Top 10 Times The Golden Girls Tackled Serious Issues
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2023
- "The Golden Girls" tackled a lot of serious issues. For this list, we’ll be looking at times the ladies from this ‘80s sitcom switched out cheesecake on the lanai for a slice of humble pie or just desserts and got real. Our countdown includes grief, unhoused people, the cost of aging, and more! Which serious issues were YOU most surprised “The Golden Girls” tackled? Let us know in the comments!
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I love that Blanche rightfully called out Rose on referring to AIDS as a "Bad Person's Disease" when Rose is questioning why she's more at risk for contacting the condition than Blanche, who's had multiple romantic partners. Bonus points for this episode originally aired in 1990, which makes it even further ahead of its time.
I agree Blanche was 100% right.
Watching Matt Baume's UA-cam documentary on Golden Girls, I learned that that episode's editor was a gay man with a partner suffering from AIDS. When he heard the line "AIDS is not a bad person's disease, Rose. It is not God punishing people for their sins!" he burst into tears and finally processed all the shame and anxiety over the dehumanising stigma. I was so touched hearing about that I cried myself.
1990? If people knew how the US Government and society reacted in 1984 to AIDs, they would want to cancel the entire 80s.
@@EricaShady10171972no if COVID is anything to teach us
Some people are brainwashed to know the reality
I think it was such an important moment in the series
We need to mention what a great woman Estelle Getty is. In the episode "Ebbtide's Revenge", the writers originally wanted Sophia to make jokes about cross-dressing during her son's funeral while standing at his casket, and she called the showrunners and refused to do the scene that way; she insisted that a mother would NEVER make jokes at her own child's funeral.
She also refused to do a scene where the punchline of a joke was domestic violence.
@@ibtiago18 but date rape was apparently fine...
@@zydration3538 and despite what #1 would make you think, Golden Girls was often as inacurate regarding mental health as most other shows. For example, following a house roubary, Rose is miraculasly cured of PTSD after hiting a stranger who wanted to help her because she realised she could defend herself.
@@ibtiago18 that's why it's fiction and not a documentary. Also confused what that has to do with my reply.
@@zydration3538 much like your reply this was an example of something in the Golden Girls that didn't age well.
I liked that they addressed that anyone can end up homeless, no matter your circumstances. For instance, the young man whom Blanche befriended in the homeless shelter had a PHD, yet he was still forced onto the streets.
It's so funny how the anti-woke crowd complains about everything being too woke but when you look at shows,movies and books from the past entertainment media has always been woke.
@@tobiaslawrence8928 True, because we live in an era of ignorance and evil. People's minds are contaminated by social media trash and conspiracy theories all over the place.
@tobiaslawrence8928 or when stories have a message, like stories ALWAYS have a message. Good ones don't hit you in the head with it, they make you think about it
@@tobiaslawrence8928 seriously. Look at Captain Planet. An entire cartoon about saving the environment with a diverse main cast. Came out in the 90s and was pretty popular. If they aired that exact same cartoon today instead it would be blasted and people would be saying 'cartoons today are too political!'
Definitely one of my favorites. Especially how it ends with them all looking at each other and just handing the ticket over. I love that the episode also implies that you don't have to be rich to be happy, since, sadly, there're people out there who have it worse than you
One of the reasons Golden Girls is rightly held aloft as one of the best shows ever, is because the writing was so phenomenal. The topics they tackled like Senior suicide, Houselessness happening to ANYONE (from a PhD student to the elderly), etc are topics STILL NOT discussed in broadcast tv today. Such a wonderfully written show
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Agreed. I said in my own comment that the show's still amazing because they could tackle these issues, but still had just enough humor to make you laugh, but not too much to make it feel they were just making fun of it
"I'll remember him."
That line hits so hard knowing that Estelle Getty was beginning to have trouble remembering her lines near the end of the show and died from dementia with Lewy bodies.
Indeed. Ironic, eh?
''72 hours'' was very difficult for Estelle Getty. At that time she had already lost several close friends to AIDS and was taking care of one nephew who also contracted it. So imagine how it was for her to play Sophia being prejudiced against AIDS.
Great List! Both Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty were raised in Jewish households, so the episode "Dorothy's new friend" must have struck home for them.
