You begin to wonder in seeing be Arthur as both Maude and Dorothy on "Golden Girls" if Susan Harris, a writer on Maude and the creator of "Golden Girls" picked up on certain phrases that be Arthur used over and over and put them in the script. On "Maude", she referred to several younger characters on the show in regards to their "pussycat face" while Sophia referred to Dorothy as "pussycat". Here, Maude uses that honor for Carol's boyfriend Chris (Fred Grandy), a very good man whom Carol is considering marrying.
Maude has to control her temper when Carol wants Chris to stay the night, in HER room, pretending on the outside to be fine with it but stewing inside over her feelings as a mother. So the conflictions between a liberated woman and mommie dearest makes for a good comic conflict, doing her best to keep the two up. Walter does a very funny charades game that gets Carol to hysterics because she realizes what Walter is up to.
Grandy, who recurred as Chris before going onto TV fame as "Love Boat's" Gopher, is perfect, and a great romantic interest for the gorgeous Adrienne Barbeau. Rue McLanahan appears briefly as Vivian, hinting to Arthur that she's interested in him, even after he has made rather chauvinistic comments to her and Maude about the moral fall of ethics in women in society. This is another great episode where Bea Arthur gets to show off Maude's crowning glory as a drama queen, topping it off with a surprising confession by Carol.
Maude has to control her temper when Carol wants Chris to stay the night, in HER room, pretending on the outside to be fine with it but stewing inside over her feelings as a mother. So the conflictions between a liberated woman and mommie dearest makes for a good comic conflict, doing her best to keep the two up. Walter does a very funny charades game that gets Carol to hysterics because she realizes what Walter is up to.
Grandy, who recurred as Chris before going onto TV fame as "Love Boat's" Gopher, is perfect, and a great romantic interest for the gorgeous Adrienne Barbeau. Rue McLanahan appears briefly as Vivian, hinting to Arthur that she's interested in him, even after he has made rather chauvinistic comments to her and Maude about the moral fall of ethics in women in society. This is another great episode where Bea Arthur gets to show off Maude's crowning glory as a drama queen, topping it off with a surprising confession by Carol.
