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Journey to the Center of Attention is the nineteenth episode of the seventh season of The Golden Girls and the one-hundred and seventy-third episode overall. Directed by Lex Passaris and written by Marc Cherry and Jamie Wooten, it premiered on NBC-TV on February 22nd, 1992.
Blanche takes a lonely Dorothy down to the Rusty Anchor, Blanche's favorite hangout, and gets more than she bargained for when Dorothy's singing is a hit with all the guys. Sophia is inspired by all the beautiful comments made at a friend's wake and enlists Rose to help her organize one while she is still alive, with disastrous consequences for Sophia's friends.
Crew member Kent Zbornak makes a small cameo as the man who's neck Blanche accidentally wraps the cord of her microphone around while singing. Zbornak's last name was borrowed for Dorothy's on the series.
The blue dress that Blanche wears when she first takes Dorothy to The Rusty Anchor is the same one she wore on her date with the pharmacist in "From Here To The Pharmacy".[3]
Cultural references[]
The episode's title is a reference to the 19th Century Jules Verne novel Journey to the Center of the Earth.
The second song Dorothy sings in is "Hard Hearted Hannah". Bea Arthur also sang this song in the Maude episode "Maude's Musical".[4]
When one of the mourners at Sophia's wake goes into hysterics asking how Sophia died, Blanche thinks she's doing an impersonation of Claus von Bülow. von Bülow was a Danish born socialite who was arrested in 1979 for the attempted murder of his wife, Sunny von Bülow, by putting her in a coma with an overdose of insulin.
↑The Golden Girls, Season 7, Episode 19, "Journey to the Center of Attention". Wooten, Jamie and Cherry, Marc (writers) & Passaris, Lex (director) (February 22nd, 1992)