Ria

I can never understand how you get to the garage going left out of the kitchen. That would put the garage in the same place as the bedrooms. Not to mention the girls look to the left out of the front door to see the driveway. The door to the garage should be on the wall where the refrigerator is.

From what we see, Dorothy’s comedy act stunk. The girls are funnier just sitting around the house talking.

Sophia, and likely Angela, came over when they were probably 20ish and then lived here for decades. Angelo was in his 80s when he arrived.

I love the Henry Penny episode. All three girls were perfectly cast as their respective birds and did a great job. But Sophia’s lines were stupid and unnecessary. Can’t that woman give it a rest?

They also had that lifetime supply of soup to fall back on. 😏

Blanche’s descriptions of George sound as if they came out of a romance novel. He was so handsome and smart and intellectual and successful, army captain decorated for bravery, top of his class at Vanderbilt. I find myself wondering how much is true and how much she’s exaggerating or remembering through rose colored glasses. If he was so smart and successful, why did she have to take in renters to pay the mortgage and not have enough money for a new roof? Not that she was destitute, but it doesn’t appear he left her all that much money. And he cheated on her and fathered a child he then ignored except for sending checks. Her descriptions of Big Daddy were always over the top as well. Not to mention her opinion of her looks and being irresistible to men. I think there’s some fantasy mixed into her descriptions.

That would be perfect.

And terrible taste isn’t even an excuse for her going on a second date with John/Peter/Schlomo the freeway flasher. She learns he’s using multiple aliases while dating multiple women/men including getting one of his students pregnant and then dumping her and then getting arrested for flashing. Why did they end that story with Rose adding he wasn’t any better on their second date? I thought it cheapened her character. It wasn’t funny to have her say she went out with him again. It was degrading.

I always wonder what happened to the dog. Sophia says he ran out the back (after the pathetic non-attempt by Blanche and Rose to stop her from going into the kitchen). Not worth looking for I guess. The disregard for the dog annoys me.

When Rose has her triple bypass Dorothy mentions Kiersten lives an hour away. Did she move to Florida? She definitely lived in St Olaf when she first appeared. I always thought it would have made more sense for Rose to move to Florida if at least one of her children lived there. I can’t see Rose leaving her kids and grandkids (not to mention her elderly mother who had to take in a drifting ex-con for help since none of her eight kids could be bothered) and moving to Florida by herself. If the memories in the house were too hard she could have just moved to Minneapolis.

Well it worked because Dorothy always seemed the slimmest other than Sophia.

I know styles change over the years, but all those fussy outfits the girls wear, even around the house, makes them seem old. Same thing with the men in their suits and sports jackets. Everyone I know, even my 80+ year old mom and her friends, mostly wear jeans and sweatshirts or T-shirt’s and flip flops or sneakers.

I’m wondering how Dorothy can so easily afford a hearing aid. They cost thousands of dollars. I’m mostly deaf in one ear and have never been able to afford one even now when my insurance would pay for most of it. And I’m pretty sure I’m financially better off than Dorothy. Who also never gave any indication she had a hearing problem anyway.

He must never have run into Angela in Sicily. She was living there after her husband died until she moved to Florida. You would think she’d look him up instead of living with a goat.

They did an episode about one of Dorothy’s pupils being deported for being here illegally. But then have Uncle Angelo arrive from Italy for a visit and Dorothy gives him an apartment and he just stays. No mention of paperwork or visas or court dates. Just as illegal.

Michael’s age has always been the show’s biggest and most glaring continuity error because it’s not a one off mistake but is at odds with Dorothy’s whole repeated backstory. That she got pregnant in high school, married Stan and was married for 38 years. And when the show started she had not seen Stan in 2 years. So Michael would be 40 at the start of the series. Or there’s a never mentioned disowned or deceased older child out there since Kate is also too young to be that first child. But then at some point in the series Dorothy claims to be 55 which makes her story even more out of whack. Throw in Sophia’s mom who was in her 90s when Dorothy was 6 but was alive to work on Eisenhower’s campaign in the 50s and you have one strange family setup.

I’ve always wondered why is there an exclamation point on the front door?

And Mrs. Claxton.

A lot of Rose’s stories are ridiculous. What about her and Charlie living in a burning house? It was warm and toasty until they outgrew the place. I really wonder sometimes if Rose was psychotic.

When Dorothy and Sophia place 2nd in the Shady Pine’s mother/daughter pageant, why does Rose announce to Blanche “make way for the winners of the mother/daughter beauty pageant”. I mean really, just why?

I like the “Mel Bushman” episode, but it’s another one where the show can’t keep continuity within an episode. Early in the episode Dorothy comments to Blanche she has been seeing Mel for three years and sees him maybe 5 times a year. So she’s seen Mel about 15 times. A few scenes later Dorothy is telling Blanche’s she’s been out with Mel thousands of times. Mel himself mentions Blanche calls him every couple of weeks. Couldnt the writers bother to settle on one story? It’s as if three different writers threw it together.

Z is for the Zorro Mask Blanche says’s was almost knocked off her late night date when Sophia’s nurse entered at a most inopportune time.

The Christmas episode also has the stupid story of Stan supposedly convincing his kids one year Christmas was the 26th and finding a thrown out tree and decorating it with pull tabs and convincing them a Jim Thorpe movie was King of Kings. Even if they were this poor, and this is really poor, I can’t believe Sal and Sophia wouldn’t have made sure their grandkids had a tree and presents on Christmas or at least had them over to their house to celebrate. And King of Kings was made in the 1960s. Their kids should have been teens. Were they this stupid?

It makes no sense. Just like with Trudy McMann. You can’t really pretend to be dead for several minutes while people are standing all around you and would notice if you twitched or breathed.

In one episode a man asks Blanche if she is in the book and she replies “in bold print”.