More Goofs

[Edster2973]

Originally Posted by jisenhour

Yeah, and few episodes later, we see Blanche on a private jet with Richard, the rich man she almost married. No mention was made about her fear of flying.

That's because she was with Richard and knew she was going to be getting some action. I guess love making quelled the fear for her...

Ed

[JL82]

Maybe not one of the worst ones...but, even though Miles appears regularly beginning early in Season 5, there are episodes in the last two seasons where it seems like Rose isn't in a relationship:

"Old Boyfriends," - it never seems to occur to anyone that Rose could fend off Thor by saying she was seeing someone

"Love for Sale," - Rose goes up for auction as a bachelorette (and Miles never even shows up to bid)

"Stand by Your Man" (the one with Blanche's love interest in a wheelchair) - Blanche tells Rose to get a man instead of a dog, and Rose says she doesn't want a man

"Home Again, Rose" - we've said this before, he never visits while she's going through heart surgery

"One Flew Out..." - in all of the girls' ponderings about what's going to happen when Dorothy moves out, Rose never mentions her future with Miles. Nor does he attend Dorothy and Lucas' wedding.

Which brings me to another goof. In "Mangiavallo Curse," (Season 5) Rose says that weddings get her "hot." But we've seen her at plenty of other weddings: Kate Zbornak's; Dorothy and Stan's; Dorothy and Lucas' - without a date - and she never seemed to have that problem.

Plus, the stories about getting hot at weddings kind of contradict things she's said elsewhere about her sex life early in her marriage and since Charlie's death.

[ratherbwatchinGG]

As much as I love this show the goofs are endless.

One off the top of my head is Blanche's daughter Rebecca. We first meet her with a nasty boyfriend and a weight problem. We next see her with no mention of that past boyfriend and thin as a rail.

But there are so much more. I guess they just wrote plot lines per show and left out history for the sake of having a funny episode.

[JL82]

Is it a "goof" that in "Twice in a Lifetime," Rose says she "never got over Buzz," whereas in so many other episodes she seems to have been so crazy about Charlie? Not to mention that in "Dancing in the Dark," she's panting for Miles? I also find it a little "off" that there's an episode about her finding him boring so soon after that. (Bloom is Off the Rose.) Maybe it's a realistic take on how the bloom does come off the rose in relationships in real life...but it seemed to me a little soon after they became an item, for that.

Another one that is (unusual for me, I know) not re Rose and Miles: in "If At Last," Sophia begins sucking up to Stan for the money, but by "Zborn Again," and "There Goes the Bride" she is back to hating him and not wanting Dorothy to be with him.

[ratherbwatchinGG]

I suppose realisitically you can pine for someone but move on with life and get involved with someone else. So perhaps that was Rose's case.

As for Sophia she usually attached to Stan only when it was convenient. Usually when it meant money. So it may not have been much of a goof there. That's not say they may not have been paying attention to the history of the show but just that it is possible she just made nice when she wanted.

[Regina Phallange]

The one that always stands out for me is in season one when Rose applies for a job as a 'hospital administrator'
Seriously? She was 55, had been a housewife most of her life, and she thinks she can just waltz into a hospital claiming to have been with the same employer for 32 years, which was really just her marriage? She added that part as an embelishment of her resume - on Dorothy's advice no less!
Shame on both of them!
Also in season one, doesn't Blanche get engaged twice?
First in the pilot episode to the bigamist who was arrested, then later to Richard, who she dumped because of his 2 young children.
That woman obviously does not value her reputation!
GG is full of errors etc, but it's still my favourite old show by far!

[JL82]

Is it inconsistent that Blanche is so concerned when her niece, Lucy, sleeps around, given Blanche's own legendary "friendliness" and the way she always seems to be encouraging other women to be like her, in order to impress their guys? Or is that a common inconsistency in human nature? I know many parents don't want their kids to make the mistakes they themselves made when younger. But Blanche doesn't see her own escapades as mistakes.

[ratherbwatchinGG]

I don't think character flaws should be mistaken for inconsistencies in the stories which is what the thread is going for here. For example Dorothy tells a story of her grandmother being old when she was a little girl but in a flashback her grandmother is in the scene played by Bea Arthur and the Dorothy is an adult. That's a goof.

The girls weren't perfect lovable but certainly not perfect. The goofs and inconsitencies pretty much came from the writers of the show who clearly forgot to check back at the history of some of the episodes.

[JL82]

Originally Posted by JL82

Is it inconsistent that Blanche is so concerned when her niece, Lucy, sleeps around, given Blanche's own legendary "friendliness" and the way she always seems to be encouraging other women to be like her, in order to impress their guys? Or is that a common inconsistency in human nature? I know many parents don't want their kids to make the mistakes they themselves made when younger. But Blanche doesn't see her own escapades as mistakes.

I wasn't so much pointing out Blanche or Lucy's character flaws here, as pointing out that Blanche seems to admire every woman who has multiple lovers EXCEPT Lucy.

New goofs: we've had whole threads about how "Miles Webber" is really Nicholas Carbone, but even after they find that out they keep calling him Miles. But another one from the Cheeseman plot: how exactly does the Cheeseman know that he can learn where Miles/Nick is by coming to Miami and getting close to Rose?