I know TGG is full of bloopers but I thought the fans should know. Who knows? Maybe this could be a thread for TGG Bloopers.

In one episode, Rose wanted a cat (not sure which episode) but Dorothy reminded Rose she was allergic.
But in the episode that tells how the girls first met, Rose is looking at the rent ads on a billboard and she's HOLDING A CAT (Mr. Peepers)
How can she be allergic to cats if she's holding one and not sneezing her head off?

There was also the episode where she is reminded she is allergic to cats, where she is addicted to those pills and she thinks she needs to take them and lies to the girls saying "It's the anniversary of my beloved cat fluffy" and then Dorothy says "Rose, your allergic".

I see where they could have screwed up

There was also the episode where she is reminded she is allergic to cats, where she is addicted to those pills and she thinks she needs to take them and lies to the girls saying "It's the anniversary of my beloved cat fluffy" and then Dorothy says "Rose, your allergic".

I see where they could have screwed up

Yep. I remember that one.

Welcome to the boards. :wave: Hope you enjoy your stay. :)

There was even an episode where she talked about her cat Lindstrom Lindstrom.
Another episode she talked about the cat she had when her children were little, Mr. McTavish.
Rose wasn't allergic to cats obviously, but for some reason; that episode, the writers had Dorothy say that. :confused:

There was even an episode where she talked about her cat Lindstrom Lindstrom.
Another episode she talked about the cat she had when her children were little, Mr. McTavish.
Rose wasn't allergic to cats obviously, but for some reason; that episode, the writers had Dorothy say that. :confused:


My only guess is that they didn't bother to watch past episodes.

My only guess is that they didn't bother to watch past episodes.

I have an idea that whomever was in charge of continuity on TGG was on drugs! I think there were four different versions of Dorothy's prom...

1) Stan took her and got her pregnant
2) A popular boy asked her (Hal Linden guest-starred) he showed up looking like a bum and Sophia sent him away
3) Her brother (or some relative) took her
4) She never went

An issue that always bothered me was that they used Harold Gould as Myles and then in earlier episodes as Arnie.....! Rose dated them both, but they were the same actor! What, did they think we wouldnt remember that it was the same guy?

They also used the same actor twice another time that I can recall - he played Rose's date, Isaac Q. Newton AND a friend/neighbor who was a doctor married to Rita Moreno.

They also used the same actor twice another time that I can recall - he played Rose's date, Isaac Q. Newton AND a friend/neighbor who was a doctor married to Rita Moreno.
Yes that same actor played Isaac Q. Newton and the Doctor in the episode "Empty nest" i think.

There is an ep where Rose is telling her story about the Juggling Herring and they shot one out of the cannon. There is a mayonaise jar behind her that disappears and then reappears a couple times.

There is an ep where Rose is telling her story about the Juggling Herring and they shot one out of the cannon. There is a mayonaise jar behind her that disappears and then reappears a couple times.
Really? Wow, you must have some incredible vision. :D

:lol: Really? Wow, you must have some incredible vision. :D

The one that bothers ME the most is Blanche's children!

In one episode she says she'll give Dorothy one of her sons and she names them: Biff, Doug, Skippy (who has asthma!) - then she says she's had FOUR kids

But in two other separate episodes she talks about her daughters or they guest appear--Janet and Rebecca!

Three boys plus two girls does not equal four children!

Another that bothered me was who the son was that Dorothy and Stan conceived that caused them to get married. It was supposed to be Michael (I guess, Kate does not appear to be 40 when she gets married in the first season), but when Michael wants to marry Lorraine he is only 28 - and since Dorothy and Stan were married 38 years, that doesn't add up.

The last one I've noticed is how long the girls lived together. The show was on for seven years, and in the last episode Dorothy says "What can you say about seven years?"--but in the first season when they go to that counselor because they aren't getting along they say they've already lived together for two--that would mean they lived together for nine years.

I try to think of the bloopers like in the Simpsons -- just because the episodes don't string together exactly, doesn't mean this wasn't the best show ever on television!! (GG, not the Simpsons obviously!) :lol:

Here's a good one:

I was watching the EP "The Housekeeper" , with marguerite as the maid they hired. A scene showed dorothy out on the lanai barbecueing, but you can clearly see no propane tank on the barbecue. lol. Must be a magic grill!

