Let Them Eat Cheesecake: A Golden Girls Podcast

Dorothy, Rose, and Blanche take a vacation to a (generic) Caribbean island. The resort was not "as advertised," and they are not on a vacation from hell, which is only made worse by three nitwits they need to share a bathroom with. Meanwhile, Sophia puts the moves on the gardener.

Blanche hurt her at an exercise class, so she can't engage in any of her usual physical activity, but that doesn't mean her bed isn't seeing any action. Michael (Dorothy's son) and Bridget (Rose's daughter) happen to both be visiting the ladies at the same time, and love (or something like that) is in the air. How will the girls handle this development? Not well.

Big Daddy (well, a different "Big Daddy") is back, and he's got a new love interest. Well, Big Daddy is robbing the cradle, and as you can expect, Blanche doesn't handle that well. Plus, Dorothy and Rose work on a new song for Miami.

We were quite impressed with this Golden Girls episode. Dorothy's friend (Jean) comes to visit after her partner passes away. We find out that Jean is gay, and eventually, all of the girls learn this, and they react in our own ways.

This episode is especially impressive when viewing it through a 1986-lens. Listen in as we share our thoughts on this episode.

The ladies want to save a neighborhood tree, but one person stands in their way, Freida Claxton. At a meeting at city hall, Rose finally tells Mrs. Claxton how she feels, and that causes her to drop dead! Well, now the ladies feel various degrees of guilt and feel it's their responsibility to send her off.

Stan is back, but Dorothy is too distracted by another man to meet his emotional needs. Blanche is pulled into the situation with the promise of some military men. Blanche and Stan end up hitting it off, and when Dorothy's romance fizzles out, she's not too happy about the situation.

Meanwhile, Rose and Sophia get into the sandwich-making business, although they have to substitute some main ingredients. They butt heads with the mob. Who is your money on, the mob or Sophia?

The girls get to meet Burt Reynolds! The problem is, Blanche is just so obsessed with men, she books them a night in a hotel that appealed to her because of the number of men in the hotel lobby. Of course, the reason there are so many men congregated there is because it's a Miami Beach hot-spot for prostitution!

Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose are caught up in a sting operation and end up "downtown." Sophia comes to bail them out but snags the Burt Reynolds meet-and-greet tickets instead.

Wow, Season 2 starts out STRONG with "End of the Curse." The episode gets tremendous grades from the host of this podcast. Blanche enters menopause, and as you can expect, being someone who is in constant denial that the aging process exists for her, this is not an easy thing to deal with.

The Season 1 finale is a flashback episode and takes us back to when the ladies met and became roommates.

"Big Daddy" comes to town, as he's taken his musical "talents" out on the road. Meanwhile, Mr. Barton refuses to remove the palm tree that's fallen from his property onto the lanai.