The episodes of Dorothy battling to get a diagnosis for her CFS hits hard for me. I battled for 5 years to be taken seriously by someone, ANYONE in the medical field and was always treated like I was attention seeking before I was listened to and steps were taken to get me on the right track for diagnosis. Sadly, even though I now have a diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) most doctors/nurses and other medical ‘professionals’ treat me worse off than before because they don’t believe it’s real. There’s nothing worse than being made to feel like you’re going insane just because they don’t have an answer
The one about Dorothy’s sickness resonated the most with me. I also have a condition that causes me intense problems, albeit in regards to my digestive tract’s inability to function properly, and it’s an issue that typically leaves no obvious physical trace. My own mother was a nurse, and at times she didn’t believe I had a problem, but still took me to see my GP at the time. After a few years, one test determined that my gall bladder wasn’t working, and everybody was convinced its removal would solve my issues. There was a lot of skepticism when nothing changed, and ultimately I had to see a specialist and have a very specific test before they realized what was actually going on, then further tests and invasive procedures to rule out anything else. Years later, I still have the issue but have learned to live with it and what it’s done to my body. Heck, I was reminded how unusual my case was when I was hospitalized for COVID, when one of my doctors asked me why I wasn’t eating some of the foods on my tray every meal. In most cases, my condition goes away after awhile-not that many people have it chronically, and he’d never heard of a long-term case before. In fact, he told me there was “no such thing,” practically calling me a liar while I’m just concentrating on trying to breathe, and remained skeptical when I explained how I’d been diagnosed in that same hospital years before. Dorothy spoke for all of us with outwardly invisible medical problems in that episode, especially when she told off that pompous jerk of a doctor!
Prayers to you, I hope you told that so called 'doctor' off
My favorite show of all time, truly. It's such a gem that was way ahead of it's time.
You are spitting factos!
"Condoms, Rose! Condoms! Condoms! Condoms!"
"Calm down lady! You just get out of prison?"
😂😂😂😂😂😂
that is one of my favorite scenes. Dorothy delivers that line with a hilarity no one else could.
I know, I wish they didn't cut that part out, that always made me laugh!!
Also two that weren’t listed: when Rose suffers from PTSD after the break-in. Also when Sofia’s friend has dementia. Very insightful episodes
Yeah they are important episodes
The one where George Clooney used their house as a stakeout base.
Totally, I really enjoyed those episodes. It's a pity that they weren't included in the Honourable Mentions section.
Oof the episode with Sophia and Alvin, the old man with dementia will always make me shed a tear and the episode where Blanche dreamed about George
And when Martha wanted to commit suicide.
The episode when Phil dies still guys me like no other. The entirety of it is painful but at the very end when Sophia asks what she did wrong as a parent to "make him the way that he was" and Angela responds "what he was, Sophia, was a good man" - oh man, then Sophia wails "my baby is gone". I cry every single time and I've seen it a thousand times! 💔
I bawled my eyes out. I still start crying just seeing that scene. I don't even need to hear the dialogue to start crying. It's the impact the scene has. This show could probably be watched without sound and you'd still feel every moment.
It's amazing how well The Golden Girls holds up in its portrayal of issues that are still problems to this day.
And it's sad that these are still issues to this days. So many of these have solutions but......
Thanks msmojo for doing this the golden girls is a show that deserves to be remembered 😊
Agreed, I grew up watching it, and it taught me many valuable lessons, as well as multiple laughs. It's sad that all four leading ladies are no longer with us now. 😢💔😇
i love this show too with 4 strong powerful womens
Which it entirely is...
The best sitcom ever. Nothing comes close.
What an amazing show! Completely ahead of its time. Let's not forget the teen pregnancy episode with the next-door neighbor.
You can't overstate how progressive this show was, and the appreciation of this fact continues to grow since, as is pointed out, many of the issues it tackled still plague us today. I think it's important to acknowledge that for the show to have been so ahead of its time meant that every actor, writer, producer and director of the show had to embrace this mindset fully, and we continue to discover the ways that those involved with making the show were progressive in their own lives. We will be watching this beautiful show for generations to come.
All four ladies cleaning up after a party and Blanche asks them if they know what she hates most about parties. Rose says, “Finding your underwear out of the big pile?”
"Cleaning up the dirty dishes... you twit!"
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Relevant to a video about the shows handling of important issues because...?
My early 20s were shaped and very much formed by The Golden Girls & Designing Women. Pretty much the same show but they tackled the battles of their respective age groups. They also tackled many of the same very taboo topics (for that time era) and both did so with such grace, intellect & always a dash or two of humor. I am now a Golden Girl myself and I find myself reflecting & quoting these 2 shows still to this day.