The one that bothers ME the most is Blanche's children!

In one episode she says she'll give Dorothy one of her sons and she names them: Biff, Doug, Skippy (who has asthma!) - then she says she's had FOUR kids

But in two other separate episodes she talks about her daughters or they guest appear--Janet and Rebecca!

Three boys plus two girls does not equal four children!


Blanche also mentioned another son she had named Matthew. :confused:

Actress Nan Martin played two roles. She played Frieda Claxton (the lady Rose killed) and Philomena (the lady from Sicily who may be Dorothy's real mother).

Actor George Grizzard played Jaime, the brother of Blanches late husband George. He also played George in Blanches dream that he staged his death.

The one that bothered me the most was Harould Gould playing Arnie and Miles. I was like "that doesn't make sense!"
Also, in one of my favorite episodes "Break In," Rose mentions she is from Little Falls. But in all the other episodes it is stated (quite clearly) that she is from St. Olaf.

Sorry, this is about the Golden Palace, but Miles gets married to this lady Fern. Miles is played by Harould Gould--Harould Gould played Rhoda Morgenstern's father on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda. Fern is played by Nanette Fabrey--Nanette Fabrey played Mary Richards mother in The MTM Show. Rhoda's father married Mary's mother??? I'm sorry but when acting role choices get to close to other shows it confuses me!!!

The one that bothered me the most was Harould Gould playing Arnie and Miles. I was like "that doesn't make sense!"

Agreed. This was probably the stupidest blooper the writer's did. I dont understand how they thought that the viewers wouldnt notice this?? The other actors that played two parts werent as noticable, but the Arnie/Myles character was just ridiculous.
Here's a list of actors that played more than one part in the show that Ive noticed:


Nan Martin: Freida Claxton & Philomena
Bill Dana: Uncle Angelo & Sophia's Father
Bea Arthur: Dorothy & Sophia's Mother
Chik Venera: Enrique Mass & Kid Pepe
Harold Gould: Arnie Petersen & Myles Webber(Nick Carbone)
George Grizzard: George Devereaux & Jamie Devereaux
Sid Melton: Sal Petrillo & Don the Fool
Flo Di Re: Gina & Young Sophia Petrillo
Paul Dooley: Issac Q. Newton & George Corliss
Lloyd Bochner: Patrick Vaughn & Edurado
Alan Blumenfield: Lou(Plumber) & Mr. HA HA
Nat Bernstein: Dr. Wallerstein & Emily's Father (baby they babysat)
Ralph Ahn: Jim Shu & Yakamora



Thats all of the ones at least that I have noticed.:lol:

There is also an episode where you can see equipment. I can't remember what episode it is right now, but I'll post again as soon as I see it (which shouldn't be long as I watch them every day). I remember that Rose is standing in the living room right outside the kitchen door facing into the living room. As she's talking, you can for a second see the bottom of a black microphone move drop down over the top of her head barely into the camera's view. It was really weird the first time I noticed it because it reminded me that the house was a set and not really a house. lol

Agreed. This was probably the stupidest blooper the writer's did. I dont understand how they thought that the viewers wouldnt notice this?? The other actors that played two parts werent as noticable, but the Arnie/Myles character was just ridiculous.
Here's a list of actors that played more than one part in the show that Ive noticed:


Nan Martin: Freida Claxton & Philomena
Bill Dana: Uncle Angelo & Sophia's Father
Bea Arthur: Dorothy & Sophia's Mother
Chik Venera: Enrique Mass & Kid Pepe
Harold Gould: Arnie Petersen & Myles Webber(Nick Carbone)
George Grizzard: George Devereaux & Jamie Devereaux
Sid Melton: Sal Petrillo & Don the Fool
Flo Di Re: Gina & Young Sophia Petrillo
Paul Dooley: Issac Q. Newton & George Corliss
Lloyd Bochner: Patrick Vaughn & Edurado
Alan Blumenfield: Lou(Plumber) & Mr. HA HA
Nat Bernstein: Dr. Wallerstein & Emily's Father (baby they babysat)
Ralph Ahn: Jim Shu & Yakamora



Thats all of the ones at least that I have noticed.:lol:

Philph Sterling: Dr. Barensfield & Dr. Ashley

Heres one thats really screwed up: I remember watching an episode of Empty Nest after the character of Sophia was added to the show. She had moved back to the Shady Pines rest home, and Sid Melton had the role of another resident, instead of Salvadore.

