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The enduring joy of Golden Girls: a wildly sassy sitcom that will always cheer you up
A comedic masterclass with the best sitcom theme song of all time, Golden Girls pulled back the curtains on ageing and dealt with big-ticket issues.
A zinger-infused maelstrom of shoulder pads, pastels and perms. Rattan furniture, DayGlo linen and Formica. There’s such a distinctive look, feel and vibe to The Golden Girls, the iconic sitcom that ran from 1985 to 1992, scooping up 68 Emmy nominations and 11 wins in the process. The brainchild of producer Susan Harris, the show spawned several acclaimed spin- offs and became an enduring work of high camp in the process.
The premise? Three older women decide to live together: the stern, witty ex-teacher Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur), the sweet but fantastically dense Rose Nylund (Betty White) and southern hornbag Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan). At first it’s a matter of convenience, but before long, they become fast friends. During the pilot they’re joined by a fourth: Dorothy’s mother Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty), a nitpicky little shrew whose ability to cockblock our heroines saw her gradually become the Scrappy-Doo of the house. (Don’t @ me, Goldies, you know I’m right.)
For a comedy that primarily took place within a Floridian kitchen, The Golden Girls boasted some serious talent. The four leads were all astoundingly adept at their craft.
The golden girls themselves proved that the family you make is sometimes stronger than the one you’re born with. Dorothy, Rose and Blanche feel, at times, aged out of their previous lives. Careers, spouses, the world: all seem to be pushing them away. But the girls are proof that you can – and should – forge new bonds, even if it seems like your old life is done for. That you can make a new family, even if your old one rejects you.
The Golden Girls pulled back the curtains on ageing, showing the ways in which old people can be flawed, passionate, monumentally stupid, brave – even at times, almost heroically horny. And it did so with an almost reckless willingness to be as wildly funny as it possibly could.
The show ended up doing what many sitcoms do: use antagonism as heat to push the plot forward. It takes truly hack writers to defend needless antagonism as the only source of fuel to propel a story (I’m looking at you, post-Sorkin West Wing). The last two seasons of The Golden Girls aren’t terrible, but Sophia morphs from an old lady without boundaries to an ancient sociopathic prankster. But even with this odd acceleration towards a caricatured sitcom event horizon, the show still manages to roll out the hits. The two-part finale, written by Mitch Hurwitz (the creator of Arrested Development) and starring Leslie Nielsen as Dorothy’s love interest, ranks as some of the best in the show’s history.
It also has – and I cannot stress this enough – the best sitcom theme song in the history of sitcom theme songs. In 2023, there are few things that will haul you out of whatever psychic muck you find yourself in than whacking on an episode of The Golden Girls. I promise you, once the credits roll, you’ll find yourself lying on the lanai in your mind, feeling somehow much lighter than you did before.
Disponível em: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/aug/02/goldengirls-tv-sitcom-enduring-joy-dorothy-rose-betty-white-blanche. Accessed: 06 February 2024.
QUESTÃO
According to the title, the tv show The Golden Girls is:
A drama that will sadden the watcher.
A comedy that will animate the watcher.
A romance between elderly people that will soften the watcher’s heart.
A science fiction that will change the watcher’s perception about getting old.
🔐 Gabarito (clique para revelar)
🧭 Leitura orientada
A questão direciona explicitamente para o título do texto: “The enduring joy of Golden Girls: a wildly sassy sitcom that will always cheer you up”. Portanto, a resposta deve ser construída a partir da função avaliativa do título, que antecipa o gênero e o efeito do programa sobre o espectador.
A banca testa vocabulário avaliativo (joy, cheer you up, sitcom) e a habilidade de inferência direta, sem necessidade de leitura aprofundada do corpo do texto.
🔍 Análise alternativa por alternativa (com pegadinhas)
(A) ❌ Errada
Pegadinha: oposição semântica direta.
O título fala em “joy” e “cheer you up”,
o que contradiz completamente a ideia de
um drama que entristece o espectador.
(B) ✅ Correta — (gabarito)
Pegadinha: nenhuma — leitura literal.
O termo “sitcom” define o gênero como comédia,
e a expressão “will always cheer you up”
indica claramente que o programa
anima e eleva o humor do espectador.
(C) ❌ Errada
Pegadinha: extrapolação temática.
Embora haja relações afetivas entre personagens,
o título não caracteriza a série como romance,
nem enfatiza “softening the heart” como efeito principal.
(D) ❌ Errada
Pegadinha: gênero completamente incompatível.
Não há qualquer referência a
ficção científica.
A menção ao envelhecimento ocorre em tom
cômico e realista, não especulativo.
🧠 Resumo B3GE™ Master
✔ Sitcom = comédia televisiva.
✔ Cheer you up = animar, levantar o astral.
✔ Título funciona como guia interpretativo do texto.
✔ Questão de leitura direta, sem inferência complexa.
🔎 Gabarito confirmado: (B)