And To Think This Show Came From Disney's Touchstone Television (1985-2007) a legacy of primetime hits for 2 decades
Love seeing dorothy tell off that woman 💜
I love this show. I watch this show all the time on Hulu and sometimes here on UA-cam. "The Golden Girls" were way ahead of their time in so many ways. At 5:16, I love how Dorothy says to her former friend to 'go to Hell.' It was well deserved and she was not afraid to say it to her! Also, at 6:56, they did a great job of dealing with the topic of unhoused people in the season 4 episode "Brother, Can You Spare The Jacket." That's one of my favorite episodes right there. Another moment at 11:15 is when Blanche tells Rose that "AIDS is not a bad person's disease, it is not God punishing people for their sins!" She is absolutely right on that. This show was awesome. Thank you for sharing and have a nice day.
The writers on this show were simply amazing. They dared to be different.
They are in the level of Cheers
Incredible show, incredible actresses. I felt the tears running down my face as I watched the video. "Not another Monday" episode is truly poignant
This show was and will always be good, solely for the fact that it holds up decades after it's premiered and will continue to hold up for decades from now. Not to mention they knew how to balance out the serious issues with just enough humor so you can laugh, but still know that they're not making jokes about the problems they're trying to tackle
This brought me to tears. I was still a baby when Golden Girls came out and loved it when I got older. I myself have face a few of these issues and now some of my family are facing things like the nursing home issue. I thank the Golden Girls cast and crew for being crusaders and really making a difference in people's lives even though all of the cast have passed on. Their legacies continue to live on in today's world.
They didn't include teen pregancy. In an episode of the golden girls, the ladies look after a pregnant teenager and Dorothy recalled her own experience with being pregnant before graduating from high school.
Yes they did tackle this topic. It was with one of their neighbors with the Doberman Pinscher dog named Samson. Jenny was pregnant and her dad kicked her out of the house. Rose finally got her to take some Lamaze classes, it ended up being Mime classes.
I think the teenager was played by Julie McCullough.
@@vickiehurt2665her name was Mary, hence the episode titled “Mary Has a Little Lamb”
you missed blanches abusive boyfriend
And her daughter’s abusive boyfriend too (the one who kept attacking her self esteem and weight).
Yeah I was wondering about those two episodes also
Golden Girls , they could have done the show today .. It´s so well done and RIP our four Golden Girls
❤❤❤ i’m 39 now and i fell in-love with this show in my teens
What's really cool is that they find the $10,000 lottery ticket and immediately give it to the priest that let them in the shelter the night before. I love this show. I'm happy to say I own all 7 seasons and will happily watch it any time. R.I.P. to these 4 wonderful ladies.
Even if Barbara Thorndyke didn't openly admit to being an anti-Semite, the fact that she tolerated the Mortimer Club's policy spoke volumes about her character.
Which serious issues were YOU most surprised “Golden Girls” tackled? Let us know below, and check out our video of the Top 10 Times The Mary Tyler Moore Show Tackled Serious Issues - ua-cam.com/video/JdFKIh3srBQ/v-deo.html
For all her "no rose" moments,
Dorothy's "lemme spell it out for you, go to hell!" Will always be my favourite Dorothy moment!
I love that you sort of tied the different episode plots that shared themes. Because Golden Girls tackled big issues, but with some of them they did it multiple times in different episodes.
The Golden Girls were so ahead of their time and my goodness do I adore the show
The episodes featuring the plots on "undocumented immigrant", "HIV/AIDS", "homeless elders", and "harassment" were all way ahead of its time-- I watched these TGG episodes all on TV while growing up as a kid-- and my mother always encouraged me to do so despite the slight adult humor that goes with it.... NO WONDER. My mom was right after all these time-- she foresaw that we would appreciate ALL the VALUES and LESSONS that TGG portrayed when we ourselves became adults.
Please do one on Designing Women! They tackled some important issues too. In one episode of Designing Women, they had a friend who was diagnosed with AIDS and there was a female client who was really hateful. And Julia Sugerbaker put that woman client in her place and showed her the door too.
I miss every one of these ladies.
The Alzheimer’s disease broke me; I cannot imagine the suffering of losing your beloved forgetting their memories 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I believe there was an episode where we meet Blanche's mother; she was in a home with Alzheimer's or some other type of dementia.
@@TechBearSeattle The episode is called Mother's Day in season 3 and Blanche's mother did suffer from Alzheimer's disease.
That episode was sad.
Knowing all of these wonderful ladies are gone now… Ugh, it makes the rewatch that much more special.
TGG is a golden standard (NO pun intended) when it came to featuring timely issues and social relevance without being condescending.
