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Nice and Easy is the seventeenth episode of the first season of The Golden Girls and the seventeenth episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Stuart Silverman, it premiered on NBC-TV on February 1st, 1986.
Summary[]
Blanche's niece, Lucy, visits and reveals herself to be even more promiscuous than Blanche. A mouse in the kitchen scares Dorothy, but she eventually gets over her fear and the mouse leaves after Dorothy asks it politely, thrilling Rose at her ability to communicate with animals.
Plot[]
Blanche is preparing for the arrival of her niece Lucy, who will be looking at going to college in Miami. Dorothy runs out of the kitchen shouting that she saw a rat, and Rose says that it was a mouse. Dorothy wants it gone, but Rose wants to reason with it and convince it to leave. Lucy is clearly Blanche's favorite when she comes but she reveals she has a date with a doctor she met on the plane, Blanche lets her go as her mother wouldn't.
Lucy doesn't come home till the next morning, so she goes straight to the College Taster. However while the taster went well she reveals to Sophia and Dorothy that she is going out with Michael who she met in the college and only tells Blanche briefly of her plans which Dorothy and Sophia have to explain that Michael isn't the doctor and that Blanche needs to talk to Lucy for she is going for one night stands more than Blanche.
That night Blanche waits up and Lucy comes home with Ed a vice cop after Michael was arrested and so Blanche tells Lucy that she isn't picking up anyone else while she's there but Lucy feeling embarrassed walks out with Ed. Blanche can't understand it but Dorothy and Rose see it as teenage rebellion and that Blanche as a surrogate older sister needs to help Lucy understand this.
At Ed's apartment he talks to her about Miami Vice which is why he joined the police force, she clearly doesn't care for it. However, Blanche comes in and she speaks to her in private while Ed discovers that Rose is a fan of Miami Vice. Blanche and Lucy talk about the fact that Lucy is making herself too easy for men to use her, she remarks that Blanche isn't a saint but while she does agree that she does have success with men she only goes out with men she likes not because she wants to like, Lucy then reminds her that wanting to be liked isn't a bad thing when Lucy was growing up she saw herself as a grotesque child and that she wanted to be popular like Blanche was, then as she changed physically and boys noticed her she loved the attention, Blanche realizes that she has never learned to have self-respect and offers her an olive branch for them to enjoy the rest of the week. Lucy leaves Ed who was more interested in Rose's trivia knowledge to care.
As Dorothy corners the mouse about to kill it she begins speaking to it and upon realizing this convinces it to leave. Lucy leaves and Blanche tells the girls what she said in Ed's apartment she explains that she never realized that Lucy looked up to her and that she does tease them with some of her stories even leaving it open if that's the truth.[1]
Tall Tales[]
Back in St. Olaf...[]
When trying to convince Blanche and Rose to not kill the mouse, Rose tells them about Larry, the pet mouse she had when she was a little girl. While walking to school one day, Larry refused to cross a bridge no matter what Rose did to get him across. Suddenly, the damn upstream broke and the bridge was washed away by the rush of water.
Later while discussing Lucy's behavior, Rose tells the ladies about her "rebellious" teenage years. During high school, Rose snuck out of her house and stole her father's tractor to meet Clel Lightner, the most handsome boy in school, at a bar in Tyler's Landing. Rose sat outside of the bar for about an hour before she got up the courage to go inside -- only for her to run into Reverend McKenzie on the arm of Millie Beasley, the wife of St. Olaf's most decorated war hero. The reverend agreed to keep Rose's secret if she would keep theirs, and he kept her secret until the day he died...which was two days later, when Millie's husband found her and the reverend skinny-dipping in the church's fountain and shot them both dead. The next week, Rose's family became Lutherans.
Picture It...[]
Sophia tells the ladies about a woman who moved into her village in Sicily and slept with every man who would have her, including ones who were married. Eventually, the enraged women dragged her to the edge of the village and asked her why she would do such a thing. The girl then replied, "What else is there to do in this godforsaken village?"
Tales from the Old South[]
Blanche regales the ladies with tales of her own rebellious youth -- at fifteen, she dropped out of school for a month to become a magician's assistant. At sixteen, she ran off with a gas station attendant twice her age to get married in Mexico. At seventeen, she hitchhiked to New York and lived as a Rockette under an assumed name for two months.
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[]
- Hallie Todd as Lucy Warren
- Ken Stovitz as Ed Collins
Notes[]
- The Golden Girls was inspired by Miami Nice, a 1984 comedy skit by Selma Diamond and Doris Roberts that pitched the series Miami Vice as "Miami Nice".
Cultural references[]
- Rose answers a question about the Miami Vice episode "Cool Runnin'" and responds with the correct answer, Nugart Neville "Noogman" Lamont.
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References[]
- ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 1, Episode 17, "Nice and Easy". Silverman, Stuart (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (February 1st, 1986)