In a Bed of Rose's

 was the 15th episode of Season 1 of The Golden Girls TV series, also the 15th overall series episode. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by series co-executive producer Susan Harris, it originally aired on NBC-TV on January 11, 1986.

Summary
Rose sneaks a man named Al Beatty into her bedroom and sleeps with him. She learns the next morning that he has died in her own bed. After searching for his family she learns he was a married man.

Plot
Rose's current boyfriend Al Beatty is in the mood, after convincing her that he can be quiet she consents. The next day Blanche and Dorothy reveal they heard her, but Rose convinces them that it was a night, however Sophia reveals she went to Rose's room seeing Al but then she reveals that he's dead and Dorothy verifies it as a Heart Attack.

Rose realises she has to tell his sister, they find his phone number, Rose phones the woman but hangs up telling everyone that he lied it was his wife. Instead they convince her to go personally, she does, discovering that she wasn't the first as Lucille accepted her husband lack of commitment her early in their marriage, however Rose tells her the truth and she breaks down and Rose feels she caused it explaining Charlie died the same way, which Lucille disagrees with and tells her sex wasn't to blame.

Back home Rose decides to give up sex, Blanche finds out about Charlie's death. However the next night she is greeted by Lucille who discovered that Al died due to a poor diet, he would have died anyway and she tells Rose to stop blaming herself. Rose then goes on holiday with Arnie still nervous about Sex. When she returns she tells them Arnie is dead due to her, then she killed a cop who didn't believe her, only to reveal it's a joke and the girls leave angry that they fell for it.

Guest Cast

 * Priscilla Morrill as Lucille Beatty
 * Richard Roat as Al Beatty

Quotes

 * Rose: I'm the kiss of death. It's the second time a man has died in my bed.

Trivia

 * Betty White won an Emmy for her performance in this episode.
 * Regarding married men, Blanche casually says "...we'd sleep with them anyway." In a later episode, she states vehemently that she never sleeps with married men.
 * Betty White and Priscilla Morril both worked on an episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
 * Rose had been dating Al for a month without ever getting his phone number.

Mistakes/Goofs

 * Sophia and Dorothy have just returned from Rose's room after checking to see if Rose's companion is in fact deceased. However, they come around the corner from the wrong direction. In every other episode, we know that Rose's room is down the hall and to the left. Sophia and Dorothy don't walk down the hall into the living room at all. They walk from around the corner from the right-hand side. We know they were just standing there waiting for their cue instead of making it actually look authentic as if they were actually checking Rose's room.
 * When Sophia comes down the hall with her cowgirl clothes on, her hat is on backwards. When she is about to walk out the front door, the hat is on, correctly.
 * Rose would not have been able to tell Mrs. Beatty in person that her husband died. The police in Miami would have called the police in Boca Raton, and they would have done the house call instead.