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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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That Was No Lady is the fourteenth episode of the first season of The Golden Girls and the fourteenth episode overall. Written by Liz Sage and directed by Jim Drake, the episode premiered on NBC-TV on December 21st, 1985.

Summary[]

Blanche, in need of the money for a new car, loans Rose her old car, promising to sell it to her if she likes it. Once Rose buys it, it begins breaking down and is eventually stolen. Dorothy falls head-over-heels in love with a gym teacher at the school where she is teaching and is devastated when he reveals he is married.

Plot[]

Dorothy starts dating a Gym teacher called Glen O'Brien and the girls can see she clearly loves him. After making love, Glen reveals he's married but he can't bring himself to end it and so Dorothy leaves him.

The next day, Rose who is trying Blanche's old car before buying it reveals that it's making an odd noise but Blanche convinces Rose nothing is wrong. While Dorothy is still upset over Glen's betrayal when the girls leave the room she arranges a date secretly. That night Dorothy confesses it to Rose and Blanche, while Rose is judgmental, Blanche admits that she has never had an affair with a married man as she realized it was a waste of time as she wants a man's attention full time. Sophia overhears that Dorothy is back with Glen and is angry.

The next evening Blanche tells Rose she lied about the car's condition but she needed to sell it to get her new car, Rose reveals that the car has been stolen which works in Blanche's favor as the insurance will be enough for Blanche's new car. Dorothy asks Sophia where her shoes are but Sophia warns her that she is hurting herself as she is yet to realize this.

That night Dorothy tells Glen that she is breaking with him for good as she realizes that only Glen was getting something out of the relationship but she knows she can't stay the other woman, she says her farewell and returns home. Sophia admits she wasn't disappointed but she didn't want to waste her time with something that was painful to her. Blanche and Rose reveal Blanche got her car and they plan to take a drive, while Dorothy convinces them not to go anywhere tonight they change their mind and enjoy themselves.[1]

Tall Tales[]

Back in St. Olaf...[]

Rose tells Dorothy about how she met her husband, Charlie, when they were children in St. Olaf. Charlie had an insurance stand and Rose bought a nickel policy on her red wagon, which was later trampled by a stampede of hogs. Charlie bought her a new wagon even though her policy didn't cover acts of swine.

Tales from the Old South[]

Blanche briefly recounts a story about her great-grandfather, who coined the saying "There are two things you never sell to a friend: a car and a slave. 'Cause if either one of them quits working, you'll never hear the end of it." She then grimly recounts that they hanged her great-grandfather, as he'd said a lot of things he shouldn't have.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Stars[]

Notes[]

  • Alex Rocco, who plays Glen O'Brien, was in an episode of Murder, She Wrote as a mobster who was being followed by a private eye, played by Jerry Orbach. Jerry Orbach would later play a now-divorced Glen O'Brien in the Season 5 episode "Cheaters".[2] Alex Rocco, meanwhile, would go on to impersonate Bea Arthur's voice in the 2001 Family Guy episode "Ready, Willing and Disabled".
  • Despite Rose's abhorrence towards dating a married man, she would unknowingly be involved with a married man in "In a Bed of Rose's",[3] and again in "One for the Money" where her dancing partner left before his wife saw him.[4]
  • For a time, the episode was unavailable through iTunes or Hulu due to Sophia singing "Purple Rain" without Prince's permission.

Production[]

  • This is the final episode of The Golden Girls to be released in 1985.
  • When the episode was shown on Living TV in the early 2000s, a line of Sophia's was cut -- when Blanche describes how Dorothy has been struck by love and she says that she'd been hit by it as well, Sophia remarks "Once? You've been hit by more lightning than the World Trade Center!" The line was cut due to the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center, under assumption that the joke might be seen in bad taste. The Season 1 DVD has the line restored, and the line is also available in the Hulu release.

Goofs[]

  • Rose revealed that she first met Charlie when they were kids, but in later episodes, she claimed to have met him in high school.
  • While Blanche denied ever wanting to sleep or having slept with a married man, she would later admit that she did have a one night stand with a married man but left after his wife was revived from her coma. This is supported in "Stand By Your Man", where she dumps her boyfriend after he reveals he has a wife.[5]

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References[]

  1. The Golden Girls, Season 1, Episode 14, "That Was No Lady". Sage, Liz (writer) & Drake, Jim (director) (December 21st, 1985)
  2. The Golden Girls, Season 5, Episode 22, “Cheaters”. Whedon, Tom (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (March 24th, 1990)
  3. The Golden Girls, Season 1, Episode 15, “In A Bed of Rose's”. Harris, Susan (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (January 11th, 1986)
  4. The Golden Girls, Season 3, Episode 2, "One for the Money". Fanaro, Barry; Grossman, Terry; Hervey, Winifred; Nathan, Mort and Speer, Kathy (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (September 26, 1987)
  5. The Golden Girls, Season 6, Episode 11, "Stand By Your Man". Whedon, Tom (writer) & Diamond, Matthew (director) (December 1st, 1990)