WEBVTT - FLIGHT SCHOOL minisode: “Golden Girls” 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:21.120 Hey there, Fana Ritos. It's been a while since we've 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.560 stepped back into flight school, where we watch and discuss 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.080 epic TV shows of the eighties and nineties. 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:30.360 So Pilot's epic pilot. 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:33.200 Pilots, yeah, not just TV shows, but pilot pilots, yes, 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.640 and flight school yes. So pull up a wicker chair 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:40.879 and prepare for some Miami mayhem, because today we are 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.839 heading all the way back to nineteen eighty five, to 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:48.080 the pilot episode that launched four of the most iconic 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:49.640 women in TV history. 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:56.000 Yes, we're talking the Golden Girl who Finally Love It. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.360 In this minisode, we're breaking down the episode that almost wasn't. 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:03.960 We meet Dorothy, Rose, Sophia, and Blanche, and Blanche does 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:06.520 not sound like she's from the South like for one 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.160 of the only episodes, right. 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:10.120 I don't know, she sort of did. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:11.160 I don't know. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.600 I mean, look, as somebody who was thrown into doing 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:19.160 an accent zero preparation, a pilot will say that sometimes 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:21.959 they throw you into something and you try and they 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:25.000 go that we're gonna get someone to help you, and 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:26.840 you know, maybe that's what happened. 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:31.600 I don't know, but I am very excited about this 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:35.480 This pilot first aired September fourteenth, nineteen eighty five. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.120 Yeah, just two years years before us. Yeah, that's crazy. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:41.560 Like I didn't read eighty six or eighty six. We 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:42.440 were eighty seven. 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.240 So yeah, just two years before Full House premiere and 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:50.120 then Golden Girls ran for seven seasons. So this like we. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.400 Overlaed through our fifth Yeah. 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:53.840 That's wild. I didn't really for some reason. 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.320 I sad a lot. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.000 I know, I know I did too, because they're older 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.200 and we were younger, and so we're like, they, that 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.720 has to be so many ancient years ago, right, and 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:06.520 then we're like, no, actually that was we. Wow, we existed. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.799 What a time to be alive. We existed and had 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:11.799 a TV show on the same time as The Golden Girl. 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:15.000 We could have been cast as guests on The Golden 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:16.880 Girls if they had kids in the show. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.000 I think that wasn't really their demographic. 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.880 Well no, you mean our demographics didn't overlap Full House 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:24.119 and The Golden. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.520 Girls, and I don't think I mean maybe some of 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:27.760 the grandparents and the mom. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.840 Look, I love Golden Girls. I watched Golden Girls more 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:34.320 than I Watchful House. I watched you with my. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.359 Mom, I watched Full House but love the Golden Girls. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.200 I had until last night, I had never seen a 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.760 single episode of The Golden Girls. I know, I know, 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:48.799 Jony's like falling off her chair. I've seen I've seen 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:53.040 clips and scenes and clips. I had never seen an 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:58.600 entire episode starting to finish's. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:58.120 Quitting the podcast? 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.280 Are you not going to be my friend anymore? 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:03.240 Because they had met? 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:08.320 No, because we've joked about it for years. 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.480 Yes, well, I've seen clips and seriously thought. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.160 This was this, that that we spoke the language of 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:16.840 the of the Golden Girls. 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.640 Yes, I know the characters, I know the lore, I know, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.840 I know, I've seen clips, but I had not seen 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.919 an episode from start to finish. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:30.080 This I am. I'm a little wounded by this. It's 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:34.240 gonna take me a minute to recover knowing that, Uh, 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.360 I've I've been led to all this time that I 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:39.240 thought that you knew the Golden. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.640 Girls, and really, uh, you just knew who they were. 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:43.160 I just knew, I just knew of them. 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:43.720 I did not. 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.520 I didn't know how it all began like it did 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:47.640 in the pilot. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.960 So so so so like did my cheesecake jokes ever Land, No, 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:52.800 you have no idea what the cheesecake. 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:53.760 I don't know what the lnai. 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.320 I know the l Nai. Yeah, the Lai is Famouskay, 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.720 that's the fame. I want to recreate the Lunai here. 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:04.680 So yeah, I know. Oh that's where Betty White is from, 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:09.400 right old yes, yes, okay, thank you Rose. Yes, so see, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.360 I know I know certain things. But what's the cheesecake? 