December 4, 2025 • 13 mins
Dorothy is teaching an honors class for the semester. She starts off excited but quickly becomes depressed. Blanche uses Aurora (her granddaughter) to get a date/boyfriend. When her daughter Rebecca finds out it ends badly.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
You're listening to I Love this TV show The Golden Girls.
The Golden Girls, Season six, episode twenty Even Grandma's Get
the Blues. Original airdate March second, nineteen ninety one. In
this episode, Sophia is preparing to do a small celebration,
(00:41):
one of the many that her village in Sicily had.
She wants Dorothy to help her make the sauce, but
Dorothy doesn't want to as it takes weeks to prepare
and has over one hundred ingredients. Dorothy is teaching an
honors class and so she doesn't have the time. Volunteers
and Sophia accepts Blanche's auditioning for the teaming of the Shrew.
(01:06):
Before she leaves, Rebecca shows up with a roro. She
needs Blanche a babysit so she can go to a
job interview. Blanche gets upset when Rebecca calls her Grandma.
She's now at the audition and Blanche is ready to
try out for the part.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
However, the director has been changed.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
She calls the other directors back to go out in
her back seat audition.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Her actual tryout does not.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Go well, but she winds up with a date. The
only problem is that he thinks the baby is hers,
and she doesn't correct him. He invites Blanche and her
daughter to the zoo. Dorothy's class isn't going well. She's
not enjoying her students. In fact, they are making her
feel stupid. To cheer her up, Sophia tells Dorothy she
(01:56):
had the highest IQ in Brooklyn. Later, Dorothy is doing
the New York Times crossword puzzle in Ink. Dorothy tells
Blanche she's happy to see her take such an interest
in her granddaughter, but when she finds out it's because
her new boyfriend thinks it's hers, she's horrified. Blanche that
retens them if they tell Jason the truth. Rebecca finally
(02:20):
gets there with the baby, and Blanche pretends she is
the nanny. Jason is over the moon and hopes there
will be room for he and the baby of their
own in the future. It's another day and Dorothy has
let what Sophia told her about how smart she is
go to her head.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Blanche wakes up unable to sleep.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Jason wants to settle down and have another baby with
her suit. Sophia jokes that Medicare can pay for it.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It all depresses her.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Rebecca brings the baby over again and is shocked at
how much time Blanche has been spending with her. Rebecca
give There's a small speech, and now Blanche feels guilty.
She's about to confess when Jason arrives early. She does
now confess that she is not the baby's mother, but grandmother.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
She and Jason come to an end.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Blanche wants to take the baby to the park, but
Rebecca is horrified that she used her to land a
man and storms out. Sophia and Rose finish the sauce
and start the festivm. Sophia's upset that Dorothy is in Stane.
She tells Dorothy she lied to her about her IQ.
Blanche is more upset than before. Rebecca wants to come
(03:38):
and collect the baby's things. She's going to go no contact.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Favorite quotes Dorothy. I'm going to be teaching that Honors
program class, and it's going to be a challenge.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I'm going to have students who know that Chekhov is
a brilliant Russian playwright, not the guy who was the
navigator on the enterprise, Sophia. So what you're telling me is,
I'm going to take this recipe with me to the grave, Dorothy, Right,
along with the secret of why Uncle Gino legally adopted
that goat, Blanche? Am I convincing Sophia as what ye
(04:21):
old town slut, Blanche?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It so happens.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Our community playhouse is doing the Taming of the Shrew,
and I'm to audition for the role of Kate the
fiery tart, a padua whom no man could tame.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Sophia Hi a pussycat.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
How was school, Dorothy, Oh, I hate those smart kids.
They may be are brightest, but there also are rudest,
considering most of them are guests in our country. Oh,
give me a class of red blooded underachievers, Dorothy. But
this is different. I've always wanted to teach an honors class.
But now that I am, well, the kids are making
(04:58):
me feel stupid, Blanche.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Jason thinks the baby's mine. Well, don't look at me
that way. He thought the baby was mine. I just
didn't correct him. It's not a lie. I'm just withholding
the truth. Blench.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Listen, I'm warning you if anybody blows the whistle on me, the.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Old lady's out on the street. Jason.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Wait, let me get a picture. Isn't she the most
beautiful mother. You've ever seen Sophia grand?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Just grand Sophia and a pinch of red pepper. That's
not a pinch. Did you ever get pinched by an Italian?
It takes about five minutes, Rebecca.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Mother, this is so unlike you. You have never really liked babies, Blanche.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Shall we take the baby to the park? Rebecca? Why
so you can pick someone else up?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I really thought you were getting to love Aurora, but
you were just using your granddaughter to try and land
a man. Goodbye, Mama, thanks for babysitting. You won't have
to do it again. Sophia tooth fairy Santa Claus Easter Bunny,
I've been messing with your head for almost sixty years.
