It was revealed in the early episodes that Sophia had previously suffered a stroke, and that is the reason why she has no control over what she says out loud. That makes it funny, because she can't help say what she thinks 😅😅

@j.rileyindependentproductions

Ай бұрын

I always believed that Sophia just used that as an excuse. Sure she had the stroke, and maybe had an issue for a bit, but in general, she's been faking so that she can get away with the insults.

@memyselfandi522

Ай бұрын

Great insults😂​@@j.rileyindependentproductions

One I remember not shown here, Sophia and Dorothy are playing scrabble and they get into an argument: Dorothy: Ma, "dizdam" is not a word Sophia: Yes it is! Dorothy: Fine, use it in a sentence.. Sophia: You're no good at dizdam game!

Estelle Getty (Sophia Petrillo) was NOT the youngest. I heard this as a kid at the time and it seems that myth is still going. Rue McClanahan (Blanche Devereaux) was the youngest. McClanahan was 10-11 years younger than the other three. Getty was younger than Bea Arthur (Dorothy Zbornak), who played her daughter. Betty White (Rose Nylund) was the oldest and slightly older than Arthur.. Sophia was only the mother of Dorothy, not the other two. Blanche was the owner of the house and the others rented rooms from her. They all grew into close friends. Sophia had suffered a stroke, which damaged the part of her brain that governs control, which is why she said whatever popped into her head.

@nzarzecki

Ай бұрын

Betty was actually older than Bea!

@captainbryce1

Ай бұрын

@@nzarzeckiTrue, but they were both born in the same year (1922), so for all intents and purposes they were the “same age”.

@tawnyforest7932

Ай бұрын

@@nzarzecki Corrected. I only saw the year.

@82mmkay

Ай бұрын

@@nzarzeckiBetty was younger than Bea. Estelle was the oldest by a few months and that was Bea. Betty was the 3rd youngest and Rue was youngest of the group.

@21Piloteer

Ай бұрын

​@@82mmkay Betty White was the oldest, followed by Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty, then Rue McClanahan.

My favorite exchange involving Sophia has to be between her and Blanche: "My whole life is an open book!" "Your whole life is an open BLOUSE!"

I remember being about 8 or 9 spending the night at my cousins house and walked in to his older brothers room and him and his friends were drinking and smoking weed and playing cards and watching the golden girls

"Designing Women" was a show on a competing network that followed the same "four women snarking at each other" trope but they were all coworkers for an interior design firm in the southern us. The people who created one of the recent editions of Dungeons & Dragons said that they tried to write their rules around their idea of the perfect team: the golden girls.

@brookeb4563

Ай бұрын

a golden girls inspired dnd party would be amazing!

I recall a line from Sophia that didn’t show up here, it was something to the effect of, ‘when I was that age I had a butt you could bounce a quarter off of, now it would just get stuck in the wrinkles’ 😂

@JJ-is6gn

Ай бұрын

My favorite is “when life gets hard remember these sage words, you’re old, you sag, get over it, so what if you knew Jesus personally, wake up and smell the coffee you fossil” 😂😂😂

They may insult each other but let someone outside the house try and hurt one of them and watch out! it is what made it all wonderful.

My favorite Sophia went something like, "Dorothy, this is the proudest I've been of you in 60 years. ...Can you believe it? Sixty-years and this is the proudest I've ever been of you."

I love the comebacks between Dorthy and Sophia.

Estelle Getty 1923-2008 Betty White 1922-2021 Bea Arthur 1922-2009 Rue McClanahan 1934-2010 Betty was the oldest

No Rue McClanahan who played Blanche Devereaux was the youngest.

GG litteraly made insults into an art form - incredibly inventive and hilarious but this is just one side of the show. They tackled problems in the show that were unheard of at than time in TV with great realism and sensitivity and they brand mark humor like homosexuality, memopause, losing a child.... big and small problems of older people and women especially - how they got some of this episodes past the censorship of the time is a mystery. It is funny as hell but at the same time it very often hits you hard. That is what makes it absolutely timeless.

the episode where they all go to the sperm bank, funniest episode out of that season.

@HallsofAsgard96

Ай бұрын

"she's always depended on the kindness of strangers" That line took me out

My mum was in her 80s when she had a stroke. She was being looked after in hospital by a handsome male nurse. When I went to visit her, she told me in a really loud voice how nice the nurse was. She'd forgotten his name, so kept referring to him as "the queer nurse". I was horrified. The stroke seemed to take away her filter. She didn't mean to be offensive. Old people eh? 🤔😀

My wife's best friend of 46 years, text's "Good morning a--h---" every morning

My fav line from Sophia was as they talked about drinking liquids too late and having to wake up in middle of the night to go pee. Sophia chimed in and said, “I don’t have that problem. I pee regularly at 7am, like clockwork! My only problem is I don’t wake up until 8am! She truly had the best lines of the whole cast! Plus, the days of real humor are gone. No one has humor anymore, always acting ENTITLED, hurt, and can NOT laugh at themselves.

