The Golden Girls · Season 1, Episode 23
“Blind Ambitions” · Season 1, Episode 23
In this episode: Sophia Petrillo (4), Dorothy Zbornak (3), Rose Nylund (3), Lily (3), Blanche Devereaux (2)
Listen, Mom. We cannot afford a new TV. We're using the household money to repair the roof and repave the driveway.
Great. And what I am supposed to do while every other old lady on the block is watching Cosby?
Well, you can sit in the new driveway and hope that an amusing black family drops by.
You still watch television?
Well, I don't exactly watch it. I just pretend it's radio.
[about television] We don't exactly watch it either, with our crummy TV. We get two channels at once. For a while there I thought Benson was having an affair with Miss Ellie.
[sorting through items for their garage sale] Will you look at this? I got this doll on my tenth birthday. Oh, I can't believe I kept her after all these years. Her hair's falling out, her clothes are all worn. [sniffing as Sophia enters the room] And she smells of mothballs.
Hey, I may not be Ann-Margret but I'm still your mother!
[seeing Blanche in her old retro-like outfit] Who invited Gidget to the garage sale?
Girls, I'm feeling a little chilly. I think I'll go and get my sweater.
Oh, no, I'll get that, I'll get that for you.
Oh, Rose, for heaven sakes, I can find my own way. [the girls frantically move all the boxes from her path] I know you're trying to help, but if I could pilot my own plane cross-country during a storm, I can certainly find my way across the room! [reaches the hallway, turns to face the girls] There. Now, do you see that I don't need anybody's help?
[holds up a pink dress] Do you see this dress, Rose? It's my favorite.
It's awfully pretty.
It's my favorite because it's the only one I can clearly remember. I remember what it looks like, and I remember what it looks like on me, and because of that I wear it all the time!
You'll adjust...
I don't want to adjust! I want to be the person that I used to be!
But you have to face the truth, you need help! Now you can deal with it, but you can't do it all by yourself!
[crying] Rose, all my life I've done everything I wanted to do, nothing's ever stood in my way before. For the past six months that's how I've been trying to deal with everything! I thought that I could overcome this thing by myself! I guess that deep down inside I thought I could make it go away. But I can't. Every morning when I wake up it's still there, and that terrifies me! Rose, I do need your help. That's why I came to Miami, to ask you to come home with me! Oh Rose, please come home with me! I can't make it by myself! [Lily and Rose embrace as Lily sobs]
[telling a story about "guilt"] Just about the time that George and I were getting serious, he was shipped off to Korea. Well, I wanted to do my part for the war effort so I took a job in a factory that made canteens. I figured that one of the canteens that I had riveted would find its way to George, and his lips would drink from the galvanized spout I had so lovingly fashioned, thereby symbolically reuniting us.
Blanche, that's a beautiful reason to take that job.
Well, that wasn't the only reason. That factory also had a comprehensive dental plan, and I was in desperate need of a bridge and two crowns.
War is hell.
So were my teeth. Anyway, while I was working on the assembly line, I met a young man named Andrew Beandorf. Oh, it was just a platonic thing, we just went out to the movies and dinner, but when George came home on leave, he was furious. He accused me unjustly of infidelity, while he was off fightin' in some foreign land, some God-forsaken land where people didn't even believe in Jesus, and he forbade me ever to see Andrew again. So of course I didn't.
So you lost a good friend, just because George made you feel guilty about it.
That's right. I lost a good friend, and a wonderful companion, and an excellent lover!
An excellent lover???
[laughing] Did I say excellent lover? I meant excellent riveter.
I can understand how you could confuse the two.
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