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That's For Me To Know is the fourth episode of the seventh season of The Golden Girls and the one-hundred and fifty-eighth episode overall. Directed by Lex Passaris and written by Kevin Abbott, it premiered on NBC-TV on October 5th, 1991.
While researching her family's history, Dorothy discovers a photo of Sophia as a young bride with a groom that isn't Dorothy's father. When Blanche plans to have a hot tub installed, a city inspector informs her that continuing to have more than two renters would require her to make home improvements she cannot afford, meaning one of the girls must move out.
Plot[]
Dorothy is putting together a family album for her grandkids and asks Sophia for help. Blanche hires contractors to build a hot tub for the house. Rose goes behind Blanche’s back and calls a city inspector to the house because Blanche Deveraux never obtained a permit for the hot tub. The inspector approves for the hot tub but Rose reveals to him that there are three renters in their house. He tells them that if they either have to pay 10,000 dollars in renovations or get rid of one of the girls within 48 hours. Meanwhile, Dorothy opens up a box that Sophia tried to hide from her and realizes that Sophia was married to another man before she met her Father. While the girls try and figure out the house situation, Dorothy proposes that Blanche sells the other girls a share of the house so everyone could be co-owners. This upsets Blanche and she refuses to give up her home. As the inspector comes in to see what the girls decided, Blanche heroically interrupts the conversation and tells him that she is gonna share the title of the house with the other girls. Meanwhile, Sophia admits that her previous husband was from an arranged marriage and she got it annulled two days later and then left for America. This makes Dorothy appreciate her mother’s strength to break family tradition and makes the two women closer.[1]
The ladies get to use the hot tub only for just over eleven months before Blanche, Rose, and Sophia move out and open their own hotel on The Golden Palace.
Goofs[]
When Dorothy is making the recording about Sophia, she mentions that Sophia refused to be "thought of as property and demanding instead to marry a man she loved." Sophia says that she had her marriage to Guido annulled and then sailed to America. But at other times in the series, Sophia mentions that she didn't choose to marry Sal. And, she was already married to Sal when she came to America.
When the girls are going to vote, Sophia first picks up a pen to deliver her joke. The very next shot, she's holding a pencil.
Dorothy states in this episode that they don't have a yard flamingo, but in "The Way We Met", she says that they do.[2]
