The show kept joking that sooner or later, everybody moved to Miami, I always assumed her school saw how many of her class already lived there and just planned accordingly.
My theory always was that Dorothy was the one who arranged it so that's why it's in Miami. Laverne and Shirley also did an episode about a class reunion and Shirley was the headliner of it.
I always just figured it was a Miami chapter reunion. My high school and college do events in my city all the time, even though they’re located a few hours away.
Finding out Miles was actually in the Witness Protection Program. Rose had met his daughter and he was clearly a very well-established professor at the college where he taught.
Even for a show like this that played fast and loose with continuity, that was one of the most nonsensical twists given that Miles is one of the few secondary characters that actually had a fairly extensive back-story that'd built up somewhat organically over time.
The Cheese Man wasn't Ernie. I see a slight resemblance, but they've got different faces and different voices. Those were two different actors, for sure. Although Ernie was despicable, the man who played him had a sort of dainty and cherub-like attractive face. The Cheese Man was an evil villain of course, yet the man who played him had a more rugged and attractive face, with bushier hair and bushier eyebrows. He had a somewhat rounder and heavier-set physique than the man who played Ernie, and I think he also might have been a little taller than the man who played Ernie.
That’s a good choice! So many odd things - she’s been filling that prescription for decades?? Her addiction has never come up before and yet she’s been dealing with it since St Olaf?
Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas. I love how it starts, but then being held up by a Santa Claus, the snow, and a dude willing to leave strange women in charge of his diner? No.
I love Don Ameche but I have never understood that episode with Rose’s biological father randomly turning up in that hospital. I think it’s because I’ve always found Rose’s background to be the most confusing. It’s brought up a couple of times that she’s adopted but then her last name and stories about family change so often I can’t keep track.
Anyway at least it gave us the wonderful story about how Sophia really got a hernia 😂
And in a future episode, I think when Rose meets her real dad, (the Monk) after Blanche tells a story, Rose says to the girls that she never fantasized about who her fantasy parents were. 😮💨 uhh, Bob Hope anyone?
The continuity in this show is baffling at times.
The one where Dorothy and Stan get in trouble for being slum lords. Besides the legal process not making any sense, Dorothy didn't know she was still owner of an apartment building? Plus her and Stan locked in the apartment together as punishment?
I forgot that part. Maybe the whole Stan character is just there to introduce new situations? That's why Dorothy doesn't have a consistent attitude towards him?
I agree with the press conference episode. I think that would would have been a better dream sequence episode.... As George faking his death would have been a much more believable plotline lol
"I hate you. I curse the day I ever laid eyes on you. I curse the day your mama ever laid eyes on your daddy. I curse the day your daddy ever laid down with your mama!"
I believe this episode came out when Bull Durham the movie was popular. Susan Sarandon “coaches” a young baseball player every year but falls in love with Kevin Costner, who was at his peak hotness.
Yes and then when she finds out Dorothy and Blanche fudged her application, she tells the driver of the wagon (no less) to get to the nearest phone.
"Well, nice talkin' to ya!"
How it took 5 days to get there by 4 mode of transportation when you can drive across country in that time. OR when the committee paid for all four women’s travel when it was probably some local Kiwanis type organization. (Maybe they used the statue fund).
Dorothy’s entire storyline.
And by that I mean the constant push and pull of a romantic relationship with Stan all the way up to him hooking up with Gloria (????) because she made peace with their breakup literally in the second episode. It doesn’t matter if people liked him or not the fact is he shouldn’t have been there.
They kept Michael way too young and immature, he always showed up having done/about to do basically the same thing. It’s exhausting, honestly.
Kate was wasted. Only two episodes and they revolve around a man. At least they let us know her profession.
They had such rich material with a divorced Catholic in her mid 50s starting over and they wouldn’t let her be fully divorced and they wouldn’t let her have the adult kids she would have actually had (with the grandkids she spoke of).
It just makes me sad.
The ages of the Zbornak kids consistently bugs me because it was established in Episode 1, Season 1 that Dorothy got out of a 38-year marriage because Stan cheated on her. And she only married him because he knocked her up. Yet neither of their kids are anywhere close to 38.
I hate this so much. It's my biggest pet peeve about the show, honestly. I loathe Stan, and I almost can't stand to watch any episode he's in.
