Watching Golden Girls when you're 50 really hits different. These broads were 70 if they were a day. Rose was 53 in the pilot which means her husband died when she was 39. 39!!! - ThreadSky

angryblacklady.bsky.social • 33 days ago

Watching Golden Girls when you're 50 really hits different. These broads were 70 if they were a day.

Rose was 53 in the pilot which means her husband died when she was 39. 39!!!

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minamcmac.bsky.social•32 days ago

For your own mental health, do not google how old Angela Lansbury was when she started on Murder She Wrote

smdonnelly.bsky.social•33 days ago

Oh fuck....

swimman79.bsky.social•33 days ago

The math does not math for that show. Dorothy got married because she got knocked up at 18 and divorced 38yrs and yet her son was only ever in his 20s on the show.

angryblacklady.bsky.social•33 days ago

Yeah that math does not check out

oldandcranky.bsky.social•32 days ago

It's Sitcom Math. It has entirely different rules.

botox4migraines.bsky.social•33 days ago

They look so young now. Time is relative.

leaveit2beavers.bsky.social•33 days ago

For me, it’s the cheesecake. Nobody can eat that much and stay as thin as they all did.

legalba.bsky.social•32 days ago

It's down to all the cigarettes and "diet pills" (amphetamines) that keep the pounds off

leaveit2beavers.bsky.social•32 days ago

Old school Ozempic.

justjukka.bsky.social•32 days ago

My husband isn't allowed to die before I do.

jbckwthjr.bsky.social•32 days ago

50 used to be "old", but now we all have to work until we're 90. We can't afford to think that 50 is old anymore.

mariavictoria.bsky.social•32 days ago

I feel shocked by everything you just said.

And 39!? What!?

angryblacklady.bsky.social•32 days ago

Actually she was 55 so her hubby died at 41. Blanche was 53 and Dorothy was 54 according to the internet. They are all styled like they're 70

mariavictoria.bsky.social•32 days ago

That is actually fascinating! I don’t remember knowing their age back then, just that they were old. I would have for sure guessed 70s. But also the name of the show, the vibe. I’m so confused they were 50s. We’re all 50 somethings considered in their “golden years” then!?!

babewiththepower.bsky.social•33 days ago

The math never doesn't work out right on that show. BUT. 40+ years ago a lot of men died relatively young from heart attacks and lung cancer. All that smoking!

adinayoffie.bsky.social•33 days ago

And no statins yet

damemyniah.bsky.social•33 days ago

I’ve been researching it too! And that struck me too. Blanche was also quite young when she was widowed.

okioni.bsky.social•33 days ago

Next can we talk about the murder rate in Cabot Cove?

drunkenauntie.bsky.social•33 days ago

i wonder if 'my husband died' was 80s code for 'we got divorced' but alsoooo the girls are fab *and* look way older than today's 50+ ladies imo (i am 45 lol)

mr-hamm.bsky.social•32 days ago

Big gap in aging’s effects. I remember my Granny was old… looking. Any person over 40 looked “old”. In pictures too. The hair, their general carriage, skin. What & how they lived. Imho

frankitodevito.bsky.social•33 days ago

It’s totally insane right 🤣🤣🤣🤣

streetberries.bsky.social•33 days ago

Can we talk about this? Also, Maude. Pre-GG. I only looked up 1 episode- the one about abortion. A younger Bea Arthur. This is a historical episode in our pre-post-dead Roe v Wade eras. (but fr felt like holy shit is that what 40’s used to look like, can we just ease up on current marketing?)

jennyjennijen.bsky.social•33 days ago

I was rewatching and started taking notes because I was going to write a whole thing about the show and the (then and now) perceptions of women after 50. It was a fun and relaxing thing I was doing after my shifts at early voting locations.... 💀
I had forgotten about that little project until now.

justjukka.bsky.social•32 days ago

I would read that blog!

kassax.bsky.social•32 days ago

Archie and Edith were in their 40s!

oldandcranky.bsky.social•32 days ago

No! Really?

kassax.bsky.social•32 days ago

Gloria was 20 when the show started, I think.

kassax.bsky.social•32 days ago

And apparently she was 55 when she died in 1980, so 46 when the show began 9 yrs earlier.

oldandcranky.bsky.social•32 days ago

Crazy!

hollowmirth.bsky.social•32 days ago

And he died during sex, iirc

angryblacklady.bsky.social•32 days ago

He did! And then she didn't have sex at all during the 70s and early 80s which seems implausible

peevedccprof.bsky.social•33 days ago

Blanche was only 49 in season 1 and there was an episode where she thought she was pregnant.

horseknuckler.bsky.social•33 days ago

Oh no. I'm getting up there...

annalibri.bsky.social•33 days ago

Well, depends on which episode you're watching. They were never very consistent about how long all their husbands had been gone!

blumanatee.bsky.social•33 days ago

The actresses were in their 60s. I think they were supposed to be playing 50s, but aside from Rue McClanahan, those ladies were born in the 20s making a show in the 80s.

christoptomus.bsky.social•32 days ago

I am choosing to ignore this reality. I am going toslather sunscreen on my face and neck and shove as much antioxidants down my throat as possible.

mkarat3.bsky.social•32 days ago

I was in college when I watched this, and never really did the math. But 39?!!!!!

ipstenu.org•33 days ago

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Fuuuuuuuuck.

At the same time, hitting my 50s and living in a house with my three best friends sounds amazing.

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