Ohhh The CHRISTMAS episode. Will it be heartwarming? Will it remind me of how important family and friends are? Will I learn that expensive presents and lavish parties should take a back seat to helping mankind? Or for once, will I be glad I’m not a fiasco/tragedy/calamity prone TV family whose belief in the spirit [...]
Archive for the ‘Golden Girls’ Category
Top Five Friday: Christmas Episodes
Posted in Full House, Golden Girls, My So-Called Life, Saved By The Bell, The Brady Bunch, Top Five Friday's on 12/11/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Top Five Fridays: TV’s Favorite Pop Song Moments
Posted in Beverly Hills 90210, Dawson's Creek, Etc., Golden Girls, Grey's Anatomy, The Wonder Years, Top Five Friday's, tagged Dawson's Creek, Dick in a Box, Golden Girls Sonny and Cher, grey's anatomy chasing cars, Top Five pop songs on TV on 11/06/2009 | 3 Comments »
by Judi In “the biz” (ugh, I hate me too) we call this “synergy.” Basically, what it boils down to is a scene between the studio head, the executive producer of a TV show and the guy at the record label. They all talk and laugh and order shrimp and then they discuss ways where [...]
Character Spotlight: Sophia Petrillo
Posted in Character Spotlight, Golden Girls, tagged Estelle Getty, Sophia Petrillo on 08/04/2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Beal Show: The Golden Girls Character: Sophia Patrillo Actor: Estelle Getty Basically: Sophia is the sharp-tongued octogenarian of the group. Fresh out of the home (Shady Pines) she lives with her daughter Dorothy, and her two roommates Blanche and Rose. Her speech has no filter, a side effect of a previously suffered stroke and [...]
Top Five Fridays: Top Five Life-Threatening Predicaments
Posted in Beverly Hills 90210, ER, Friday Night Lights, Golden Girls, Top Five Friday's, West Wing on 07/10/2009 | Leave a Comment »
by Judi Oh, CALAMITY. I will admit to being one of those faithful viewers who gets all the giddy at the prospect of a Very Special Episode, especially when that Very Special Episode involves words like “murder, shooting, stabbing, rape and betrayal.” You know, the kinds of cheery topics that just scream sitcom. If we’re [...]
Top 5 Fridays: TV Weddings
Posted in Friends, Full House, Golden Girls, Seinfeld, Top Five Friday's, Weeds on 07/03/2009 | 1 Comment »
by Beal Back in 1981 Luke and Laura set the bar pretty high for television weddings, drawing nearly 30 million viewers–the most ever for a daytime drama. That said, be aware that the following nuptials do not begin to compare–in total viewers, quality or emotional impact. I now pronounce these, my favorite television weddings of [...]
Rest in Peace, Pussycat.
Posted in Golden Girls, Miscellaneous Rantings, Reruns, tagged Bea Arthur, death, shiva, The Golden Girls, Tribute on 04/30/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have spent the past week sitting Shiva for Bea Arthur, and I think it’s finally time I quit mourning the loss of her life and instead, celebrate it, which I will begin to do right here. I first met Bea as a child, in the late 1980′s on the prime-time hit The Golden Girls. [...]
The Sound You Hear is Not Silence
Posted in Golden Girls, Variety on 04/29/2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is DEVASTATION. The last few days have been terrible. There is a black curtain over my television, there is a pall over my TiVo. There has been sniffling and the smell of BenGay. Someone left a casserole and a TV Guide on my doorstep. Thank you, whoever you are. Bea Arthur is dead. I’m [...]
Crisis Averted
Posted in Cheers, Desperate Housewives, Dramas, Frasier, Golden Girls, I Love Lucy, Miscellaneous Rantings, Murder, She Wrote, Reruns, Rita Rocks, tagged Cheers, Desperate Housewives, Frasier, Hallmark Channel, I Love Lucy, Lifetime, Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls on 03/03/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps I’ve mentioned it before, perhaps everyday, but I like to watch The Golden Girls each night from 1 am to 2:30 am on the Lifetime network. It’s the perfect wind down from an otherwise turbulent day of searching for something great to watch on television. I’ve also gotten myself into the habit of watching [...]
The Intro
Posted in Beverly Hills 90210, Dallas, Family Matters, Full House, Gilligan's Island, Golden Girls, Laverne & Shirley, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Pee Wee's Playhouse, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Wonder Years, tagged theme songs on 03/01/2009 | 1 Comment »
Although it is occasionally overlooked, especially in the era of modern television where Tivo or DVR can fast forward through it, and DVD’s allow it to be clicked past with the touch of a button, the INTRODUCTION is still as crucial as it ever was in initiating the program you’re about to watch. Intro’s come [...]