(06:20):
Two stories in this episode, as always now the lesser
episode is Dorothy teaching this honors class and Sophia lying
to her. But Sophia liized her all the time, so
Dorothy kind of should expect something like that from her.
Dorothy's nervous about this class. It's been essentially I guess
(06:41):
she could say on her bucket list, to teach an
honor's class a person. They've been in a couple of
honors classes in high school. We're not all it was
cracked up to fee. If Dorothy was actually trying to teach,
then kudos to Dorothy. Few the handful of honors classes
I was in, I'd say I was like four or five.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
The teachers didn't teach.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
They put assignments on the board and they sat there
and they read a book. And it was like, uh, what,
I guess part of the honors classes, you're supposed to
figure it out yourself. It was weird. I don't know
if other people have had that kind of experience, But
Dorothy is taking this in a different direction where it
almost feels like she feels like her own intelligence is
(07:20):
being attacked. And Sophia tells her that lovely lie about
how well you were the smartest kid in Brooklyn. It
got her ego up and she felt happy in that
because of that. But she take it too far, And
that's kind of Dorothy's saying, she takes it too far.
You know, there's a previous episode or two where we
(07:42):
learned she has a gambling addiction problem. She's definitely a
control freak, and she just is essentially an egomaniac when
it comes to intelligence. The episode where she is on
Jeopardy Well wanted to be on Shepherdy, but she was
so obsessed on rubbing her victory into someone else's face
(08:03):
that she wasn't actually ever on the show, and that
dream was crushed too. Maybe it's some self control issues
that Dorothy has that would link in with addiction and
that type. But yeah, when she finds out Sophia lied
to her, she just gets just as angry as she
does about the honors class. So it really just seems
(08:26):
like she's replacing one anger with another. Anger. Can't be
the healthiest thing at all, So not completely sure on there.
Dorothy probably could use some therapy. Now we get to
the main storyline, which is Blanche babysitting her granddaughter and
taking her granddaughter with her when she tries out. But
(08:48):
the real big deal in this is assumptions. The guy
she was dating, Jason, he assumed it was her daughter.
He did not assume it was her granddaughter, and Blanche
was kind of shocked that he would make that assumption
and as a result didn't speak up at the time.
But her ego is in play too. Oh he thinks
(09:11):
I could look young enough to be her mother.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yay, happy me?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh dear Heavens, No, happy you is not happening there.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Upset you, yes, but not happy you.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
And when it all hits the fan and Rebecca finds
out the punishment is beyond ah. By the end, I
think they do make up and they don't fully go
no contact. But at the same time, I think a
no contact punishment does fit the bill in this case
because it's a familial connection. She lived to really probably
(09:46):
would not have gone on a date with this guy
if she didn't have Aurora with her. And then that's
not even I mean, how does she not actually call
her by the correct name? How do you call your
granddaughter Oreo?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I could see you calling.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
A pet dog that's black and white oreo, or a
pet cat, or even a goldfish or some kind of fish.
But this is your granddaughter, your flesh and blood, and
instead of calling her by her correct name, you're calling
her Oreo. She's not a cookie, although maybe calling her
(10:20):
by the name of a cookie dehumanizes her enough that
she's totally fine with using her as a pawn in
her dating game. I very much understand why Rebecca was
so upset. You're using my daughter to get dates. She's
not even using her own daughter to get dates. And
I highly doubt it's a situation where it's like Rebecca going,
(10:43):
I wish I had thought of that.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
She just wants to raise her daughter.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I mean, the whole Rebecca relationship with Blanche has been
challenging from forever, so it's not any different that this
is another challenge and another issue because they don't always
get along. They rarely get along, and they fight a lot.
It's a headbutting competition. Blanche and Rebecca think very very differently.
(11:14):
Clearly they grew up in different time periods and that
plays a part. But still, you should not use your
granddaughter to get a date, and you should not pretend
your granddaughter is your daughter. And I still don't wrap
my head around what Blanche wanted her to call her instead.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Was it sister? Was it?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And was it cousin?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I don't know. It was just some weird thing.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And for some reason my mind will not grapple onto
that and lock that in place.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I just go, oh, my goodness.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Blanche is making me cringe in this episode quite a
bit when it comes to the baby. But I do
wonder she I know, shed and nanny when she had
the kids herself, but the time that she spent with Aurora,
she was actually acting mother grandmother we technically in this case,
but there was actual care, there was actual connection, well
(12:08):
at least there seemed to be. Maybe it was just
all part of the show. Blanche was cought and everybody
audience included. Thanks for tuning in to the I Love
This TV Show podcast. If you would like to make
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(12:32):
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Speaker 2 (13:00):
SNA
You're listening to I Love this TV show The Golden Girls.
