Beyond The Golden Girls: Amanda's (Bea Arthur)
Out on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast
H Alan Scott, Kerri Doherty
4.5 ā¢ 605 Ratings
šļø 28 February 2024
ā±ļø 58 minutes
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H.Ā AlanĀ Scott/Sadie Pines and Kerri Doherty watch the pilot episodeĀ of "Amanda's," a sitcom vehicle for Bea Arthur that was a failed adaptation of "Fawlty Towers." They debate whether the show deserved its bad reputation, British vs. American sitcoms, and how Amanda was basically Maude/Dorothy on a bad day.
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| 0:00.0 | Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at audible.com. |
| 0:05.5 | U.K. slash Wondery. That's audible.com. |
| 0:09.0 | U.K. slash Wondery. |
| 0:12.5 | Thank you for being a friend. |
| 0:17.0 | Travel down the road and back again. |
| 0:20.7 | Your heart is true. You're a pal and back again. |
| 0:22.5 | Your heart is true. |
| 0:25.6 | You're a pal and a confidant. |
| 0:28.4 | Picture at Los Angeles, 2024. |
| 0:29.9 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:36.4 | Welcome to Out on the Lanai, the only, the only Golden Girls podcast you're ever going to need to listen to. |
| 1:00.9 | I am Lynn Redgrave. Oh, that was a surprising one. Yeah, I was, because we're doing like a British thing today. So I was like, I'm going to be someone British. But she doesn't get enough respect, I think. So like, I wanted to like, you know what I mean? I wanted to be in that head space. So everyone go out and Google Lynn Redgrave. She's incredible and should have won the Oscar for Gods and Monsters. There, I said it. And I'm the woman who was in the latest episode, the latest season of Night Country, who's British, who I recognized |
| 1:07.7 | from three men and a little lady when Mary gets shipped off to a boarding school. |
| 1:14.0 | And she's like the headmistress of the boarding school who has the hots for Tom Selleck. |
| 1:18.5 | I'm her. |
| 1:19.6 | You know who else she is. |
| 1:22.2 | Let's just talk about this for a second. |
| 1:24.2 | She's also Harry Potter's aunt. |
| 1:36.1 | Is she? Yes. Yeah, uh-huh. She plays his aunt. I forget the name now. I forget her name now. I'm gonna Google it while you talk. Please Google it because she was the best part of three men and a little lady. |
| 1:50.0 | True. That's very true, actually. All right, you Google it. I'm Carrie Doherty. Today we're doing a Beyond Golden Girls episode where we cover the many film and TV projects that the women did outside of the Golden Girls during the course of their illustrious careers. |
| 2:01.3 | Today we are watching the pilot episode of Amanda's, also known as Amanda's By the Sea, which was a vehicle for B. Arthur to star in following the success of Maud. |
| 2:08.6 | But before we get into it, today on the Rusty Anchor Happy Hour, this is a wild one, you guys. So we wanted to do something with Rue because it was recently her birthday. |
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