- Oct 28, 2020
- 12 min
These 21 Styles of Comedy Explain Why The Golden Girls is Such a Hilarious Show
Three scholarly explorations of the types of humor explain what makes The Golden Girls one of the funniest sitcoms ever.
- Oct 24, 2020
- 6 min
What if Friendship Like The Golden Girls, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life? [The Atlantic]
Rhaina Cohen's Atlantic article "What If Friendship, Not Marriage, Was at the Center of Life?" has The Golden Girls written all over it.
- Oct 23, 2020
- 16 min
[TRANSCRIPT] Episode 22: Pretty Jumpy About Rose's Career Prospects (episode 22, s1/e22)
When Rose is laid off from her job as a grief counselor, she does what anyone would -- starts a pro bono 24-hour home counseling service.
- Oct 22, 2020
- 15 min
[TRANSCRIPT] Episode 21: The Girls Get the Flu & We Get Our First Vibrator Joke (Episode 21, s1/e21)
The flu knocks out Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose just in time for the charity event of the season.
- Oct 13, 2020
- 10 min
The Iron Maiden, Sex Object, Child, & Mother: A Golden Girls Archetype Explainer
How The Golden Girls characters fit into ancient feminine archetypes -- and what that says about how we view women.