Category: The Golden Girls
Hulu Pulled An Episode Of “The Golden Girls” Over A “Blackface” Scene
Because of the Black Lives Matter movement, Hollywood has finally started to make some changes and also take a Magic Eraser to racist messiness from its past. HBO Max put a disclaimer in front of Gone with the Wind, Tina Fey got the streamers to pull four episodes of 30 Rock with blackface in it, and Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate announced they were no longer going to voice Black cartoon characters. And now Disney-ABC has taken performative allyship to new levels of HUH? by coming for a “make” moment in The Golden Girls. They have pulled an episode over “blackface.” Megyn Kelly has said that she’s a huge fan of Golden Girls, so as a fan of both the show and also of blackface, this must really be something she feels passionately about.
Open Post: Hosted By “The Golden Girls” Action Figures (!!!)
Why did the cool toys only come out AFTER I entered middle age?!?! Logo reports that the most exciting project to be unveiled at this year’s Comic-Con is the trailer for NOTHING. It’s toys! Picture it, San Diego, 2018 – Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche, Rose. The Golden Girls are now action figures! You (and I guess your kids, but they’ll have no idea what to do with elderly female action figures, so probably just them to you) can now own the four sassiest ladies in Dade County. And they are expensive. But c’mon, to actually have them in your home is priceless! (They better come with a plastic cheesecake.)
The new Golden Girls set is already available for pre-order for $114.99, and it will hit store shelves in the first quarter of next year.
Will there be an “out on the lanai” playset?
The figures are “highly articulated” so you can imagine and act out all of those sexy Blanche scenes that they couldn’t show on NBC in the 80’s. There’s no Mel Bushman figure yet, so you might have to settle for pairing her with G.I. Joe.
Pic: Instagram
“Silver Foxes” (AKA “The Golden Gays”) Might Not Happen Due To Ageist Homophobia
Silver Foxes, the Golden Girls homage featuring old gay dudes, is lying dead out on the lanai. And Hollywood bigotry is to blame! (I’m with you, because I, too, figured that it wasn’t happening because Bea Arthur looked down from the higher plane that she’s surely ruling and snarled “You’re replacing me with Bruce f**king Vilanch?” Continue reading