camom January 30, 2015 Share January 30, 2015 Y is for Yes Dear, in which Ellen Albertini Dow (Lillian, who Sophia broke out of a retirement home) played Grandma Nan. According to imdb, she is still alive at age 101 and acted as recently as 2013. Link to comment
LilWharveyGal January 30, 2015 Share January 30, 2015 Z is for Road to Zanzibar, which starred Rose's fantasy dad, Bob Hope. I got to choose the last topic so if anyone has an idea feel free to jump in! Link to comment
Maherjunkie January 30, 2015 Share January 30, 2015 Times when characters behaved out of character? Link to comment
camom January 30, 2015 Share January 30, 2015 Let's give this a whirl... A is for Author Barbara Thorndyke. In that episode Dorothy treated Rose and Blanche horribly. She often acted with an air of superiority, but she was over the top this time. Link to comment
Miss Chevious January 30, 2015 Share January 30, 2015 (edited) B is for B*tch. Rose turned into one when she didn't have her meds. Remember how she yelled at the TV pizza commercial guy. C is for Competitive Streak. Any kind of competition was not flattering to The Girls as evidenced by their behavior in the bowling tournament and dance marathon. Edited January 30, 2015 by Miss Chevious Link to comment
camom January 31, 2015 Share January 31, 2015 D is for Date -- everyone else laughed when Dorothy said she had one. 1 Link to comment
Miss Chevious January 31, 2015 Share January 31, 2015 E is for Elliott. Rose turned into a vamp in order to get him to come on to her so she could prove to Dorothy that he was a lying womanizer. :Sexy voice - has anyone told you look like Jerry Vale? That was so out of character for her. Link to comment
BookThief January 31, 2015 Share January 31, 2015 F is for Fat Jokes/Comments that the ladies didn't keep to themselves when Blanche's daughter was visiting. They were pretty awful and it's odd that they did it but didn't like it when her fiance did it. 2 Link to comment
What In The January 31, 2015 Share January 31, 2015 G is for Gloria Dorthy's sister who slept with Stan. Link to comment
BookThief January 31, 2015 Share January 31, 2015 G is for Gloria Dorthy's sister who slept with Stan. I'm on the fence about whether this is actually a time when someone acted out of character or a random addition (because we didn't really know Gloria that well. This could have been totally in character), but I shall let it go... H is for Hope, as in, Rose thought her father was Bob Hope and caused a ruckus, even if it did work out in the end. As Dorothy said, "This Bob Hope story is odd--even for you." 1 Link to comment
Miss Chevious January 31, 2015 Share January 31, 2015 I is for Insensitive. Blanche was so totally insensitive to her daughter's wish for artificial insemination. She was usually so open to sexual freedom (pun intended). Link to comment
roseslg February 2, 2015 Share February 2, 2015 Is it when the characters behaved out of character or when they acted in a way we didn't like? Some of what has been listed are traits that were consistent throughout the series (the competitiveness), so I want to make sure before I jump in. Link to comment
Maherjunkie February 2, 2015 Share February 2, 2015 (edited) I meant the former, like when Rebecca visits. Edited February 2, 2015 by Maherjunkie Link to comment
Bastet February 2, 2015 Share February 2, 2015 The theme given for this round was "times when the characters behaved out of character," so, yeah, the former. Link to comment
Blakeston February 3, 2015 Share February 3, 2015 (edited) J is for Jerry, and Blanche loving the idea of taking it slow with him - and insisting that it makes her feel like a "lady." Blanche knew fully well that being sexually aggressive and being a lady are not mutually exclusive. Edited February 3, 2015 by Blakeston 1 Link to comment
Bastet February 3, 2015 Share February 3, 2015 Amen. I don't have a K right now, but just have to chime in to say I loathe that "Like a lady" line, and whomever wrote it for undermining all the wonderful characterization that had come before. Disgusting. Link to comment
Maherjunkie February 3, 2015 Share February 3, 2015 I might be out of bounds , but Dorothy turning down Ken doesn't seem likely. The circus yes, but the man no. Link to comment
Blakeston February 3, 2015 Share February 3, 2015 (edited) L is for Little person. Rose may have been clueless in a lot of ways, but she was usually good about understanding other people's feelings. And yet in the episode with Dr. Jonathan Newman, she knew that the other girls had invited him over for dinner, but she still didn't bother to inform them that he was a little person. Which put him in the situation where he was mistaken for one of the Donaldson kids. (He took it all very well, of course - but I can't imagine any middle-aged man likes being confused with a paperboy.) I get that the writers wanted a scene where Blanche is caught off guard. But couldn't they have just had him drop by unexpectedly? Or have the girls invite him as a surprise, without telling Rose? Edited February 3, 2015 by Blakeston Link to comment
LilWharveyGal February 4, 2015 Share February 4, 2015 M is for Rose trying out for (and landing the role of Lady M. in) Macbeth. I can't imagine her having any interest in the play, and not in a million years can I picture her having the understanding let alone the "presence" to carry the main female role. Link to comment
Miss Chevious February 4, 2015 Share February 4, 2015 N is for Night School. It was not like Blanche to study hard to get a good grade instead of sleeping with the teacher. She usually slept with everybody. Like the newspaper reporter writing about her in the Citrus Festival for example. She slept with him twice. So why not do #7b? Link to comment
Bastet February 4, 2015 Share February 4, 2015 You mean the teacher who told her she had to sleep with him in order to get a good grade? If so, I disagree. There's a world of difference between sleeping with someone out of your own free will - even if it's to get something - and sleeping with someone under duress. 4 Link to comment
