The WORST episodes of The Golden Girls
Every episode of The Golden Girls ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Golden Girls!
Four previously married women live together in Miami, sharing their various experiences together and enjoying themselves despite hard times.
#1 - Empty Nests
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/16/1987
In this pilot for another series (Empty Nest, obviously the concept was retooled), the girls' friend Renee is feeling depressed and lonely with her children grown up and moved out and her husband's workaholic habits.
#2 - Snap Out Of It
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1990
Dorothy decides to help Sophia with the Meals on Wheels program and runs across a reclusive man who hasn't stepped out of his apartment since the 1960's. Meanwhile, Blanche's birthday is coming up and Rose becomes determined to find out her real age.
#3 - The President's Coming! The President's Coming! (2)
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/5/1990
When the FBI agent announces that George Bush will make a visit to their home, the girls continue to reminisce and Dorothy quickly readies a list of points she wants to make to the president.
#4 - Hey, Look Me Over
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1991
Rose discovers an old camera of Charlie's with some undeveloped film still in it. After getting it developed, Rose is stunned when one of the pictures shows Charlie in bed with Blanche. Meanwhile, Dorothy tries to get Sophia to have her hearing checked.
#5 - Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home (2)
Season 6 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/27/1991
Sophia cannot recall the events that lead to the Shady Pines fire.
#6 - Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home (1)
Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/27/1991
The deathbed confession of an ex-patient at Shady Pines means bad news for Sophia, since in her confession she stated that she and Sophia started the 1985 Shady Pines fire.
#7 - Rose Fights Back
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1989
When the company that Rose's husband worked for, cuts off their pension plan, Rose must face the fact that she's going to get a new job, one that pays more. However, she quickly finds herself dealing with something she never expected, age discrimination. Meanwhile, Sophia goes wild buying things in quantity at a Shopper's Warehouse.
#8 - The President's Coming! The President's Coming! (1)
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/5/1990
An FBI agent investigates the girls' life's for a possible visit from President Bush. This leads the girls to reminisce about times they have spent together.
#9 - Not Another Monday
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1989
Sophia's friend has come up with an idea that will change her life. She wants to commit suicide and she wants Sophia there to hold her hand. Meanwhile, Blanche, Rose and Dorothy become singing nursemaids to a sick baby that they are taking care of for the weekend.
#10 - A Midwinter Night's Dream (2)
Season 7 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/29/1992
The full moon and festivities prompt strange happenings including Blanche's jewelry being swiped, Sophia trying to break a curse and Dorothy and Miles sharing a passionate kiss.
#11 - Even Grandmas Get the Blues
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/2/1991
While babysitting for her granddaughter, a man mistakes Blanche as being the baby's mother and Blanche does nothing to set him straight. Meanwhile, Sophia gets ready for the Festival of the Dancing Virgins, a celebration of mothers and daughters but Dorothy wants no part of it.
#12 - Dorothy's Prized Pupil
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/14/1987
Dorothy feels that it's her fault when her prized pupil wins a writing contest which inadvertently signals the INS that he's an illegal alien.
#13 - The Pope's Ring
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/14/1991
The Pope's in town and Sophia goes to his mass. When she goes to kiss his ring, it slips off into hers. Meanwhile, Rose is convinced Miles is hiding something from her, so as a birthday gift, Blanche gives Rose a detective to spy on Miles.
#14 - All That Jazz
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1989
Dorothy's son, Michael, shows up on her doorstep with news that he's separated with his wife and needs a place to stay. However, Dorothy quickly gets tired of his freeloading and dumps him on Stan. Meanwhile, Rose's stress is getting terrible and is reluctant to talk to her boss about cutting back on her "things-to-do" list.
#15 - Room 7
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1991
Sophia has an after-life experience, seeing her late husband in heaven, while choking on a piece of candy. Meanwhile, Blanche is distraught over the demolition of her grandmother's plantation, so the girls travel to Atlanta. Once there, Blanche handcuffs herself to the radiator.
#16 - Little Sister
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/1/1989
Rose's sister, Holly comes for a visit and becomes quick friends with Dorothy and Blanche, and leaves Rose out in the cold. However, when Rose catches Holly with Blanche's boyfriend and tries to tell Blanche, Dorothy and Blanche refuse to believe her.
#17 - Ebbtide's Revenge
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/15/1990
Dorothy must give the eulogy at her brother (a cross dresser), Phil's funeral. Meanwhile, a feud between Sophia and Phil's widow reaches a peak leading Sophia to reveal her hidden feelings about her son's alternative lifestyle.
#18 - And Ma Makes Three
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1988
Feeling sorry for a lonely Sophia, Dorothy allows her to come along on a date with her and Dorothy's latest beau. However, pretty soon Sophia begins tagging along on every date which puts a rift in Dorothy's romantic plans.
#19 - The Impotence of Being Ernest
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/1989
Rose is crazy about her latest boyfriend, Ernie, but can't understand why he doesn't approach the subject of sex so when she forces the subject she learns the truth, he's impotent.
#20 - Fiddler on the Ropes
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/4/1989
Without the consent of the other girls, Sophia sinks their life savings in, Pepe, a prize fighter. However, on the eve of the fight, the girls discover Pepe missing and make a shocking discovery.
#21 - Blanche Delivers
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1990
Blanche's daughter wants to give birth in a birthing center while Blanche is preoccupied by the possibility of Rebecca delivering in a local hospital. Blanche doesn't want to be embarrassed by the fact that her daughter was artificially inseminated.
#22 - If At Last You Do Succeed
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1990
Stan has finally hit it big with a new invention but still Dorothy can't be happy for him. Meanwhile, Rose and Blanche fight over some war bonds that if cashed could bankrupt St. Olaf.
#23 - Before and After
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/24/1987
Rose is convinced she died during a throat spasm. This leads her to live her life to the hilt, totally disrupting the other girls lives. Then, when the girls complain about her new lifestyle, Rose moves out.
#24 - Till Death Do We Volley
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/18/1989
Dorothy's old friend, Trudy comes for a visit and this revives their old rivalry between each other. However, the visit turns tragic when Trudy suddenly dies and Dorothy blames herself.
#25 - Stand By Your Man
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1990
Blanche meets a man at the library and only after they make a date does she realizes he's in a wheelchair. Meanwhile, Rose wants to keep one of the puppies from Dreyfuss' litter despite Blanche's feelings.