The Golden Girls : The worst episode of the series

You can keep your Empty Nests and Fiddler on the Ropes and all the others, my vote for worst episode goes to Dateline: Miami, the Dorothy/Sophia flashback was touching but otherwise I just don't care for it.

For me, it would either be "The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo" (unwatchable) or the Bob Hope episode (absurd).

I have to admit though, at the beginning of the Bob Hope episode when that big guy was singing Puff the Magic Dragon, the look on their faces was hilarious. Especially Dorothy.

The Heart Attack and The End of the Curse

Mr. Terrific.

What a loser.

I hated:
Blanche's Little Girl- (so over the top, even for a sitcom)
High Anxiety-(again, so over the top & full of drug treatment inaccuracies & vicious judgements)
You Gotta Have Hope- (as another person commented, it was an absurd episode. And Bob Hope was about as wooden and amusing as tree bark.)
72 Hours- It seemed like whenever an episode focuses too heavily on Rose, it gets more draggy & wildly overwrought than a soap opera.
Little Sister- The way the Girls idiotically refuse to believe Rose about her evil sister makes this one unwatchable.




I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.

Excepting Empty Nests, it might have to be the Grab That Dough episode. Some interesting lines, but they spent a fortune on last minute airline tickets to go to what was obviously a cheesy gameshow where it was unlikely they'd win much money?

Good call on the 'Dough' episode.
Not to mention the huge 'unlikelies' we saw, such as there are NO free hotel rooms in the entire city?!
Who's visiting the city, Jesus Christ Himself?!

What game show tapes live?

How could none of the Girls hear or feel their purses being stolen?
And these are not teenagers visiting 'the Big City' for the first time.
Most people would know to sleep with their purses tucked away or locked in the hotel safe.






I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.

---

What game show tapes live?

---

I don't think it taped live. Game shows like Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune tape a week's show in one day (two in the morning, lunch break, then three in the afternoon) and leave room for commercials, like the host saying "We'll be back after these messages."

.

WHOOOA.

Grab That Dough is awesome - the look on the ladies' faces when they lose is priceless.

different strokes i guess :p

I don't know the name of it, but never cared for the Blanche and her granddaughter in the talent show. I felt bad for the kid. Then Blanche embarrassed herself.
Plus, never cared for the Stan episodes.

That was beauty and the beast that actress who played her granddaughter was the winner of the voice back in may

dizkman-1, Stan wasn't in the "Beauty and the Beast" episode.

Burstynfan-1, her name is Alisan Porter, who, incidentally, I saw as 'Bebe' in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line ten years ago. Curly Sue is also a favorite holiday movie of mine.

.

dizkman didn't say stan was in the beauty and the beast episode he just said how he never cared for episodes with stan was in. this IS a thread about the worst episode of the series.

Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

The episode with Rita Moreno.

I SO agree! She overacts, the whole plot makes no sense (What, he's the only doctor in Miami?) and the Multiple personality character was so insensitive.

A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star.

Bringing Up Baby
Letter to Gorbachev
Mister Terrific
Dateline Miami
Goodbye, Mr. Gordon
The Commitments
Strange Bedfellows
Miles to Go

WHAT????

Nobody mentioned "Brother, Can You Spare a Jacket"??
For shame!!!

;-)

I won't say these are the absolute worst but i like these the least.i have the DVDs and these are the episodes i tend to skip when i watch it

Mary Had A Little Lamb - I hate this episode.Mary's boringher problems are boringand she's supposedly so "close" to the Girls yet we've never seen or heard of her not oncethe whole episode is forced and boring to meshe didn't have much chemistry with the Girls either imo

You've Gotta Have Hope - Ridiculous, even for Rose.

Not Another Monday - This is the one where Sophia's friend invites her to dinner to tell her that she wants to kill herself and that she wants Sophia to be there. Sounds like a hilarious episode, right? What a barrel of laughs! I don't mind the serious storylines sometimes but the woman who played her friend was creepy and so was the whole "i want you to be there when i kill myself" stuff. "I refuse to take no for an answer Sophia, if you love me you'll be there!" Then Dorothy, who usually doesn't even want Sophia to go out and have an ice cream cone with other old people, is suddenly like "well, Ma, it's up to you if you want to watch her commit suicide, it's your choice"

- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Part 1 and 2- Ughi understand that Susan Harris wanted to cover this topic in an episode, I get it, but ONE part would have been more than enough. It was drawn out way longer than it needed to be, not to mention, Dorothy just randomly happening to see the same dismissive, rude doctor she just saw in New York at some restaurant in Miami, yeah it could happen but come on!

72 Hours- This is the episode where Rose isn't sure if she has AIDS or not. Just not one of my favorites.

Honorable mention: Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo and Bringing Up Baby

Bob Hope and Rose suddenly being a drug addict. Both Rose stories too bad


A daffy woman constantly strives to become a star.

I can't recall the episode names, but the "Grab That Dough" episode was one, although Jim McKrell was good being he was one a game show host himself.

And the episode where Dorothy's son Michael married Lorraine, a black woman whose family was a bunch of bigots.