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Twice In a Lifetime is the twentieth episode of the fifth season of The Golden Girls and the one-hundred and twenty-second episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Robert Bruce and Martin Weiss, it premiered on NBC-TV on February 24th, 1990.

Summary[]

Rose must decide between her boyfriend, Miles, and an old boyfriend who wants her to go to Europe with him. Meanwhile, fed up with Dorothy's rules, Sophia decides to move out.

Plot[]

Dorothy is nervous about Sophia partying as she is staying out too long but she claims that she has to as to stay in the In-Crowd in the senior center. Rose gets a call from Buzz Mueller, an old boyfriend she admits that she dated him and Charlie at the same time, when Buzz left her to tour with the Spike Jones Band and so while she promised to be true, she instead married Charlie as their relationship grew.

After Sophia stayed out till 2am partying Dorothy tells her she has to be home at a certain time and Sophia declares she's leaving. Rose returns with Miles and tells him that she's meeting Buzz scrapping their date at the cinema. While Dorothy questions her missing out important things to Miles, Blanche said it's the right thing until the relationship improves, then Buzz comes and clearly Rose is besotted by the old relationship.

When Miles calls again Rose tries to lie on the phone, as she dates Buzz again, when she leaves she admits to Buzz that she is dating Miles and so Buzz offers to give to Miles for the rest of the week, however after dinner Rose reveals Buzz wants her to go to Europe with him. Sophia leaves as she has found a roommate giving Dorothy her new address and number.

In the middle of night Blanche and Rose talk to Dorothy as Sophia isn't there and Rose is questioning if she should go with Buzz. At Sophia's new apartment Dorothy and Blanche are amazed of the arts everywhere and Blanche is given a tour by Maria the Live in Maid, then Dorothy and Sophia met Malcolm the owner he is over 100 near sighted and confused, Sophia still refuses to give up the partying and so refuses Dorothy's olive branch.

Miles confronts Rose and after Buzz comes she tells him to wait on the lanai, Rose tells Miles she's just as unsure of what to do but Miles admits he loves her and he gives her the choice promising to wait for the answer. After hearing that Rose decides not to take Buzz's trip with him, he then offers to return for her again, Rose reminds him he didn't the last time but when he reminds her that she married and so both made mistakes, Rose tells him to go as she wouldn't regret her marriage to Charlie for anything. When Miles tells Buzz to leave and confronts Rose she likes this dominate self and they hug. Sophia also returns and while Dorothy admits she was wrong to control her mother Sophia admits she was with the wrong people.[1]

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Tales from the Old South[]

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Back in St. Olaf...[]

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Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Stars[]

  • Harold Gould as Miles Webber
  • Eddie Bracken as Buzz Mueller
  • April Oritz as Maria
  • Douglas Seale as Malcolm

Notes[]

Production[]

Cultural references[]

  • The episode stole a joke from a Spike Jones record -- Sophia says "Ciao. Auf Wiedersehen. Arrivederci, and Sayonara," and Rose replies, "Gee, she could have at least said, 'Goodbye'." Spike Jones' classic "None But the Lonely Heart" contains the following dialogue; "Bon soir, John. Prosit. Auf Wiedersehen. Au revoir. Adios. Aloha. How do you like that? She didn't even say 'Goodbye'."

Continuity[]

  • Rose would later admit to how many boyfriends she had before Charlie in Season 7's "Old Boyfriends".[4]

