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I am watching the Pilot and Sophia just said "The man is a scuzzball" as Harry left. The audience laughed for quite a bit. Including this guy in the crowd that laughed really loud. lol. Why was that so funny?
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would you rather douchebag -- the word originally slated for Sophia to say?
a: he WAS as scuzzball.. you must be blanche's sister... really?
b: her deadpan delivery was perfection. she says it and goes on with her cracker? pure perfection!
c: Dorothy's reaction of 'oh my god, I give up!' is also perfection.
to be honest, I thought the audience laughed a little too lightly at her monologue beforehand about the home burning down and what bells going off like crazy does to hearts that only beat a few times a week.
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Back then a feisty old lady wasn't as over used as it might be now.
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Back then a feisty old lady wasn't as over used as it might be now.
This is probably exactly it. Normally you'd get the homely nice grandmother while Sophia was a straight-talker (and even that they explained away with her having had a stroke). It added some "oh she didn't just say that" value whenever she spoke I guess.
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the one line I never understood but the audiences roars at is during a Christmas episode episode and Dorothy is describing Christmas in New York
"Skater on the ice in Mitsubishi center" ????? I still don't get it lol
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This is Dorothy's sarcastic quote:
"When I think of Christmas, I think of Christmas in New York. The decorations in Macy's window, the show at Radio City, skaters on the ice at Mitsubishi Center."
Throughout the '80s, the Japanese were expected to overtake the USA and have the largest economy in the world by the 1990s -- not unlike the Chinese of today. At the time, the Japanese started buying a lot of US property, the big prize being Rockefeller Center, which was bought by Mitsubishi Estate (a real estate company of the Mitsubishi Group). Though it was never renamed 'Mitsubishi Center,' Dorothy was cracking a joke when she said that, since Rockefeller Center was now (in 1989, when the episode aired and the deal was made) Japanese-owned, specifically by Mitsubishi.
P.S. The Japanese economy went kaput in the early '90s, and in 1995 Mitsubishi was forced to pass ownership of the property to Rockefeller Center Properties, Inc.
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Sorry marvelass - I was replying at the same time you were!! And you had much better info than I did ;)
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Wow, I had no idea! Thanks so much both of you.
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I don't know all the complex financial details but, in the early 90's, Mitsubishi pushed Rockefeller Center into filing for bankruptcy.
Ice skating at Rockefeller Center had been an all-American holiday tradition for decades - so I think the joke was that a Japanese company was taking over.
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"You know, a little of that goes a long way,"
NOT A JOKE.
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"The man is a scuzzball" is very funny because it is the topper after all these other sarcastic quips she had made, starting with "The home burnt down!" They just get funnier and bitchier and Bea simply throwing her arms up in the air adds to the humor with, "There's nothing I can do with her."
The sassy old lady bit goes back a ways, my favorite being the roles actress Judith Lowry played on "Maude" (2 different roles) and on "Phyllis" (Mother Dexter stole the show.) They were pre-cursor to Sophia. The sweet grandma ("Mork and Mindy") was an old archetype, as was the dizzy senior (Bernice, "Designing Women", Grandma Yette, "The Nanny"), but when somebody who looks like the little old lady from Pasadena comes out with a nasty cutting remark, it's the delivery that makes it funny, not simply the line.
"Great theater makes you smile. Outstanding theater may make you weep."
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rose? is that you?
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What's that from? And who said it?
ETA: Never mind. I just realized it's from "Yokel Hero" and said by Rose's friend, Ingrid. For what it's worth, I thought it was funny, more so for Dorothy's reaction/facial expression than for Ingrid's response.
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OH MY GOD! NO ONE SAID IT!
the poster is wondering if the OP is Rose because this thread is a little simple.
are you really that dense?
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That scene was hilarious! Like.. really??? You haven't seen her in years and recognize her voice in that instance! Only the Golden Girls!
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Maybe I'll catch flack for this, but I never thought "Did they ever shoot a herring out of a canon?" was funny. The audience seems to laugh because the characters are laughing, but I don't see why Dorothy and Blanche would have a laugh attack over that one. Plus, as far as Rose stories go, that one was weak.
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Maybe I'll catch flack for this, but I never thought "Did they ever shoot a herring out of a canon?" was funny. The audience seems to laugh because the characters are laughing, but I don't see why Dorothy and Blanche would have a laugh attack over that one. Plus, as far as Rose stories go, that one was weak.
Yes, that story that Rose tells, I never laughed out loud over it...I never even chuckled. But maybe I'm being biased because I never really found Rose's St. olaf stories funny.
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I so agree with the "did they ever shoot a herring out of a cannon?" not being funny. The audience, as said above, laughs because the actresses corpse. I imagine Bea and Rue laugh not because the line is funny (it's just not) but because sometimes in theatre/shoots, actors just lose it at certain random points.
I like to think the audience laughter is actually at the actresses breaking character and "losing their *beep* (which they don't do because of the line, but because it sometimes happens to actors) rather than the pretty weak line itself.
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Is that what's happening? Bea and Rue broke character? I always wondered. I figured it was the characters themselves that were laughing so hard, which is how they finally found their bond together.
Your version makes more sense though.
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Shooting a herring out of the cannon means ejaculation.
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@Tris1227
I did not think of that! Lol I always thought it was some real daredevil with the last name Herrin! Or something like that.
Thanks for finally clearing that up all these years.
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