Fiddler on the Ropes

Episode aired Mar 4, 1989
TV-PG
30m

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6.6/10

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Estelle Getty, Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur, Chick Vennera, and Betty White in The Golden Girls (1985)

Comedy Drama

Sophia is given money that is intended to be put into a Certificate of Deposit, but she buys a Cuban prizefighter instead.Sophia is given money that is intended to be put into a Certificate of Deposit, but she buys a Cuban prizefighter instead.Sophia is given money that is intended to be put into a Certificate of Deposit, but she buys a Cuban prizefighter instead.

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

483

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Bea Arthur

Dorothy Zbornak
(as Beatrice Arthur)

Betty White

Rose Nylund

Rue McClanahan

Blanche Devereaux

Estelle Getty

Sophia Petrillo

Chick Vennera

Pepe

Alfred Dennis

Charley

Pamela Kosh

Woman

Victor Contreras

Gonzales
(voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Terry Hughes
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6Sleepin_Dragon

Not quite a classic, but good.

The girls have saved up $3000 for a certificate of deposit, Rose foolishly entrusts it to Sophia, foolishly she uses the money on something else, a Cuban prize fighter named Pepe, a man who happens to be a talented musician.

It's perhaps not the greatest episode from series four, but the bar is very high, and it's still a good, funny episode, it's definitely an original storyline.

Sophia's right about every fighter becoming an actor, it's a trend that carries on to this day, you only wish some of them hadn't. Seeing her operating as a boxing trainer, that wasn't expected.

Chick Vennera delivers a pretty wonderful performance as Pepe, initially he seems a little stereotypical, a bit one dimensional, but of course he's so much more.

6/10.

Trivia
The loft in which Pepe and his violin teacher practice is the same setting used previously in "Bedtime Story" when the girls try to catch a train back to Miami but end up meeting a group of clowns. The major difference is that the loft is basically the train station set without all the props except for a piano.

Goofs
When the girls discuss the CD at dinner, the bread basket disappears from Rose's hands between shots.

Quotes
Rose Nylund: I still feel guilty about going through Pepe's things.
Blanche Devereaux: Me too. Although it was kind of exciting opening his closet and seeing his little boxing trunks hanging there with that provocative nickname on 'em.
Dorothy Petrillo-Zbornak: Blanche, Everlast is a brand name, not a nickname.