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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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Older and Wiser is the eighteenth episode of the sixth season of The Golden Girls, and the one-hundred and forty-sixth episode overall. Directed by Matthew Diamond and written by Richard Vaczy and Tracy Gamble, it premiered on NBC-TV on February 6th, 1991.

Summary[]

Dorothy gets Sophia a job at a local retirement home so she can be babysat after recovering from the flu. Blanche and Rose are excited about modeling for a penny saver magazine, but are horrified when they see that they have been airbrushed to look terrible to advertise an anti-aging cream.

Plot[]

Sophia has just recovered from the flu and Dorothy has arranged for her to be at the Cyprus Grove Retirement Home as the Activities Director, Dorothy reveals to Blanche and Rose that she's there to rest. When Sophia does arrive she is welcomed by Mr. Porter and introduced to the residents. Sophia feels sorry for them for just watching TV. Soon after Mr. Porter alerts Dorothy to the home after Sophia took the residents out, she just arrives saying that she treated them to a nice coffee and "did" what was asked of her, Mr. Porter is tired of the lie and reveals the truth to Sophia and that he can't look after her, Sophia is furious at Dorothy treating her like this.

Blanche is invited to model for a penny saver advert, When Rose comes with her, she is chosen to be Blanche's hands, annoying Blanche. Both are horrified when they finally receive the ad's advance copy, they have been airbrushed to look terrible as they are advertising an anti-aging cream. Blanche can't let the penny saver be seen, she tells Rose that she has connections with two of the truck drivers and they won't let it be seen. Blanche's plans to flirt with the remaining drivers failed due to Rose's prim and proper ways so she ended up going from street to street taking the flyers and even got Rose to help by letting herself be chased by dogs.

The next day Sophia refuses to forgive Dorothy who claims Sophia lied as a parent but her excuses are weak compared to what she did. That night Sophia returns to Cyprus Grove and has a party with the residents, which is stopped by Mr. Porter and Dorothy who had discovered her missing. Just as it stops the "mute" Mr. Lewis speaks, revealing he was silent because nobody took the time to listen, when Mr. Porter claims he was there, Lewis refuses, Sophia argues that he needs to do more listening to his residents as they are still human, which Mr. Porter agrees and Dorothy realizes Sophia is not a weak old woman and apologizes for her behavior which Sophia accepts.[1]

Tall Tales[]

Tales from the Old South[]

To be added.

Back in St. Olaf...[]

Rose mentions that in St. Olaf, they revere the elderly and put them on a pedestal -- which is how St. Olaf became the broken hip capital of the world.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Stars[]

  • Don Lake as Mr. Porter
  • Julius Harris as Mr. Lewis
  • Carol Bruce as Lucille
  • Bill Wiley as Smokey
  • Ellen Albertini Dow as Sarah

Notes[]

Production[]

Continuity[]

Goofs[]

  • If you look in the upper left corner as Dorothy and Rose are talking about lying, Rose's purse strap moves in between shots as Rose and Dorothy talk.
  • Rose mentions her hands "once reached inside a chicken for a breech birth." Chickens don't give birth, they lay eggs.

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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 6, Episode 18, “Older and Wiser”. Gamble, Tracy and Vaczy, Richard (writers) & Diamond, Matthew (director) (February 16th, 1991)
  2. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 4, Episode 2, “The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo”. Speer, Kathy and Grossman, Terry (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (October 22nd, 1988)
  3. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 4, Episode 22, “Sophia's Choice”. Gamble, Tracy and Vaczy, Richard (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (April 15th, 1989)
  4. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 1, Episode 12, "The Custody Battle". Grossman, Terry and Speer, Kathy (writers) & Drake, Jim (director) (December 7th, 1985)
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