Show: The Golden Girls
Title: Sisters and Other Strangers
Season 5 Episode 21
Original Air Date: March 3, 1990
Favorite Quotes:
+Blanche: I just don’t believe it. She is coming to town to promote a novel she’s just had published. We’re all invited to a book-signing party. Why, I can’t believe she ever read a book, much less wrote one.+Blanche: What am I gonna do about my sister coming? By the time she leaves Miami, she’ll be more famous here than I am.
Dorothy: Honey, only if they close the Sheraton.
+Magda: Such a beautiful home! Who sleeps with government official?
Dorothy: That would be my friend Blanche.
+Magda: Stanley and I have disagreement.
Dorothy: Oh? What about?
Magda: He saw himself as human being. I disagreed. The man is pig! He charge me rent! His own cousin.
+Blanche: This book is totally unbelievable. The heroine, Vixen St. James, is this shallow southern belle who’s vain, self-centered, and a pushover for any man that crosses her path.
+Dorothy: Yeah, but if things were good for you and bad for everyone else, how is that fair? Comrade?
+Dorothy: I would kill Gloria if she ever wrote about my sexual escapades. Sophia: You’d kill your sister over a pamphlet?
+Magda: What’s going to happen now there is freedom? The people in my country are going to read all these books and be confused. No, the way things were, we knew what to do. The choices were easy. When there is one road, no one gets lost.
+Dorothy: Ma, I don’t know how much more of Magda I can stand.
Sophia: We’re so close to the Bermuda Triangle, it’d be a shame for her not to see it.
+Blanche: I should’ve known I couldn’t trust you. That all that “let’s be sisters” stuff was just a bunch of bull. You had no right to use my life for your book. To twist facts so that beautiful, sacred love became so much tawdry trash. I earned that A in history! For the first time in my life, I’m ashamed to be a Hollingsworth. Vixen: Story of a Woman is nothing but a vulgar collection of perverse sexual acts that are sheer and utter filth!
+Blanche: What really gets me is I was willing to be friends. But just as I start to forgive and forget, Charmaine turns my life into a bestseller.
Summary:
Dorothy is cooking a meal for Stan and his cousin who are coming over. Rose made a cake. It depicts Magda’s escape from Czechoslovakia. Her decorations are impressive. Blanche joins them and tells them her sister Charlemagne just called. Rose gets confused because they aren’t talking. She wrote and published a book. They are all invited to the book signing. Blanche isn’t upset that her sister is coming but that she might become more famous than she is in Miami. Cousin Magda finally arrives. Magda loves Blanche’s home. Turns out that she and Stan had a fight. He wanted her to pay rent. She wants to stay with the girls now. Blanche is so distracted by her sister’s news that she can’t even answer a question. Charlamagne finally arrives. The two seem to be getting along. Blanche asks her about her book. She gives her a copy and signs it. Charlaimaine then asks about Big Daddy’s pocket watch. Blanche has it. She doesn’t want to part with it, but agrees to. At the house, they discuss Magda. Magda is driving them all crazy with her complaints about America. They ask Blanche about her sister’s book. She tells them it’s so unbelievable. The heroine is a pushover for men. Hmm. Magda continues her pro Communism tirade against the US. Dorothy points out that if the system is fair how is it that she had it better than others? Shouldn’t everyone be equal? Rose tells a St. Olaf story about a visit from McCarthy in the 1950’s. Blanche reads a page from the book to the girls. She thinks that she is the one being described in the book. She is furious. It’s now the day of the book signing and everyone has arrived at the bookstore. Magda is overwhelmed by all the books. She’s worried about how all the ideas will cause confusion and chaos. Rose chimes in with a St. Olaf story about getting lost. Dorothy gives Madga two book recommendations to read. Blanche arrives and walks straight to her sister. Blanche rips into her about how the book is all about her and is just a collection of “tawdry trash” and “utter filth.” But it does cause the books to fly off the shelf. It’s another day and Blanche is still hurt by her sister. Dorothy tells Blanche a childhood sister story to cheer her up. Then Rose tells a St. Olaf story. It all leads Magda to decide to go home early. She wants to be a part of her country’s new story. Charmaine arrives .She and Blanche start to fight. She wants Big Daddy’s pocket watch and goes to Blanche’s room to get it. They fight about the book again. When Blanche questions her about the inscription when she signed it she said she writes that to everyone. Charmaine wrote about her own life. The two make up and finally become friends.
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