Golden girls was ahead of their time

What an amazing show. Really miss those times

“Blow it out your ditty bag”

@tretre3892

5 сағат бұрын

😂😂😂

Haha. I love that y'all have taken such a liking to this epic show. It's so hilarious, it never gets old.

Gaynor is absolutely adorable.

I Binged all your Golden Girls reactions, brilliant show. I’m roughly Aiden’s age and watched it when I was young and found it funny and still do! 😂

Rue McClanahan, the actress who played Blanche, was the youngest by over a decade.

I just googled their birth dates. Blanche was the youngest by over a decade. But Sophia was indeed a year younger than Dorothy and Sophia. I didn't know that. Interesting!

@cblanerun

Ай бұрын

How could Sophia be a year younger than Sophia?

So good. I really liked the Golden Girls. They were great and very funny. They made a lot of people happy and laugh. They did their job.

You're wrong on the ages, though. Not Sophia but Blanche was the youngest. The show ran from 1985-1992. Here are the actresses ages in real life: Sophia Petrillo (Dorothy's mom) - actress: Estelle Getty (Born: July 25, 1923 - Died: July 22, 2008 aged 84) Dorothy Zbornak (Sophia's daughter - actress: Bea Arthur (Born: May 13, 1922 - Died: April 25, 2009 aged 86) Blanche Devereaux - actress: Rue McClanahan (Born: February 21, 1934 - Died: June 3, 2010 aged 76) Rose Nylund - actress: Betty White (Born: January 17, 1922 - Died: December 31, 2021 just 17 days before her 100th birthday).

Mama's Family has a similar style of humor as well as Married with Children. But one that is like this with a group of women is Hot in Cleveland.

you might want to take a look at "it's always sunny in philadelphia" or "taxi." or anything with danny devito, actually, lol.

There’s so many shows with leads like this that followed. Toni Childs in girlfriends, Karen in Will and Grace, Pam from Martin. Take a look!

Legendary show, this and Martin are my favorite all time

@mr.smithgnrsmith7808

Ай бұрын

Married with Children too

The actress who played sophia wasn't the youngest, that was blanche

The golden girls first episode was in 1985 The last episode was in 1992.

No reaction is a reaction. I respect it.

Estelle Getty was 2nd youngest. Rue was youngest actress on the show.

I love "Golden Girls" and have watched the reruns since I was in middle school. Sophia is a blast! 🎉 Check out "Designing Women" with Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, and Meschach Taylor. It is funny, uplifting, and amazing in every way! ❤

Sophia played in a movie with Sylvester Stallone called stop or my mom will shoot

Betty was the oldest cast member born in January 1922 Bea was born May 1922 Estelle was born July 1923 and Rue was born February 1934

You want to find funny offensive sitcoms, check out "All In the Family" or "The Jeffersons". You'd love clips from those shows, especially the lead character in the first one, Archie Bunker. They were hits in the 70's . Or even "Sanford and Son". I think I saw you react to Sanford on the Office Blokes once. Speaking of the Blokes, I have a story for you. My daughter and I went out to eat a few days ago, here in Kentucky. We knew our server wasn't American but she was so soft spoken that it was difficult (for me) to figure out from where she may be and I'm usually very good at accents. I thought she might've had a speech impediment because she was so very soft spoken and seemed a little shy too. My daughter nailed it immediately, saying "She's British Mommm!" When we were settling the check, I politely asked her if she was British. Her eyes lit up, she grinned and said yes. I went through the whole spiel that Brits say they hear all the time about Americans loving to hear them talk for hours. I told her I follow several Brits on here. She asked who and of course, put on the spot, I drew a complete blank. I told her the OB's and she said she had never heard of you guys. (Sorry! Don't shoot the messenger! 😂). She asked who else and the Beasleys were the only other name that popped in my head. Her eyes lit up again and she knew all about their channel. To be fair though, she was quite young, around their ages. She was one of the most genuinely soft, humble, sweet, pleasant people I've encountered in awhile. Totally unlike the Blokes! Just kidding about the Blokes but she was definitely all of those things. She got a good tip. I didn't ask but I'm assuming she may be a student at the local university, given her apparent age. So I just thought I'd share that and maybe she'll check out your channels now. 😊

Guys. . .It's NOT when you get "older" that you express yourself more freely. . .It's when you get "WISER" and quit playing the "game." You realize how stupid the "game" really is!

Blanche negotiated in her contract to keep her wardrobe from the show.

Big deal, I took a whole placeset - NOT NOW MAAAA ;-)

Estelle Getty, who plays Sophia is not the youngest in fact, three of the main cast members were all born in 1922 and 1923 so Getty is actually younger than Betty White and Bea Arthur the youngest cast member is Rue McClanahan she was born in 1934

Actually, Blanche is the youngest out of all of them. Sophia was the 3rd oldest, she was born in 1923 and Blanche was born in 1934 while both Dorothy and Rose were born in 1922.