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:11.920 They like to eat? 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:12.440 Cheesecake? 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.039 Yes, cheesecake was always the Yeah, it was always the thing. 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:16.920 They eat cheesecake. 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:17.279 Nice. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.640 Okay, we'll see like at the end of the episode 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:19.960 and stuff. 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:21.560 And I think there's something else with the cheesecake, but 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.840 I can't remember, but I do. I feel like they 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:25.920 always are sharing a cheesecake, like at the end. 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.720 Of as they should. That nothing sells better than a cheesecake. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:32.120 Girlfriends and a lanai. You know this was this. I'm 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:35.400 so glad that I have. I first watched Golden Girls 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.720 at age forty nine, almost fifty, because I found this 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:38.640 very relatable. 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.000 You're like, this is you know what the crazy thing is. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.160 That's how old they were when they were playing them. 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:46.279 Tell me about it. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.680 I had to look up their actual agents. Okay, here, 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.320 I've got it written down. Okay, Okay, b Arthur was 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.800 sixty three. Oh, okay, she was a little she was 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:00.240 playing She played Dorothy who was fifty three or fiftyfty 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.960 five like somewhere in that red Okay, so so b 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.480 Arthur was she was a little older. Betty White was 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.880 also sixty three, but she was playing fifty five. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:10.719 Rose was fifty. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.200 Okay, okay, this is better than I thought. For some reason, 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:14.160 I thought they were younger. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:21.160 Yeah, no, no, no, Blanche was no rue Rue Klanahan 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:24.760 was fifty one. Okay, she was playing Blanche who was 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:30.120 fifty three. Okay, you know, okay, right, and then stell 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:35.800 Geedty was sixty two, younger then than b Arthur. 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:37.520 Well, I know that she was younger than be Arthur 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:38.440 and playing her mom. 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.799 I remember that playing and Sophia was seventy nine, so. 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:43.480 She was playing. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:49.520 Wow older. It's fascinating, I know this. This blew my mind. 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:50.120 You know what. 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:54.039 I this whole time, I thought they were much younger 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.359 that they were like around their early fifties playing older 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.719 playing that is still Getty was the younger of them, 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:01.360 playing the. 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:02.720 Oldest of them. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.039 So you know what, I was shocked their early playing 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:07.320 New Fifth girls. 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.240 That's yeah, like that's me. That's going to be me soon, 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:11.320 that's going to be you. 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:14.520 Yeah, you better. But this is gonna find out find 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:18.760 you a home or a Leni third, twenty July fourth, 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:19.600 twenty twenty sixth. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.159 You celebrate your freedom because you're going in a home 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:24.200 fifty that's. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.720 It, as long as it has a Leni and Miami. 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:31.240 Yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna start getting you outfits with gigantic 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:38.760 shoulder pads. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.000 The styling of this, like they all had like gray 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:43.799 white hair. 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.640 Who I don't know any fifty. 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.920 Three fifty five year olds who have white gray hair, 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.359 Like that's like eighty nineties, eighties and nineties. 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.000 Now, I feel not back then? Back then? Did fifty 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.000 year olds have yes? White back then? 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:02.760 Oh God, because think about it, because like our think 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:10.000 about our like as kids, our grandparents were what. 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:11.760 Fifty five sixty. 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:15.320 Yeah yeah, and they grab my grandma had they certainly 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:16.840 weren't wearing hoodies and chucks. 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:18.640 Yeah, I mean like we are today. 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.400 Yeah, yeah, that's true. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:21.760 So it's it is. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.760 It's an interesting phenomenon that's happened, where like suddenly that 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:29.520 doesn't seem so old because we don't it doesn't you 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.440 know what I mean, like one, there's. 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.040 Botox right too. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.520 You know, it's just like the idea I think of 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.480 what fifty something is is very different today, so different 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.400 because it's gen xers that are fifty something and they're like, 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:44.040 we're not old. 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.520 We're not Yeah, we're not old at all. We're denial 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:47.560 forever exactly. 