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A Visit from Little Sven is the tenth episode of the third season of The Golden Girls and the sixtieth episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by David Nichols, the episode premiered on November 21st, 1987.
Summary[]
Rose's young, clueless cousin Sven arrives from Sweden on his way to St. Olaf to meet his bride-to-be. Blanche uses him to make her cheating boyfriend jealous, causing Sven to fall in love with her. Meanwhile, Sophia is taking driving lessons from Dorothy in order to renew her license, but after one trip, Dorothy refuses to get into a car with her again.
Plot[]
Sophia wants to renew her driver's license after discovering it has expired, but Dorothy warns her that she isn't the same as she was years before. Blanche is upset because her current boyfriend Floyd McCallum has cancelled their date and she finds his excuse weak. Rose comes with a cake for her cousin Sven and tells them that he is going over to St. Olaf after staying with them where it has been arranged for him to marry a woman named Olga. "Little Sven" arrives and while he is young, he is very naive to the world and has a literary mind.
The next day before Dorothy and Sophia go for her driving test, Blanche discovers Floyd has cancelled again and Rose needs to work ruining her plan to show Sven Miami but Dorothy gets Blanche to do it. At lunch, Blanche and Sven have hit it off but then Floyd appears with a younger woman so Blanche kisses Sven and Floyd reveals that he's with a friend and tries to apologies for cancelling the dates but Blanche goes off with Sven. Later that day, Dorothy and Sophia return and Dorothy vows never to drive with Sophia again after the damage she did. Rose returns from work and Sven appears. He tells the group that he has fallen in love with Blanche.
After Sven goes to his room, Rose and Dorothy get the truth out of Blanche, who tells them of what she did to make Floyd jealous. Blanche says she thought Sven knew but she is reminded that Sven isn't that smart, and Blanche is made to explain to Sven. Sven admits he knew that it was a game but offers Blanche a faithful relationship, and Blanche can't bring herself to dump him.
Later, Sophia has a fake license just to show her independence. Rose has called Big Sven who tells her he will fix the problem, but Blanche has still not dumped Sven. As Sven enters, the doorbell rings and a beautiful girl enters. She is Olga and wants Sven to come with her, which he does after dumping Blanche. Blanche is upset that men keep dumping her thinking she is losing her skill, just then she gets a call from Floyd and they arrange a date.[1]
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Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak
- Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux
- Betty White as Rose Nylund
- Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo
Guest Stars[]
- Casey Sander as Sven Lindstrom
- Yvette Heyden as Olga Nordstrum
- Chuck Walling as Floyd McCallum
Notes[]
- Despite Sven saying that he and Rose have never met before that day, in "A Piece of Cake" Rose remembers a party in St. Olaf which Sven attended.[2]
- Sven's gray and white sweater is a Dale of Norway "Sarajevo 1984", designed by the company for the Norwegian ski team for the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina. The sweater was available in multiple colors and two styles - a pewter clasped cardigan like Sven's and a pullover version with a buttoned placket.
- Sophia mentions the 1972 film, Deliverance. On The Golden Palace, Ned Beatty plays Blanche's mentally handicapped brother.
Goofs[]
- Right after Blanche explains to Rose and Dorothy why she kissed Sven, Dorothy points toward the kitchen door with her right hand. In the next shot, she is pointing with her left hand.
- Blanche tells Sven they are going back to his place. Sven answers, "Okay, we can try, but I've never sailed around the Cape of Good Hope this time of year." The Cape of Good Hope is the southernmost tip of the African continent. A trip from Miami to Sven's home in Scandinavia would be a mostly straight line across the north Atlantic. It would not take him anywhere near southern Africa.
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References[]
- ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 3, Episode 9, "A Visit from Little Sven". Nichols, David (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (November 21st, 1987)
- ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 2, Episode 25, “A Piece of Cake”. Fanaro, Barry; Grossman, Terry; Nathan, Mort and Speer, Kathy (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (May 9th, 1987)