Tag: The Golden Girls
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The Fifth Seinfeld
This isn’t quite the fun of the fifth housemate in The Young Ones, or the mystery of the dog bowl in Bottom, but after Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer, the character who appears most in Seinfeld is Ruthie Cohen. She appears in 101 of 180 episodes, and has a speaking role in three (The Gum,…
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Egon Spengler’s Brother
Thanks to this excellent tweet, I was made aware of this appearance by Harold Ramis as Elon Spengler, the brother of Ghostbuster Egon. It’s a segment from the 1990 ABC network presentation The Earth Day Special which aired on 22nd April 1990. It also features Martin Short and MTV’s Julie Brown. I can’t help thinking…
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The Lamentable Passing Of Brighton Belles Into Lore
The Golden Girls was one of the most watched US sitcoms for every season it ran between 1985 and 1991. We’ve looked at some of the international remakes of the show before, but let’s take a closer peek at the British version Brighton Belles. In 1992, Carlton Television was soon to take over the London…
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The Golden Girls Kitchen Used To Live In Chicago
I mean, the title says it all really. But with the caveat that the kitchen is a set in Los Angeles, of course. The point is, the kitchen as used by The Golden Girls first made an appearance in an earlier sitcom, also created by Susan Harris, called It Takes Two, which was set in…
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The Golden Girls On The Golden Girls
Here’s a selection of interviews with the stars of The Golden Girls. To begin, an incongruous one, when Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty appeared on The Word in 1992. Here Rue McClanahan discusses her development of Blanche. Betty White is candid here about the chemistry between the cast. Here Rue talks about the casting of…
