Was The Golden Girls something you watched when it was on air, or was it something you gradually watched/discovered since its release as you became more immersed in the culture?
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by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 26, 2024 9:36 PM |
Never got into it and not ashamed to say it.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 22, 2024 2:08 PM |
I’m 61, and I watched it whenever possible. I worked evenings in the 80s. A good friend once left my party, just to watch show on a Saturday night.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 22, 2024 2:23 PM |
I had better things to do in my twenties on Saturday nights than watch an unfunny sitcom about 4 old women.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 22, 2024 2:33 PM |
We used it as background noise getting ready to go out on a Saturday night.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 22, 2024 2:53 PM |
Caught a couple episodes as an 80s teen. Watched it end of day as a comfort thing in my 20s
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 22, 2024 3:51 PM |
Only once when male friends took me to Uncle Charlie’s (?) and it was playing there.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 22, 2024 5:59 PM |
Yes-watched before going out Saturday nights.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 22, 2024 6:21 PM |
Never seen a minute.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 22, 2024 6:22 PM |
I was ten years old when it first premiered, My grandmother didn't know why I liked watching those "old whores"
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 22, 2024 6:37 PM |
Op get therapy
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 22, 2024 7:31 PM |
I’ve never watched it.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 22, 2024 7:49 PM |
R11, turn in your gay card.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 22, 2024 9:00 PM |
I used to watch reruns on lifetime after school. It didn’t occur to me until I was in my teens that the show was long over.
I’m 36.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 22, 2024 9:11 PM |
I watched it with German dubbing. It was awful. Especially the Rose jokes did not translate well. Still it was huge in the Schwulenszene.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 22, 2024 9:30 PM |
It was a high point of the television week when new episodes aired (although it could be disappointing to find out that it would be a clip episode).
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 22, 2024 9:36 PM |
I was in elementary school when the Golden Girls were originally on and I watched it from the beginning. It was one of the earliest signs I was going to be gay.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 22, 2024 11:14 PM |
I was a child in the 80s. I saw some of the episodes when they were brand new when my mom watched it. I think it aired on Friday nights if I remember correctly. And then, of course I watched them in reruns all the time in the 90s.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 22, 2024 11:17 PM |
“The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth twist the dial too far?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 25, 2024 10:59 PM |
[quote]I think it aired on Friday nights if I remember correctly.
No, your memory is off. Golden Girls was a Saturday night staple throughout its run on NBC.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 25, 2024 11:09 PM |
I watched 227 when I was in 7th grade. My favorite show of all-time
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 25, 2024 11:16 PM |
The NBC Saturday night lineup was gay central. Facts of Life, Gimme a Break, Golden Girls, 227. Then came Amen and gorgeous Clifton Davis, whom I crushed on big time.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 25, 2024 11:17 PM |
r21 Don't forget Empty Nest and Nurses.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 25, 2024 11:23 PM |
I remember it well. My best friend and I were on a little weekend get-a-way road trip on Cape Cod, we stayed in S.Yarmouth. It premiered on a Saturday night and we made sure we were back in the motel with popcorn and a 2-L bottle of ginger ale (not diet, regular) - we were completely out of control!
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 26, 2024 12:34 AM |
I was in elementary school during the original run of the GG and watched it every week. Of course, that was one of the first signs that I was going to be gay.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 26, 2024 2:42 AM |
I never watched it until a few years ago. I was at AA meetings Saturday nights in the '80s, so I wouldn't have caught it in its original run. I caught the first three episodes on cable or a streamer sometime this century. It wasn't for me.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 26, 2024 4:21 AM |
We used to watch GG as we'd get ready to get ready to go out on a Saturday night.
There wasn't that much else to watch back then - MTV if you had cable.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 26, 2024 9:36 PM |