EPIC SERIES. Rest in peace you *ABSOLUTE GODDESSES*
The Golden Girls was waaaaay ahead of its time!
I might have gone with a different order, but I think you got all of my picks for top ten. An excellent series that will always be one of a kind.
Golden Girls is the best it talks about topics that today’s shows seems to shy away from. The Alzheimer’s Disease episode is one of the most heartbreaking episodes I have ever watched on the show.
Am a millennial and I am not afraid to accept that I’d rather watch this show over the stupid Kardashians’. This show shows humility and reality of life. ❤
Same love the golden girls.
I have never seen the Kardashians and Don't care
As a millennial who grew up with this show, I will never not love it. I could watch it over and over again and never get bored. It's a timeless show that has so many wonderful lessons. Our Golden Girls may all be gone now, but they will forever live on in our hearts and on our screens.
Same here 😊❤
I'm a Millennial also and I've been a huge fan of The Golden Girls since I was 13 and I still love that old show to this day!
This one of the best show of all time this woman have different background but they friendship is truly one of kind
That episode when Blanche dreams of her husband and then hugs him, gets me every time. 😢
Great job 👏
This is the primary reason the Gold Girls was such a powerful & loved show. Those ladies proved that with love-strength & compassion you can overcome almost any rough patch of road. They did that on the show & in life.
Such a great show
See what you've done,
You've upset Kim Toy Fung,
One of my favorite lines, ,
The rose birthday scene always makes me cry
I knew that doctor scene had to be the winner. It's phenomenal!
One of my favorite episodes was when Blanche’s daughter, Rebecca comes to visit. She is has a weight problem and she introduced to her boyfriend, Jeremy and reveals she is getting married. Blanche is very concerned by how Jeremy treats Rebecca and makes very hurtful jokes about her weight. Verbal abuse can leave a woman just as broken as physical abuse! When you watch your daughter being disrespected it makes you want to just go ape s**t on the person!
Yeah that Jeremy guy and the guy blanche dated needed a good a*s whipping
Yes, its one of my favorites too, I loved it when Jermery was left alone with two momma bears in Rose and Dorthy.
the golden girls are so amazing
My heart breaks when Sophie cries out "my baby is gone"
I’m surprised that they didn’t mention the episode “Mary Has a Little Lamb” from season five when they helped a sixteen year old girl they knew that was pregnant & was kicked out of her home by her dad. It’s still a big issue for adolescents who have unprotected sex & go through unplanned pregnancies & the lack of resources they need to get them through it
Don't they also talk about abortion? Though I'm pro choice especially in the case of rape or if the mother's life is at risk, I think it can get a little more controversial if there's an unplanned pregnancy and the mentality is "Whoops! I'm pregnant! Guess I have to get abortion now 🤷♀️" still at the end of the day we don't know someone's reason but I do hope it's mainly for necessary reasons.
I think an episode that hit hard that wasn’t listed is the episode where Sophia recognizes that she is starting to forget her past, in particular her husband Sal. Dorothy notices that Sophia had become more forgetful and Sophia herself was grief stricken at the idea that she was losing Sal for a second time. This hurts even more knowing that just a short time later Estelle herself started to suffer from the symptoms of Dementia. She started to forget her lines more frequently and she struggled to perform and understand scenes both in Golden Girls and Golden Palace. Rue McClanahan who played Blanche in an interview detailed her last conversation with Estelle. She explained that she tried to talk to Estelle during a lucid moment (a time free of the symptoms of Dementia) but unfortunately Estelle was not able to clue in to who she was talking to. Heart breaking reality.
I loved how they showed how unhousing and homelessness is a great topic that they tackled beautifully as well as Alzheimer's disease it was truly wonderful.
Another theme wasn’t mentioned is people with disabilities. There was an episode where Rose’s sister, who happens to be blind, comes for a visit. She is having difficulty adjusting and accepting having to live life as visually impaired person. There’s a scene where she attempts to cook a meal for herself and nearly sets the kitchen on fire. Distraught and terrified, she begs Rose to come live with her.
In a class project, I used the HIV/AIDS episode as an example of media's cultural relevance. These episodes could easily have slipped into the tasteless & tacky in the hands of lesser writers but Golden Girls not only set the standard in TV of how to portray female friendships as well as how to handle societal issues with respect and grace. Man, how I love this show.
The episode about Sophia's friend with Alzheimer's is hard to watch. I lost a grandmother to it years ago, and I wouldn't wish that shit on anyone.
Matt Baume's videos on this show are terrific.
