Designing Women AIDS episode — Page 3

You know, I liked DW at the time, and certainly remember aspects of it with great fondness. But when it debuted it was seen, and rightly so, as a CBS copy of Golden Girls. Let's face it, the writing was wildly uneven, the acting too. Like that woman playing Imogen. She was like somebody you'd see in a Yonkers production of Fiddler.

And although Dixie Carter always delivered the speeches in a humorous way, they often came out of nowhere and at the heart they were fundamentally conservative. Remember how against the First Amendment she was when a newstand carried magazines that did not meet her approval? She DROVE her car into the newstand. More than once. And then did one of her speeches about what the framers of the Constitution DID and DIDN'T have in mind when they spoke of Freedom of the Press.

And even in the AIDS episode. That odd criticism of Hollywood for not doing sex scenes in films at the dawn of the epidemic. Was her criticism that Hollywood should have shown safe sex during the AIDS epidemic? No, it was that Hollywood shouldn't have been showing sex BEFORE the AIDS epidemic and it wouldn't have if it had morals or class.

That crap never sits well.

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Was Clayton retarded or something? Or was that just Lewis Grizzard?

I always liked McRaney and remember his character was named Dash, but of course. Was his last name really "Goth"? I mean, for christsakes.

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Lewis Grizzard was, in my memory, the worst.

Douglas Barr came a close second.

Clayton was hospitalized or institutionalized and I think alcohol was involved.

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It was Dash GOFF, the writer...and I thought he was DREAMY back then. Check him out during the scene in Suzanne's house (episode, "Dash Goff, the Writer") while he is waiting to hear about his book going paperback...his body was great!

I vote for Reggie Mack as the worst guest star, especially because he was in two episodes instead of one...and it was blatant nepotism.

(I do like when he asks Charlene if he can do her taxes after using nose spray...and her reaction.)

"It'th powder blue, with thequins and a hat that could be like...a crown!"

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She was a hairdresser. who was her sidekick on that show?

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What about the episode JD crashes at Mary Jo's after losing his job. The scene where Suzanne begins to explain Charles Darwin and Julia needs to make sure she's not referring to Darwin, the man who does their lawn, is hysterical.

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Updated On: 10/17/07 at 10:04 AM

sounded like what someone in a freshmen creative writing 101 class would come up with when asked to write a descriptive passage.

Which is, of course, where Linda Bloodworth Thomason comes in.

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or doogie howser.

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Golden Girls
Sex and the City
Designing Women
Living Single

I loved all of them. Kim Coles cracks me up!

I put them in the order of quality, imo...but I watch reruns of DW, not SATC.

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I'm off to buy a live chicken in Guadalihara!

Living Single had Queen Latifah, Kim Cole, Erika Alexander, and Kim Fields.

Basically, Queen Latifah was the Dorothy, Kim Cole was the Rose, Erika Alexander was the Sophia, and Kim Fields was the Blanche.

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Tootie was the Blache? How is that possible?

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She grew boobs.

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