High Anxiety has to be the most annoying episode. They find Rose taking pills that she got when she hurt her back 30 years ago. And automatically say Rose you're addicted. How in the hell is she addicted to pills that's she's been taking over 30 years? How freaking many did that doctor give her!? I love that they do topics like this but make it more believable.
shareFor sheer dumbness,I gotta go with the guy who finds the wallet while Blanche and Sophia are at the mall.
They hand over cash to a total stranger - to open a bank account with him?!?
That whole scenario was so convoluted and far-fetched, I find it hard to believe anyone could be THAT dumb.
I haven't seen that episode in a long while but I believe (from your description) it involved a well-known scam that has succeeded many, many times. I think that's they did that episode, to make people, especially seniors, aware of it.
shareI could see Rose and Blanche falling for this, but Sophia? She's supposed to be wise to scams like that having grown up in Sicily...where she probably pulled scams like that.
share- Mary Had A Little Lamb. I HATE that episode. I'm not a fan of the "forced" episodes where some random unimportant person we've never seen or heard of is supposedly SO close to the girls, and shows up out of the blue and gets a storyline devoted to them. On top of that, Mary was just boring, the episode was too serious, plus it wasn't believable to me that she would hang with the girls like that, there was no chemistry. The whole thing just came off forced, and who cared about Mary and her problems?
- You've Gotta Have Hope. Ridiculous, even for Rose.
- Sophia's Wedding. I wouldn't say it's the worst but i don't care for it that much, it was pretty pointless.
- Not Another Monday. This is the one where Sophia's friend invites her to dinner to tell her that she wants to kill herself and that she wants Sophia to be there. Sounds like a hilarious episode, right? What a barrel of laughs! I don't mind the serious storylines sometimes but the woman who played her friend was creepy and so was the whole "i want you to be there when i kill myself" stuff. "I refuse to take no for an answer Sophia, if you love me you'll be there!" Then Dorothy, who usually doesn't even want Sophia to go out and have an ice cream cone, is suddenly like "well, Ma, it's up to you if you want to watch her commit suicide, it's your choice"
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Part 1 and 2- Ugh...i understand that Susan Harris wanted to cover this topic in an episode, I get it, but ONE part would have been more than enough. It was drawn out way longer than it needed to be, not to mention, Dorothy just randomly happening to see the same dismissive, rude doctor she just saw in New York at some restaurant in Miami, yeah it could happen but come on!
- I'm sure it's been mentioned already, but Empty Nest. What a snoozefest.
- Brother Can You Spare That Jacket. This is the one where they lose a ticket worth $10,000 (and back then $10,000 was worth even more than it is now), see Michael Jackson (just stupid), and end up at the homeless shelter, where they supposedly "learn a lesson", Sophia's all like, "Good people won't allow this to go on" and then they're outta there. One of the weaker episodes of the show.
The problem I have with "Brother Can You Spare That Jacket" is that Sophia abandons her homeless friend in the shelter at the end of the episode. Yet in another episode, she breaks a friend out of a nursing home because it's a low-end one. I would think even a low-end one would be better than a homeless shelter.
shareHere I go defending Mary Had a Little Lamb, again! I love the part about Merrill the pen pal/convict so much that I overlook the rest of it. Actually, the part about Mary isn't so bad, but it doesn't make sense that she was never heard of before or after that one episode.
A really dumb episode that I love anyway: The Baby the pig episode that aired on Hallmark last night. So stupid, but makes me laugh every time...
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Yeah.
But "Golden Girls" still is the best Conedy series to watch, IMO.
The one with Stan and his stuffed animal.
~ Whoever said diamonds were a girls best friend never owned a dog ~
Really? I thought "The Monkey Show" (both parts 1 & 2) was hilarious. Then again, I'm a big fan of Season 7 and like/love every episode. It's just so much fun. I know many people think that the quality of the show worsened over the years, but IMO it only got funnier.
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I think the OP means how could Rose have been GIVEN enough pills to become addicted?
Meaning they're wondering what doctor would give her unlimited prescriptions for painkillers, for 30 years.
I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.
well, I think the OP thinks this is a stupid episode because there was no story arc. we were supposed to have known these ladies for years and this character trait of Rose is completely out of left field for all of us. we never saw her mention her back pain. 'oh, I can't lift that, I wrenched my back 30 years ago and it has never been right since'.. nothing.
and no doctor would give her unlimited rx's, remember, she moved to florida from Minnesota. the back injury happened in Minnesota. If anything, she went to a doctor or two and said: I am still in pain from a back injury from XYZ from 30 years ago.now, a doctor with the time and the caring, would stop to investigate as to WHY she is still in pain. if anything, we never saw rose in pain. we saw her become agitated because she was not 'lubricated' as I put it.
pain pill addiction is rarely about pain, it is about the 'ride' you experience once on the medication. that 'delicious' feeling is too good to let go and that is how addictions to anything happen. The problem with this episode is not what it discusses but how it was executed. Rose was supposed to be needing pain pills for 30 years due to wrenched back way back when and we never saw her actually, physically NEED to take the medicine for medicinal reasons. if she really DID still have pain from a wrenched back from all those years ago, she would not have been able to do that dirty dancing. I just looked it up. this episode is only FOUR EPIODES BEFORE the dirty dancing! [clarification: High Anxiety: 4:20 and 'dirty dancing': 4:24.]
if she was really in need of the medicine for back pain, no matter when the dirty dancing episode occurred, she would have NOT been able to dance like that!
Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.
Well as for dumb episodes, I am currently watching "In a Bed of Rose's" where the married man dies after sleeping with Rose. Sure the story is plausible enough, but what makes it so dumb is that no one (including the wife of the man who died) seems to be reacting with any sense of urgency. The whole episode seems to be handled with the same comedic formula as any other episode. I mean sure, it's a comedy show, but even on Golden Girls, other dramatic moments usually get handled with a little respect for whatever is happening. But here, no one acted as if someone had died. They all seemed to react the same way they do when one of them just has a bad date.
shareI can't stand flash back episodes with recycled material. The one where they showed how they met was good and a flash back, but I'm pretty sure that was all new material and not on any other show.
shareI always hated the flashback episodes also and they seemed to have a lot of them. One or two of them they even used two episodes to tell their story. The one where they believe Sophia burns down the nursing home I believe was a two-parter.
shareYeah to me it seemed like it was filler just for the writers and producers. Was their a writing strike back then maybe? And in general, I hate episodes about holidays. I have no idea why. haha
I wonder if they had kept the cook in the original pilot would Sophia have been a long term character.