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.200 And so I think, you know, it's I think creeped 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.400 up a little bit. And I also think it just 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.640 you know, uh, that was done. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.480 To make them look older. 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.320 Oh, absolutely, this is intentional. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.560 If they had great hair, was you know, call you 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.080 be like these ladies out all? 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.600 Yeah, these ladies are these lady should be out in Miami. 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.280 Oh it was, I was. I was stunned, like this 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.680 whole thing. I'm now going to start a Golden Girl's 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:14.360 rewatch podcasts because I. 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.280 Just I just finished the brick Craft Golden Girls fortieth 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.320 anniversary lego set. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.280 Oh my god, wait, is it the living room set 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:24.200 or the Luni No? 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:25.720 No, no, it's them. Oh it's them. 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.200 Oh my gosh, that's amazing them. Zoe got it for 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.160 me for my birthday. 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.079 I believe that's a mate that's so perfectly awesome. Oh yes, 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.800 pretty please send a photo that's Jenny. Jenny wants a 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:37.720 photo because that's Oh. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.200 Yes, I will send a photo of that so that 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.959 we can have a Golden Girls moment for Yeah. 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:46.959 So great. Okay, so should we go through? Do we 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.600 want to go through the main cast or should we 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:49.439 just skip straight? 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.760 I mean, we know we know Dorothy's Barnack is be Arthur? 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.040 Who is we know Dorothy? We love Dorothy. Dorothy is 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:56.920 who I aim to be. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.920 Yeah, you are have so many similarities between her and yes, I'm. 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.760 Not kidding you though, Like I watched as a kid. 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:07.600 I thought she was hilarious and. 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.840 She thinks somewhere in there like absorbed in this sort 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.920 of dead pan sarcasm. 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.880 Yeah, you know you imprinted on her at a young 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.960 age and adult some of her traits and her comedy. 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:25.480 Yeah. Oh she's fantastic. She's so fantastic. I love her. 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.559 Did you have you watched Maud her show before? 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.400 I mean the whole thing through, but yes, I have 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:31.280 watched some of Maud. 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:36.319 Yeah, she's so fantastic. And then Rose Nyland played by 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:39.880 Betty White. I related to her in her like naivete 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:41.080 and yes, yes. 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:42.520 Yes, Betty, what are you talking about? 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:47.360 Who? What do you mean what she's She's just so 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:52.079 adorable and just lovely. I so much. 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:57.079 Had such an amazing career, Yeah, such an amazing, lengthy, 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:58.120 brilliant career. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:09:59.359 And she was gorgeous. 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:00.520 Oh my godiness, she. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.280 Was stunnying when she was young. 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:07.559 Yeah, stunning, beautiful, charismatic, Yeah, just so brilliant with comedy 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.480 and goodness, yes, we're we It was just a joy 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:14.920 to watch her, for sure. Yeah. Blanche Devereaux the man 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:21.040 hungry Southern Bell played by Rue McClanahan. And it says 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.560 here McClanahan notably does not use a Southern accent for Blanche, 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.640 as the director told her he didn't want to hear one, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.439 how rude. But as the show was picked up, she 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.120 brought back the accent and it became iconic. 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:33.800 Thank god. 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:37.280 Yes, okay, so that's it was the director's directors in 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:42.160 this one. All right, Well that's the the director, right, because. 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:46.679 The the southern accent she has is just icon it's 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.839 it's it's a part of it. And also the end 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.040 scene there was a like a single of her and 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:54.240 I noticed how. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:59.200 Blue her eyes. Yeah, like she looked like she. 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.559 Had blue conax and they were really, really like an 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.480 ocean blue. Anyway, I was like, even blue. Yeah, I 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.160 didn't realize. I just it was like, oh wow. I 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:13.120 never really noticed how like brilliant her eyes. 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.400 Were gorgeous or all all of them are extremely gorgeous. 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:17.400 Oh I love them. 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.120 Last, but certainly not least. We have a still getty 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.839 plain Sophia. She was originally written just to be like 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.920 a minor guest character, but impressed everyone so much in 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.400 the pilot that they killed it. They got rid of 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.920 the gay cook and and moved Sofia in and. 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.600 He became a record poor Coco. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.880 I was so I was stunt because again I hadn't 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:39.440 seen the show. 