"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.
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.
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.