Ladies of the Evening

 was the second episode of Season 2 of The Golden Girls TV series, also the 27th overall series episode. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Barry Fanaro, it originally aired on NBC-TV on October 4, 1986.

Summary
After having the house fumigated, Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche take a planned trip to see a Burt Reynolds show in Miami. Sophia, on the other hand, cannot attend. The girls decide to visit a hotel bar before they go and unbeknownst to them it is a place of prostitution. This lands the girls in jail when the police come to arrest the prostitutes.

Guest Cast

 * Burt Reynolds as Himself
 * Rhonda Aldrich as Meg
 * Peter Gonneau as Walter
 * Tony Swartz as John
 * Amelia Kinkade as Hooker # 1
 * Ursaline Bryant as Hooker # 2
 * Peter Jason as Policeman
 * Phil Rubenstein as Exterminator
 * Ron Kapra as Hotel Manager
 * Ron Michaelso as Carl
 * Suanne Spoke as Girl in lobby

Trivia/Goofs

 * The episode ranked #5 in the Nielsen ratings for the week, with a 27.3/47 rating/share, tying with Isn't It Romantic as the most watched episode of the series.

Scene excerpts

 * Quotes from the script


 * Exterminator: You have silverfish and waterbugs in the drainage areas, and under the baseboards structure, you have blateria andropoulous.
 * Dorothy: Did you hear that Rose? The President of Greece lives under our baseboards.
 * Exterminator: Blateria andropoulous is a cockroach.
 * Rose: Maybe he'll be voted out next election.

(Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche have just been chatted up by two men who have mistaken them for prostitutes.)
 * Dorothy: 'Girls who will take their money?' Do you know what he thinks we are?
 * Rose: Waitresses?
 * Dorothy: No, Rose! Hookers!

(The prostitutes all raise their hands.)
 * Rose: It's always a man with you, isn't it Blanche? Men and sex, sex and men!
 * Prostitute: Hey! There's nothing wrong with being career-oriented!
 * Rose: (to Blanche) It's your overactive sex drive that got us into this mess! Who picks a hotel because of all the men in the lobby?


 * Dorothy: Listen, you punk! You wanna fight with someone, you're gonna have to fight with me, but I warn you, I did time in Attica.
 * Prostitute in Jail: Attica's a *men's* prison!
 * Dorothy: I know. I was there a year before they found out.
 * Prostitute in Jail: [backing down] Sorry, chief. I didn't mean to ruffle your feathers.
 * Blanche: Oh, Dorothy, that was magnificent. How did you ever pull that off?
 * Dorothy: I work in the public school system. It's not that different from this.


 * Dorothy: (after Sophia arrives at the jail) Ma, thank God you're here!
 * Sophia: Arrested for prostitution, I can't believe it!
 * Blanche: Sophia, we're innocent!
 * Sophia: I know that! I can't believe these dumb cops would think anybody would pay money to sleep with you!
 * Rose: Sophia, did you come to bail us out?
 * Dorothy (sarcastically) No, Rose, she's dropping off a manicotti with a file in it.


 * Blanche: My God, you're Mr. Burt Reynolds!
 * Burt Reynolds: I hope so, otherwise I got the wrong underwear on. (to Sophia) These the roommates you told me about?
 * Sophia: Yeah.
 * Burt Reynolds: Which one's the slut?
 * Dorothy/Blanche/Rose: I AM!