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Job Hunting is the twenty-second episode of the first season of The Golden Girls and the twenty-second episode overall. Directed by Paul Bogart and written by Kathy Speer and Terry Grossman, it premiered on NBC-TV on March 8th, 1986.
Summary[]
The counseling center where Rose works closes and the girls become frustrated when people call the house at all hours for Rose's help. When they confront Rose about finding a new job, she says she has been a victim of age discrimination. Blanche gets a date with one of Rose's clients, but is dismayed to find out he only likes fat women. Dorothy goes out with an old flame who turns out to be gay.
Plot[]
As Dorothy and Blanche prepare some meals in the kitchen, Sophia laments that the ladies are out of pepperoni. Blanche reveals that she's on a special diet now, as she's gained three pounds and wants to lose the weight. 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.[1]
Tall Tales[]
Clinton Avenue Memoirs[]
To be added.
Tales from the Old South[]
Blanche recounts her first time sleeping with a man, but she can't remember if the boy's name was Billy, Bobby, or Ben. She ends up laughing it off, saying she knows it was something with a B.
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak
- Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux
- Betty White as Rose Nylund
- Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo
Guest Stars[]
- Richard Venture as Milton
Notes[]
- 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.
- The scene in which the girls share a cheesecake was partially adapted into the cast's skit at the 1988 Royal Variety Performance in the presence of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, who had requested their appearance.
- Dorothy mentions that she initially slept with Stan Zbornak because he claimed he was being shipped off to Korea. Actor Herb Edelman, who played Stan, actually served in the Army during the Korean War.
Production[]
- This was the second episode of The Golden Girls to be filmed. The kitchen wallpaper hasn't yet changed as it did mid season, Sophia and Blanche's hair both match how they looked during the pilot, and the kitchen table has a glass top instead of being covered by a tablecloth.
Cultural references[]
- During the cheesecake scene, Dorothy mentions two famous missing figures: Judge Force Crater and Jimmy Hoffa. Judge Crater was a New York State Supreme Court Justice who was last seen in January 1930 leaving a restaurant in Manhattan and declared dead in June 1939. Jimmy Hoffa was a labor union leader who was last seen in July 1975 and declared legally dead in July 1982. Many believed he was murdered by the Mafia in order to cover up his connection to organized crime.
Goofs[]
- Rose loses her job at the grief counseling center and at the end of the episode, she gets a job as a waitress. 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. She later does the same thing when she receives telephone messages from her patients via Sophia.
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References[]
- ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 1, Episode 22, "Job Hunting". Speer, Kathy and Grossman, Terry (writers) & Bogart, Paul (director) (March 8th, 1986)