camom February 4, 2015 Share February 4, 2015 O is for Operation. I had a hard time believing that Dorothy was so afraid of having foot surgery that she would run away from the hospital. Link to comment
Blakeston February 5, 2015 Share February 5, 2015 P is for Pepe. Once he tried to pull that "I pretended not to speak English, and you believed me, so you're racist" crap, Dorothy would have torn him a new one. 1 Link to comment
Cobalt Stargazer February 7, 2015 Share February 7, 2015 Q is for Isaac Q. Newton, who Blanche and Dorothy invented for Rose, and then he turned out to actually exist and be an utter dud. I think she should have been madder at them for getting her hopes up when the real guy turned out to be so lame. Link to comment
BookThief February 7, 2015 Share February 7, 2015 R is for "Regular", what Sophia said the R meant on the coffee cup when Rose was waiting for her HIV/AIDS test results. Of course it actually meant "Rose" and Sophia was being all weird/panicky and trying to separate Rose from the other ladies despite knowing better. Link to comment
camom February 8, 2015 Share February 8, 2015 To me, that actually seemed like a fairly normal response from Sophia. At the time of the show, AIDS was still not fully understood and was always fatal. Just because she knew in her mind that she couldn't catch it, people's feelings and actions don't always follow. Link to comment
BookThief February 8, 2015 Share February 8, 2015 Blanche and Dorothy both call her out on it though, Dorothy even calling it "ignorant paranoia". Even Sophia says "I'm not normally like this", so I stand by my answer! 2 Link to comment
Maherjunkie February 9, 2015 Share February 9, 2015 S is for calling Lucy out on being a slut when she (Blanche) herself personifies it happily Link to comment
Blakeston February 10, 2015 Share February 10, 2015 I thought Blanche explained that nicely to Lucy - it's one thing to sleep with men because you like them, it's another thing to do it because you want them to like you. 2 Link to comment
Maherjunkie February 10, 2015 Share February 10, 2015 I don't see any difference between the two of them, to be honest. Link to comment
FormerMod-a1 February 10, 2015 Author Share February 10, 2015 Replying in the All Episodes thread... Link to comment
Maherjunkie February 16, 2015 Share February 16, 2015 T is for the Mister Terrific episode. What's wrong about Rose meeting a man in a mall with an unusual profession? Especially since how non-picky Blanche is. Link to comment
camom February 17, 2015 Share February 17, 2015 U is for Underwear. I know she did it more than once, but I think it's odd that a proper southern woman like Blanche would enter a room announcing that she's not wearing underwear. Maybe not terribly out of character for her specifically, but she was so proud of her southern heritage and being "proper." (U is hard!) Link to comment
Blakeston February 21, 2015 Share February 21, 2015 V is for Virginia. When Big Daddy died, and Virginia kept accusing Blanche of being selfish, I think Blanche would have thrown it in her face that she'd been perfectly willing to give her a kidney. Link to comment
Miss Chevious February 22, 2015 Share February 22, 2015 W is for Wild & Crazy Behavior. Which the girls exhibited by going totally naked at their Valentines Day nudist resort stay. Not something we would expect from Dorothy and especially not from Rose. Blanche...um maybe but not the other two. Link to comment
camom February 23, 2015 Share February 23, 2015 X is for the X-rated movie that Sophia rented. She wasn't a prude, but I thought that was definitely out of character. Link to comment
Kiddvideo February 25, 2015 Share February 25, 2015 Z is for Stan and the Zborny. Who knew the yutz could do anything right? New topic: if GG were set in 2015, how would they describe themselves in their online dating profiles? A: Blanche would be Available for a good time. Link to comment
Miss Chevious February 25, 2015 Share February 25, 2015 B: Rose is blonde, beautiful and buxom. She needed a B! But not Bubbleheaded, that's how Blanche would've described her. Link to comment
camom February 25, 2015 Share February 25, 2015 D is for Drop-dead gorgeous (Blanche) Link to comment
Maherjunkie February 25, 2015 Share February 25, 2015 E is for Euthanasia. Sophia ultimately can't support it, nor read Final Exit. Link to comment
Miss Chevious February 26, 2015 Share February 26, 2015 Forty and Fabulous - Blanche Fess Parker lookalike - Dorothy (as described by Sophia) F was such a good letter, I had to do two. Link to comment
camom February 26, 2015 Share February 26, 2015 G is for Good Girl - Rose H is for Happy - Rose again I is for Intelligent - Dorothy Link to comment
BookThief February 27, 2015 Share February 27, 2015 J is for Jumpier than a virgin at a prison rodeo. I could see Blanche putting that in her personality section in any decade. Link to comment
What In The February 27, 2015 Share February 27, 2015 Kind: Rose Luscious: blanche. Hey, it's Blanche, she would think of herself that way wouldn't she. Link to comment
Miss Chevious February 27, 2015 Share February 27, 2015 Men. Many, many men. Blanche was actively seeking. Link to comment
Maherjunkie February 27, 2015 Share February 27, 2015 N is for No, which she would never say. Link to comment
camom February 27, 2015 Share February 27, 2015 O is for Older -- Sophia P is for Blanche's Perky bosom Link to comment
Maherjunkie February 27, 2015 Share February 27, 2015 Q is for quirks, like talking to the pigs on your shower curtain Link to comment
BookThief February 28, 2015 Share February 28, 2015 R is for Ready Freddy, which Dorothy might be, if your profile pic looks like Leslie Nielsen. Link to comment
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