wildpotato

In the episode "Job Hunting," Rose is whining about her difficulties in finding a new job. She says that she has an interview for a hospital administrator position, but that she won't get the job because she isn't qualified and is too old. So how did she snag an interview for an upper-management position when she had no relevant experience? So stupid. In general, I am baffled by the frequent jokes about how Dorothy is so ugly and undesirable. Bea Arthur was average looking at worst. These seemed to be in later episodes. Perhaps the writers were sick of her and were taking it out on her by writing rude dialogue at her expense. The writers got really lazy with the Sophia character. Far too often, she was nothing more than an insult machine. And a lot of them sounded so contrived. Then occasionally she would be practically angelic - like her oh-so-enlightened speech about how there's nothing wrong with being a lesbian. Oh sure, a hateful, zillion-year-old Sicilian woman is suddenly going to be cool with that? (Although as a gay man, I am rather impressed that the show had some gay-related story lines.)