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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.

Summary[]

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.

Plot[]

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]

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Back in St. Olaf...[]

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Cast[]

===Main Cast===*Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak

Guest Stars[]

  • Debra Engle as Rebecca
  • Alan Rachins as Jason Stillman
  • Allison Robinson as Actress
  • Jonathan Schmock as Voice of Director

Trivia[]

Continuity[]

  • Sophia telling a lie about Dorothy's IQ could be payback for Dorothy's lie in "Older and Wiser".[2]
  • The joke where Sophia adds several pinches to the sauce was previously used in "A Piece of Cake".[3]
  • Dorothy's arrogance with knowledge would reappear "Questions and Answers" when she tried out for Jeopardy.[4]

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Season 1 The Engagement • Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding • Rose the Prude • Transplant • The Triangle • On Golden Girls • The Competition • Break-In • Blanche and the Younger Man • The Heart Attack • The Return of Dorothy's Ex • The Custody Battle • A Little Romance • That Was No Lady • In a Bed of Rose's • The Truth Will Out • Nice and Easy • The Operation • Second Motherhood • Adult Education • The Flu • Job Hunting • Blind Ambitions • Big Daddy • The Way We Met
Season 2 End of the Curse • Ladies of the Evening • Take Him, He's Mine • It's a Miserable Life • Isn't It Romantic • Big Daddy's Little Lady • Family Affair • Vacation • Joust Between Friends • Love, Rose • 'Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas • The Sisters • The Stan Who Came to Dinner • The Actor • Before and After • And Then There Was One • Bedtime Story • Forgive Me, Father • Long Day's Journey into Marinara • Whose Face is This, Anyway? • Dorothy's Prized Pupil • Diamond in the Rough • Son-in-Law Dearest • To Catch a Neighbor • A Piece of Cake • Empty Nests
Season 3 Old Friends • One for the Money • Bringing Up Baby • The Housekeeper • Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself • Letter to Gorbachev • Strange Bedfellows • Brotherly Love • A Visit from Little Sven • The Audit • Three on a Couch • Charlie's Buddy • The Artist • Blanche's Little Girl • Dorothy's New Friend • Grab That Dough • My Brother, My Father • Golden Moments, Part 1 • Golden Moments, Part 2 • And Ma Makes Three • Larceny and Old Lace • Rose's Big Adventure • Mixed Blessings • Mister Terrific • Mother's Day
Season 4 Yes, We Have No Havanas • The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo • The One That Got Away • Yokel Hero • Bang the Drum, Stanley • Sophia's Wedding, Part 1 • Sophia's Wedding, Part 2 • Brother, Can You Spare That Jacket • Scared Straight • Stan Takes a Wife • The Auction • Blind Date • The Impotence of Being Ernest • Love Me Tender • Valentine's Day • Two Rode Together • You Gotta Have Hope • Fiddler On the Ropes • Till Death Do We Volley • High Anxiety • Little Sister • Sophia's Choice • Rites of Spring • Foreign Exchange • We're Outta Here, Part 1 • We're Outta Here, Part 2
Season 5 Sick and Tired, Part 1 • Sick and Tired, Part 2 • The Accurate Conception • Rose Fights Back • Love Under the Big Top • Dancing in the Dark • Not Another Monday • That Old Feeling • Comedy of Errors • All That Jazz • Ebb Tide • Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas • Mary Has a Little Lamb • Triple Play • Clinton Avenue Memoirs • Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom • An Illegitimate Concern • 72 Hours • Twice In a Lifetime • Sisters and Other Strangers • Cheaters • The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present • All Bets Are Off • The President's Coming! The President's Coming!, Part 1 • The President's Coming! The President's Coming!, Part 2
Season 6 Blanche Delivers • Once, In St. Olaf • If At Last You Do Succeed • Snap Out Of It • Wham, Bam, Thank You Mammy • Feelings • Zborn Again • How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia? • Mrs. George Devereaux • Girls Just Wanna Have Fun... Before They Die • Stand By Your Man • Ebbtide's Revenge • The Bloom Is Off the Rose • Sisters of the Bride • Miles to Go • There Goes the Bride, Part 1 •There Goes the Bride, Part 2 • Older and Wiser • Melodrama • Even Grandmas Get the Blues • Witness • What a Difference a Date Makes • Love for Sale • Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home, Part 1 • Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home, Part 2 • Henny Penny — Straight, No Chaser
Season 7 Hey, Look Me Over • The Case of the Libertine Belle • Beauty and the Beast • That's For Me to Know • Where's Charlie? • Mother Load • Dateline: Miami • The Monkey Show, Part 1 • The Monkey Show, Part 2 • Ro$e Love$ Mile$ • Room Seven • From Here to the Pharmacy • The Pope's Ring • Old Boyfriends • Goodbye, Mr. Gordon • The Commitments • Questions and Answers • Ebbtide VI: The Wrath of Stan • Journey to the Center of Attention • A Midwinter Night's Dream, Part 1 • A Midwinter Night's Dream, Part 2 • Rose: Portrait of a Woman • Home Again, Rose, Part 1 • Home Again, Rose, Part 2 • One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, Part 1 •One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, Part 2

References[]

  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)
  2. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 6, Episode 18, “Older and Wiser”. Gamble, Tracy and Vaczy, Richard (writers) & Diamond, Matthew (director) (February 16th, 1991)
  3. ↑ 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)
  4. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 7, Episode 17, "Questions and Answers". Berg, James and Harris, Susan (writers) & Drake, Jim (director) (February 8th, 1992)
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