The Golden Girls 40th Anniversary Special! (w/ Alaska Thunderfuck and Eliot Glazer)
Out on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast
H Alan Scott, Kerri Doherty
4.5 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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H. Alan Scott/Sadie Pines and Kerri Doherty are celebrating The Golden Girls 40th anniversary by watching and breaking down the 2002 "True Tales" documentary that took an in-depth look at the creation and success of our favorite iconic series! They discuss the NBC development exec who took a chance on a gut instinct, Estelle Getty's thoughts on playing an older woman, Rue McClanahan's Bea Arthur impression, and SO MUCH MORE! Plus: Alaska Thunderfuck and Eliot Glazer share their own heartfelt thoughts about this wonderful 40th anniversary!
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| 0:00.0 | Picture it September 14. Hold on. I'm going to turn my... Sorry, I had my... I still had my air purifier on. Okay. |
| 0:19.7 | Picture it. September 14th, 1985. |
| 0:23.6 | Four women, two widows, a divorcee, and a deceitful little Sicilian gecko, burst onto our TV screens from their Miami home with wicker furniture and a freezer full of cheesecake. |
| 0:35.3 | These four best friends laughed together, cried together, they dated, they fought, and they had a lot of cheesecake. These four best friends laughed together, cried together. |
| 0:38.8 | They dated, they fought, and they had a lot of sex. |
| 0:41.7 | But most importantly, they showed the world that life doesn't end after the age of 50. |
| 0:46.8 | And sure, there were people out there who thought, a sitcom about older women? |
| 0:51.4 | It'll last a week. |
| 0:53.5 | Well, guess what, losers? That week turned into seven |
| 0:56.5 | glorious seasons, 180 episodes, and a whopping 11 Emmy Awards, not to mention so many iconic |
| 1:03.8 | outfits and shoulder pads that went on for days. Audiences fell in love with Dorothy, Rose, |
| 1:10.5 | Sophia, and Blanche, and their stories resonated. |
| 1:13.7 | With laughter and heart, they tackled gay marriage, the AIDS epidemic, menopause, addiction, ageism, health issues, and even the struggles of dating someone in witness protection. |
| 1:24.6 | Side note, though, fuck you, Miles. |
| 1:26.7 | Yeah, fuck you Miles. |
| 1:27.9 | Fuck you Miles. Forty years later, the Golden Girls remain one of the most iconic sitcoms |
| 1:32.4 | to ever grace our TV screens. The show is still quoted, memed, and binge-watched for |
| 1:37.4 | by generations who weren't even alive when the show premiered. These women are icons, honey. |
| 1:43.3 | They are legends. |
| 1:44.6 | And today, on this episode and every episode of Out on the Lin-I, duh, we celebrate them. |
| 1:51.6 | I'm Carrie Dordy. |
| 1:53.0 | And I'm H. Allen Scott. |
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