You can keep your Empty Nests and Fiddler on the Ropes and all the others, my vote for worst episode goes to Dateline: Miami, the Dorothy/Sophia flashback was touching but otherwise I just don't care for it.
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Nobody mentioned "Brother, Can You Spare a Jacket"??
For shame!!!
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I won't say these are the absolute worst but i like these the least....i have the DVDs and these are the episodes i tend to skip when i watch it...
Mary Had A Little Lamb - I hate this episode....Mary's boring...her problems are boring...and she's supposedly so "close" to the Girls yet we've never seen or heard of her not once...the whole episode is forced and boring to me...she didn't have much chemistry with the Girls either imo
You've Gotta Have Hope - Ridiculous, even for Rose.
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 with other old people, 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!
72 Hours- This is the episode where Rose isn't sure if she has AIDS or not. Just not one of my favorites.
Honorable mention: Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo and Bringing Up Baby
Bob Hope and Rose suddenly being a drug addict. Both Rose stories too bad
A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star.
The fatigue ep is my FAVE! Overly tired Blanche and her "little balls of sunshine" bit is hilarious!!!!
shareI can't recall the episode names, but the "Grab That Dough" episode was one, although Jim McKrell was good being he was one a game show host himself.
And the episode where Dorothy's son Michael married Lorraine, a black woman whose family was a bunch of bigots.
I don't really hate any of the episodes, but these are episodes that I didn't really care for. In no order, by the way.
That Was No Lady
Family Affair
Dorothy's Prized Pupil
Empty Nests
Old Friends
Golden Moments 1 & 2
Mixed Blessing
Brother, Can You Spare That Jacket?
Fiddler on the Ropes
Little Sister
Not Another Monday
All That Jazz
Ebb Tide
The President's Coming! The President's Coming! 1 & 2
Snap Out Of It
Wham, Bam, Thank You, Mammy
Ebbtide's Revenge
Miles to Go
Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home 1 & 2
One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest 1 & 2
An episode which aired again today, "Whose Face is This, Anyway." Blanche returns from a thirty year college reunion upset that all her old friends look so wonderful. And she was not considered "the prettiest". Was she ever considered that? A legend in her own mind, I think
It's such an annoying episode in the way the show portrays Blanche as some great "beauty" whose looks have just started to fade.
I never got the way the show pushed Blanche as some gorgeous woman. Okay, she was well groomed. She used her charm on men, but drop dead gorgeous? Not even close. She was oversexed and willing to jump into bed with every man she met. Did that give her the idea that they found her so beautiful?
She appeared in an 'All in the Family' episode back when she was only 38. She looked old for her age and only marginally attractive then.
Why did the show try to present her as some great beauty? Or were we supposed to believe that Blanche had such a swelled head she really believed she was gorgeous? I thought Betty White in her heyday was much prettier.
Sadly, I don't think men loved Blanche because she was beautiful. They loved her because she was easy.
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shareI agree with you. Fiddler on the Ropes was not a good episode at all.
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