I believe that is the episode where Dorothy's daughter gets married. You can see the camera come into the shot out on the lanai. Also in the Operation, you can see the microphone come down when Sophia walks into the livingroom from the bedroom when Rose and Blanche are dancing.

There is also an episode where you can see equipment. I can't remember what episode it is right now, but I'll post again as soon as I see it (which shouldn't be long as I watch them every day). I remember that Rose is standing in the living room right outside the kitchen door facing into the living room. As she's talking, you can for a second see the bottom of a black microphone move drop down over the top of her head barely into the camera's view. It was really weird the first time I noticed it because it reminded me that the house was a set and not really a house. lol

well in all fairness, about the cat ones, I'm not saying that it wasn't a writing blooper as I'm sure it indeed was, however I am allergic to cats but I take allergy pills and I own two cats.

Two bloopers I cannot get over and never will (both age-related):
Dorothy said her grandmother died at the age of 94 when she was 6 ...the same grandmother Dorothy (Bea) played in a flashback in a wheel chair back in Brooklyn. The other is Michael. First he's 29, then a year or so later he's 23, then he's 30 (he was on three times).

We've agreed elsewhere that the girls' mistakes, and character flaws, are not bloopers - they're not perfect and that makes them human. But have you ever noticed how their advice to each other is often at odds with their own reactions in similar situations.

Sophia counsels Blanche to accept her brother Clayton falling in love with another man and holding a commitment ceremony - that it's no different than Blanche wanting to make a lifetime, public, commitment to George. But then Sophia is so embarrassed about Phil's cross-dressing. No, cross-dressing is not the same as being gay, but I guess I have a hard time with someone being so enlightened about one and so embarrassed about the other. And Sophia implied she wouldn't want Phil to be gay either, when she asks in the funeral episode, "was he queer?"

Blanche can see how cruel her daughter's boyfriend, Jeremy is, but can't see it when Rex Huntington treats her the same way.

Sophia also counsels Dorothy not to meddle between Kate and Dennis, even though Sophia never stopped trying to tell Dorothy what to do about Stan, or other men.

I can think of at least three times when Blanche counseled another woman not to be as, well, friendly, as Blanche always claimed SHE was:

"What men find you, is available, and that's no compliment...when I'm with a man it's because I like him, not because I want him to like me." - to her niece Lucy - I really couldn't see where Lucy's behavior was any different from Blanche's.

"Play hard to get, it drives a man crazy." To Sophia, in "Old Boyfriends." (Dorothy called Blanche on that one.)

"If you keep Miles at bay, wonderful things will happen..." to Rose, in "Girls Just Wanna..." And then later she said that she knew her men were superficial compared to Miles, but she doesn't seem to act on learning that lesson.

And Blanche advises Rose to be patient with her boyfriend Ernie's "problem." Wonder if Blanche really could be that patient?

Then, Dorothy is so amazed that her daughter Kate would take her husband back after the affair - even though Dorothy kept going back and forth with Stan.

Blanche dates older men but go so upset about her father's new wife.

Blanche and Dorothy get upset about their parents remarrying, but they stick up for Rose when Miles' daughter is opposed to the relationship. (Not that Rose didn't deserve the support, or that Caroline wasn't mean.)

This is probably a tiny one that just reveals my capacity for overanalyzing...but in the one where Miles has been living on an Amish farm and he says "it sucks." Somehow I felt like the writers forgot that Rose grew up on a farm. I would have expected her to disagree with him. She always stood up for St. Olaf when someone put it down.

i've been thinking that too :D

This is probably a tiny one that just reveals my capacity for overanalyzing...but in the one where Miles has been living on an Amish farm and he says "it sucks." Somehow I felt like the writers forgot that Rose grew up on a farm. I would have expected her to disagree with him. She always stood up for St. Olaf when someone put it down.

