danreed80

The show would never have been picked up had this been the pilot! Not sure what the idea here is, maybe an attempt at a spin-off like some said, but the end result was absolutely atrocious. This is especially jarring since The Golden Girls is otherwise one of the wittiest, funniest and best acted sitcoms ever; in fact it's my all time favorite. I literally skip this episode when I rewatch the show. All I can say is thank God that those two characters, and the flimsy, decidedly unfunny plot they shoehorned into the series to allow for them to exist, never showed up again.

I'm a huge Bewitched fan, but this episode was simply a slapdash effort. The premise (that sick willow tree) could've been resolved with a single twitch of Samantha's mighty nose-but then the episode would've been over in two minutes, and they needed to fill 25! Then there's the botched treatments from (the hilarious) Dr. Bombay that caused Samantha to either incessantly laugh or cry, which was equally irritating either way (despite my boundless love for Elizabeth Montgomery). The scant laughs in this episode came courtesy of Larry Tate and, especially, Dr. Bombay, but they weren't enough to save the episode from mediocrity.

This was supposed to be an erotic thriller, I think, but it ended up being something akin to a comedy because of all the hilariously bizarre plot twists that can only make sense in the head of the whoever wrote this drivel. The 'thriller' part was sophomoric and the 'erotic' part was gratuitous and forced. Perhaps worst of all, the actor who played Sweeney's boyfriend either has a speech impediment or he deliberately used a weird affectation to the way he spoke that made listening to him like hearing nails on a chalkboard; he alone would be reason enough to avoid watching this thing. Save yourself almost two hours of your life you're never getting back...