Beatrice ArthurThe Golden Girls: Season 6

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One of the things I like is the fact that I was able to purchase digital copies. I was at home quarantine during covid and started a Golden Girls Marathon I purchased all seasons and can watch them at my leisure

This is one of my favorite sitcoms. I felt like they were so far ahead of their time, especially for their generation too (these girls were all born before WWII) because they are even older than the Baby Boomer generation. In this season, the episode where Stan and Dorothy gets married again was supposed to be a series finale instead because Bea Arthur wasn't sure if she wanted to return or not; they had to switch the end with Dorothy walking out on Stan after she decided that she would return for a final season. It's kind of like with Elementary, the last episode of season 6 closed it up perfectly, but then they had one more season to do. What I love is that this show didn't "jump the shark" until after the series ended (the Golden Palace definitely couldn't live up to the same expectation).

Some Golden Girls fans consider the fifth season (1989-90) the last of the good seasons because things became jumbled with new production teams being brought in for the last seasons but season six more than holds it's own with the proceeding five. With such great moments as Blanche delivering her granddaughter and then using said granddaughter to try and land a man who mistakenly thinks Blanche is its mother. Martin Mull playing a reclusive man Dorothy reaches out to while helping Sophia with her Meals on Wheels program with hilarious results. Also Blanche finds out her long lost Mammy had an affair with her deceased father in "Wham Bam Thank You Mammy." Rose meets her father who much to everyone's surprise is in fact an earthling in the episode "Once in Saint Olaf" and his choice to remain with god instead of having a relationship with his child causes confliction and some anger for Rose.Midseason contains one of Sophia's rare emotional moments in the episode entitled Ebbtide's Revenge in which Sophia's son Phil passes away and Sophia goes through a myriad of emotions and anger over Phil deciding to live life as a cross-dresser, which has led Sophia to face much guilt and potential shame over the years. Sophia has many golden comedy moments highlighted by Sophia joining a convent following the death of her nun friend and Stand by Your Man where Sophia plays Blanche's grandmother on a date with a disabled man including a hilarious southern accent.

The “Girls” are like my sisters, friends, aunties and neighbors all at once. They are living the life that every woman wants to live in as they move into late senior years; one filled with friendship, vitality, community engagement, SEX, love, romance, companionship and LAUGHTER! I giggle myself to sleep every night with a 20-minute timer on my Golden Girls. They are truly an important part of my life as I’ve been watching them since the 90’s. Home videos of my babies show Golden Girls playing incessantly in the background - and my children are now in college! Like me, they know the episodes by heart and when we watch the baby videos, they’ll say, “Oh that’s the episode when Rose was being stalked by Myra.”

I love the entire series 😊

I watch these episodes over and over again for years

As funny as ever six seasons on!

funny

It was a fantastic TV series of the golden girls

Brilliantly fu. Y

Great