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.439 I was like, and he's in the first scene. I'm like, 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.800 who is this guy? Is he it? You'll never see 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:44.240 him again? 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.280 Is he a roommate? Is he the hired help? He was? 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.560 He was there gay cook that he was like. He 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:54.640 was like, there, it's Miami. It's like the equivalent of 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.199 the bird Cage and Hank's Area's character. You know, it's 0:11:57.280 --> 0:11:58.600 like the yeah, yeah, it's Miami. 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:02.439 You have like you have the gay cook, chef, housekeeper. 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:04.880 You know, But did he live in the house he 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:05.120 was in? 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:06.680 Like I don't think he lived there. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:08.439 He was wearing like I thought he was wearing a 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.960 robe and slippers and one of the even maybe I don't. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.199 Know, I don't know, I was I was. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.800 Just very confused by his mad and I don't remember 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.480 an episode if he did, but but I do remember that. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.600 Yeah, it started out that they had a little gay 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:26.319 show wow, which again, thank you representation. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.240 Honestly, yes, in nineteen eighty five, there was a lot 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.520 of representation in the show. 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:38.120 And The Golden Girls is such an iconic gay queer show. Yeah, 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.520 and that's like a big part of it is like 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:42.880 you know, yeah, they started with that, and they but 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.040 there was you know, there was also some jokes in there. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.640 You're like, oh, yeah, some of the jokes didn't age well, 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.040 but well but the four. 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.560 Of them did. But so I love. 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:55.880 Having a show centered on four older women to carry 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.280 this like that was not That was almost why I 0:12:58.280 --> 0:12:58.720 didn't go. 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.559 It was only yeah, they were like older women, who's 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:03.240 gonna watch that? 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:08.680 Oh, I don't know, other women like what do you 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:09.760 mean man? 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:14.040 And then it's just show is funny because it was hysterical, 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:15.200 laugh out loud funny. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.079 Oh my goodness, what a what a treat what a. 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:22.800 Gem like that is like a huge demographic to just 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.440 be like, but they always do that, right, like older women, 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.640 that's your that's who watches stuff, that's who watches Hallmark. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.800 Movies, that's who won Lifetime, and that is who your 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:32.760 buying audience is. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.120 Yes, yeah, and this is why we don't see the 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.240 executives don't take risks like this anymore. Like they're too 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.280 cautious with their money and so they don't. Yeah, everything 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:43.040 is all the same. 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:53.240 Now we're going to see a resurgence in like indie 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.720 shows and film. I think I hope so uh with 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.800 I mean with obsession and back rooms. You know, Sorry 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:02.040 not to sidetrack us, but but yeah, I do think 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.079 we're going to see, you know, hopefully things that are 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.600 more willing to take a risk on great comedy or 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.360 great stories. 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:15.000 Because these women. This was such a great show, such 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:15.720 a great show. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.199 Oh my gosh, I'm telling you, I'm gonna this is 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:18.520 my show. 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:18.640 Now. 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.400 I'm going to watch the whole seven seasons. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.880 One of my it's funny, Zoe used to watch it 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.160 to go to sleep better. Tests she it's comforting. 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:31.560 Yeah, but one of my favorite scenes is in this 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:36.360 Pilot and it's the scene with and Dorothy and Rose, 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:40.320 and Rose keeps wanting to say something and Dorothy keeps 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.680 cutting her off and shutting her up or shoving her 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.640 in the closet like it's just so the two of 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.080 them together, it was so funny and it was so good. 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:52.960 Weant you know, they didn't quite get along well really, yeah, 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:58.440 if I remember right. Hearing from Lex Bizaris, who was 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.120 our assistant director in Florhouse and worked on Golden Girls 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:03.480 for several seasons, I forgot about. 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:04.800 I think I think. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.480 There was some friction there between the two of them, 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:10.720 and I think just be Arthur in general was a 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:16.640 little bit of a harsher personality, Okay, yeah, yeah. 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:17.680 And Betty White I don't think was at all. 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.440 So I think there was interesting just tension as far, 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:22.400 not nothing terrible. 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:23.920 But just didn't like each other. 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.920 So right, interesting but you would never know it because 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.880 it was brilliant. But yeah, their favorite scenes of the 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.040 Golden Girls is just her and she looks like it's 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:33.080 like you and Sergeant Slaughter. 