Show: The Golden Girls
Title: Once in St. Olaf
Season 6 episode 2
Original Air Date: September 22, 1990
Favorite Quotes:
+Blanche: God, I hate morning people.+Sophia: Oh, sure. In that case I’ll get a boob job, too. I’m not going. People die there. They go in, they don’t come out.
+Sophia: You think I’m stupid? This scam has “Shady Pines” written all over it.
+Dorothy: Look, Ma, I love you, and I know what’s best for you. And besides, I don’t want to feel pangs of guilt for the next 20 years every time you say “Ow” just because I once asked you to move a sofa.
+Rose: People say I look like Wilma Flintstone. Not when she was on the air. More the way she looks today.
+Monk: Rose, I don’t quite know how to put this, but I’m your father.
+Dorothy: They’ve lost my mother!
+Dorothy: My mother is missing. I am scared to death and I’m trying to find a doctor. You’ll have to excuse me if I don’t have the rolling gait of a nymphomaniac.
+Monk: I know it’s a little late for me to start acting like a father, but do you think you two could stop hitting my little girl with a newspaper?
Both: We’ll try.
+Rose: Oh, what a day this has been. I found my father. You found your mother. Blanche: And I found you can’t give a sponge bath without the patient’s consent.
Summary:
Rose is working as a candy striper. She’s made a St. Olaf fun pack with sock puppets. One puppet is Dorothy and one is Blanche. She does a little puppet show. Sophia is resting, she’s having hernia surgery shortly. Everyone blames Dorothy for having her move a sofa (even though it’s made of wicker). Sophia doesn’t want to have the surgery. But finally agrees too, if only to use it against Dorothy for guilt. Rose gives Sophia her St. Olaf fun pack. Sophia does not like it. Rose is working the desk at the hospital. She checks in a monk. He asks her if she knew an Ingrid Kerclavaner? He tells her about her. Rose the story of they baby that she gave birth too (and then sadly died). The Lindstroms adopted the baby and named her Rose. When he asks what happened to Rose she tells them that it is she. He is shocked and tells her that he is her father. Dorothy takes Sophia to the hospital and now Sophia thinks she’s trying to kill her. Rose finally joins them, but she is acting weirder than normal. She tells them she is distracted as she just met her natural father. And he’s a monk. Rose is so distracted that she is struggling to keep her composure and do her job. The doctor finally brings Sophia in and is horrified about the couch moving. Rose does not want to go back to the hospital because of her father. Dorothy and Blanche tell Rose stories about their parents and how they didn’t like them to cheer her up. They understand her disappointment and comfort her as well. But they also advise her to confront him and get closure and possibly a relationship with him. They get interrupted by a call from the hospital. Sophia is missing. They all go to the hospital. Sophia is floating around in an elevator. She meets a police officer in the elevator who got shot. But she thinks she’s dead. The orderly informs her she is not. Rose decides to go and talk to her father. They have a conversation. He realizes how upset Rose is. He tells her that he was forced to choose between being a monk or being with Rose’s mother. He chose God. Sophia still hasn’t been found. She’s still in the elevator. Some doctors come in and they don’t really seem to care either. Roses’ father wakes up again. She has one question she wants an answer to. She asks him, “You said you chose God. How could you do that when it meant giving up your own child?” He tells her that he didn’t know Ingrid was pregnant. He didn’t find out until years later when she was already with the Lindstorms and he did not want to interfere. She thanks him and then tells him all about herself and her kids. He is shocked to learn he’s also a grandfather. Dorothy and Blanche come to the room and introductions all around. Dorothy decides to check the morgue. She and Blanche get on the elevator. They don’t check the elevator and miss Sophia. She hears them talk and then speaks up. Dorothy is thrilled and relieved. Everyone is on th elevator and happy that everything is worked out. Sophia confesses she did not get the hernia from moving the sofa, but from her and her friends putting someone’s VW Bug on their lawn.
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