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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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Take Him, He's Mine is the third episode of the second season of The Golden Girls and the twenty-eighth episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Kathy Speer and Terry Grossman, it premiered on NBC-TV on October 11th, 1986.

Summary[]

Blanche takes Dorothy's ex-husband Stan out as a favor to Dorothy but when Blanche says they hit it off, Dorothy becomes jealous. Rose and Sophia team up to sell sandwiches and end up threatened by the mob.

Plot[]

Dorothy is about to go out with Jeffrey an Naval Commodore when Stan arrives, he's depressed because he has lost the business, so Dorothy gets one of the others to go out with him, after failing with Rose, she convinces Blanche whose single for the moment to do it. Dorothy returns from a great date, Blanche returns and despite the night being typical for Stan's style she enjoys it to do it again to the surprise of Dorothy

Sophia convinces Rose to start a sandwich business with her. It starts off with them running out of tomatoes then after a while, they are in competition with a rival called Johnny "No Thumbs" who threatens them only for Sophia to tell everyone she has Uncle Vito.

However, after a while Dorothy is dumped and accuses Blanche of sleeping with Stan, which confuses Blanche as she thought that Dorothy wouldn't mind Stan being out of her hands, however despite trying to give Dorothy comfort from her bad breakup, she goes back to accusing when Blanche reveals she isn't going to stop seeing Stan. However after going through the money from the sandwich business, it's revealed Rose's naive nature has resulted in the workmen having free food,

However that night jealous Dorothy confronts Stan at his hotel when she speaks to Blanche who is under the bedclothes of the betrayal she feels but it turns out that Blanche broke up with Stan and in the bed is one of Stan one night stands. Speaking to Blanche at home she apologizes to her but can't explain why she acted like a fool, Blanche understands it's the unevenness of jealousy and anger like the in-between colour of Magenta. Johnny is stopped when Uncle Vito threatens him but Rose and Sophia ends their business due to it failing.[1]

Tall Tales[]

Picture It[]

Sophia tells a story to Rose of her passage to America, the moral was to stop Rose being naive, showing how she could take money from her telling that story.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Stars[]

  • Herb Edelman as Stanley Zbornak
  • Tom La Grua as Vinny
  • Lana Schwab as The Girl

Notes[]

  • Betty White's character Rose goes into business briefly with Sophia as a sandwich vendor. Twenty years later, Betty White's character on Boston Legal became a sandwich vendor.
  • In the grocery store, there are several boxes with obviously taped-on labels reading "NOODLE" to avoid product placement.

Goofs[]

  • When Sophia tells Dorothy to enunciate, the notepad and her hand are both resting on the table. It then cuts to a close-up of Sofia and her left hand is now raised and her right one holds the notepad.
  • When Dorothy comes in to the living room to apologize, Blanche sets her book down twice.

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V - E - H List of The Golden Girls episodes
Season 1 The EngagementGuess Who's Coming to the WeddingRose the PrudeTransplantThe TriangleOn Golden GirlsThe CompetitionBreak-InBlanche and the Younger ManThe Heart AttackThe Return of Dorothy's ExThe Custody BattleA Little RomanceThat Was No LadyIn a Bed of Rose'sThe Truth Will OutNice and EasyThe OperationSecond MotherhoodAdult EducationThe FluJob HuntingBlind AmbitionsBig DaddyThe Way We Met
Season 2 End of the CurseLadies of the EveningTake Him, He's MineIt's a Miserable LifeIsn't It RomanticBig Daddy's Little LadyFamily AffairVacationJoust Between FriendsLove, Rose'Twas The Nightmare Before ChristmasThe SistersThe Stan Who Came to DinnerThe ActorBefore and AfterAnd Then There Was OneBedtime StoryForgive Me, FatherLong Day's Journey into MarinaraWhose Face is This, Anyway?Dorothy's Prized PupilDiamond in the RoughSon-in-Law DearestTo Catch a NeighborA Piece of CakeEmpty Nests
Season 3 Old FriendsOne for the MoneyBringing Up BabyThe HousekeeperNothing to Fear But Fear ItselfLetter to GorbachevStrange BedfellowsBrotherly LoveA Visit from Little SvenThe AuditThree on a CouchCharlie's BuddyThe ArtistBlanche's Little GirlDorothy's New FriendGrab That DoughMy Brother, My FatherGolden Moments, Part 1Golden Moments, Part 2And Ma Makes ThreeLarceny and Old LaceRose's Big AdventureMixed BlessingsMister TerrificMother's Day
Season 4 Yes, We Have No HavanasThe Days and Nights of Sophia PetrilloThe One That Got AwayYokel HeroBang the Drum, StanleySophia's Wedding, Part 1Sophia's Wedding, Part 2Brother, Can You Spare That JacketScared StraightStan Takes a WifeThe AuctionBlind DateThe Impotence of Being ErnestLove Me TenderValentine's DayTwo Rode TogetherYou Gotta Have HopeFiddler On the RopesTill Death Do We VolleyHigh AnxietyLittle SisterSophia's ChoiceRites of SpringForeign ExchangeWe're Outta Here, Part 1We're Outta Here, Part 2
Season 5 Sick and Tired, Part 1Sick and Tired, Part 2The Accurate ConceptionRose Fights BackLove Under the Big TopDancing in the DarkNot Another MondayThat Old FeelingComedy of ErrorsAll That JazzEbb TideHave Yourself a Very Little ChristmasMary Has a Little LambTriple PlayClinton Avenue MemoirsLike the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-TomAn Illegitimate Concern72 HoursTwice In a LifetimeSisters and Other StrangersCheatersThe Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding PresentAll Bets Are OffThe President's Coming! The President's Coming!, Part 1The President's Coming! The President's Coming!, Part 2
Season 6 Blanche DeliversOnce, In St. OlafIf At Last You Do SucceedSnap Out Of ItWham, Bam, Thank You MammyFeelingsZborn AgainHow Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia?Mrs. George DevereauxGirls Just Wanna Have Fun... Before They DieStand By Your ManEbbtide's RevengeThe Bloom Is Off the RoseSisters of the BrideMiles to GoThere Goes the Bride, Part 1There Goes the Bride, Part 2Older and WiserMelodramaEven Grandmas Get the BluesWitnessWhat a Difference a Date MakesLove for SaleNever Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home, Part 1Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home, Part 2Henny Penny — Straight, No Chaser
Season 7 Hey, Look Me OverThe Case of the Libertine BelleBeauty and the BeastThat's For Me to KnowWhere's Charlie?Mother LoadDateline: MiamiThe Monkey Show, Part 1The Monkey Show, Part 2Ro$e Love$ Mile$Room SevenFrom Here to the PharmacyThe Pope's RingOld BoyfriendsGoodbye, Mr. GordonThe CommitmentsQuestions and AnswersEbbtide VI: The Wrath of StanJourney to the Center of AttentionA Midwinter Night's Dream, Part 1A Midwinter Night's Dream, Part 2Rose: Portrait of a WomanHome Again, Rose, Part 1Home Again, Rose, Part 2One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, Part 1One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, Part 2

References[]

  1. The Golden Girls, Season 2, Episode 3, "Take Him, He’s Mine". Fanaro, Barry and Nathan, Mort (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (October 4th, 1986)
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