TV Show: The Golden Girls
Title: Rites of Spring
Season 4 Episode 23
Original Air Date: April 29, 1989
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Favorite Quotes:
* Sophia: For 50 years my weight hasn’t changed by an ounce, and as far as I’m concerned, until I’m back to 99, I’m no longer Sophia Petrillo.* Blanche: Obviously the scale is broken.
Rose: I’m not surprised after that kind of punishment.
* Sophia: To you it may not be much, but in Sicily a few pennies could make the difference between owning a gun and having to insert bullets into your victim manually.
Summary:
Dorothy walks into the kitchen to find Sophia eating ziti for breakfast. Sophia tells her she has lost weight and is just trying to put it back on. Blanche enters the kitchen talking about a Memorial Day party. Everyone is concerned about how they will look in their bathing suits. Everyone weighs themselves and they don’t like what they see. They decide they need to lose a few pounds. One tells a story about a gym they went to before. It was all women and they got tricked into spending all kinds of money on workout clothes. They decide to diet instead. One suggests changing their hair, but then they talk about a bad experience they had a few years ago. They went to Eduardo. He sweet talked each lady. And then he gave them all the same old lady perm hairdo. Another evening and Dorothy is balancing her checkbook. She is off by a few pennies and is going to let it go, but Sophia gets on her case. They get interrupted by the doorbell. It’s Stan. No one is happy. He has started going to a new seminar. He tells them all about it and tries to get them to join. He has to enroll a certain number of people in this group to continue to be a part of it. They kick him out and go eat cheesecake. Suddenly, the girls compete over who is Dorothy’s best friend. It turns out the person Dorothy describes is not Blanche or Rose, but Sophia. All are allowed to believe they are her best friend, she can have more than one. The focus shifts back to Sophia. She’s eating cake after the pasta. Blanche points out she might weigh less because she may be shorter. They check her height and she is a bit shorter than when she first moved in. The girls take the cake she was going to eat. One of the realizes that the party is on sunday not saturday, so they can eat the cake today, and start their diet tomorrow.
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