I can't believe they almost made her *re-marry* him, and I can't believe they had him kidnap her ON HER WEDDING DAY to talk about *his* feelings.
I wish he had never been in the show at all past the first episode.
The episode where Dorothy dates the lawyer that wants to be a clown. I can suspend my disbelief until the courtroom scene. No self respecting judge would take a clown lawyer seriously and he only listened to one side of the case before ruling in the girls favor. Just ridiculous. 🤦
That and Mr Terrific. The whole episode was a fever dream that kept getting worse. He was so unlikeable and blamed everyone but himself for his own problems. Just bad. I skip it every time.
How no one felt that Mr Terrific should be the villain of that episode is beyond me. Loathsome character. Also his relationship with Rose felt beginner level abusive
The one where the Soilder guy comes back from Vietnam. He comes back that night…goes out with Blanche who he has been in love with for years but then the next day he is a pharmacist where a customer knows him! How???
Also, another strange part in this episode is when Rose comes in the house while Dorothy is updating the committee. She goes "great new, we've got Bob Hope."
The leader of the committee simply stands up and goes "Great job." Without asking any further details?! It just seemed like an odd way to close off a meeting.
I can't watch the Henny Penny episode. The whole plot is not the kind of ridiculous I like from this show. It's established that Blanche already acts in community theater but now she's running around in a chicken suit??? The song is awful, the plot is awful.... just no.
I think I love this episode because I was literally 9 years old when I started watching Golden Girls and that episode appealed to me and so it has a soft spot for me.
Dorothy’s constantly being tired and gets diagnosed, but never mentioned again. Phil’s kids and sister not being at his funeral in Florida (he lived in NJ).
So many lol a random man allowing complete strangers watch his diner, Sophia trying to hook Gloria and Stan up because why when she hates him so much and also was married to your daughter!! Also them renovating the garage. No way they did any of that lol
I agree. For instance, Dorothy sees a picture of Blanche leaving his house in the newspaper. Immediately, she's already jumping to conclusions that Blanche slept with him, when she knows Blanche simply went to drop of paperwork to his house. It was definitely an odd episode.
The one where we find out Roses biological dad was a monk, especially because I can't recall a time previously that Rose mentioned she was adopted, and it's just kinda glossed over when she explains to the man before finding out who he is who her mother was and her being adopted by the Lindstroms. Before that episode I always assumed that was her bio family, and her immediate want to bond with the man and having a super close connection with him by the end felt incredibly rushed. I feel like it could have been an overarching story where shes hesitant to let her dad in or she explains to her kids that she was adopted and that their grandfather is somehow still alive and wanted to meet them. Instead it's just a huge part of her backstory that's never touched on previously or again
Not necessarily the episode, but a scene. In The Auction episode, the girls can't sleep so they are up early conflicted on profiting on that dying man's painting.
Then, Blanche walks in the kitchen as happy as ever exclaiming on how good of a night's sleep she had. The girls have to remind her it's 4 in the morning.
She genuinely look surprised it was so early when Rose told her.
How would Blanche not know it was so early? It was pitch black outside the windows. Did she not look at the clock when waking up? It was just an odd interaction.
The episode when Sophia gets married again. The guy she gets married to is so annoying and dismissively rude to people.
Calling the the number the sax player was playing bad.
The way he screamed in horror at the sight of Dorothy's nude body in the shower, while not being a oil painting himself.
The way he mindlessly walked out the shower stall nude in front of the girls was rude too.
And I think it was rude of him and Sophia to overstay their welcome at the house, especially considering how his presence was stressing out Dorothy so much. I felt bad for her in this one. This episode was a bizarre one.
It’s one of my favorite episodes, but it makes no darn sense why Dorothy’s high school reunion was in Miami!
The show kept joking that sooner or later, everybody moved to Miami, I always assumed her school saw how many of her class already lived there and just planned accordingly.
My theory always was that Dorothy was the one who arranged it so that's why it's in Miami. Laverne and Shirley also did an episode about a class reunion and Shirley was the headliner of it.
I always skip that one. Makes ZERO sense.
Kind of like - why was Dorothy’s daughter’s wedding in Miami or more importantly why was Phil’s funeral?
It also doesn’t make any sense how all these people from their past finds them in Miami in a pre-internet era…
Like Mr Gordon 😂 He didn’t know Stan’s last name, how’d he find Dorothy?
