80s Flashback
Sophia: “I can't believe you're denying your own mother.”
Rose: “Denying her what?”
Dorothy: “Springsteen tickets, Rose.”
Crazy Continuity
We learn that Dorothy's age is 55 and Rose has six brothers. None of
whom we ever meet or hear much about.
That’s What She Said
Blanche: “Don't you throw your bosom in my face!”
Lewd Ladies
Sophia: “Mmm. If this sauce was a person, I'd get naked and make love to
it.”
Picture It
Sophia tells the girls that she was once engaged to a man named
Augustine Bagatelli but he left to fight in the war and she never heard from
him again. He was crazy about her because she was the only girl in the village
who didn't want to be a nun.
Zbornak Zingers
Rose: “I need to win, Dorothy. And let's face it, you are no Sonja
Nielsen!”
Dorothy [in arguably her deepest voice ever]: “Rose, get professional
help.”
Insult Watch
Rose: “Blanche, do you want to have a side bet with me?”
Blanche: “Well I would Rose but everything you own is so damned ugly.”
Tales from the Old South
Blanche: “I haven't been dumped since Wade Honeycutt threw me over for
Rebecca Wilkinson, a girl who did not value her reputation.”
Dorothy: “What did you do?”
Blanche: “Slept with his brother.”
Product Placement
Rose: “Sophia that smells heavenly! Is it Chef Boyardee?”
Sophia, clutching a knife: “Why don't you stick it in my heart Rose,
it'll hurt less!”
Sassy Sophia
Blanche: “What do you know Sophia has a past.”
Sophia: “That's right, but unlike yours I didn’t need penicillin to get
through it.”
Back in St. Olaf
We learn that the overly competitive Rose had to transfer high schools
because of a field hockey incident.
Best of B.E.D.
Dorothy: “Here we are alley number seven.”
Blanche: “Oh, number seven! That's my favorite! I'm so glad we got
number seven.”
Dorothy: “You're not superstitious?”
Blanche: “No, it's adjacent to the men's locker room. When that door
opens, you can see right in there!”
Golden Quotes
Blanche: “Well I am stunned. Just stunned. Stunned is the only way to
describe how… stunned I am.”
Dorothy: “Just a minute, just a minute Blanche. Are you trying to tell
us that you are stunned?”
Rose: “Oh, Dorothy. I don't ask many favors of you, but I'm asking one now.
I'm begging. Please, as a friend, be my partner. Blanche has somebody to bowl with. You want somebody to bowl with. I NEED somebody to bowl with. Please, just say yes and nobody will get hurt...”
Critique: This episode is a classic season
one laugh-fest. The highlight being the first appearance of Rose's notoriously
compulsive competitiveness. Betty White is a real standout here. Her facial
expressions are priceless. The entire episode consists of the ladies teaming up
and then dumping each other for whoever seems to be the better bowler. And then
Rose and Sophia finding silly ways to psyche-out Blanche and Dorothy is a
highlight. Funny that none of the characters ever bowl again (Then again
Blanche says she only ever wanted to just look cute in her new bowling outfit).
It's nice that Sophia gets her own subplot, the series' first for the
character. The highlight of this highly memorable episode remains the ugly
competitiveness that ensues between the ladies and how they're still able to
remain such good friends in the end. One item of note is that Rose says that
rival bowlers the Nielsen twins attended their lover Lars' authentic Viking
funeral and every time they lit his ship on fire the coast guard kept putting
it out. This is the first time we ever have any reference to the funny stuff of
Scandinavian lore, which will eventually become a trademark of Rose's
character. And for those paying close attention at this particular bowling
alley a Turkey Delight sandwich costs $1.39. This is easily the best episode of
the season so far. GRADE: A-
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