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Season 1 The Engagement • Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding • Rose the Prude • Transplant • The Triangle • On Golden Girls • The Competition • Break-In • Blanche and the Younger Man • The Heart Attack • The Return of Dorothy's Ex • The Custody Battle • A Little Romance • That Was No Lady • In a Bed of Rose's • The Truth Will Out • Nice and Easy • The Operation • Second Motherhood • Adult Education • The Flu • Job Hunting • Blind Ambitions • Big Daddy • The Way We Met
Season 2 End of the Curse • Ladies of the Evening • Take Him, He's Mine • It's a Miserable Life • Isn't It Romantic • Big Daddy's Little Lady • Family Affair • Vacation • Joust Between Friends • Love, Rose • 'Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas • The Sisters • The Stan Who Came to Dinner • The Actor • Before and After • And Then There Was One • Bedtime Story • Forgive Me, Father • Long Day's Journey into Marinara • Whose Face is This, Anyway? • Dorothy's Prized Pupil • Diamond in the Rough • Son-in-Law Dearest • To Catch a Neighbor • A Piece of Cake • Empty Nests
Season 3 Old Friends • One for the Money • Bringing Up Baby • The Housekeeper • Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself • Letter to Gorbachev • Strange Bedfellows • Brotherly Love • A Visit from Little Sven • The Audit • Three on a Couch • Charlie's Buddy • The Artist • Blanche's Little Girl • Dorothy's New Friend • Grab That Dough • My Brother, My Father • Golden Moments, Part 1 • Golden Moments, Part 2 • And Ma Makes Three • Larceny and Old Lace • Rose's Big Adventure • Mixed Blessings • Mister Terrific • Mother's Day
Season 4 Yes, We Have No Havanas • The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo • The One That Got Away • Yokel Hero • Bang the Drum, Stanley • Sophia's Wedding, Part 1 • Sophia's Wedding, Part 2 • Brother, Can You Spare That Jacket • Scared Straight • Stan Takes a Wife • The Auction • Blind Date • The Impotence of Being Ernest • Love Me Tender • Valentine's Day • Two Rode Together • You Gotta Have Hope • Fiddler On the Ropes • Till Death Do We Volley • High Anxiety • Little Sister • Sophia's Choice • Rites of Spring • Foreign Exchange • We're Outta Here, Part 1 • We're Outta Here, Part 2
Season 5 Sick and Tired, Part 1 • Sick and Tired, Part 2 • The Accurate Conception • Rose Fights Back • Love Under the Big Top • Dancing in the Dark • Not Another Monday • That Old Feeling • Comedy of Errors • All That Jazz • Ebb Tide • Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas • Mary Has a Little Lamb • Triple Play • Clinton Avenue Memoirs • Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom • An Illegitimate Concern • 72 Hours • Twice In a Lifetime • Sisters and Other Strangers • Cheaters • The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present • All Bets Are Off • The President's Coming! The President's Coming!, Part 1 • The President's Coming! The President's Coming!, Part 2
Season 6 Blanche Delivers • Once, In St. Olaf • If At Last You Do Succeed • Snap Out Of It • Wham, Bam, Thank You Mammy • Feelings • Zborn Again • How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia? • Mrs. George Devereaux • Girls Just Wanna Have Fun... Before They Die • Stand By Your Man • Ebbtide's Revenge • The Bloom Is Off the Rose • Sisters of the Bride • Miles to Go • There Goes the Bride, Part 1 •There Goes the Bride, Part 2 • Older and Wiser • Melodrama • Even Grandmas Get the Blues • Witness • What a Difference a Date Makes • Love for Sale • Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home, Part 1 • Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home, Part 2 • Henny Penny — Straight, No Chaser
Season 7 Hey, Look Me Over • The Case of the Libertine Belle • Beauty and the Beast • That's For Me to Know • Where's Charlie? • Mother Load • Dateline: Miami • The Monkey Show, Part 1 • The Monkey Show, Part 2 • Ro$e Love$ Mile$ • Room Seven • From Here to the Pharmacy • The Pope's Ring • Old Boyfriends • Goodbye, Mr. Gordon • The Commitments • Questions and Answers • Ebbtide VI: The Wrath of Stan • Journey to the Center of Attention • A Midwinter Night's Dream, Part 1 • A Midwinter Night's Dream, Part 2 • Rose: Portrait of a Woman • Home Again, Rose, Part 1 • Home Again, Rose, Part 2 • One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, Part 1 •One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, Part 2

References[]

  1. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 5, Episode 20, “Twice in a Lifetime”. Weiss, Martin and Bruce, Robert (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (February 24th, 1990)
  2. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 4, Episode 17, “You Gotta Have Hope”. Fanaro, Barry and Nathan, Mort (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (February 25th, 1989)
  3. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 2, Episode 15, “Before and After”. Rosenfarb, Bob (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (January 24th, 1987)
  4. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 7, Episode 14, “Old Boyfriends”. Cherry, Marc and Wooten, Jamie (writers) & Beyt, Peter D. (director) (January 4th, 1992)
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