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:37.080 She's got really read block. That's what made me think. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.360 Yeah, that's what That's what jogged my memory, and I'm like, oh, 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:45.240 we never told that story. That's so funny. Gosh, yeah, 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:49.240 this was amazing to watch. I have a quote from 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:54.680 Susan Harris, the writer, creator EP of the show. This 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.680 is a quote from her interview in The New York 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:00.960 Times a week after this premiered Umber twenty second, nineteen 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.040 eighty five. She said, a woman's worth is tied into 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.280 what she looks like. At eighty two, Carry Grant could 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.160 still be a romantic lead, but on television, a woman 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:14.200 over fifty is cast as an axe murderer. Yep, Like 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.160 that's there, you go, there's the impetus for making this show. 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.480 It's like, let's just show about women over fifty. And 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.680 they're real people too. They got jobs, they got careers, 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.800 they talk about dating, they talk about sex, talking about it. Right, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.080 they're not just grandmothers, They're right. 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.880 This is their grandma's they have their kids. They're talking 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.280 about what life is like now that they're you know, 0:16:34.760 --> 0:16:38.840 back to being like single adults, single women. They still 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.320 you know, they're still alive. They're not that old. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:42.360 Yeah. 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:46.400 So yeah, it's such a great example of. 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.480 Like a really women centered show that was not. 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.880 That was not about their looks or their you know, 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.360 it was it fell in the vein of a Murphy 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:03.960 Brown or does women Micht Taylor the police officer at 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.359 the end. Huh, that's me, Shak Taylor, who went on 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:07.280 to start in designing. 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.000 Oh no way, Oh that's fantastic. Oh that's a good 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:10.719 little tidbit. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:11.399 Oh wow. 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:16.400 But yeah, you know, those kinds of shows were starting 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.560 to show like, oh, hey, wait a minute, maybe like 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.479 this isn't an audience we haven't tapped into. Is you 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:28.480 know women who are not twenty, right, you know, being 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:29.639 with dudes who are fifty. 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.240 I think it was the Small Wonder pilot. We were 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.200 talking about the mom who's in the back of the 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.200 kitchen like drying a dish, right for like the whole seat, 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.640 whole thing, And that's how women portrayed how they served others, 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.840 how they were moms, how they were housekeepers, and it's like, no, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:45.879 there's a lot we're a lot more layered than that. 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:47.760 And this show shows it. 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:51.560 Golden Girls shows it so great. Yeah, I love the show. 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:52.080 It is. 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.520 I'm so excited. I want you to keep watching and 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.119 then talk to me about it. I'll text you, yeah, 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.359 text me because it is. It's such a great show 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:03.879 and there's so many absolutely brilliant comedy moments in it. 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.000 I mean, it is. It really is the reason that 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:08.880 I always say, like, oh. 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:09.760 You know, we've got to come back and we'll do 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:14.240 it Golden Girls style is because the dynamic amongst them 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:18.840 was so brilliant and so sharp, and they did such 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:22.560 a good job with it, Like it's I just yeah, 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.760 I'd love to come back and be able to, you know, 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:26.200 play an old lady like that. 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.040 Oh they were. They their chemistry was so strong. It 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.840 confused me at first because I'm like, how long have 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.360 these women known each other? Because we find out later 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:40.120 that they answered an ad that right the roommates. Blanche 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.159 needed some roommates, and so they answered an ad and 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:43.919 moved in. But how long ago did they move in? 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.960 Because they looked like they had been lifelong friends. They 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.160 seemed so close, But no, they were just strangers who 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.360 moved in together. So I'm like, when was that? How 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.720 how long ago was that? Because they had insane chemistry. Yeah, 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:57.040 I loved it. I loved it. 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.800 Yeah. So well, I'm glad that you watched the pilot 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:04.000 Welcome to the Golden Girls. Yeah, I can't wait to 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:05.520 hear more of what you think about it. 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:06.560 I can't wait, and. 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:08.600 I hope some of our fana Ritos go back and 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:10.960 check out the pilot of the Golden Girls, because it 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:12.359 is hilarious. 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:13.760