Something else that has always bothered me about that whole storyline was the fact that in an earlier episode Rose invited Miles and his daughter over for lunch on his birthday. If he was in the witness protection program, he wouldn't have been allowed to make contact with his family.

Something else that has always bothered me about that whole storyline was the fact that in an earlier episode Rose invited Miles and his daughter over for lunch on his birthday. If he was in the witness protection program, he wouldn't have been allowed to make contact with his family.

I may be wrong, but I don't think that whole storyline with the witness protection program had come into play yet.

Some of these inconsistancies, like Rose's allergies to cats I can deal with, but the big ones especially involving family members and number of children, thats just annoying! You would think the actresses themselves would have spoken up about it!

I may be wrong, but I don't think that whole storyline with the witness protection program had come into play yet.

Probably not, but even so, Miles supposedly entered the program before meeting Rose. Which means he should have been in it the entire time he was on the show (even before the writers dreamed up the idea!).

It was weird how Blanche during the episode where Rose is getting tested for HIV, takes her aside and tells her how she used to be promiscuous and had a talk with herself about seeing so many men, and how she now only sleeps with men after checking with them about their record and I think seeing "on paper" the results (I don't know if she said it had to be on paper, but she was serious about it)...

Anyway, throughout the series, Blanche has many moments where she can't wait to jump into bed with a complete stranger. In addition, references are made to her sleeping with a plumber who just came over, a guy who wrote the address on the curb, a doctor, etc. (These are all implied to be one-night stands with total strangers) It's obviously exaggerated for the comedy of the show, but I always thought that she wouldn't have time to talk about the medical side of their sex life before jumping into bed with many of the men she dates.

I guess the serious aspects of being a slut and the comedy of being a slut didn't go together. ;-)

Just my thoughts.

I don't know how many of you have noticed that many times they say it's almost dark, but it's clearly sunny outside like when they're in the kitchen.
They haven't been thinking a lot about that little thing ;)

Other thing is that there is only ONE clock in that huge house and it's in the kitchen. You can see it once in season 1 but in other seasons I haven't seen it.
It's right next to a stove. Weird that there's only one clock :D

Contradicting stories about Stan's affairs:

Kate's Wedding - the first Dorothy heard he was leaving was when the lawyer called

the one about Stan's surgery - this is the first she has heard of any affairs except the one he left her for

When Kate comes to visit because her husband has cheated, Dorothy says, "I'll never forget when Stan told me he was having an affair." Later in the same episode, Sophia recalls Stan coming home on their first anniversary with lipstick on his collar (meaning Dorothy couldn't have been referring to Chrissy, the one he left her for)

the one about Stan's fiance, Katherine, Blanche is listing Stan's mistakes, and she mentions leaving Dorothy for the younger women, but no other affairs

When Stan is trying to get Dorothy to go to his reception dinner, he says "there were some good times in our marriage." And Dorothy says, "until I found out about them." Implying that at some point in the marriage she found out about all the affairs.

When Sophia doesn't want Dorothy and Stan to remarry, she says "you spent the entire marriage cheating on us both."

Contradicting stories about Stan's affairs:

Kate's Wedding - the first Dorothy heard he was leaving was when the lawyer called

the one about Stan's surgery - this is the first she has heard of any affairs except the one he left her for

When Kate comes to visit because her husband has cheated, Dorothy says, "I'll never forget when Stan told me he was having an affair." Later in the same episode, Sophia recalls Stan coming home on their first anniversary with lipstick on his collar (meaning Dorothy couldn't have been referring to Chrissy, the one he left her for)

the one about Stan's fiance, Katherine, Blanche is listing Stan's mistakes, and she mentions leaving Dorothy for the younger women, but no other affairs

When Stan is trying to get Dorothy to go to his reception dinner, he says "there were some good times in our marriage." And Dorothy says, "until I found out about them." Implying that at some point in the marriage she found out about all the affairs.

When Sophia doesn't want Dorothy and Stan to remarry, she says "you spent the entire marriage cheating on us both."
Did Stan ever marry Chrissy, or was Katherine his only other wife, besides Dorothy?

