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Blanche's Little Girl (#3.14)

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 19 January 2014]

Blanche meets her estranged daughter Rebecca who has gained a lot of weight. She is still very upset that Blanche was telling her how to live her life. Her fiancé Jeremy comes as well and he keeps on being very abusive to Rebecca,but Blanche is scared to think anything because she doesn't want to lose their relationship. At the end though she can't hold it. Rebecca is mad and storms out but then she comes back to tell Blanche that she is right.

A beautiful episode. First I was worried there will be too many fat jokes (even though Sophia can pull it off!) but it lead to something bigger where all the girls showed to be bigger people. Great ending, and wonderful acting by Rue McClanahan. I really like this character in more serious situation when she is not insensitive and hypocritical

A mother's love.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 9 May 2023]

Having not heard from her daughter Rebecca for years, Blanche is ecstatic to receive a note fro m Rebecca, who's arranged a visit, with her new fiancé Jeremy.

This is a classic, it has some very funny moments, but the story itself had a truly realistic element.

As someone that used to be a very, very big guy, 29 stone to be precise, it cannot be helped, people that haven't seen you for some time can't help but stare, especially if you've gained, that's true to life.

Sophia is a little harsh at times, even a little cruel, but she's never been one to be shy and reserved. Her showdown with her boss was hilarious, you can only imagine what The Chow Wagon was like.

I absolutely loved that scene where Blanche finally snapped, Jeremy was absolutely loathsome, she tried to do her best for her daughter by saying nothing, it was great to see Blanche try to save her daughter, it was a story that felt true to life.

Classic.

9/10.

Tied for worst episode

[bitenkiss · 1/10 · 18 January 2023]

I love Golden Girls, but this episode is tied for absolute worst with the Empty Nests episode. I'm surprised it has such a high rating! I've been rewatching the show for the hundredth time and I guess I blocked this one out, because I didn't remember it at all. I wish I'd left it that way. Pretty gross that Jeremy is made to be THE villain when the girls are just as bad. They all treat Rebecca like garbage because of her weight. Of course many episodes of the show have cringe moments, but this entire episode is cringe. Very hard to sit through and not entertaining. The fat jokes ain't even good, they're all extremely basic. "I love all of you, every pound!" My eyes about rolled out've my head at every low blow. Totally lacking the usual wit of Golden Girls.

Too many fat jokes

[lava-75273 · 4/10 · 22 January 2021]

I absolutely adore The Golden Girls, but the fat shaming in this episode is too much. I'm not overweight, but all I kept thinking while watching is how upsetting this episode must be to someone who struggles with their weight or has body image issues. It's like insult after insult about obesity and was cringeworthy. I hope the actress who played Blanches daughter was highly compensated.

Sophia is way too mean

[LaverneandShirleysucks · 1/10 · 2 March 2022]

The point that this episode was trying to make would've worked just as well had it only been the lousy guy who Rebecca was dating hurling the insults. Adding Sophia to spew the same insults was unnecessary and just made her look mean.

I think it's also out of character for Sophia to be so outright insulting towards Blanche's daughter the way she was because she's been shown to be a protective mother to her own children, and I believe she would also be just as protecting and respectful to the other girl's children too.

Yet from the moment she opens the front door to greet Blanche's daughter she hurls fat jokes right in front of the woman's face. It's shocking and makes you cringe at how mean and disrespectful she's being to not only someone she's just met, but to Blanche's own daughter.

And it's odd that later on in the episode she sits in the kitchen with the girls agreeing what a jerk the boyfriend is to be so insulting to Rebecca when she was doing it herself and within only 2 seconds of meeting the poor girl. She's such a hypocrite here.

Blanche is an incredibly vain character, so having her daughter arrive after 4 years and be surprisingly overweight is a good story to do where we can see Blanche overcome her shallow vanity and accept Rebecca the way she is.

