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The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo

  • Episode aired Oct 22, 1988
  • TV-PG
  • 24m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
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Estelle Getty and Frances Bay in The Golden Girls (1985)
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While Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche sit around and feel like their lives are boring, Sophia goes out and fights with the grocery store over a nectarine and a piece of meat, conducts a jazz band... Read allWhile Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche sit around and feel like their lives are boring, Sophia goes out and fights with the grocery store over a nectarine and a piece of meat, conducts a jazz band made up of old ladies, and volunteers at the hospital.While Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche sit around and feel like their lives are boring, Sophia goes out and fights with the grocery store over a nectarine and a piece of meat, conducts a jazz band made up of old ladies, and volunteers at the hospital.

  • Director
    • Terry Hughes
  • Writers
    • Susan Harris
    • Kathy Speer
    • Terry Grossman
  • Stars
    • Bea Arthur
    • Betty White
    • Rue McClanahan
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.0/10
    607
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Terry Hughes
    • Writers
      • Susan Harris
      • Kathy Speer
      • Terry Grossman
    • Stars
      • Bea Arthur
      • Betty White
      • Rue McClanahan
    • 4User reviews
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    Bea Arthur
    Bea Arthur
    • Dorothy Zbornak
    • (as Beatrice Arthur)
    Betty White
    Betty White
    • Rose Nylund
    Rue McClanahan
    Rue McClanahan
    • Blanche Devereaux
    Estelle Getty
    Estelle Getty
    • Sophia Petrillo
    Frances Bay
    Frances Bay
    • Claire
    Nick DeMauro
    • Clerk
    David Selburg
    • Store Manager
    Allen Bloomfield
    Allen Bloomfield
    • Abe
    Ellen Albertini Dow
    Ellen Albertini Dow
    • Mrs. Leonard
    Darlene Kardon
    • Woman
    Marian Wells
    • Wanda
    Peggy Gilbert
    • Esther
    The Dixie Belles
    • The Band
    Kokko Burnaby
    • Sam
    • (as Don 'Kokko' Burnaby)
    Ruth Cohen
    Ruth Cohen
    • Woman Shopping in Grocery Store
    • (uncredited)
    Gloria LeRoy
    Gloria LeRoy
    • Band Member
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Terry Hughes
    • Writers
      • Susan Harris
      • Kathy Speer
      • Terry Grossman
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    8Sleepin_Dragon

    The girls don't know the half of what Sophia gets up to.

    It's a miserable, rainy day, and the girls sit around drinking coffee, eating cookies and chatting, one of the topics happens to be about about Sophia, and her lack of activities, meanwhile Sophia is out fighting justice and conducting a band.

    A lovely, charming, funny episode, this fourth series has started very well, hopefully the quality continues the whole way through. I love seeing the girls sat around, eating and chatting, and those scenes are very funny, however, it's Sophia's antics that make this one so enjoyable.

    Rose is wonderfully naive and innocent here, the conversations at the dinner table are hilarious, more tales of Saint Olaf, I just loved Blanche's romantic tales, so funny.

    A few of the additional sets are used, we see the park, hospital and the supermarket, it does make a nice change seeing a few different settings.

    8/10.

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    • Trivia
      The music playing on the television set before Rose turns it off is the theme music for Grab That Dough, the fictional game show the girls compete on in season three.
    • Goofs
      In one scene, Dorothy mentions that her grandmother was 94 when Dorothy was 6. Yet, two episodes previously, a flashback showed Dorothy as a grown woman wheeling her very alive grandmother around in a wheelchair. This means her grandmother would have had to be well into her hundreds at the time of her death.
    • Quotes

      Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak: The most amazing thing about Grandma was that, in 1952, she decided to go into politics.

      Rose Nylund: Politics?

      Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak: Uh huh, she felt it was her personal responsibility to elect Adlai Stevenson president.

      [pauses]

      Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak: Well, she didn't care for Eisenhower because, you know, he claimed to have liberated Italy, and she said Italy was liberated enough. Already too many people eating meat on Friday

      [chuckling]

      Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak: ... and wearing condoms on Saturday.

      Rose Nylund: Whatever happened to her?

      Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak: [sarcastically] She colonized life on Venus. Rose, she was 94 when I was 6. She died, you idiot!

      Rose Nylund: How did she die?

      Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak: You know, we're not sure. One night, she left in her wheelchair and she never came back. The next day, the neighborhood kids had a go cart with two *really big* back wheels.

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      Featured in The 41st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1989)
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      Thank You For Being A Friend
      Written by Andrew Gold

      Sung by Cynthia Fee

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    • Release date
      • October 22, 1988 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Ren-Mar Studios - 846 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions
      • Touchstone Television
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    • Runtime
      • 24m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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