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One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, Part 1 is the twenty-fifth episode of the seventh season of The Golden Girls and the one-hundred and seventy-ninth episode overall. Directed by Peter D. Beyt and written by Don Seigel and Jerry Perzigian, it premiered on NBC-TV on May 9th, 1992. It is the first part of the two-part One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest special, and the first part of the series finale.

Summary[]

When Blanche's Uncle Lucas visits, Blanche sets him up with Dorothy in order to keep a date with her newest beau. After learning nether of them are as interested in the other as they were led to believe -- and of the unflattering descriptions of Dorothy in Blanche's letters -- Dorothy and Lucas decided to get even by pretending to be in love. However, they end up falling in love for real, leading Lucas to propose to Dorothy.

Plot[]

Part One[]

Blanche gets the news that her Uncle Lucas is arriving at Miami, but she has planned a date with someone, so she sets him up with a date with Dorothy to pass off hosting him. Meeting at a restaurant, Dorothy and Lucas start off uneasy, but quickly realize that Blanche lied to both of them about the other being interested in each other. The two plot to get back at Blanche by pretending to have fallen in love with each other in front of her. The next day, Lucas fakes a proposal to Dorothy in front of the girls, shocking them all.

The revenge works well as Blanche grows more upset at the thought of Dorothy, a "Yankee," inheriting ownership of her childhood southern summer home Hollingsworth Manor if she marries Lucas and moves there with Sophia. Rose reveals her plans to move back to St. Olaf to live with her daughter Kirsten due to everyone leaving, and sends Blanche over the edge upset that everyone is leaving her behind. Dorothy and Lucas agree the joke has gone too far and will fake breaking up in front of Blanche, but the two tenderly admit they enjoyed their time together. Blanche secretly overhears their conversation, and before Dorothy and Lucas can share a genuine kiss, they are interrupted. Blanche then takes the opportunity to return and apologize for her overreaction, and gives her blessing to Dorothy and Lucas' relationship. Lucas then surprises everyone by turning and proposing to Dorothy "for real" this time, and Dorothy accepts.[1]

Tall Tales[]

To be added.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

===Guest Stars===*Leslie Nielsen as Lucas Hollingsworth

Notes[]

  • Dorothy's wedding dress has been negatively received online, and Bea Arthur admitted that she hated it.
  • Bea Arthur knew Leslie Nielsen from The Actor's Studio.

Production[]

  • The episode was originally an hour long, but was cut into two parts for syndication.
  • The plot was partly based on the true story of Susan Harris and her husband Paul Junger Witt; they pretended to be married to prank writer Mitchell Hurwitz on a trip to Italy only for him to say that it would happen, by in the end they actually married.
  • Earl Boen previously appeared in "Ebbtide's Revenge" and later appeared in an episode of The Golden Palace, both as a priest.
  • The reading and rehearsals for the final scene were difficult due to the cast members breaking down, and the director spoke so fast during the filming that Estelle Getty had to guided by her fellow cast members.
  • The episode won the Emmy for Outstanding Technical Direction/Camera/Video for a Series.

Goofs[]

  • Lucas refers to marrying Dorothy as "a Brooklyn Italian living at Hollingsworth Manor", but in "Room 7" is devoted to Blanche returning to the Hollingsworth estate before its demolition, as it was no longer owned by the Hollingsworth family.[2]

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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
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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 7, Episode 25, "One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, Part 1". Hurwitz, Mitchell; Seigel, Don and Perzigian, Jerry (writers) & Passaris, Lex (director) (May 9th, 1992)
  2. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 7, Episode 11, “Room 7”. Gamble, Tracy and Vaczy, Richard (writers) & Beyt, Peter D. (director) (November 23rd, 1991)
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