I also can't believe that, with all the episodes about Dorothy and Stan, and all the (relatively consistent) history about him being unfaithful, that Dorothy was willing to continue seeing a man she had found out was married, and that she screamed at Rose for being judgemental. Yes, I know part of the point of the show is that they all make mistakes, but it was like she didn't remember what she'd been through in her marriage. It's not that I expect Dorothy to be moral all the time, just that, I would have thought she'd put herself in the wife's shoes the minute she knew there was a wife. And for all Sophia's disapproval of the Dorothy-Glenn affair, she didn't remind Dorothy about her marriage.

I also can't believe that, with all the episodes about Dorothy and Stan, and all the (relatively consistent) history about him being unfaithful, that Dorothy was willing to continue seeing a man she had found out was married, and that she screamed at Rose for being judgemental. Yes, I know part of the point of the show is that they all make mistakes, but it was like she didn't remember what she'd been through in her marriage. It's not that I expect Dorothy to be moral all the time, just that, I would have thought she'd put herself in the wife's shoes the minute she knew there was a wife. And for all Sophia's disapproval of the Dorothy-Glenn affair, she didn't remind Dorothy about her marriage.
But Dorothy eventually "got it" when Glenn's wife called him and he told her he was alone, while he actually was with Dorothy in the hotel room. It was at THAT point that Dorothy realized SHE was "the other woman", when Glenn lied to his wife, and said he wasn't ready to leave her for Dorothy. So ultimately she knew Sophia and Rose were right.

markway....two different episodes:

"That Was No Lady": Glenn is married...his wife never calls in that one...Dorothy eventually breaks up with him because she feels like the relationship has no future, and she tells him "it's not for me," but never self-righteously.

"Cheaters": Glenn is supposedly divorced, and wants to marry Dorothy. That's when his wife calls and he says he's alone. Dorothy thinks he just wants to marry her so as not to be alone. (That's consistent, at least, because he says in the earlier one that he's too afraid of being alone to leave his wife.)

Was I the only one that doubted, watching "Cheaters," that he really was divorced?

I still find it odd that Dorothy was willing to tolerate being "the other woman," even for a little while, that she didn't think a guy who would do that was a loser - because that's what she says about Stan, and about son-in-law Dennis, when he cheats.

markway....two different episodes:

"That Was No Lady": Glenn is married...his wife never calls in that one...Dorothy eventually breaks up with him because she feels like the relationship has no future, and she tells him "it's not for me," but never self-righteously.

"Cheaters": Glenn is supposedly divorced, and wants to marry Dorothy. That's when his wife calls and he says he's alone. Dorothy thinks he just wants to marry her so as not to be alone. (That's consistent, at least, because he says in the earlier one that he's too afraid of being alone to leave his wife.)

Was I the only one that doubted, watching "Cheaters," that he really was divorced?

I still find it odd that Dorothy was willing to tolerate being "the other woman," even for a little while, that she didn't think a guy who would do that was a loser - because that's what she says about Stan, and about son-in-law Dennis, when he cheats.
I guess I didn't realize Glenn was in two different episodes! I need to check them out again, (I have all the seasons on dvd) and brush up on my GG knowledge! I'm slipping!

Here's another one I only thought of recently.

Rose is pretty consistently portrayed as kind of puritanical...but in the episode about the artist, she is just as excited as the other girls about posing for Lazlo, and just as eager that he pick her to sculpt. Now, my understanding is they're all posing nude. She doesn't really know him. But in the last season, the episode, "Rose: Portrait of a Woman," she is very "shy" even with her long-term boyfriend. She's mortified when his guy friends see her in a somewhat naughty outfit (that's understandable) and she tells Blanche even Miles doesn't really "see her" because they "do it" in the dark.

I've posted this before (we have a couple of threads about bloopers), but - even though Rose dates Miles pretty consistently through Seasons 5, 6, and 7there are also episodes in those seasons where it seems like she's not in a relationship:

- when she brings the puppy home, Blanche tells her to get a man instead, and Rose says she doesn't want one

- she goes up for auction with the other "bachelorettes" in "Love for Sale"

- she goes out with her old boyfriend Thor (whom she doesn't remember). She's mortified that she doesn't remember him, but it never seems to occur to her to tell him she's involved with someone.

