MoistestCake

What are your other 2? I think it's weird Rose notified the wife with nothing more to go on than a name and number from a phone book. After all a man cheating would probably use a fake name. Still, if she didn't there would be no plot...

And Derek had a South African accent. That bothers me. But yes, how did he know about the party?

St Olaf doesn't appear till much later than you'd think, I think. And talking of St Olaf, I love how most of the people there have 2 jobs. My favourite is the OBMAG (I think) who is the obstetrician/magician, The Amazing Shapiro.

There are quite a few posts about why Stan is disliked (he's a yutz). But there's one thing in the Stan and Dorothy story that really bugs me, and might be another reason to dislike him. In one of the versions about how Dorothy became pregnant she says she was unconscious, and that Stan must have slipped her something (to which Sophia says, Apparently). Now I get the quite funny double entendre, and I realise it's only a sitcom. It could also simply be understood as Stan being so inadequate that she felt like she wasn't experiencing the moment. But this still bugs me. I know that #metoo wasn't a thing back in the '80s and that the event itself took place in the late 1940s when it would have been considered the woman's fault for getting into a situation in which she can be mistreated, which would explain why Dorothy would have just accepted it, no point going to the police. Maybe I'm overreacting or reading too much into it. And maybe the joke is on Stan who was useless rather than Dorothy being unconscious. But the "slipped me something" suggests something more sinister. Maybe it's because I love the Girls and the thought that that could have happened to one of them bothers me. And this is in contrast with the 2 stories when Blanche's professor and Rose's dentist sexually harass the girls, and they take action.

They tried that with the horrible jacket episode, when an old lady they meet at the shelter who had neither money nor family to take care of her in her old age. Besides that being pretty much the worst episode (I think most agree) I don't understand how come Blanche (I think she bought the tickets) says these are their weekly tickets and we never hear of them again. Couldn't they have said she found $10 in a pocket and decided to buy lottery tickets just because she's feeling lucky that day.

She moved to Florida to be a Golden Girl.

Exactly. I'm not saying it's impossible that someone won't know a phrase, but suddenly not know it is weird. There's a similar thing when Rose talks about a lesbian but then later on in another episode doesn't know what that is. Maybe she has a special type of forgetfulness that is typical of St Olaf?

In the episode when Michael marries Lorraine, Rose uses the phrase "long in the tooth", then in a later episode when Sophia and Blanche are dating Fidel Santiago the phrase is used about Fidel and Rose suddenly doesn't understand the phrase saying, I thought his teeth were fine but I couldn't believe how old he is......

Just watching the ep when the girls go to the Caribbean to that awful hotel and Sofia stays at home and hits on the Japanese gardener Toshiro. She tells him she was married 45 years, and that works. Say she married at 20, plus 45 years makes her 65, and when the show starts she's 80 having been widowed for 15 years. So give or take a few years, and surprisingly, the maths works.

But he wasn't turned in by Dorothy. The pupil wasn't turned in by her exactly but she drew the wrong kind of attention to him. Angelo was on TV so maybe that could have had someone dig into who he is when he complained about his landlords. Or Angelo already had all the paperwork in place, maybe he lived in the US in the past? We know he attended Dorothy's wedding, but then not seen for like 40 years when he was married and pretending to be a priest....(the whole Angelo character made NO sense). Or if he is really Aunt Angela after a sex and accent reassignment then I guess he has the paperwork as we know she lived in the USA for 30 years.

That's some fine fanwanking. Love it.

Sophia and Max didn't divorce, but some time later she was planning to marry Melvin whose wife was dying. Unless Max died in the meantime.

Loads of events, people and issues disappear suddenly (chronic fatigue, Mary, Stan's wives, Michael and Lorraine's baby.....) and other appear out of nowhere like Rose's addiction and uncle Angelo. It's part of what I love about the show. I get 2 laughs for the price of 1, one from the comedy, one from the bad writing/continuity/logic.

Just watching that bit, omg it's horrible.

It's like Dorothy says, they first get his credit card details.

I have often wondered what happened to these guys. A few died (Fidel, Al Beatty) but most just vanished, like the Japanese gardner, the blind man Blanche dated, Arnie who took Rose on a cruise, the man who took Dorothy on a cruise and so many more. Some were clearly more than just a one off (I don't think they found them on Tinder). So where'd they go so abruptly?

Love that line

Because they never went to trial. We never found out what happened after the arrest and bail. But I doubt they'd have been convicted. Surely being fully dressed in a dodgy hotel's lobby is not a crime - that arrest annoyed me. I never really like celebrities turning up as themselves in shows. It's always stupid.

They're skilled actors, they can pretend anything.

True true. It's not impossible for them to have found the number. Especially since it's in bold.

In the episode when they go on the morning show as lesbians of Miami, after the show Blanche gets 20 calls. But how did the know her number?

On the one hand she doesn't understand the Cheeseman when he says "I'll give you a ring" and on the other she's clever enough to suspect that the fire inspector was crooked when they accused Sophia of burning down Shady Pines (even though for the sake of the joke they made her not understand it fully).

L is for Lenny Briscoe who sleeps with Dorothy

Blanche also woke up in the arms of the president (of the chamber of commerce) when she was still married, so there's anecdotal evidence that Blanche was not as faithful as she claims, or serious continuity errors (never).

Isn't that a long time to wait for the police?