Pornomancer / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Power of Legacy / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Prom Plot / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Shut-In / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Thing That Would Not Leave / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Three Faces of Eve / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	The Worst Seat in the House / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Themed Stock Board Game / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	There Was a Door / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	30 Minutes, or It's Free! / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	This Is My Story / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Three... Two... One... / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Time to Move / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	To Be Continued / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Tokyo Rose / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Toll Booth Antics / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Totem Pole Trench / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Tour Guide Gag / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Transatlantic Equivalent / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Transplant / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Traveling Salesman / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Trojan Gauntlet / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Truncated Theme Tune / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Truth-Telling Session / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Tuckerization / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Two Decades Behind / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Two-Hit Wonder / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Umpteenth Customer / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Un-Duet / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Uncatty Resemblance / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Underage Casting / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Undesirable Prize / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Unexpected Positive / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Unexpected Virgin / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Unfortunate Item Swap / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Unprovoked Pervert Payback / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Urban Legend Love Life / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Useful Book / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Vacation Episode / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Vague Age / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Very False Advertising / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Viking Funeral / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Virgin in a White Dress / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Wacky Marriage Proposal / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	/ int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Warm Milk Helps You Sleep / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Weight Woe / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Weird Currency / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Western Zodiac / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Whammy Bid / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	"What Do They Fear?" Episode / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Where da White Women At? / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Where Did We Go Wrong? / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Whole Episode Flashback / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Whoopee Cushion / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Widow's Weeds / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	With This Ring / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Witless Protection Program / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Witness Protection / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Wondrous Ladies Room / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	World's Shortest Book / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Worse with Context / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Would Rather Suffer / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Writer's Block / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Wrong Restaurant / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Year's Supply Prize / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	You Answered Your Own Question / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	You Are Fat / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	You Can See That, Right? / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	You Know What They Say / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	You See, I'm Dying / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	All Girls Like Ponies / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Book Burning / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Caught in the Rain / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	Elmuh Fudd Syndwome / int_d4efb984
The Golden Girls	hasFeature	No Sparks / int_d4efb984
thegoldengirls	sameAs	The Golden Girls

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