- and in the last two, two-part episodes, "Home Again, Rose" and the finale, those are both big events in Rose's life - and Miles isn't around, nor does she ever talk about where he comes in, i.e., she never thinks about her future with him as part of deciding where to move when Dorothy leaves.

An issue that always bothered me was that they used Harold Gould as Myles and then in earlier episodes as Arnie.....! Rose dated them both, but they were the same actor! What, did they think we wouldnt remember that it was the same guy?

I don't mind the re-use of actors so much. All actors play lots of different roles (if they're any good.) It bothered me more when the SAME character was played by two DIFFERENT actors (who may not even look anything alike.) Although I do kind of wish that Miles had said his other name was Arnie instead of Nick!

Probably not, but even so, Miles supposedly entered the program before meeting Rose. Which means he should have been in it the entire time he was on the show (even before the writers dreamed up the idea!).

It would have helped if they had just made the witness protection program story the last couple of episodes of the series involving Miles. The way they did it, you have episodes in Season 5 and early Season 6 about everyday relationship issues, all of which somewhat go with one another. Then this witness protection program story, that ends with this big "we'll-live-happily-ever-after-and-never-be-parted-again scene." Then in Season 7, not only is he still Miles and still a professor, but they go back to the everyday relationship issues, and some of the time it seems like they're not sure they want to be together. But Rose never worries any more about being with someone with that past. It's like the witness protection program story was dropped in from another series.

You know what bothers me so much is the fact that they kept writing Miles differently at many times and I agree with all of you who were talking about Miles and his inconsistintsies of the character.

There are so many things on this show that aren't right and I think maybe the writers towards the end of the show started to get lazy and ended up writing or in this situation rewriting the history of the characters.

Other than this the show was a hit cause it was hilarious. The writing might have been screwed up but the comedy was brilliant.

[QUOTE=SueAnn_Rose]You know what bothers me so much is the fact that they kept writing Miles differently at many times and I agree with all of you who were talking about Miles and his inconsistintsies of the character.

Yes - even taking out the witness protection program plot, his characterization is all over the place. Sometimes he is very suave, classy, and romantic ("Dancing in the Dark," for example). Other times he's a little, well, wacky (like the corny jokes about thimbles in "Bloom is Off...") and his tastes seem too unsophisticated for an accomplished ballroom dancer, like when he wants to go on a bus to Texas for a honeymoon in "Midwinter."

Plus, in "Where's Charlie," he's coaxing Rose not to be scared of commitment, and in many other episodes he fights to keep her when she's pulling away, then suddenly in "Midwinter," he is scared of commitment.

I sometimes think his reactions to Rose's quirks seems more like a parent than a significant other, but maybe Rose is at times so child-like that anyone seems more like a parent than a peer?

There is an ep where Rose is telling her story about the Juggling Herring and they shot one out of the cannon. There is a mayonaise jar behind her that disappears and then reappears a couple times.

I'll have to look for that, never noticed that before ;)

I have read numerous blooper/inconsistency threads here and at other places on the internet and I found one that I haven't seen any place else. It drives me nuts.

I guess the inconsistencies don't bother me as much because they span over longer periods of time. Writers come and go and there wasn't the big internet discussion back then like there is now, so I can kind of understand the errors.

But, in ONE episode, there is something that is just glaring to me. It's in season 2, "To Catch a Neighbor." Rose comes in the house saying that she saw the McDowell's at the grocery store. She followed them around and wrote down everything they bought. You have all four girls and the two policemen in the scene.

In the next scene, the doorbell rings and it's Martha McDowell, the neighbor. She introduces herself and says to Rose "You followed me around the grocery store YESTERDAY." Now, all of the actors are in the scene again. ALL are in the same exact clothes as they were in the kitchen.

Not sure why, that one just drives me NUTS. Probably because it is contained in ONE episode. They could have caught that. LOL

We've agreed elsewhere that the girls' mistakes, and character flaws, are not bloopers - they're not perfect and that makes them human. But have you ever noticed how their advice to each other is often at odds with their own reactions in similar situations.

