{"id":30400,"date":"2015-09-14T14:19:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=30400"},"modified":"2015-09-14T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T18:58:05","slug":"the-golden-girls-turn-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-golden-girls-turn-30\/","title":{"rendered":"The Golden Girls Turn 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the always highlarious Michael K of Dlisted for <a href=\"http:\/\/dlisted.com\/2015\/09\/14\/hot-slut-of-the-day-761\/\" target=\"_blank\">pointing out that <em>The Golden Girls<\/em> first aired on Sept. 14, 1985<\/a>. As he says, it&#8217;s a national shame that this isn&#8217;t an official holiday that involves eating cheesecake and sitting on a lanai.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color:#000000;width:520px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:tvland.com:ac164598-4200-46bc-aa4e-d3c24571c776\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;\"><b>The Golden Girls<\/b> <br \/>Get More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.com\">Comedy Central<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, a gold sequined dress inspired me to write a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/golden-girls-gang\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Golden Girls Gang&#8221; blog posts<\/a>, including this great fashion moment on New Year&#8217;s Eve 2012.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30401\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/what-wendy-wore-gold-sequins-for-new-years-eve-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30401\" class=\"wp-image-30401\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sequins1_edited-11-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"sequins1_edited-11-768x1024\" width=\"498\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sequins1_edited-11-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sequins1_edited-11-768x1024-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sequins1_edited-11-768x1024-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-30401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We did not plan this! Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of my favorite real <em>Golden Girls<\/em> moments was from the anti-domestic-violence episode, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvland.com\/episodes\/zduwm3\/the-golden-girls-the-bloom-is-off-the-rose-ep-613\" target=\"_blank\">The Bloom Is Off the Rose<\/a>.&#8221; Dorothy is surprised to see Blanche doing laundry for what turns out to be a very bad boyfriend, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk\/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-golden-girls-1985&#038;episode=s06e13\" target=\"_blank\">Blanche replies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Dorothy, I&#8217;ve done the laundry thousands of times. Oh, by the way, we&#8217;re out of BLEE-ACHKK.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Golden Girls had a lot of episodes related to social issues: <a href=\"http:\/\/goldengirls.wikia.com\/wiki\/Job_Hunting\" target=\"_blank\">ageism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/07\/22\/333759394\/what-the-golden-girls-taught-us-about-aids\" target=\"_blank\">AIDS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/goldengirls.wikia.com\/wiki\/Clayton_%22Clay%22_Louis_Hollingsworth\" target=\"_blank\">gays<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/goldengirls.wikia.com\/wiki\/Isn't_It_Romantic\" target=\"_blank\">lesbians<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/goldengirls.wikia.com\/wiki\/Ebbtide's_Revenge\" target=\"_blank\">cross-dressing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvland.com\/episodes\/9t4hn1\/the-golden-girls-the-accurate-conception-ep-503\" target=\"_blank\">artificial insemination<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/goldengirls.wikia.com\/wiki\/Viola_Watkins\" target=\"_blank\">interracial<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0589782\/\" target=\"_blank\">relationships<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv.com\/shows\/the-golden-girls\/letter-to-gorbachev-4540\/\" target=\"_blank\">nuclear war fears<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv.com\/shows\/the-golden-girls\/feelings-5392\/\" target=\"_blank\">sexual assault<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0589712\/\" target=\"_blank\">infidelity<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=DJZdteZ2H1oC&#038;pg=PA104&#038;lpg=PA104&#038;dq=golden+girls+anti-semitism&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=nhS5lEBlM7&#038;sig=AeZEddKs03jXXtQR6kURJaOJiog&#038;hl=en&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=0CC0Q6AEwAmoVChMIx-X1ho_3xwIVCjs-Ch13qAfT#v=onepage&#038;q=golden%20girls%20anti-semitism&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\"> anti-Semitism<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tv.com\/shows\/the-golden-girls\/high-anxiety-4618\/\" target=\"_blank\">addiction<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvland.com\/episodes\/l3x5ag\/the-golden-girls-brother--can-you-spare-that-jacket--ep-408\" target=\"_blank\">homelessness<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/goldengirls.wikia.com\/wiki\/Old_Friends\" target=\"_blank\">Alzheimer&#8217;s disease<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvland.com\/episodes\/0uptht\/the-golden-girls-mrs--george-devereaux-ep-609\" target=\"_blank\">Sonny Bono<\/a> &#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2015\/09\/09\/30-years-later-golden-girls-still-most-progressive-show-television\" target=\"_blank\">the list<\/a> goes on and on. Is there any sitcom like this now? If so, I want to watch it!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: What timing! In yesterday&#8217;s New York Times, there&#8217;s an article by television writer\/producer <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/thecut\/2013\/12\/long-strange-journey-of-nell-scovell.html\" target=\"_blank\"> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-In-Women-Work-Will\/dp\/0385349947\" target=\"_blank\">Lean In<\/a><\/em> co-author Nell Scovell<\/a> called &#8220;No &#8216;Golden Age&#8217; for Women on TV<\/a>,&#8221; which points out that, in 1990, three of the five shows nominated for the Outstanding Comedy Series Emmy were created by women. One of them was Susan Harris&#8217;s <em>The Golden Girls<\/em>. (Diane English&#8217;s <em>Murphy Brown<\/em> won.) Scovell writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Like leggings, comedies created by women came into vogue in the late 1980s, exploded in the early &#8217;90s, went mainstream in the mid-90s and were shoved into the back of the closet around 1997. It took another decade before the next show solely created by a woman &#8212; Tina Fey&#8217;s &#8217;30 Rock&#8217; &#8212; made it back into the elite Emmy inner circle. Perhaps not coincidentally, leggings made a comeback around the same time.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She goes on to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Yes, Ms. Fey&#8217;s monumental career has matched her monumental talents. But one individual&#8217;s success does not translate to an entire class. (See Obama, Barack; re: racism).&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I really like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/13\/opinion\/sunday\/the-golden-age-for-women-in-tv-is-actually-a-rerun.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read the full article. <\/p>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the always highlarious Michael K of Dlisted for pointing out that The Golden Girls first aired on Sept. 14, 1985. As he says, it&#8217;s a national shame that this isn&#8217;t an official holiday that involves eating cheesecake and sitting on a lanai. The Golden Girls Get More: Comedy Central A few years ago,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-golden-girls-turn-30\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pictures-of-me","8":"category-tv","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30407,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30400\/revisions\/30407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}