Ladies of the Evening was the second episode of Season 2 of The Golden Girls TV series, also the 27th overall series episode. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Barry Fanaro, it originally aired on NBC-TV on October 4, 1986.
Summary
After having the house fumigated, Dorothy, Rose and Blanche take a planned trip to see a Burt Reynolds show in Miami. Sophia, on the other hand, cannot attend. But the girls decide to visit a hotel bar before they go and unbeknownst to them it is place of prostitution. This girls land in jail when the police come to arrest the prostitutes.
Guest Cast
- Burt Reynolds as Himself
- Rhonda Aldrich as Meg
- Peter Gonneau as Walter
- Tony Swartz as John
- Amelia Kinkade as Hooker # 1
- Ursaline Bryant as Hooker # 2
- Peter Jason as Policeman
- Phil Rubenstein as Exterminator
- Ron Kapra as Hotel Manager
- Ron Michaelso as Carl
- Suanne Spoke as Girl in lobby
Scene excerpts
- Quotes from script
- Exterminator: You have silverfish and waterbugs in the drainage areas, and under the baseboards structure, you have blateria andropoulous.
- Dorothy: Did you hear that Rose? The President of Greece lives under our baseboards.<
- Exterminator: Blateria andropoulous is a cockroach.
- Rose: Maybe he'll be voted out next election.
(Dorothy, Rose and Blanche have just been chatted up by two men who have mistaken them for prostitutes.)
- Dorothy: 'Girls who will take their money?' Do you know what he thinks we are?
- Rose: Waitresses?
- Dorothy: No, Rose! Hookers!
- Rose: It's always a man with you, isn't it Blanche? Men and sex, sex and men!
- Prostitute: Hey! There's nothing wrong with being career-oriented!
- Rose: (to Blanche) It's your overactive sex drive that got us into this mess! Who picks a hotel because of all the men in the lobby?
(The prostitutes all raise their hands.)
- Dorothy: Listen, you punk! You wanna fight with someone, you're gonna have to fight with me, but I warn you, I did time in Attica.
- Prostitute in Jail: Attica's a *men's* prison!
- Dorothy: I know. I was there a year before they found out.
- Prostitute in Jail: [backing down] Sorry, chief. I didn't mean to ruffle your feathers.
- Blanche: Oh, Dorothy, that was magnificent. How did you ever pull that off?
- Dorothy: I work in the public school system. It's not that different from this.
- Dorothy: (after Sophia arrives at the jail) Ma, thank God you're here!
- Sophia: Arrested for prostitution, I can't believe it!
- Blanche: Sophia, we're innocent!
- Sophia: I know that! I can't believe these dumb cops would think anybody would pay money to sleep with you!
- Rose: Sophia, did you come to bail us out?
- Dorothy (sarcastically) No, Rose, she's dropping off a manicotti with a file in it.
- Blanche: My God, you're Mr. Burt Reynolds!
- Burt Reynolds: I hope so, otherwise I got the wrong underwear on. (to Sophia) These the roommates you told me about?
- Sophia: Yeah.
- Burt Reynolds: Which one's the slut?
- Dorothy/Blanche/Rose: I AM!
Clips
Bar patrons mistake the girls for prostitutes