Sophia counsels Blanche to accept her brother Clayton falling in love with another man and holding a commitment ceremony - that it's no different than Blanche wanting to make a lifetime, public, commitment to George. But then Sophia is so embarrassed about Phil's cross-dressing. No, cross-dressing is not the same as being gay, but I guess I have a hard time with someone being so enlightened about one and so embarrassed about the other. And Sophia implied she wouldn't want Phil to be gay either, when she asks in the funeral episode, "was he queer?"

Blanche can see how cruel her daughter's boyfriend, Jeremy is, but can't see it when Rex Huntington treats her the same way.

Sophia also counsels Dorothy not to meddle between Kate and Dennis, even though Sophia never stopped trying to tell Dorothy what to do about Stan, or other men.

I can think of at least three times when Blanche counseled another woman not to be as, well, friendly, as Blanche always claimed SHE was:

"What men find you, is available, and that's no compliment...when I'm with a man it's because I like him, not because I want him to like me." - to her niece Lucy - I really couldn't see where Lucy's behavior was any different from Blanche's.

"Play hard to get, it drives a man crazy." To Sophia, in "Old Boyfriends." (Dorothy called Blanche on that one.)

"If you keep Miles at bay, wonderful things will happen..." to Rose, in "Girls Just Wanna..." And then later she said that she knew her men were superficial compared to Miles, but she doesn't seem to act on learning that lesson.

And Blanche advises Rose to be patient with her boyfriend Ernie's "problem." Wonder if Blanche really could be that patient?

Then, Dorothy is so amazed that her daughter Kate would take her husband back after the affair - even though Dorothy kept going back and forth with Stan.

Blanche dates older men but go so upset about her father's new wife.

Blanche and Dorothy get upset about their parents remarrying, but they stick up for Rose when Miles' daughter is opposed to the relationship. (Not that Rose didn't deserve the support, or that Caroline wasn't mean.)

Or the episode in Season 1 (I think) Dorothy and Stan's daughter got married and Dorothy confronts Stan about him cheating on her after 30+ years. The shot of Stan sitting on the end of one of the recliners and Dorothy back and to his right, you can see the wheels and a part of the camera come into view.

Here is one concerning the inconsitencies of Blanche's children -specifically sons, that I have never seen mentioned before.

In an early season 3 episode, the one where Rose inherits a pig, Blanches mentions the name of 3 sons. Someone, someone and Skippy. "No, Skippy has asthma." Those 3 sons were in addition to a Mathew, who was mentioned in a late season 2 episode. It was the episode with George Clooney where Blanche says he reminds her of her son Matthew. So, in a span of a few episodes Blanche has 4 sons.

Now jump to a late season 3 episode. It's the episode where Dorothy's son Michael marries an older, black woman. Dorothy asks Blanche how would you feel if your son (don't remember exact quote) and Blanche replies that nothing her son would do would surprise her. That quote implies that she had only 1 son.

Here is one concerning the inconsitencies of Blanche's children -specifically sons, that I have never seen mentioned before.

In an early season 3 episode, the one where Rose inherits a pig, Blanches mentions the name of 3 sons. Someone, someone and Skippy. "No, Skippy has asthma." Those 3 sons were in addition to a Mathew, who was mentioned in a late season 2 episode. It was the episode with George Clooney where Blanche says he reminds her of her son Matthew. So, in a span of a few episodes Blanche has 4 sons.

Now jump to a late season 3 episode. It's the episode where Dorothy's son Michael marries an older, black woman. Dorothy asks Blanche how would you feel if your son (don't remember exact quote) and Blanche replies that nothing her son would do would surprise her. That quote implies that she had only 1 son.


Doug, Bif and Skippy. (Why would she name her kids Bif and Skippy? :confused:) Anyway, I think it was decided later on that Blanche just had her one son, Matthew, who actually appears on The Golden Palace. In the earlier episode, she must have just made up D, B, & S.

Something else that has always bothered me about that whole storyline was the fact that in an earlier episode Rose invited Miles and his daughter over for lunch on his birthday. If he was in the witness protection program, he wouldn't have been allowed to make contact with his family.
I may be wrong, but I don't think that whole storyline with the witness protection program had come into play yet.
He had to have already been in the witness protection program back then because he was going by the name of "MILES" when in reality his real name is Nicholas Carbone.