I love Matt’s videos!
I was surprised the abusive boyfriend episode wasn't on here, the one where Blanche was dating this jerk who constantly criticized and belittled her and Dorothy tried to warn Blanche but she wouldn't listen until she saw him grab Dorothy's arm in a hurtful way.
I miss the Golden Girls - I may have to get the box-set if it's still available.
And, hey, now I'm their age all the stories will sound a bit different and a bit more real.
Sophia's pain, the loss of losing her Son was beyond 💔 Dorothy when she "called out" her bigoted friend.
I like the part in the episode where Rose is informed that she may have AIDS. I like the part where Blanche says, AIDS is not a bad person's disease, rose. It is not God punishing people for their sins. That was probably one of the best scenes in television, ever.
The cost of aging is deep for the simple reason its reality for some elderly people period rents gone up medicine as well and everything else it pays to grow old at times but unfortunately not many of us will reach the age due to factors
We have a few episodes about these!
Theres entirely too many amazing moments to fit into 1 list, but a big one for me is that they had several portrayals of inter-abled couples, like Rose dating a little person and Blanche dating a blind man. My fiancée and I are inter-abled, he uses a wheelchair, and we don’t see a lot of representation on tv.
Wait that's Mario Lopez oh my God I did not realize. He was on that show not for like a long. But I didn't realize he had a cameo
Im queer and one of the reasons I love the Golden Girls is because of how they raised awareness to being gay and how some families cut ties with you. My mom was mad when I came out twice and acted similarly to Blanche. She ended up coming around and supporting me now but others aren't so lucky to have supportive family. especially since the show came out during the 80s were hate crimes were high due to fear around AIDS. and all four of the golden girls were ACTIVE in raising awareness to gay rights. So whenever Im watching it and the episodes with Clayton comes on, I think about how Blanche behaved so similarly to my mom and wonder if my mom thinks the same. it might be shocking or confusing when your loved one comes out as gay but its your duty to support and love them or lose them due to predujuce.
I blame the Golden Girls for my liberal views and empathy. Dammit ladies! Why did you have to make me feel things?! ❤😢
To me the most powerful episodes of The Golden Girls were #9,#8, #4. ❤
I love love love this show - my coworker and good friend have a running joke that we get each other Golden Girls themed gifts, mostly because one day our entire office broke down in a fit of karaoke and sang "Thank You for Being a Friend" randomly and it has not been forgotten
Honestly, the racism episode with a young Don Cheadle not even being an honorable mention is crazy... I thought it would honestly be number 1
@3:50, why was AC slater getting deported? isnt his dad an officer in the army?
Golden Girls really was the Golden Age of Television. Some might consider me a heretic, but GG was better than any sitcom that came before it, even I Love Lucy, which for its time, also confronted controversy over social norms in relatable and endearing ways.
The girls were always so open minded and even when they weren't they always learned in the end. Thats why the episode about interacial marriage was so out of place because they didn't learn anything. They gave in because they realized they were getting a grandkid out of it but they was ready to abandon their own kids.
Blanche standing up for herself against her harasser is amazing. Yes she’s very promiscuous but it’s her body and she chooses to do what she wants to do. Just because someone slept with many people doesn’t mean they don’t deserve less respect.
I would love to see top 10 times that the Star Trek franchise tackled serious issues
"Unhoused"? Is that the word we have to use now?
The Chronic Fatigue Syndrome plotline. Beautiful.
As a family member who lost someone to Alzheimer's disease it's tough 😢
❤ GG. 😊
There's also the episode where Blanche is dating an abusive man and she doesn't see it and at first doesn't listen to the others. That one stuck with me.
Please do top 20 times My Little Pony Friendship is Magic & Equestria Girls tackled serious you can't afforded forever
I love everyone the same
You missed the clip from The Golden Palace when Don Cheadle educates Blanche on why the confederate flag represents racism to him.
But it is a GG
I'm no linguist, but I'm fairly certain Palace and Girls are different words...
I'm surprised the episode with their pregnant 16 year old friend who got kicked out by her dad wasn't here.
You could probably do a whole another list as well about how ahead of it’s time golden girls was. Such as the trans character in season 3 and teen pregnancy later in the series
Like Sophia's friend, Sophia's actress Estelle Getty had dementia and died from it.
Is there a similar list featuring Designing Women?
Tbh most of these is the reality of situations though
Isn't there an episode about assisted suicide
#DisneyDiva ❤
there was one moment in the show where one character goes: "I want you to be there for me when I kill myself."