"It's like we say in St. Olaf, Christmas without fruitcake is like St. Sigmund's Day without the headless boy."
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Dorothy's Prized Pupil is the twenty-first episode of the second season of The Golden Girls and the forty-sixth episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Christopher Lloyd, it premiered on NBC-TV on March 14th, 1987.
Dorothy tutors a young Hispanic boy and enters an essay of his in a local contest where it not only wins first prize, but results in the discovery that he is in the country illegally. Dorothy feels at fault and convinces Mario to fight to stay in America. Mario shows up after the hearing to tell Dorothy he is being deported, but will be able to undergo the procedures to legally return, much to Dorothy's relief. Meanwhile, Rose decides that she must become Blanche's personal servant for a week to atone for losing a pair of Blanche's earrings, which it turns out Blanche herself lost.
Plot[]
Blanche is ready for a date except the earrings she had previously lent Rose, who claims to have returned them. Blanche then says that Rose lost them like she's done before, however she is unable to see her own watch and while waiting Blanche listens to Dorothy read a section from Mario's Essay about his first day in America. When Mario leaves, Dorothy tells the girls, she's going enter the Essay in a Writing Contest which they agree with, Rose admits she can't find the earrings so she will spend a week as her videnfrögen.
Mario wins the contest, so Blanche throws a party (done physically by Rose), however their celebration is spoiled when an Agent from the Department of Immigration and Naturalization Services reveals that Mario is in the country illegally. That evening, Dorothy can't sleep feeling she caused Mario's deportation, then his uncle calls stating that Mario has ran away and Dorothy knows where he is. Going to a Cinema she convinces Mario to go to his trial and she'll give a statement knowing that sometimes America will allow people in.
The afternoon of Mario's trial Dorothy is restless as she felt the judge didn't care for her passion, just as they have lunch (prepared by Rose), then Rose greets Burt Nesbitt who has come to drop off Blanche's earrings and Rose's watch, she confronts Blanche for taking her watch quitting in anger. Dorothy then answers the door it's Mario stating that they're going to deport him tomorrow Dorothy vows she will do everything she can to get him back and they promise to write. Dorothy tells Blanche and Rose breaking down in their arms so Rose tells her to go to bed and she'll get her some comforts (done by Blanche).[1]
Bea Arthur and Mario Lopez co-starred together on an episode of AKA, Pablo, during which Arthur ironically played a xenophobic press agent.
Goofs[]
When Sophia tries to figure out the various celebrities' names, her purse switches hands between shots.
When Dorothy first comes into the kitchen to tell the girls about Mario's deportation, the garment Rose is sewing is folded at one end. In the next shot and for the rest of the scene, it lies flat without having been adjusted.