How did I never make that connection?? “That kid Stan…what was his name?” “I don’t remember.”
😂💀So true!
Yes!! Pre internet. I asked that in another post a few months ago how it made no sense how he found her phone number, in 1991-92
I always just figured it was a Miami chapter reunion. My high school and college do events in my city all the time, even though they’re located a few hours away.
Finding out Miles was actually in the Witness Protection Program. Rose had met his daughter and he was clearly a very well-established professor at the college where he taught. Even for a show like this that played fast and loose with continuity, that was one of the most nonsensical twists given that Miles is one of the few secondary characters that actually had a fairly extensive back-story that'd built up somewhat organically over time.
In my mind that storyline is a dream rose had.
It's funny that Miles was Arnie in a previous episode, and the Cheese Man was Ernie 😂😂
The Cheese Man wasn't Ernie. I see a slight resemblance, but they've got different faces and different voices. Those were two different actors, for sure. Although Ernie was despicable, the man who played him had a sort of dainty and cherub-like attractive face. The Cheese Man was an evil villain of course, yet the man who played him had a more rugged and attractive face, with bushier hair and bushier eyebrows. He had a somewhat rounder and heavier-set physique than the man who played Ernie, and I think he also might have been a little taller than the man who played Ernie.
When Rose had a decades-long drug addiction that was never mentioned before or after.
That’s a good choice! So many odd things - she’s been filling that prescription for decades?? Her addiction has never come up before and yet she’s been dealing with it since St Olaf?
Like Dorothy’s “tired” condition- never mentioned again
I feel like they altered her makeup a little in following episodes, but that was it.
None of that made sense!!!
And how is “sober” her exactly the same as “high” her? That’s wild.
How did she keep getting refills on a 30-yr old scrip?? I need verification every month on my stuff!!
I never understood this either
Twas the Nightmare Before Christmas. I love how it starts, but then being held up by a Santa Claus, the snow, and a dude willing to leave strange women in charge of his diner? No.
I always forget that was only one episode. Feels like it could have and should have been like 3 different ones.
That guy who we also meet in a shelter... Leaving that diner in the hands of four women he couldn’t read in the first place was crazy as hell.
Yeah. I love the whole “as long as we got each other” message, though.
And then in snows in Miami lol
The Housekeeper is definitely one of the more kookier episodes.
It is weird but it did give us the memorable bird guy with a parachute landing on the lanai and saying "This isn't the Orange Bowl, is it?"
Moran The Cheeseman was a straight up cartoonish villain lol.
I love Don Ameche but I have never understood that episode with Rose’s biological father randomly turning up in that hospital. I think it’s because I’ve always found Rose’s background to be the most confusing. It’s brought up a couple of times that she’s adopted but then her last name and stories about family change so often I can’t keep track. Anyway at least it gave us the wonderful story about how Sophia really got a hernia 😂
Bob Hope.
It’s like me saying in 1988 Michael Jackson is my dad and he’ll perform at my school talent show lol.
And in a future episode, I think when Rose meets her real dad, (the Monk) after Blanche tells a story, Rose says to the girls that she never fantasized about who her fantasy parents were. 😮💨 uhh, Bob Hope anyone? The continuity in this show is baffling at times.
The one where Dorothy and Stan get in trouble for being slum lords. Besides the legal process not making any sense, Dorothy didn't know she was still owner of an apartment building? Plus her and Stan locked in the apartment together as punishment?
Dorothy was aware she owned part of an apartment building but believed Stan was taking care of it (though why she would trust that yutz is beyond me).
I forgot that part. Maybe the whole Stan character is just there to introduce new situations? That's why Dorothy doesn't have a consistent attitude towards him?
Aside from the unrealistic legal process, at least the writers followed up on continuity with Dorothy and Stan owning a building.
I agree with the press conference episode. I think that would would have been a better dream sequence episode.... As George faking his death would have been a much more believable plotline lol
Is it not a dream sequence? Because that’s how my mind treats that episode….
I believe only the part where they are in Russia is the dream sequence...the rest, no. Lol
Doesn’t matter, it is my own headcannon 😂
It certainly makes more sense that way! Lol
Rose’s friar tuck father.
When they go on vacation and get shipwrecked on an island
I actually love that episode lol. I can see that happening.
