TV Show: The Golden Girls
Episode: Miles To Go
Season 6 Episode 16
Original Air Date: January 19, 1991
Favorite Quotes:
+Sophia: No offense, my little Scrabble-holic, but there’s more to life than a double-word score.Dorothy: Strange attitude coming from a woman who tried to choke me because I challenged the word “flot.”
+Blanche: I know what you’re talking about, Sophia. There are men’s voices that get me going like that, too.
Sophia: Blanche, there are men’s socks that can get you going like that.
+Blanche: I don’t remember ever agreeing to that.
Rose: Sure you did. I distinctly remember you said, “Oh, boy, Miles reading poetry. Sign me up. Sign me up.” You sounded pretty definite.
Blanche: Sarcasm, Rose. That’s like when I say, “You’re so lucky to be a natural blonde.”
Rose: Thank you.
+Dorothy: All right, we’ll go. But I’d rather stay home and eat flot.
+Blanche: That’s the law of the jungle.
Sophia: Thank you, Sheena, Queen of the Slut People.
+Sophia: Let me tell you something. There are no accidents. Nobody wrongs someone without meaning it.
+Blanche: I wanted to wear something tonight that Duane’s never seen me in. Sophia: Maybe you should try underwear.
+Sophia: Yeah, you’re a snitch.
Miles: No, I’m not a snitch. I am an informant.
Sophia: Oh, a snitch in a tie.
+Dorothy: Oh, Rose, this is terrible. You have been robbed of the most basic sense of security. No matter what else is happening, at the very least, I know that when I come home at night you are you, Blanche is Blanche, and Ma – if she’s taken her medication – is my mother.
+Dorothy: And the point, Aesop?
Rose: I thought Miles was a Chihuahua. It turns out he was a rat.
+Sophia: Dorothy, learn from this. This is what friendships are built on – loyalty, mutual respect, trust.
Summary:
Dorothy comes home from school. She was happy more than half her class returned after the fire drill. Blanche is noting where all the tags are on a dress she just bought. Sophia announces her friend Gladys is taking her to see Tony Bennet. She’s excited. She loves his voice. Blanche does too. It’s Robert Frost’s birthday. Miles is throwing a party in his honor that they didn’t realize they were going to be going to it. Blanche informs her she has a date. Rose guilts them into going. At Mile’s place, he’s discussing the poetry and they start to fall asleep. Sophia turns on the TV. There’s a newscast on. They announce that Mickey “The Cheeseman” Moran has died. Miles wants to hear the whole newscat. He died by car bomb. Miles suddenly decides to end the evening. After they leave, Miles makes a call. He asks if he is free? Another day and Sophia is furious. Gladys is not taking her to see Tony Bennet now, she is taking someone else. Sophia thinks it’s on purpose. Blanche planning to return the dress she bought for her date, but Sophia damages it “on accident.” The doorbell rings and it is Miles. He tells her he is not really a professor and has been in witness protection because he was the accountant for a mob boss and he had testified against him. He’s been in witness protection because the Cheeseman escaped. Sophia asks him to have his friends take care of Gladys. But the news has upset and devastated Rose. The girls try to comfort her. She launches into a St. Olaf story and they give her a free pass because of how upset she is. Everyone is shocked at Rose calling Miles a rat. She goes out with Miles now Nick the next night. He acts the same, it’s just a different name. Gladys comes over to talk to Sophia. Sophia hides. Gladys wants to apologize and take her to the concert after all. They are best friends again. But when Sophia gets her ticket its not for Tony Bennet it’s for Tony Martin. Sophia tells her to take her boyfriend and have a good time. Meanwhile, Blanche tried to return the dress but was unsuccessful. She is raising their rent to cover it. The news is on and the Cheeseman is not dead after all. Miles is freaking out. Miles wants her to go with him to wherever he gets placed. She talks about different ways to talk to the girls, but he tells her she cannot once they are gone. She won’t even be able to talk to her kids. It’s too much for her. He gives her a poetry book as he tells her goodbye.
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