The Grand Poobah

The Golden Girls is my favorite sitcom of all time. My DVD boxes are falling apart because I've seen every season so many times.

Nobody could deliver a line like Bea Arthur (Dorothy, in the middle) and this clip shows how amazing she was. When she died two years  years ago I cried as if someone close to me, like my own grandmother, had died. I've been watching the show over ten years now and I can watch marathons still. It just never gets old. (Although the ladies did. All are gone except Betty White. And as much as everyone loves her these days, Bea really was the center, the rock of that show.)

This is the type of sitcom I would love to write for. You just needed a living room, a kitchen and four amazing actresses to deliver one great line after the other. They were able to engage an audience with zero gimmicks. You can close your eyes and STILL laugh. I think all great sitcoms are like that, great radio shows in disguise.

Here's my favorite Dorothy clip:

You could say she was the Grand Poobah of the Golden Girls.