Mixed Blessings (Season 3, Episode 23)
The Golden Girls Deep Dive Podcast
Golden Girls Deep Dive
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN GIRLS DEEP DIVE PODCAST! Starting from the beginning of the show, each week we recap an episode of The Golden Girls. Along the way, we sprinkle in researched deep dives into something from the episode or The Golden Girls universe!
In Season 3, Episode 23, Rose and Blanche are on a self-improvement and beautification kick in preparation for a dropped-halfway-through-the-episode storyline about vacationing with a set of hot twins. MORE IMPORTANTLY, however, Dorothy's son Michael arrives unexpectedly, with news that he's getting married - and Dorothy has to face a few of her prejudices regarding his new fiancée.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, Mother! Hello, Papa Cheesecake. |
| 0:18.3 | How are you? |
| 0:19.2 | I'm well. How are you, doll? |
| 0:20.5 | I'm wonderful. Doll. I never call you, doll. I'll take it. Call are you? I'm well. How are you, doll? I never call you doll. |
| 0:23.2 | I'll take it. Call me doll every time. No, no, you're Papa. I'm Papa. You're right. That's correct. I'm so happy to see you. I love seeing you because you're my friend. You're my friend. You're my colleague and my friend. Isn't that nice? It's so, it's my favorite thing about us. |
| 0:36.0 | We have a beautiful work relationship, don't we? |
| 0:37.5 | We really do. |
| 0:38.1 | It's just, we have a beautiful friendship and a beautiful |
| 0:40.4 | work friendship. See, gays, I got her. She's mine. She's mine. So what are we talking about today? |
| 0:47.1 | All right, we're talking season three, episode 23, mixed blessings, written by Christopher Lloyd, |
| 0:52.3 | directed by Terry Hughes, original air date March 19, 1988. |
| 0:57.1 | You want to just dive right in? |
| 0:58.4 | Yeah, we open with exterior traditional. |
| 1:13.9 | So we open in the living room. |
| 1:15.4 | Dorothy's reading a magazine. |
| 1:18.5 | Now, Blanche comes in by herself at first. |
| 1:19.6 | She's been jogging. |
| 1:20.4 | She's out of breath. |
| 1:21.7 | She's leaning against the doorframe. |
| 1:23.6 | And all I can think is Dirk must be back. |
| 1:25.5 | There must be another date with Dirk. |
| 1:25.8 | That's right. |
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