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Sophia's Choice is the twenty-second episode of the fourth season of The Golden Girls and the ninety-eighth episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Tracy Gamble and Richard Vaczy, it premiered on NBC-TV on April 15th, 1989.
Summary[]
Sophia breaks her friend Lillian out of a retirement home that is worse than Shady Pines was. Meanwhile, Blanche decides to use her work bonus to have her breasts enlarged.
Plot[]
Blanche tells Dorothy and Rose that she received her latest bonus and has planned to use it on Breast Enlargement which she is mocked for. However Sophia has just returned to Shady Pines her friend Lillian wasn't there, Blanche then reveals she's in Sunny Pastures, Sophia is horrified as she classes the place worst that Shady Pines, Sophia goes to visit the place and Dorothy seeing her Mother's fear goes with her.
Later on Blanche is looking at pictures she got from the doctor of the breasts, Rose remarks with silly advise. Dorothy and Sophia return from Sunny Pastures, Dorothy admits that Sophia was right about it and Sophia wants to try visit Lillian as much as she can. However that night Rose and Sophia go to the home and bust Lillian out.
That morning Dorothy tells the home Lillian is visiting and Sophia is trying to look after Lillian, but soon enough she shows that she is Senile and that Sophia is exhausted. Dorothy and Sophia go to see the manger, but he is overworked, while he wants to help, the lack of money and process is stopping him.
Without anything Dorothy and Sophia return home, but Rose found a Nursing Home that will help Lillian with her problems, the only flaw is that they need an extra $150 a month due to Lillian's benefits not being enough and Blanche is able to provide her bonus as enough to pay for Lillian. While Dorothy is glad she doesn't feel happy, Blanche remarks that many people end up in homes and are forgotten, Lillian was the lucky few and maybe they might be in a nursing home soon enough and so they make a pace to stay together, then Rose remarks "what happens when there is only one of us left?" Sophia remarks she can look after herself. [1]
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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[]
- Ellen Albertini Dow as Lillian
- Ron Orbach as Dan Cumming
- Mark Morrroco as Orderly
- Stanley Ullman as John Gale
- Margaret Wheeler as Woman #1
Notes[]
- When the ladies discuss their future, Rose asks, "But what happens when there's only one of us left?" With the death of Rue McClanahan in 2010, Betty White was the last surviving Golden Girls until her death in early 2021. Even more eerie, the Golden Girls are also sitting from left to right in the order that they will have all died with White on the far-right side.
- Rose says they'll need an additional $150 a month to support Lillian in a nursing home they like. This is a total of $1,800 for the year in 1985, and, adjusted for inflation, ~$5,000 in 2023.
Production[]
- Ellen Albertini Dow played two other characters on The Golden Girls, appearing earlier that season in "The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo"[2] and later appearing in Season 6's "Older and Wiser".[3]
Continuity[]
- This is the second time that Blanche considers cosmetic surgery; she wanted to get a facelift in "Whose Face is This, Anyway?".[4]
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References[]
- ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 4, Episode 22, “Sophia’s Choice”. Gamble, Tracy and Vaczy, Richard (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (April 15th, 1989)
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 6, Episode 18, “Older and Wiser”. Gamble, Tracy and Vaczy, Richard (writers) & Diamond, Matthew (director) (February 16th, 1991)
- ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 2, Episode 20, “Whose Face is This, Anyway?”. Hervey, Winifred (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (February 28th, 1987)