Saddest scenes from The Golden Girls?

I burst into tears when I saw Dorothy's wedding dress.

I thought the almost ruined the sweet ending of the Grammy windchime episode by having Blanche tell them to be quiet. It robbed the sincerity of the moment.

When did they start playing more scenes during the closing credits?

The faux-flashback Mother's Day vignette where Blanche visited her mother in the nursing home for the last time.

I sobbed when Dorothy’s lesbian friend told Rose she wanted to scissor her.

Sophia taking the scarf to the boardwalk only to find that her black friend was no longer there, obviously now in assisted living.

Episodes 1 - 180?

R1 - was it the loops?

R2 They added end credit scenes in either S6 or S7. I never saw those as a kid because the episodes on Lifetime were cut for syndication.

The saddest scene is the final scene.

I don't really like the added scenes during the closing credits.

Was anyone else very disappointed in Sophia when she pretended to be channelling Rose's dead husband Charlie? That was a disgrace and she should have been dumped back at Shady Pines for that low trick.

When Rose got sacked and realised she had nothing.

Most were pretty sad.

Any [italic]Golden Palace[/italic] scene with Roland in it. He is to them as George Clooney was to [italic]the Facts of Life[/italic]: a wet blanket.

When Dorothy mistreated Blanche, not believing her when that foul Doctor she was dating made a pass at our southern belle. You could see the pain etched on Blanche's honest face as she tried the failed to convince Dorothy of the ungallant incident.

The episode where Madge found out she was a Jew. I couldn't imagine anything more tragic.

When the women found out they'd have to share a bathroom with other guests at the ratty third world hotel.

When that bitch Trudy was revealed to be alive.

When Blanche lost her beau because she was too afraid to visit him in the hospital. She was vulnerable about being afraid of abandonment.

[quote] The episode where Madge found out she was a Jew. I couldn't imagine anything more tragic. —Barbara Thorndyke

I can: the fact that her Jewish relatives were from Buffalo, NY, which makes her…

A YANKEE!

Bump

(After decades of feuding over a bounced dowry check, Sophia and her daughter-in-law confront the real reason Sophia couldn't truly love her son Phil.)

Angela: What he was, Sophia, was a good man.

Sophia: [voice breaking] My baby is gone.

Sorry^^

The saddest thing I've seen lately is this Twitter exchange, where the younger gay guy doesn't even know who the Golden Girls are!

When Mario was deported back to Mexico, a land without movie theaters.

That Sophia "my baby" scene makes me cringe. I thought Getty was absolutely awful in that episode. The writing/producing teams from the superior first four seasons would never have written a scene like that.

Interesting. Never thought of it that way.

When Blanche's grandchild Oreo bemoans the loss of her "Sexy Grandma."

I burst into tears every time.

The one where Rose learned she was POZ.

When Rose moves to the beach and her new roommates are cold, vapid whores.

The one where Blanche mistakes Becky for her new mattress.

Blanche says after Big Daddy’s funeral I am nobody’s daughter anymore.

When Kitty Genovese got raped and murdered on the lanai and the four “girls” just sat in the kitchen eating cheesecake.

The flashback scene where Rose baked herself a cake for her first birthday without Charlie, and has a pretend conversation with him about starting over in Miami.

Betty White was so touching in that scene, holding back real tears (probably thinking of Allen Ludden).

I was sad and embarrassed when I got a Charley Horse in front of my aerobics class.

When Rose gently turn down Jean’s request to scissor for an hour.

Blanche brought it to her emotional scenes, always. I was touched when she was happy her daughter called her on mother's day, after many years of tense relationship.

Celia Rubinstein's funeral gets me all teary-eyed and choked up. What a lovely service for a wonderful woman.

You bitches are a bunch of pussies. Stop your crying. I have no use for tears, never did!

When Blanche thought she was pregnant but it turned out to be “the change of life.”

The close up of Stan at Dorothy’s wedding when the priest says “if there are no objections.” And also when he tells Sophia “that’s ok, this ones on the house.” Herb Edelman was a very good actor.

When Estelle Getty starts to really cry during the last farewell scene of GG .

I cry the entire episode of the Rita Moreno "Morothy " catastrophe .

Rita Moreno talking about Golden Girls

R42 I thought Rita Moreno was Doroshee. Morothy was from The Monkey Show.

When the neighbor’s dog ate Ida.

r25, someone else who hates that scene! I always found Getty embarrassing in it as well.

r2, the scenes over the closing credits started in Season 7 with the hurricane episode(s). The episode before that, Dateline: Miami, had the usual theme song over a freeze frame. The hurricane episode had the fake newscast. The episode after that, Rose Love$ Miles, has Blanche dancing with the men in the bar in Sicily, over the closing credits. From there, every episode until the finale has a closing scene.

