Designing Women AIDS episode- Page 3

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 10/16/07 at 10:03pm

"South Fl Marc, Alice Ghostley was great in that episode."


Alice Ghostley was great in everything she did.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/16/07 at 10:20pm

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.

[Calvin]

Posted: 10/16/07 at 10:49pm

Who was the worst-acting guest star?

Humor writer Lewis Grizzard as Julia and Suzanne's half-brother Clayton?
Mrs. Philpot the rare times they gave her a line?
Nepotism beneficiary Danny Thomason as Reggie Mack Dawson?
Or Gerard McRaney as Dash Goth, the writer?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/16/07 at 11:44pm

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.

[Calvin]

Posted: 10/16/07 at 11:51pm

That was indeed his full name. And while I enjoyed Lewis Grizzard's columns -- think that same non-threatening humor vein as an Erma Bombeck -- his onscreen presence made those all-too-frequent Buzz Aldrin guest appearances we saw on sitcoms in the 80s look absolutely effervescent by comparison.

Now Douglas Barr (Bill) wasn't such a great actor, too, but he was nice to look at, so I left him off the list. Even though he was no Scott Bakula.

[Chita1933]

Posted: 10/16/07 at 11:59pm

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.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 9:33am

I just remembered the retarded Sugarbaker brother wasn't revealed until Suzanne got her spin off series, "Women of the House."

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 9:50am

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!"

[Calvin]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 10:00am

It was Goff? Really? I am SO fired. Amazing what the ears can do to you. At least I didn't say "Groff."

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

I did like Suzanne's writing in that episode. Straight to the point. She would have made a great journalist.

Remember the short-lived Delta Burke sitcom -- just called "Delta," I think -- when her hair was died blonde and she was trying to be a country singer?
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[Chita1933]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 10:04am

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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[doodlenyc]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 10:13am

The same as Angie Dickenson's...Earl Holliman


I agree, you junkyard dog...vexing and sexing?! Pernicious?

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[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 10:17am

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.

[Calvin]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 10:18am

Anthony didn't just cheat on his exam; he was a plagiarist! He stole that gas station dog reference from Dash.

I was the kind of man who would have dated Lee Harvey Oswald in high school. Especially if he looked like Jace Alexander.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 10:27am

or doogie howser.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 11:26am

How would you guys rank these shows?

Golden Girls
Designing Women
Living Single
Sex and the City

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 11:29am

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.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 11:31am

Living Single is one of my biggest guilty pleasures.

[geaj]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 9:32pm

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

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 10:31pm

Sex and the City
Golden Girls
Designing Women

I recuse myself from the other one, I have never heard of it.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow]

Posted: 10/18/07 at 12:47am

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.

[CJR]

Posted: 10/18/07 at 10:34am

I never really loved Living Single. I'd watch it, but if given the option to watch something else, well, I did lol

So for me:

Designing Women
SATC
Golden Girls

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 10/18/07 at 6:11pm

Tootie was the Blache? How is that possible?

[StageManager2]

Posted: 10/18/07 at 7:17pm

I liked LIVING SINGLE. Love GOLDEN GIRLS. Don't much care for DESIGNING WOMEN. Never seen SEX AND THE CITY. But I watched that GOLDEN GIRLS IN THE CITY bit. That was pretty funny.

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[ScottyDoesn'tKnow]

Posted: 10/18/07 at 7:20pm

She grew boobs.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 10/19/07 at 11:14am

Boy, did she! Then she had them reduced. I loved all of her wigs and her Joan Collinsesque suits.