The Golden Girls

The Golden Girls (1985)

4 corrected entries in season 4

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You Gotta Have Hope - S4-E17

Corrected entry: In this episode Rose is telling the others that she was left on the doorstep of the Nylunds when she was a baby and adopted. However we know her married name not her maiden was Nylund and her maiden name was Lindstrom. She also says in this episode she was adopted as a baby but in the episode where she meets her father she says she was in an orphanage until she was 8.

Correction: That IS correct, Rose does give many variations to the details surrounding her adoption throughout different episodes within the series. In some, she is in an orphanage for quite some time before being taken in by her adoptive parents, the Lindstroms. However, she also talks about a scenario where her birth mother "Ingrid" dies in child birth, and she is then left on the Lindstrom's doorstep in a basket (and in comedic fashion, stating."with cheese and the beef sticks also 'cuz that was the deal) until she is discovered and then adopted by the family. THIS is the story she tells her father (the monk played by Don Ameche) in the hospital episode, and we know this because of the conversation following after where he tells Rose why he abandoned her mother for the monastery and knew nothing about her having been pregnant with his child (nor Rose's adoption circumstances) before he left.

Correction: This mistake confuses elements from different episodes. In S04E17, "You Gotta Have Hope," Rose tells her roommates that she lived in the orphanage for eight years and was adopted by Gunter and Alma Nylund. The error is that Nylund was Rose's married name; the series establishes that her maiden name was Lindstrom, so the couple who adopted her would be named Lindstrom, not Nylund. Indeed, Rose's mother had appeared in an earlier episode, S01E09, "Blanche and the Younger Man," in which she was consistently referred to as "Mrs. Lindstrom." The discrepancy about when Rose was adopted is a mistake in the later episode, S06E02, "Once in St. Olaf."

DavidK93

Foreign Exchange - S4-E24

Corrected entry: In this episode, Dorothy is said to have been born in a hospital. But in another episode Sophia says she was born on a card table at Sal's lodge.

Correction: Sophia is always making smart alec comments. You can't always take her seriously.

Boobra

Love Me Tender - S4-E14

Corrected entry: When Rose crosses to the refrigerator and reaches in for a jug of orange juice, she catches it on the door and the juice spills over her. She carries on regardless. (00:17:00)

Correction: Even if it was not scripted, this is a natural, every-day accident that can happen to everyone. It's not a mistake that it happens to a TV character, as they are supposed to be ordinary people, who may be prone to such mishaps occasionally.

Twotall

Till Death Do We Volley - S4-E19

Corrected entry: Dorothy's friend Trudy comes to Miami for their high school reunion when there is no possible way for Dorothy to have gone to high school in Miami. It would have been in Brooklyn. In so many flashbacks she is way older than a college student, and they still live in NY.

ChrisPreviti

Correction: There is no reason a reunion can't be out of town; schools often do multiple reunion activities in various locations. In this case, Florida is a very popular destination for Northeastern retirees, so there certainly could be enough high school alumni living in Florida to justify a reunion activity there. All an alum would have to do is organize one.

Miles to Go - S6-E15

Continuity mistake: In this episode Rose's boyfriend Miles is revealed to be in the witness protection program and has not had any contact with people from his past including family. However, in season 5, episode 15 his daughter visited and didn't approve of Rose.

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Question: The question "How do the girls' husbands, other than Dorothy's, die?" was answered that in theory, Blanche's husband could have had a car wreck, fallen into a coma, and died while she was getting a pedicure. This is not true. Blanche stated that when George came back to her in a dream, she remembered tripping over his shoe on her way to answer the phone, thus finding out that George had died in a car wreck. Doesn't this prove that the "he had a wreck, fell into a coma, and then died during Blanche's pedicure", theory is out?

Countryrunner

Chosen answer: Yes, you are correct, as stated, In one episode Blanche said he had been in a coma for days, in the episode where she's in her dream, she said "The day you died ... The police told me you had been in an accident." Thus the original answers theory is wrong. If he had been in the accident the day he died he could not have been in a coma for days.

Valentine

Yeah, in another episode she relates how a thoughtless state trooper phoned her and told her that her husband was dead with his mouth full.

Brian Katcher

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