Job Hunting

 was the 22nd episode of Season 1 of The Golden Girls TV series, also the 22nd overall series episode. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by co-executive producer Susan Harris with Terry Grossman, it originally aired on NBC-TV on March 8, 1986.

Summary
Dorothy is in a tangle with an old crush with her past while Blanche is on one of her weight loss fiasco's. The big plot is Rose losing the job that she has held for so long at the grief center. This leads her to go job hunting but she realizes nobody wants to hire her. She gets really upset that her age is playing a factor in her hiring declines.

Plot
Blanche is on a diet again, however Rose comes in upset, her Grief Centre has close leaving her unemployed. While the first thing she should be doing is looking for a new job Rose is more focused on the clients bringing one called Milton to the house and telling him to call anytime he wants. Meanwhile Sophia has a list of the others, Dorothy finds out Barry Glick a crush in High School wants to go out she's over the moon. Dorothy wakes Rose up in the early morning, Milton has called because Rose said day or night and he took it seriously.

Blanche and Dorothy tell Rose she needs to forget her old job and look towards a new one, Rose then reveals that she has interviews since the closure and failed each one she thinks her age is the problem. In her room Blanche and Dorothy tell her, age isn't the problem as everyone is older, there must be something more, she reveals she is going for Hospital Administer and upon reading Rose's CV realises that the problems in the contents so Dorothy rewrites it so she'd be able to pass.

The Girls decide to have a early breakfast and talk about Dorothy's crush on Barry and their sex lives. Milton makes a date with Blanche, Dorothy has fun with Barry but he's gay but she doesn't mind and Rose returns she is working as a waitress at her favourite cafe instead finding the job a decent exchange from her previous job.

Guest Cast

 * Richard Venture as Milton

Quotes
Dorothy: Sure you're 5 years older. So am I, so is Blanche. All right, so you have a few more wrinkles. So do I, so does Blanche. OK, so you're a little thicker around the middle. So is Blanche.

Dorothy, referring to Milton, whom she's just "met" on the lanai: "Drop him, Rose. He's driftwood."

Mistakes/Goofs

 * Rose loses her job at the grief counseling center and at the end of the episode, she gets a job as a waitress but in numerous episodes in later seasons, Rose is still working as a grief counselor, the waitress job is never mentioned and whether the grief center ever re-opened is never explained.
 * Rose introduces Milton to Dorothy on the patio early into the scene. Being in the line of work that she's in, Rose would have to exude patient/counselor confidentiality and not tell anybody of the details of her patients. However, as she's introducing Milton to Dorothy, she spills all of the details of his case right in front of him. Later, she does the same thing when she receives telephone messages from her patients via Sophia.

Trivia

 * The shots of Dorothy calling Blanche a tramp, a close-up of Rose, Blanche walking past Dorothy in the hallway at night and Rose moping about to Dorothy and Blanche on her bed were used in the opening sequence.