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Rose's Big Adventure is the twenty-second episode of the third season of The Golden Girls and the seventy-third episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Jeff Abugov, the episode premiered on NBC-TV on March 12th, 1988.

Summary[]

Rose's newly retired beau plans a cruise around the world — with Rose as his first mate. Meanwhile, the girls deal with remodeling the garage into a guest room.

Plot[]

The Girls have decided to turn their disused Garage into a guest room, however their contractor Ernie is more focused on his suit than the job, so they fire him and Sophia offers to find someone better. Rose and her boyfriend Al are celebrating his retirement from the deli counter with champagne. He claims to be ready for anything.

Meanwhile Rose has a problem Al has become lazy, only watching TV. Sophia brings in Vincenzo an old man in a wheelchair who was a former architect but he can't speak a word of English and has trouble with his sight. He inspects the space and decides he will do it for nothing as he's happy to get out of the senior centre. Rose confronts Al about his lack of focus and he leaves.

The girls try to work on the Garage with Vincenzo's instructions but clear Sophia own rusty Italian is causing problems, Al comes in and reveals that he wants to follow his dream and sail around the world buying a boat and hiring a crew and he wants Rose to come with him. That night still unsure Rose makes Sperhooven Krispies which wakes Dorothy and Blanche due to their terrible smell yet they try them and they taste fine but she's still scare to take the plunge with Al.

The next day Vincenzo gets a team of old men to help him, Rose is still unsure so Sophia tells a story of an architect who during WW2 was offered a chance of fame but afraid to travel turned down the chance and regrets it, Rose decides to go for it and Sophia admits she made it up. Onboard the cruise ship however Al admits to Rose that he's seasick and feels he's a disappointment to Rose who acknowledges that sometimes there's other things they can do and they leave the ship. Vincenzo has finished however he has turned it back into a Garage and Sophia realises she made the mistake and rather than do it again for nothing the girls tell Sophia to thank him.[1]

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Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Stars[]

  • George Coe as Al
  • Vito Scotti as Vincenzo
  • Don Woodard as Ernie

Notes[]

Continuity[]

  • Sophia makes a remark about The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, but retracts it claiming to be "at the movies all day". "Valentine's Day" reveals that she really was present at the massacre, albeit in a nearby car shop.[3]

Goofs[]

  • Dorothy drinks champagne with no problem, but in "Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself" she admits to hating it.[4]
  • When Rose presents the plate of Sperhooven Krispies there is three on the plate but when they start eating them there is nothing on the plate and they are grabbing air.
  • Blanche tells Sophia that a woman is at her sexual peak at age thirty-three. In the very next episode the next episode, Blanche claims that a woman in her forties is at her sexual peak.[5]
  • Vincenzo says in Italian "Io sono la balena" and Sophia translates this to "I am the walrus." This actually means "I am the whale."

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List of The Golden Girls episodes

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
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 3, Episode 22, “Rose’s Big Adventure”. Abugov, Jeff (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (March 12th, 1988)
  2. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 4, Episode 24, “Foreign Exchange”. Helberg, Harriet B. and Helberg, Sandy (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director). (May 6th, 1989)
  3. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 4, Episode 15, “Valentine’s Day”. Fanaro, Barry; Grossman, Terry; Nathan, Mort and Speer, Kathy (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (February 11th, 1989)
  4. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 3, Episode 5, "Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself". Lloyd, Christopher (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (October 24th, 1987)
  5. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 3, Episode 23, “Mixed Blessings”. Lloyd, Christopher (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (March 19th, 1988)
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