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"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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Ladies of the Evening is the second episode of the second season of The Golden Girls and the twenty-seventh episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Mort Nathan and Barry Fanaro, it premiered on NBC-TV on October 4th, 1986.

Summary[]

Blanche wins three tickets to a premiere of Burt Reynolds's new movie and passes to the after-party, leaving Sophia angry about being left out. The girls decide to make a weekend out of attending the premiere and get arrested when their hotel is raided for prostitution. Sophia then gets revenge by claiming the tickets and passes and going to the premiere alone, leaving the others in jail.

Plot[]

To be added.[1]

Tall Tales[]

Tales from the Old South[]

Blanche tells the story of how she dated William “Buster” Colliers, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, but he died a couple of days later. He was performing his first official function: breaking a champagne bottle over the new tollbooth. But before he could step out of the way, he was run over by ten Shriners on minibikes who just so happened to have the exact change.

Back in St. Olaf...[]

Rose reminisces about the Butter Queen Pageant. She eventually reveals she lost because her churn jammed and found out later churn tampering was involved.

She also briefly mentions that they had a peg-legged pig on the farm, and a possum once exploded on the farm.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Stars[]

  • Burt Reynolds as Himself
  • Rhonda Aldrich as Meg
  • Peter Gonneau as Walter
  • Tony Swartz as John
  • Amelia Kinkade as Hooker # 1
  • Ursaline Bryant as Hooker # 2
  • Peter Jason as Policeman
  • Phil Rubenstein as Exterminator
  • Ron Kapra as Hotel Manager
  • Ron Michaelso as Carl
  • Suanne Spoke as Girl in Lobby

Notes[]

  • As Rose is mentioning who will be at the party, all of the names are greeted with enthusiasm except Charles Nelson Reilly. Betty White appeared in numerous episodes of the 1970's game show Match Game with Charles Nelson Reilly.
    • Additionally, all the actors Rose mentions star in the 1989 animated film All Dogs Go to Heaven.
  • Loni Anderson, one of the actors mentioned as scheduled to attend the party, was married to Burt Reynolds for six years.
  • Blanche says "I wanted to be Miss Olivia de Havilland". Olivia de Havilland was eighteen years older than Rue McClanahan.

Production[]

  • The episode ranked #5 in the Nielsen ratings for the week, with a 27.3/47 rating/share, tying with "Isn't It Romantic" as the most watched episode of the series.
  • The actress portraying the prostitute who says the line "There's nothing wrong with being career oriented" played by Rue McClanahan's niece, Amelia Kinkade.

Cultural references[]

  • "Lady of the evening" is slang for a prostitute.

Continuity[]

  • Rose says Butter Queen was her town's highest honor, but later we learn that Woman of the Year is St. Olaf's highest honor.

Goofs[]

  • Rose says Butter Queen was her town's highest honor, but later we learn that Woman of the Year is St. Olaf's highest honor.
  • Blanche shares a story that she danced with the president of the chamber of commerce in 1972 during his inauguration, that night until the next morning. Blanche was been married at that time and she has shared in another episode that she never had an affair.
  • When Sophia comes to talk to the girls in jail, the girls hold onto the cell bars as they speak. When the camera focuses on Sophia, the bars are in front of her and no hands are visible.
  • At the very beginning of the episode, Blanche informs the other three ladies that they are invited to a party with Burt Reynolds. All begin jumping up and down with excitement, and Sophia is holding a plant water container. It jumps up and down with her. Clearly it is empty or water would have been everywhere.
  • Meg claims to be from Minnesota, but she clearly has a New York accent.
  • Sofia was not in the living room when the exterminator told the ladies the house would have to be fumigated, so she couldn't have guilted Dorothy about having to stay behind.

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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
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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 2, Episode 2, "Ladies of the Evening". Fanaro, Barry and Nathan, Mort (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (October 4th, 1986)
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