The Golden Girls, Season six, episode twenty Even Grandma's Get
the Blues. Original airdate March second, nineteen ninety one. In
this episode, Sophia is preparing to do a small celebration,
(00:41):
one of the many that her village in Sicily had.
She wants Dorothy to help her make the sauce, but
Dorothy doesn't want to as it takes weeks to prepare
and has over one hundred ingredients. Dorothy is teaching an
honors class and so she doesn't have the time. Volunteers
and Sophia accepts Blanche's auditioning for the teaming of the Shrew.
(01:06):
Before she leaves, Rebecca shows up with a roro. She
needs Blanche a babysit so she can go to a
job interview. Blanche gets upset when Rebecca calls her Grandma.
She's now at the audition and Blanche is ready to
try out for the part.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
However, the director has been changed.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
She calls the other directors back to go out in
her back seat audition.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Her actual tryout does not.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Go well, but she winds up with a date. The
only problem is that he thinks the baby is hers,
and she doesn't correct him. He invites Blanche and her
daughter to the zoo. Dorothy's class isn't going well. She's
not enjoying her students. In fact, they are making her
feel stupid. To cheer her up, Sophia tells Dorothy she
(01:56):
had the highest IQ in Brooklyn. Later, Dorothy is doing
the New York Times crossword puzzle in Ink. Dorothy tells
Blanche she's happy to see her take such an interest
in her granddaughter, but when she finds out it's because
her new boyfriend thinks it's hers, she's horrified. Blanche that
retens them if they tell Jason the truth. Rebecca finally
(02:20):
gets there with the baby, and Blanche pretends she is
the nanny. Jason is over the moon and hopes there
will be room for he and the baby of their
own in the future. It's another day and Dorothy has
let what Sophia told her about how smart she is
go to her head.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Blanche wakes up unable to sleep.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Jason wants to settle down and have another baby with
her suit. Sophia jokes that Medicare can pay for it.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It all depresses her.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Rebecca brings the baby over again and is shocked at
how much time Blanche has been spending with her. Rebecca
give There's a small speech, and now Blanche feels guilty.
She's about to confess when Jason arrives early. She does
now confess that she is not the baby's mother, but grandmother.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
She and Jason come to an end.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Blanche wants to take the baby to the park, but
Rebecca is horrified that she used her to land a
man and storms out. Sophia and Rose finish the sauce
and start the festivm. Sophia's upset that Dorothy is in Stane.
She tells Dorothy she lied to her about her IQ.
Blanche is more upset than before. Rebecca wants to come
(03:38):
and collect the baby's things. She's going to go no contact.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Favorite quotes Dorothy. I'm going to be teaching that Honors
program class, and it's going to be a challenge.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I'm going to have students who know that Chekhov is
a brilliant Russian playwright, not the guy who was the
navigator on the enterprise, Sophia. So what you're telling me is,
I'm going to take this recipe with me to the grave, Dorothy, Right,
along with the secret of why Uncle Gino legally adopted
that goat, Blanche? Am I convincing Sophia as what ye
(04:21):
old town slut, Blanche?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It so happens.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Our community playhouse is doing the Taming of the Shrew,
and I'm to audition for the role of Kate the
fiery tart, a padua whom no man could tame.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Sophia Hi a pussycat.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
How was school, Dorothy, Oh, I hate those smart kids.
They may be are brightest, but there also are rudest,
considering most of them are guests in our country. Oh,
give me a class of red blooded underachievers, Dorothy. But
this is different. I've always wanted to teach an honors class.
But now that I am, well, the kids are making
(04:58):
me feel stupid, Blanche.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Jason thinks the baby's mine. Well, don't look at me
that way. He thought the baby was mine. I just
didn't correct him. It's not a lie. I'm just withholding
the truth. Blench.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Listen, I'm warning you if anybody blows the whistle on me, the.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Old lady's out on the street. Jason.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Wait, let me get a picture. Isn't she the most
beautiful mother. You've ever seen Sophia grand?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Just grand Sophia and a pinch of red pepper. That's
not a pinch. Did you ever get pinched by an Italian?
It takes about five minutes, Rebecca.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Mother, this is so unlike you. You have never really liked babies, Blanche.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Shall we take the baby to the park? Rebecca? Why
so you can pick someone else up?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
I really thought you were getting to love Aurora, but
you were just using your granddaughter to try and land
a man. Goodbye, Mama, thanks for babysitting. You won't have
to do it again. Sophia tooth fairy Santa Claus Easter Bunny,
I've been messing with your head for almost sixty years.
(06:20):
Two stories in this episode, as always now the lesser
episode is Dorothy teaching this honors class and Sophia lying
to her. But Sophia liized her all the time, so
Dorothy kind of should expect something like that from her.
