Golden Girls was legit

The Golden Girls was a great show. I may take some slack for saying it but I don't care. It may not have been everyone's cup of tea but what other show compares to it when you sit down and think about it. How many other shows are based solely about the elderly population. When I think of sitcoms only three categories really come to mind. Either shows about families, crime shows or hospital dramas. Since I don't like crime shows or hospital dramas those two are elminated and most family shows are all basically the same thing. Then you have the Golden Girls.

Dorothy, Rose, Blanche and Sofia were the four main characters on the show. As my grandfather once put it there was an idiot (Rose), slut (Blanche), funny old lady (Sofia) and Dorothy. These four characters experienced many of the things that most elderly do experience I would imagine but the comedy was underrated.

The storyline was great as it had four older ladies living together in a house. All four had been married at one point and were either widows or divorced. I would like to say I had a favorite character but they were all equally great. Betty White played Rose and she may be one of the funniest women in TV history. Lake Placid is a stretch for a storyline but she is hilarious in it. Blanche enjoyed her men and had many suitors. She was a southern belle which is about as good as it gets in my mind. Sophia was Dorothy's mother. She was sarcastic, humurous and spoke her mind but you could tell life experiences made her very wise and her comments to Rose were some of the best lines on the show.

Think about the show in today's world, 20 years after it ran its course. If they did a remake who would you get to be in it? Meryl Streep could be in it, maybe Helen Miron or Jane Seymour. None of them really compare though. Then think about 40 years down the road ... would you have Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, Brittany Spears and Miley Cyrus as the cast? I don't think so.

I strongly believe that there will never be another show quite like the Golden Girls. There will always be another show like friends or modern family, or ER and CSI-Any City in the Country, but who would have the guts to make a show using an entire elderly cast? Thank you Susan Harris for creating the show.