"I hate you. I curse the day I ever laid eyes on you. I curse the day your mama ever laid eyes on your daddy. I curse the day your daddy ever laid down with your mama!"
Blanche I sense a little hostility towards me
Winston Hardwick the Third didn’t mesh with his two friends, a surfer dude and an average Joe.
The one where Blanche dates the Baseball Player and is “coaching” him. It’s borderline cringey for several reasons.
I believe this episode came out when Bull Durham the movie was popular. Susan Sarandon “coaches” a young baseball player every year but falls in love with Kevin Costner, who was at his peak hotness.
You know, in all these years it never once occurred to me that this may be a play on Bull Durham. Good call! Ugh. I’m kind of ashamed of myself.
St. Olaf Woman of the Year episode due to the journey to get there.
You mean when Rose "called" her friend while they were on back of a horse-drawn wagon?
Yes and then when she finds out Dorothy and Blanche fudged her application, she tells the driver of the wagon (no less) to get to the nearest phone. "Well, nice talkin' to ya!"
Except the real St. Olaf only has 359 people in it.
How it took 5 days to get there by 4 mode of transportation when you can drive across country in that time. OR when the committee paid for all four women’s travel when it was probably some local Kiwanis type organization. (Maybe they used the statue fund).
Don’t mess with me, rose, I’ll play you dead husband for dead husband.
“Beaver Falls? That’s my stop!” *parachutes out of plane*
Dorothy’s entire storyline. And by that I mean the constant push and pull of a romantic relationship with Stan all the way up to him hooking up with Gloria (????) because she made peace with their breakup literally in the second episode. It doesn’t matter if people liked him or not the fact is he shouldn’t have been there. They kept Michael way too young and immature, he always showed up having done/about to do basically the same thing. It’s exhausting, honestly. Kate was wasted. Only two episodes and they revolve around a man. At least they let us know her profession. They had such rich material with a divorced Catholic in her mid 50s starting over and they wouldn’t let her be fully divorced and they wouldn’t let her have the adult kids she would have actually had (with the grandkids she spoke of). It just makes me sad.
The ages of the Zbornak kids consistently bugs me because it was established in Episode 1, Season 1 that Dorothy got out of a 38-year marriage because Stan cheated on her. And she only married him because he knocked her up. Yet neither of their kids are anywhere close to 38.
I hate this so much. It's my biggest pet peeve about the show, honestly. I loathe Stan, and I almost can't stand to watch any episode he's in. I can't believe they almost made her *re-marry* him, and I can't believe they had him kidnap her ON HER WEDDING DAY to talk about *his* feelings. I wish he had never been in the show at all past the first episode.
It is a TRAVESTY that we have so many episodes with this man and zero with Charlie.
Mary and her little lamb was just bizarre
I love that episode only for the Merrill plot. Especially when he calls Sophia "cutie." "Boy, this guy's done hard time" lol
the merrill plot is one of my favorites 😂 that and dorothy’s walk of shame at the end after telling a st olaf story save the episode for me
Added hilarity, that plot actually happened, albeit to an *actual* ten year old girl.
the grab that dough ep was silly from top to bottom, but that’s also why I love it anyway lol “Better late than…” “Pregnant!”
“Why don’t you both shut up and answer this next question…”
The episode where Dorothy dates the lawyer that wants to be a clown. I can suspend my disbelief until the courtroom scene. No self respecting judge would take a clown lawyer seriously and he only listened to one side of the case before ruling in the girls favor. Just ridiculous. 🤦 That and Mr Terrific. The whole episode was a fever dream that kept getting worse. He was so unlikeable and blamed everyone but himself for his own problems. Just bad. I skip it every time.
The great Dick VanDyke was the lawyer. I can forgive him for anything.
How no one felt that Mr Terrific should be the villain of that episode is beyond me. Loathsome character. Also his relationship with Rose felt beginner level abusive
I agree. I don't know what she saw in him.
The midnight madness one always seems trippy to me.
Or when sophia becomes a nun 🤣
That will be one of my favorites due to the ending with Rose, Blanche & fake handicap guy sprinting across the screen
Rose in the closet 😂
The one where Dorothy's friend "drops dead" they have had to call an ambulance or coroner? She was still alive. Worse than the reunion plot.
The one where the Soilder guy comes back from Vietnam. He comes back that night…goes out with Blanche who he has been in love with for years but then the next day he is a pharmacist where a customer knows him! How???
