The dance marathon episode of The Golden Girls

****eyeroll****

This is probably my least favorite of those "vignette" episodes, partly because of the cringeworthy Betty White stunt double, but I do love Dorothy's response to her dancing partner when he tells her he has a charlie horse: "SHAKE IT OFF, WIMP!"

No it was really. Betty famously did all of her own stunts.

Betty's double doesn't have anything on the double they would occasionally use for Jessica on Murder, She Wrote.

It took many years and multiple viewings?

OP doesn't know it but he's channeling Rose Nylund to the T.

[quote]Betty's double doesn't have anything on the double they would occasionally use for Jessica on Murder, She Wrote.

I love the scene where Jessica jumps on a motorbike and does the whole "follow that car!" (to the motor bike guy) and you see her stunt double driving off on said motor bike and even briefly putting her foot on the ground for balance.

[quote]OP doesn't know it but he's channeling Rose Nylund to the T.

Not exactly. Rose would have needed some snarky remark by Dorothy, Blanche, or Sophia to finally make the penny drop.

[quote]charlie horse

The expression is "CHARLEY horse."

What compounds the pain of watching this episode is the close-up of Rose after the stunt-double thing, acting so smug after having done those dance moves.

Rose's dance partner Dave pinged to the heavens.

I always thought that pinging to high heaven was a requirement to be one of those ladies' date for an episode.

That and to have a rug.

I did all my own cartwheels.

It was nice of Witt-Thomas-Harris to give the dad from Mork & MIndy a part so that he could keep up his SAAG benefits.

When I got a Charley Horse I shook it off, no problem.

I love how in her ending splits, the stunt double places her hand atop her head, which serves to both cover her face and keep her very obvious wig from falling off.

Can we discuss GG inconsistencies here? I've seen other TV shows' inconsistencies discussed on DL, but never GG. I'll start. I was watching some season 1 eps on hulu, and in at least two episodes before Rose's mother Alma comes for a visit, Rose has some dialogue that implies her mother had died (e.g., looking at some earrings, Rose says "they belonged to mother"). That kind of shit bothers me, because it shows laziness on the part of the writers. Any other inconsistencies?

r17 You can NOT be serious.

The blatantly obvious stunt double is what makes that bit so funny. What does piss me off every time I see that episode is the fact nobody showed Mindy's father how to count the band off when he starts the orchestra. He doesn't get the tempo right nor the count off. Also the way Bea says "maestro" pronouncing it My-a-stro. Kind of like anytime she pronounces margarita as Mar-gyew-reetuh or diaper as Di-a-per. Weird.

Yes. I watch it way too much. But you asked.

R15 Yvonne looks like she's sitting on a secret.

They should have made the stunt double look fuller and older. They should have used the same hair dye as Rose from the discount bin at the Piggly-Wiggly on the wig.

What sexual favor(s) did Blanche promise that guy to make him dump his dance partner and become her partner?

[quote]What sexual favor(s) did Blanche promise that guy to make him dump his dance partner and become her partner?

...twice.

Redundant thread without supporting evidence.

Was Judy Landers Rose's dance double?

Blanche enticed the guy with the promise of doing the Flying Dutchman’s Chair.

R19, the housekeeper's name was Marguerite, which Dorothy mispronounces as mar-gyoo-reet.

I always hated the way Dorosee mispronounced names.

If only there were an entire thread dedicated to GG inconsistencies, R17

OP , no shit Sherlock.

Did they use a stunt double for Rue when they showed just her feet?

Betty Blanca was actually the first female stunt actor so her doing backflips to piss off Beatrice and Rue didnt surprise me.

Lmao, at that scene. Did they pin the dress to the wig? The obvious double only adds to the hilarity tbh.

Did that marathon take place at the Mortimer Club?

Rose does the "charley horse":

The actor who played Dave was a very hot dancer on Broadway and TV in his younger years. He died of AIDS a few years after this episode.

r33 Yes!!!! I've laughed about that for years. Great way to disguise the stunt double's face--NOT!