It just didn't need so many fat jokes to get there. We can already see she's overweight so I believe that could have spoken for itself without all the hurtful insults written intended to get laughs. And none of them were even remotely funny.

There's not even a good St. Olaf story from Rose to save this episode because Dorothy has reached her limit with them and cuts her off before she could say helderberlderflergen-nursurblrgen. I can't think of any other GG episode I would give 1 star to, but this one deserves it.

Wow

[HelloBlockbuster · 1/10 · 29 April 2022]

I don't care what decade this aired, they knew better and that was very apparent.

So the premise, all 4 ladies are calling Blanch's daughter fat and fat shaming... but then when they see Rebecca's boyfriend/fiancée do the same thing THEN they get upset over it.

So the writer's decided to fat shame and then create hypocrites turned redeemers all in one episode. Meanwhile the Rebecca character is left bartered and broken.

Normally I can look past faux pas storylines due to decades passing. But this writing? It was clear that they knew what they were doing and that it was wrong.

Disgusting.

Verbal criticism for a depressing show about verbal abuse.

[mark.waltz · 4/10 · 30 September 2019]

Certainly, Rue McClanahan is very good in this episode that is difficult to watch over and over because of the cruelty of Joe Regalbutto ("Murphy Brown") who treats Blanche's daughter Becky (Shawn Schepps) with great disrespect in spite of claiming that he wants to marry her. At first, Dorothy is more upset about it than Becky's own mother is, that is until Blanche has had enough and explodes. There's no real motive for Regalbutto's cruelty but it's just disturbing to watch. The minor plotline involves Sophia having issues at the fast food restaurant she works at and having to stand up to her tough-as-nails boss who wants to discreetly fire her and the two other older women who work there as well. Meg Wyllie plays his grandmother, her second role on the show, the first just a few episodes before this. I tend to either skip right through this or fast forward, only one of half a dozen that I feel about like this.

Painful episode for anyone with weight problems

[debraarosedr · 2/10 · 9 May 2021]

This episode is cringe worthy, hurtful and degrading for someone who has weight problems. Lowered my self-esteem and brought back a lot of bad feelings from my weight condition. The man she was engaged to slams her a lot, he's the only one they seem to talk about insulting here. But, Sophia insulted her when she opened the door to greet her. The only words coming on so if he is known before the man was even in the picture were insults. During this episode there was no time that Sophia said anything acceptable about Blanches daughter during this show the whole time. Moreover, they just let her keep on and on with the awful slams. I was cringing every time she went through another one and I thought to this after having a stand in the doorway and take it. To me that was the worst part and the most unbelievable that they actually sat down and wrote that in the script and it was acceptable. This episode is why I stopped watching Golden girls.

Yeah... too many fat jokes

[maramartadanicaliforniar · 3/10 · 17 May 2022]

The girls are great hypocrites in this one. They hate Jeremy for fat-shaming Rebecca when Sophia wouldn't stop doing it since the moment she saw the girl, and the fact that no one said anything made things worst.

Really, I've never seen so many jokes one after another after another about the same thing; at some point it started being weird.

How did this script ever get the green light?

[moonspinner55 · 2/10 · 21 March 2024]

S03-E14 of "The Golden Girls", co-written by series mainstay Terry Grossman and Kathy Speer, is so badly misconceived from the get-go that I can think of no way to fix the problem except for throwing out this script altogether. Blanche's long-estranged daughter Rebecca--a real beauty who once worked as a professional model--comes to visit. She's still a pretty girl, only now she's vastly overweight, causing Sophia to go into a barrage of 'funny' fat jokes (which the studio audience eats up, no pun intended). Blanche works hard avoiding the issue until Rebecca introduces the ladies to her fiancé, who also makes fat jokes (and this time the audience doesn't laugh). There's such a double standard at work here that it makes one wince. In the end, Blanche talks her daughter out of marrying the jerk and to accept herself as she is--although, ironically, when the character of Rebecca returns in later episodes, she is played by a different, much thinner actress.