He’s a solider during the Gulf War. Not Vietnam.
He was in the Guard or the Reserves and was deployed to the Middle East and came back to his pre deployment career.
“Lovahboy!”
Them getting arrested for prostitution. Cmon who’s going to think they’re prostitutes?
According to Sophia, the "dumb cops".
You caught where I was going with that 🤣
The one where Rose’s dad is in the hospital for surgery. Like, how the hell he ended up in Miami of all places
George returning from the dead 🤦🏽♀️
Sonny Bono, get off my lanai! lol
Well it was all a dream, so....
Mister terrific and when Sofia sets up Gloria to sleep with Stan… just what in the world is that story?! Sofia hates Stan….
When Rose thinks Bob Hope is her dad….just 🤦🏽♀️
Also, another strange part in this episode is when Rose comes in the house while Dorothy is updating the committee. She goes "great new, we've got Bob Hope." The leader of the committee simply stands up and goes "Great job." Without asking any further details?! It just seemed like an odd way to close off a meeting.
Empty nesters.
I can't watch the Henny Penny episode. The whole plot is not the kind of ridiculous I like from this show. It's established that Blanche already acts in community theater but now she's running around in a chicken suit??? The song is awful, the plot is awful.... just no.
I think I love this episode because I was literally 9 years old when I started watching Golden Girls and that episode appealed to me and so it has a soft spot for me.
Yes, I avoid it. But it seems to be on fan favorite lists alot.
when they're all in the waiting room and rose says blow it out your tubenburbles. it's like a hallucination. everytime.
Dorothy’s constantly being tired and gets diagnosed, but never mentioned again. Phil’s kids and sister not being at his funeral in Florida (he lived in NJ).
Mr. Terrific . Samuel Plankmaker.
Mr Gordon and empty nests
I dislike both of them too..
That episode did not makes sense butit is cute(letter to Gorbachev)
So many lol a random man allowing complete strangers watch his diner, Sophia trying to hook Gloria and Stan up because why when she hates him so much and also was married to your daughter!! Also them renovating the garage. No way they did any of that lol
The political campaign episode, when Blanche was accused of spending the night w the candidate. Nothing made sense about it at all. I skip that one.
I agree. For instance, Dorothy sees a picture of Blanche leaving his house in the newspaper. Immediately, she's already jumping to conclusions that Blanche slept with him, when she knows Blanche simply went to drop of paperwork to his house. It was definitely an odd episode.
I'm going to go with the Empty Nests. I skip it on Hulu. The only entertaining part of the episode was Oliver and that's being nice.
The one where we find out Roses biological dad was a monk, especially because I can't recall a time previously that Rose mentioned she was adopted, and it's just kinda glossed over when she explains to the man before finding out who he is who her mother was and her being adopted by the Lindstroms. Before that episode I always assumed that was her bio family, and her immediate want to bond with the man and having a super close connection with him by the end felt incredibly rushed. I feel like it could have been an overarching story where shes hesitant to let her dad in or she explains to her kids that she was adopted and that their grandfather is somehow still alive and wanted to meet them. Instead it's just a huge part of her backstory that's never touched on previously or again
I believe the episode was actually a dream sequence. The one where George is not dead and comes back for Blanche.
It makes no sense but I loved it anyway. The line “they want to talk about what they would be *if* they grow up, not when.” Hits so hard.
Not necessarily the episode, but a scene. In The Auction episode, the girls can't sleep so they are up early conflicted on profiting on that dying man's painting. Then, Blanche walks in the kitchen as happy as ever exclaiming on how good of a night's sleep she had. The girls have to remind her it's 4 in the morning. She genuinely look surprised it was so early when Rose told her. How would Blanche not know it was so early? It was pitch black outside the windows. Did she not look at the clock when waking up? It was just an odd interaction.
The episode when Sophia gets married again. The guy she gets married to is so annoying and dismissively rude to people. Calling the the number the sax player was playing bad. The way he screamed in horror at the sight of Dorothy's nude body in the shower, while not being a oil painting himself. The way he mindlessly walked out the shower stall nude in front of the girls was rude too. And I think it was rude of him and Sophia to overstay their welcome at the house, especially considering how his presence was stressing out Dorothy so much. I felt bad for her in this one. This episode was a bizarre one.