“Ode to the Girls” at PTR

Fabulous new blog post about the Girls over at Pass The Remote. Entitled “Ode to the ‘Girls,'” it’s a great piece.

Schedule on the Hallmark Channel

So here’s the schedule for The Golden Girls on the Hallmark Channel.

Monday – Friday: 8am-9am
4pm-5pm
Midnight-2am

Saturday: 6am-9am
Sunday: 8am-10am

Set your DVRs, that’s 9 hours of the Girls on television per week! (For those of you who have the Hallmark Channel. Oh wait, do I sound bitter?)

Is there a Golden Girls 12-step program?

I found this on another blog and I think it’s great.
It’s especially timely with the upcoming move of television networks, which will leave me and a lot of other GG lovers without our daily dose of Miami antics:

“The 10 signs that you are addicted to The Golden Girls:

1) You can’t go to sleep without watching at least one episode.

2) You find yourself working the one-liners from the show’s script into your everyday conversation.

3) You took a trip to the back lot of Disney Studios, so you could see the façade they used for outside cutaway scenes of the GG house.

4) You taped the GG Reunion that aired about 5 years ago, and kept it on your DVR to watch over and over for nearly a year after.

5) You attend every Broadway show that any of the ladies has been in since GG ended nearly 16 years ago.

6) You pre-ordered every DVD release of all 7 seasons of the show from Amazon.com, so that you could be the first to get it

7) You watch the shows and compare notes about what has changed since the pilot episode, and catch all the little inconsistencies in the scripts over the years. Like Blanche’s bedroom used to be where the lanai is, and how the island in the kitchen got bigger.

8) While watching other current TV shows or films, you see an actor or actress that was once featured on GG, and you abruptly point out to whoever’s within earshot, “Hey, they were on the GG!”

9) You play GG trivia on Lifetimetv.com and you cringe when you get one of the answers wrong, and you keep taking the test until you get them all correct.

10) You are desperately waiting for the day they release a DVD full of all the bloopers and outtakes from the show. (That day probably won’t come, but one can dream, can’t they?)

Okay, maybe one more #11 – you find yourself watching repeats of Roseanne as an excuse to not watch GG.

And another…#12 – you find yourself blogging about it! ”

How many are true of you?

Golden Girls Marathon on Hallmark

To celebrate the arrival of the Girls on their new home, the Hallmark Channel is running a Golden Girls Marathon beginning at 8:30 am Sunday, March 1.

Quote of the day!

Blanche to Sophia: My mistake. I thought because you looked like Yoda you were also wise.

Typical Blanche

Sing along with Bea

Who needs some Broadway this afternoon? Me and Bea!

Betty the game show host

Vintage footage of Betty hosting Match Game. The yellow suit leaves me speechless.

Of Beers and Girls

A bar and book review by a writer at the San Francisco weekly has this to say about Betty White’s autobiography, In Person:

“I wish I could say that White’s book was good (argh, there’s the critic in me again), but it was pretty damn bad. I wanted to learn about her early days, about her marriage to the guy from Password, inside scoopage about the Golden Girls, and more about her love of needlework. Instead I got somewhat shallow musings on life. There was one good part, which I ripped through during my paella. She describes the Pictionary parties she and her husband would go to at Carol Burnett’s house. They would set up a big board and separate into two teams. Her teammates included James Stewart, Anne Bancroft, Mel Brooks, Harvey Korman, Rock Hudson, and George Burns. Wow.”

Amusing.

Video Extra- Paula Deen

Not one of the Golden Girls, but still a famous adorable older gal in South Beach.

Interview with Rue

Interview with Rue McClanahan upon the release of her book, My First Five Husbands..and the Ones Who Got Away.