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Even Grandmas Get the Blues is the twentieth episode of the sixth season of The Golden Girls, and the one-hundred and forty-eighth episode overall. Directed by Robert Berlinger and written by Gail Parent and Jim Vallely, it premiered on NBC-TV on March 2nd, 1991.
To land a man at an audition for The Taming of the Shrew, Blanche pretends that her granddaughter Aurora is really her own child. Meanwhile, Sophia prepares for the Festival of the Dancing Virgins.
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Sophia tells Dorothy that it's time for the Festival of the Dancing Virgins and she is going to teach Dorothy the Special Sauce recipe which Dorothy refuses to do as she is too busy teaching an honours class, so Sophia gets Rose to make it with her.
Just as Blanche goes off to an audition when Rebecca asks her to babysit Aurora as she has a job interview. Blanche takes Aurora to the audition, but doesn't get the part. However a man called Jason asks Blanche out on a date but he misidentifies Blanche to be the mother of Aurora and Blanche declines to correct him.
When Dorothy returns home she found the Honours rude and unfocused on what she said, Sophia tells Dorothy that she is better than them especially that she has a 176 IQ and so Dorothy gets confidence to teach better. As Blanche enjoys the date with Jason the girls warn her that the guilt will appear soon enough. When Becky tells Blanche how happy she is that Blanche is finally building a relationship with her granddaughter. Blanche in guilt tells Jason the truth, and he feels angry as she didn't correct her, and dumps her. Becky is angry as well that Blanche used Aurora to "land a man" and she tells Blanche that she doesn't need to worry about babysitting anymore.
That night is the night of the festival, Rose and Sophia have finished the meal, but Blanche is upset as Becky refuses to speak and is coming over only to take Aurora's toys. When she comes Blanche still fails to convince her, as Dorothy reveals that she is going to miss the festival to be with friends of the same IQ, Sophia reveals she made up the IQ to give her confidence to teach her students, Dorothy is angry, but Sophia reminds her that all through life's lies, that's parenthood, the festival was about the Petrillo women being together and Sophia convinces Becky not to disown Blanche as a grandparent is a special thing. So the night has Becky and Blanche making up, Rose revealing she put Frosties in the dish and Dorothy promising to do the festival next year.[1]
↑The Golden Girls, Season 6, Episode 20, "Even Grandmas Get the Blues". Parent, Gail and Vallely, Jim (writers) & Berlinger, Robert (director) (March 2nd, 1991)
↑The Golden Girls, Season 6, Episode 18, “Older and Wiser”. Gamble, Tracy and Vaczy, Richard (writers) & Diamond, Matthew (director) (February 16th, 1991)
↑The Golden Girls, Season 2, Episode 25, “A Piece of Cake”. Fanaro, Barry; Grossman, Terry; Nathan, Mort and Speer, Kathy (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (May 9th, 1987)