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Whose Face is This, Anyway? is the twentieth episode of the second season of The Golden Girls and the forty-fifth episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Winifred Hervey, it premiered on NBC-TV on February 28th, 1987.

Synopsis[]

After attending her college sorority reunion and seeing that her sorority sisters have had plastic surgery and seeing how old she looks in a video Rose made for community college class, Blanche decides to have an aggressive amount of plastic surgery herself.

Plot[]

Blanche attends a sorority reunion and is mortified to discover that all of her sorority sisters look years younger because they have all had facelifts. Blanche becomes insecure to the point that she decides to go through plastic surgery to preserve her beauty. The three other girls discuss aging and the dangers of vanity, while Rose is making a documentary, a day in the life of her roommates, for a night-college course.[1]

Tall Tales[]

Picture It...[]

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Back in St. Olaf...[]

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Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Stars[]

  • Joseph Whipp as Dr. Taylor
  • Jody Price as Nurse

Notes[]

  • Sophia implies that Blanche's collage looks like Gavin MacLeod. MacLeod and Betty White starred together on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
  • Many people think that the plastic surgeon's mention of NBC's Thursday night lineup is an inside joke about when The Golden Girls was on NBC in 1987, but the show aired Saturdays at 9:00 PM EST for the first six seasons. The perceived joke wouldn't even make sense nowadays since ABC, according to the Hulu streaming intro to The Golden Girls, bought the rights to the show sometime after the series finale.

Cultural references[]

  • The names that Blanche mentions for her sorority sisters, "Scarlet" and "Melanie", are the names of the main female characters in Gone with the Wind.

Goofs[]

  • Rose thinks she'd be too scared to get plastic surgery. In an earlier episode, Dorothy reveals that Rose had a nose job. And Dorothy said she had her ears pinned back in that same episode but only mentions her eyes in this episode.[2]

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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
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References[]

  1. The Golden Girls, Season 2, Episode 20, “Whose Face is This, Anyway?”.  Hervey, Winifred (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (February 28th, 1987)
  2. The Golden Girls, Season 2, Episode 8, “Vacation”. Hervey, Winifred (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (November 29th, 1986)
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