You should watch a few full episodes. Maybe not on KZread, but just to enjoy. People forget that these shows were episodic. It's not like Breaking Bad where watching it becomes a 50-hour commitment. Once you know the premise of the show, you can just pluck any random episode and enjoy it. Something TV sorely needs back, in my opinion. I think that's part of the reason shows like thid are so big on streaming. Our entertainment is too bloated. Our movies are part of these cinematoc universes with a dozen or more films, TV shows are these serialized, padded slogs, video games are front-loaded with hours of tutorials and hand-holding. And it makes them all way more expensive to make, and bloats the production time. And they become more risk-averse because a lot more money is on the line. But sitcoms were _cheap!_ the biggest expense was usually cast member salaries. But that was more for shows that are already huge hits so the cast members have the clout to ask for more, and because the show is profitable enough to afford it.

Check out one about Rose's St. Olaf stories.

@am74343

Ай бұрын

Genürkenflürken cake!

More golden girls! ❤❤🎉

i was waiting for this video lol

take a look at the Frieda Claxton episode, Season 2, Episode 4, “It’s A Miserable Life.”

She’s the second youngest. Rue (Blanche is the youngest). Love my girls ❤

Getty was the first to die.White was the final one

Sophia is straight-up gangster.

Aidan will love this in 20 years. We all know it. 😂😂😂

Actually Sophia was not the youngest it was Blanche

The actress who played Sophia (Estelle Getty) was actually a year young than the actress who played her daughter Dorothy (Bea Arthur).

You should check out DESIGNING WOMEN which Sophia compared the Southern accent of Blanche.

Watch ALL IN THE FAMILY

You guys should watch All in the Family. That show had a lot of offensive comedy.

actually, rue was the youngest out of them all, not estelle

If you like Sophia, you should react to some compilations of Frank from Everybody Loves Raymond. He's pretty much the male version of Sophia. Although Marie was really funny on that show, too. The parents were the funniest characters by a mile.

I heard that Estelle always had a hard time with her lines...she was amazing though.

Enjoy watching you guys my kind of sense of humor. I don't know if you guy's ever watched Debbie Downer SNL at Disney World. I'm sure you'll find it very funny 😂

Girl she was NOT the youngest, she was like, 80 😂

The gray hair was a wig.

start reacting to full episodes 😊

@officeblokedaz

Ай бұрын

They’d get blocked instantly 😂

Wheres Aiden?

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 classic

Estelle was not the youngest. Rhue was. Estelle was second youngest.

One of the last good comedy writers were on this show and not stopped by the networks. 😂❤

This was 1 of the best shows i can remember. However, a show like this would never be aired in this day and age. Or if it did, it wouldn't survive long, with the epidemic of snow flakes around; looking to be offended by every little thing. I'm pretty sure the writers, directors and producers would be accused of being misogynistic, and using the show to "attack" and "degrade" women. Or some other nonsense.

Designing Women fyi was another sitcom about a group of women but not as good imo

I don't have a problem when comedies offend people. It's done for laughter not to literally insult. I find there are some who think if you frown on the offensive stuff that you're also frowning on the funny stuff. You're not. Know the difference (I'm not talking to the makers of this reaction video; I'm talking to people who want to smear people without any blowback)

@casscap

Ай бұрын

With Golden Girls they threaded that needle perfectly. They used humor to life each other up as well but it doesn’t make for great sound bites

Also the chapter of Sophia had a stroke where it affected her brain & she said whatever. She couldn't help.it.

I find it annoying Aidan started with a bad video gor this show instead of this video which is way better.

@roseandstem8054

Ай бұрын

He would of found something to bitch about regardless

@roseandstem8054

Ай бұрын

He would have found something to complain about regardless

@ericrivera8410

Ай бұрын

My brush feiend and I watched the golden girls all the time we were his age at the time he introduced me to British humor as well

What does that tell you though? That people are soft and weak and dumb. Most of the time older people have it right. Just deal with it and enjoy it and grow up and stop being babies. Seriously.

Sophia was the youngest of the four

who decides you cant say certain words ??? Time we stop this sensitive nonsense. If you feel hurt or offended it is your problem, dont be so sensitive , to much time on their hands to think and worry about unimportant things. Develop a thick skin for god sakes

Never liked married with children didn't think it was funny

I live the Golden Girls I still watch the re runs

It's, Betty White, Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty and Then Rue McClanihan in terms of age range.

Estelle Getty, who plays Sophia is not the youngest in fact, three of the main cast members were all born in 1922 and 1923 so Getty is actually younger than Betty White and Bea Arthur the youngest cast member is Rue McClanahan she was born in 1934