Dorothy's nervous about this class. It's been essentially I guess
(06:41):
she could say on her bucket list, to teach an
honor's class a person. They've been in a couple of
honors classes in high school. We're not all it was
cracked up to fee. If Dorothy was actually trying to teach,
then kudos to Dorothy. Few the handful of honors classes
I was in, I'd say I was like four or five.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
The teachers didn't teach.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
They put assignments on the board and they sat there
and they read a book. And it was like, uh, what,
I guess part of the honors classes, you're supposed to
figure it out yourself. It was weird. I don't know
if other people have had that kind of experience, But
Dorothy is taking this in a different direction where it
almost feels like she feels like her own intelligence is
(07:20):
being attacked. And Sophia tells her that lovely lie about
how well you were the smartest kid in Brooklyn. It
got her ego up and she felt happy in that
because of that. But she take it too far, And
that's kind of Dorothy's saying, she takes it too far.
You know, there's a previous episode or two where we
(07:42):
learned she has a gambling addiction problem. She's definitely a
control freak, and she just is essentially an egomaniac when
it comes to intelligence. The episode where she is on
Jeopardy Well wanted to be on Shepherdy, but she was
so obsessed on rubbing her victory into someone else's face
(08:03):
that she wasn't actually ever on the show, and that
dream was crushed too. Maybe it's some self control issues
that Dorothy has that would link in with addiction and
that type. But yeah, when she finds out Sophia lied
to her, she just gets just as angry as she
does about the honors class. So it really just seems
(08:26):
like she's replacing one anger with another. Anger. Can't be
the healthiest thing at all, So not completely sure on there.
Dorothy probably could use some therapy. Now we get to
the main storyline, which is Blanche babysitting her granddaughter and
taking her granddaughter with her when she tries out. But
(08:48):
the real big deal in this is assumptions. The guy
she was dating, Jason, he assumed it was her daughter.
He did not assume it was her granddaughter, and Blanche
was kind of shocked that he would make that assumption
and as a result didn't speak up at the time.
But her ego is in play too. Oh he thinks
(09:11):
I could look young enough to be her mother.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yay, happy me?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Oh dear Heavens, No, happy you is not happening there.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Upset you, yes, but not happy you.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
And when it all hits the fan and Rebecca finds
out the punishment is beyond ah. By the end, I
think they do make up and they don't fully go
no contact. But at the same time, I think a
no contact punishment does fit the bill in this case
because it's a familial connection. She lived to really probably
(09:46):
would not have gone on a date with this guy
if she didn't have Aurora with her. And then that's
not even I mean, how does she not actually call
her by the correct name? How do you call your
granddaughter Oreo?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
I could see you calling.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
A pet dog that's black and white oreo, or a
pet cat, or even a goldfish or some kind of fish.
But this is your granddaughter, your flesh and blood, and
instead of calling her by her correct name, you're calling
her Oreo. She's not a cookie, although maybe calling her
(10:20):
by the name of a cookie dehumanizes her enough that
she's totally fine with using her as a pawn in
her dating game. I very much understand why Rebecca was
so upset. You're using my daughter to get dates. She's
not even using her own daughter to get dates. And
I highly doubt it's a situation where it's like Rebecca going,
(10:43):
I wish I had thought of that.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
She just wants to raise her daughter.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I mean, the whole Rebecca relationship with Blanche has been
challenging from forever, so it's not any different that this
is another challenge and another issue because they don't always
get along. They rarely get along, and they fight a lot.
It's a headbutting competition. Blanche and Rebecca think very very differently.
(11:14):
Clearly they grew up in different time periods and that
plays a part. But still, you should not use your
granddaughter to get a date, and you should not pretend
your granddaughter is your daughter. And I still don't wrap
my head around what Blanche wanted her to call her instead.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Was it sister? Was it?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
And was it cousin?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I don't know. It was just some weird thing.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And for some reason my mind will not grapple onto
that and lock that in place.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I just go, oh, my goodness.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
Blanche is making me cringe in this episode quite a
bit when it comes to the baby. But I do
wonder she I know, shed and nanny when she had
the kids herself, but the time that she spent with Aurora,
she was actually acting mother grandmother we technically in this case,
but there was actual care, there was actual connection, well
(12:08):
at least there seemed to be. Maybe it was just
all part of the show. Blanche was cought and everybody
audience included. Thanks for tuning in to the I Love
This TV Show podcast. If you would like to make
a donation in support of this podcast, you can through
cash app to Pasta two six MC. That's Pasta like
(12:32):
the food, the number two, the number six M as
in monkey, see as in can. If you would like
to sponsor this podcast or advertise on it, please send
an email to T two podcast at pastasworld dot com.
As always, you can go to pasta'sworld dot com for
(12:53):
more information.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
SNA
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