R35 Rue was flexible.

However, the next season, Blanche was not able to do dirty dancing because, as Rose put it, she's awkward when it comes to her body. So was Blanche a good dancer or not?

😂😂😂😂 have now watched this seven times and I'm sorry, but the best part of the scene is NOT Betty and her stunt double, but Dorothy getting all confident and then making her way to the dance floor, shaking that finger with "In the Mood" raring up!!! She wins the scene HANDS DOWN!!

Bea stole just about every scene she was ever in.

Not to threadjack, but just discovered this thread and am perplexed as to why the posts of R33 and R40 are crossed out and '"Right wing talking points propagandist" in red brackets stamped on it? Neither of those posts is offensive, never mind right-wing in relevance.

R19/R28 Dorothy/Bea had an unusual way of pronouncing things. I hated the way she said Mario Lopez's first name, like 'Mary-O." She also said 'advertisement' the British way. I don't know any Americans who pronounce it like she did, unless they're being ironic or pretentious.

Bea had a highly stylized approach to acting. Just very larger than life. It came from her musical theater background. Rue had a theater background too, and could be OTT as well. But she is not a booming presence like Bea, so it wasn't as always blatant. Betty mugged more for the camera, which reflected her mostly TV background.

They should have gotten a stunt double for Dorthy, that woman can't dance.

r42 I assume it has to do with other, more offensive posts the person has placed elsewhere on DL.

R43, I just watched an episode of Maude that begins with her, Walter, Arthur and Viv in Mexico. Bea orders the table a round of "Mar-gyure-itas." I laughed and immediately thought of Datalounge.

R46 thanks!

Dorothy did have a problem pronouncing names. I think that's why she tried to just refer to everyone as "Hun-NEE"

In some of the early episodes, you can hear Bea pronouncing "Blanche" as "Bla-onche".

[quote]What compounds the pain of watching this episode is the close-up of Rose after the stunt-double thing, acting so smug after having done those dance moves

And watching the double end the routine in a full, perfectly straight split just to have the camera shots cut to Betty in a quarter split with a very bent back leg and her crotch nowhere near the floor.

R51 like the difference in June and Louise's respective splits in GYPSY?

Bea was jealous of Betty. Betty was everything Bea wasn't but wanted to be.

I was convinced it was a man in a Rose wig.

Just wait until OP realizes that there were two Darrins on Bewitched.

[quote]from the discount bin at the Piggly-Wiggly

It was Pick n Save

"They should have gotten a stunt double for Dorthy, that woman can't dance."

Shady Pines, ma.

I had a dream about Barbara Thorndyke last night. I was at a book signing for her new novel, "How Devastating the Ebola That Swept Through Pensacola", and she was eating a mallomar as she signed the book. I asked her how she could eat and sign a book at the same time, and she replied that having a pen in one hand and eating a mallomar with the other is a metaphor for literature's attempt to triumph over the trashy celebrity culture we consume like empty calories. What do you think it all means?

R58 It could be sexual. Did she ask salt in Latin?

R55 Two Darrins? C’mon, now you’re just being silly.

It could be functional...mental, R58.

The Rusty Anchor is now THE current meeting place for Miami's literary intelligentsia.

R58, are you the same person who had the dream about The Facts of Life where Natalie was dead and somone sent a note with a Charlie Chaplin cane to her funeral? If so, I'm a fan.

Did Park Overall ever guest star on GG? Everyone else from Empty Nest did, but I have no reccollection of Laverne ever popping in.

^Yes, she appeared on the chronic fatigue syndrome episode at the start of season 5. She appeared when Dorothy was talking to Harry in his office. I don't believe she appeared again during the GG run.

Thanks, R65, totally forgot about that, as I get so distracted by all the cue card reading in that episode

I can't stop laughing at R62!