Most of the emotional scenes in TGG hit me as more moving or touching than outright sad (though Rose's birthday party for one is probably the saddest for me, with the final goodbye in the finale close behind).

When I started thinking about sad scenes, everything that came to mind was from the godawful Golden Palace. Miles cheating on Rose and dumping her for another woman. Then he comes back and marries the other woman in Rose's own hotel, while Rose watches through the kitchen window and cries while Blanche hugs her and tries to comfort her--oof. That was rough. A few episodes later, Rose dates a man who looks just like Charlie, and when he finds out, he says he can't date her anymore, but encourages her to say everything she would say to Charlie if she had a chance to finally say goodbye. So sad. Geez, they made Rose cry a lot in a single season on that show.

Not to mention the opening scene of the first episode where they show the house empty as the girls are moving out. That was sad as hell. More reason they shouldn't have done a spinoff.

Rose says goodbye to Charlie. (And then they kill the emotion by rushing into a dumb George Burns cameo. That show was all abut bad decisions.)

I cried when Freda Claxton dropped dead.

I cried when Estelle kept forgetting her lines and they had to go the Mister Ed route...smearing peanut butter on her gums.

I was sad when Sophia kept farting and losing control of her bowels.

Probably not the saddest, but when Blanche realized her much younger date saw her more as a mother figure (feeling homesick) than as a sex partner.

Honorable mention from Golden Palace: When Rose has to plan the wedding for her ex Miles and his new fiancée. The entire episode is cringe one moment, sad the next.

"Blanche says after Big Daddy’s funeral I am nobody’s daughter anymore."

The ending of this episode is sad, too.

Blanche says there's no one to be proud of her anymore, and it makes you realize that, after both your parents pass away, this is very true.

Has anyone mentioned the very special epsiode where the gals sneak into a homeless shelter to get back a winning lottery ticket left in a jacket they gave to charity? Didn't the episode end with a cheesy song performed by Barbra Streisand?

When Rose brings home the dog and everyone hates it and treats the dog like crap.

When Dorothy decides she can't be some married guy's mistress after being shamed by her mother for it the entire episode.

And come to think of it. The show always treated Dorothy as this sad spinster who couldn't get laid even if she tried, and yet she had plenty of dates (got even back with Stan a couple of times) and even broke up with a cop since she would be scared for his safety (the guy had probably a few days left before retirement, but she still broke it off!).

During one of the Christmas episodes where the girls help out at a church soup kitchen and Blanche comments that she didn't think there would be so many children.

After this, the next scene shows the different faces of the soup kitchen occupants.

It may seem cheesy, but it feels like a strong reminder of how these people could be anyone.

That episode where Dorothy wakes up and Rose is doing some sleep cunnilingus on her hairy snatch. Dorothy loves it so much she just lets her go along w it.

Not onscreen, but behind the scenes when Bea shit on Betty’s dressing room floor and just left it there.

R56 wasn't that the pig?

The one where Barbara Thorndyke finds out that Joanne Forbes is her long-lost daughter.

The lost episode where Coco dies.

Coco should've given the girls syphilis before leaving. Then call the show The Spirochaete Girls.

The episode where Doug storms out after walking in on Clayton jerking off to his Montgomery Clift poster really chokes me up. Poor Clayton! Doug could be so judgmental and sanctimonious.

[quote] Was anyone else very disappointed in Sophia when she pretended to be channelling Rose's dead husband Charlie?

The writing changed in the last couple of seasons and a lot of it wasn’t good. This episode is a good example of how mean they made Sophia. The original premise was that Sophia had a stroke and suffered some brain damage that rendered her unable to control her mouth. So she was sarcastic and inappropriate, but not cruel.

R51, there’s an interview with one of the producers who says that a lot of Estelle’s lines were actually written on that purse that she always carried.

[quote] More reason they shouldn't have done a spinoff.

Yeah, I really think it was a mistake. It would’ve been better to do a final season with a replacement roommate, or just end it with Dorothy getting married.

When Baby the pig was homesick for that God-forsaken place in Minnesota.

Barbara Thorndyke as the fourth roommate after Dorothy leaves would've been a scream. Maybe she goes broke and is forced to move in with the 'limited' Madge and Rose. It would a riot watching her to the manner born personality clash with and attempt to tolerate Madge's white trash and Rose's St. Olaf backgrounds.

R67 No shit, Sherlock. Everyone knows Estelle could not remember her lines for years and had to write em down everywhere.

Was Rose POZ was she and Jean scissored? I hope Jean got tested. It's rare for lezzies to get HIV, but if they exchanged vaginal fluid, it's possible.

When the lezzy Kristy McNichol offered snatch to Rose. Sad.

R71 forgot to take her Metamucil today.