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"It's like we say in St. Olaf, Christmas without fruitcake is like St. Sigmund's Day without the headless boy."

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Grab That Dough is the sixteenth episode of the third season of The Golden Girls and the sixty-seventh episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Winifred Hervey, the episode premiered on NBC-TV on January 23rd, 1988.

Summary[]

The girls visit Hollywood, California, to be on the game show Grab that Dough. They are forced to travel cross-country the day before the show, and from there, everything goes wrong: the airline loses their luggage; their hotel has no vacant rooms and they're forced to sleep in the lobby; their purses are stolen; and when they finally get to the television station for the taping, Dorothy and Blanche end up pitting themselves against Rose and Sophia.

Plot[]

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Tall Tales[]

Picture It...[]

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Back in St. Olaf...[]

Rose was voted "Girl Most Likely to Get Stuck in a Tuba".

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Stars[]

  • Jim MacKrell as Guy Corbin
  • Lucy Lee Flippin as Nancy
  • Kelly Andrus as Tiffany
  • Charles Green as Willard
  • Ken Smolka as Policeman
  • Craig Schaefer as Stage Manager
  • Dan O'Shannon as Game Show Contestant

Notes[]

  • When the girls are in the hotel lobby, there is a terra cotta horse statue behind Dorothy on the table. This is the same horse statue that sits on the table behind the couch in the girls' Miami home in numerous episodes.

Production[]

  • The hand gesture that Guy Corbin makes before going to the game show's commercial break is a nod to Betty White's late husband Allen Ludden, host of the game shows Password and Password Plus in the 1960's and 70's. It is the same hand gesture he used to make at the top of each show and for each new password to appear on screen.
  • Blanche mocks the game show hostess, "I just want you to know that the pictures of you in that sleazy, girlie magazine was so tastefully done." This was a joke invoking Vanna White, the letter turner on the game show "Wheel of Fortune". A few months prior to the airing of this episode, "Playboy" magazine had published lingerie photos of White that she had taken a few years earlier when she was a struggling newcomer in Hollywood.
  • Rose describes Gene Rayburn, Chuck Woolery, and Bob Eubanks as attractive game show hosts. Betty White had been a panelist on Match Game and Match Game PM with Gene Rayburn as the host in 1970s and early 1980s.

Goofs[]

  • Blanche suggests they can get the red eye to California from Miami. Red eye flights are flights that fly from west to east, overnight.

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Season 1 The EngagementGuess Who's Coming to the WeddingRose the PrudeTransplantThe TriangleOn Golden GirlsThe CompetitionBreak-InBlanche and the Younger ManThe Heart AttackThe Return of Dorothy's ExThe Custody BattleA Little RomanceThat Was No LadyIn a Bed of Rose'sThe Truth Will OutNice and EasyThe OperationSecond MotherhoodAdult EducationThe FluJob HuntingBlind AmbitionsBig DaddyThe Way We Met
Season 2 End of the CurseLadies of the EveningTake Him, He's MineIt's a Miserable LifeIsn't It RomanticBig Daddy's Little LadyFamily AffairVacationJoust Between FriendsLove, Rose'Twas The Nightmare Before ChristmasThe SistersThe Stan Who Came to DinnerThe ActorBefore and AfterAnd Then There Was OneBedtime StoryForgive Me, FatherLong Day's Journey into MarinaraWhose Face is This, Anyway?Dorothy's Prized PupilDiamond in the RoughSon-in-Law DearestTo Catch a NeighborA Piece of CakeEmpty Nests
Season 3 Old FriendsOne for the MoneyBringing Up BabyThe HousekeeperNothing to Fear But Fear ItselfLetter to GorbachevStrange BedfellowsBrotherly LoveA Visit from Little SvenThe AuditThree on a CouchCharlie's BuddyThe ArtistBlanche's Little GirlDorothy's New FriendGrab That DoughMy Brother, My FatherGolden Moments, Part 1Golden Moments, Part 2And Ma Makes ThreeLarceny and Old LaceRose's Big AdventureMixed BlessingsMister TerrificMother's Day
Season 4 Yes, We Have No HavanasThe Days and Nights of Sophia PetrilloThe One That Got AwayYokel HeroBang the Drum, StanleySophia's Wedding, Part 1Sophia's Wedding, Part 2Brother, Can You Spare That JacketScared StraightStan Takes a WifeThe AuctionBlind DateThe Impotence of Being ErnestLove Me TenderValentine's DayTwo Rode TogetherYou Gotta Have HopeFiddler On the RopesTill Death Do We VolleyHigh AnxietyLittle SisterSophia's ChoiceRites of SpringForeign ExchangeWe're Outta Here, Part 1We're Outta Here, Part 2
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Season 6 Blanche DeliversOnce, In St. OlafIf At Last You Do SucceedSnap Out Of ItWham, Bam, Thank You MammyFeelingsZborn AgainHow Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia?Mrs. George DevereauxGirls Just Wanna Have Fun... Before They DieStand By Your ManEbbtide's RevengeThe Bloom Is Off the RoseSisters of the BrideMiles to GoThere Goes the Bride, Part 1There Goes the Bride, Part 2Older and WiserMelodramaEven Grandmas Get the BluesWitnessWhat a Difference a Date MakesLove for SaleNever Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home, Part 1Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home, Part 2Henny Penny — Straight, No Chaser
Season 7 Hey, Look Me OverThe Case of the Libertine BelleBeauty and the BeastThat's For Me to KnowWhere's Charlie?Mother LoadDateline: MiamiThe Monkey Show, Part 1The Monkey Show, Part 2Ro$e Love$ Mile$Room SevenFrom Here to the PharmacyThe Pope's RingOld BoyfriendsGoodbye, Mr. GordonThe CommitmentsQuestions and AnswersEbbtide VI: The Wrath of StanJourney to the Center of AttentionA Midwinter Night's Dream, Part 1A Midwinter Night's Dream, Part 2Rose: Portrait of a WomanHome Again, Rose, Part 1Home Again, Rose, Part 2One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, Part 1One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, Part 2

References[]

  1. The Golden Girls, Season 3, Episode 16, “Grab That Dough”. Hervey, Winifred (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (January 23rd, 1988)
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