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Angelo claims he promised their mother on her deathbed that he would become a priest, and Sophia says she promised she would marry someone else - and we assume she died before Sophia or Angelo got married to their spouses. However, in the episode where they are flashing back for Mother's Day, Sophia's mother is in this episode along with Sal (and she looks like an older version of Dorothy). See more...

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The exclamation point carving on the back of the front door was carved by Bea Arthur the first day on set. It can be seen throughout the show's entire seven seasons. See more...

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The Golden Girls (1985) - 12 corrections

starring Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Estelle Getty, Rue McCLanahan (add more)

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In one episode, Rose talks about being valedictorian of her high school class in St. Olaf. In another episode, Rose goes to night school (where Dorothy is her teacher) in order to get her GED because she never graduated from high school. [When Dorothy asks Rose if she didn't graduate high school, Rose says that she didn't OFFICIALLY graduate. This could mean that she didn't complete the necessary course requirements needed for graduation, but the school decided to award her with an honorary diploma and ceremony.]

The number of children Stan has changes in every episode. [No it doesn't. Stan and Dorothy have 2 kids - Michael and Kate. I've never heard either of them say different.]

It is known that Dorothy married Stan because she was pregnant and they were married for 38 years. However, we know Michael is not 38 (in a couple of episodes they state his age as either in his 20's or 30) and in the 2 episodes her daughter is in, she doesn't look to be anywhere near 38 either. [It's true that Stan and Dorothy married because she was pregant and it's also true that Michael is in his 20's during the show. But Kate's age is never mentioned anywhere in the series. So she could be in her late 30's - she'd look GREAT for her age, no doubt about that - but she'd be the only candidate for the "shotgun wedding baby".]

In one episode, Sophia finds an old list of things that she wanted to accomplish in her life, one of these things being to lose 200 pounds. In another episode, Sophia was trying to gain 1 pound because she weighed 99 pounds instead of 100 pounds, and she had said that she always weighed 100 pounds, that her weight has never changed. [Sophia said she never weighed more than 99 pounds in her ADULT life. Very important to show that she may very well have been over 200lbs earlier.]

Many times Sophia makes references to her past in Sicily. Some of these references are real stories, others are historical references. She talks about Mussolini and Hitler with WWII several times. During the forties, Sophia was in the United States, raising her children (Dorothy was born in the late twenties to late thirties), as stated in previous episodes, she left Sicily for America in 1922. [Often times, Sophia says things just to be funny. In one episode, she tells the girls that she was once on a game show with Mussolini and that the game's lightning round used "real lightning". This is a story she made up. Now, throughout the series, she does display a fear of Nazis and owned Italian World War II warbonds. It's only logical that she would fear Nazis because she had family members still living in Sicily even though she had moved to America. And she bought the warbonds to show support for her family back in Sicily.]

Empty Nests (series 2)

When Dorothy snaps at Oliver, she mentions him "throwing up in the pool" at a new year's party at Blanche's house. There is no pool on the girls' property; it is never seen or mentioned outside of this episode. [Blanch didn't always live there. She could have been talking about another house.]

Corrected by Boobra

Vacation (series 2)

In this episode the girls fly to a Caribbean island, but in a later episode "Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself" Season 3, Dorothy says she has a fear of flying. [In the epidsode "Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself", Dorothy says she USED to have a fear of flying but got over it. Then, the more the girls talk about fear, Dorothy's fear of flying emerges again. When she flew to the island (back in season 2), she still had control over her phobia but it came back to haunt her in season 3.]

Larceny and Old Lace (series 3)

Near the end of the episode the girls are playing what seems to be a trivia game, but the board they're using looks like the Sorry game board, which is not a trivia game. [This is not a production mistake, it is a necessary element. Due to Trademark and Copyright restrictions, they could not use actual games in a show. Therefore, they combined the idea of three different games (a Sorry board, Monopoly cards, and Trivial Pursuit questions) to make it an ambiguous game.]

Foreign Exchange (series 4)

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. [Sophia is always making smart alec comments. You can't always take her seriously]

Corrected by Boobra

High Anxiety (series 4)

In this episode Rose says her cat Fluffy died (as a lie) and Dorothy says Rose is allergic to cats. When Blanche and Rose first meet she is holding a cat and looking for a place she and the cat can live. Another episode she says she had a cat named Lindstrom Lindstrom. [First of all, if the Lindstrom family had never owned a cat before Lindstrom Lindstrom, it's possible that Rose wouldn't have known that she was allergic. So her parents might have gotten her the cat only to realize later that their daughter was allergic to cats. As far as that other cat goes - Rose has a soft spot in her heart for all animals, so it's very likely that Rose kept Mr. Peepers (that was the cat) even though she WAS allergic.]

Love Me Tender (series 4)

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. [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.]

Corrected by Twotall Time

The President's Coming! The President's Coming! (1) (series 5)

This episode is a series of flashbacks. The flashback of Blanche grabbing her towel from Dorothy when the roof leaks, Dorothy says, "I am in no mood to hear about the endless sexual escapades that have occurred up and down the Florida coastline, with only this towel between your flesh and the cold wet sand." Blanche replies with, "I brought my son Skippy home from the hospital in this towel." In the original episode, Blanche replies with, "It wasn't ALL up and down the Florida coastline." [In the original episode, Blanche states both, not just one.]

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