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The concept of this show was great - three couples of different ethnic backgrounds living together in a nondenominational suburb. Some of the episodes were hysterical! The one I remember best was when Will (Matthew Letscher) proposed his hand in marriage to Becca (Melinda McGraw). However, since Becca wanted a Jewish wedding, Will had to convert, but "What about my...shmeckel?" Shelly Berman guest starred as the mohel. It is too bad the series got cancelled, but what do you expect in a society where humour is equated with potentially offensive material, leaving only the drek that fills most of the available prime time airtime? Exactly.

This is the story of Pierre Brochant (Thierry Lhermitte), a Parisian who organizes a monthly idiot dinner. Whoever brings the biggest idiot to the dinner wins the prize! On this occasion, he decides to bring Francois Pignon (Jacques Villeret), an eccentric goof who builds monuments out of matchsticks as his hobby. Without giving away much of the plot, at the end of the movie, audiences are left wondering which one is actually the bigger idiot. Between the slapstick, the dialogue, and the Abbott and Costello references (remember Marlene Sasoeur?), I laughed nearly nonstop throughout the whole movie! Just don't drink a king size soft drink before watching...

Picture it. Miami. 1985. A middle aged schoolteacher named Dorothy Zbornak (Beatrice Arthur) has recently ended her 38-year marriage. Meanwhile, her elderly mother named Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty), who recently suffered a stroke, recently became homeless after her nursing home burned down. Together with Rose Nylund (Betty White), they move in with Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan), and the rest is history. Dorothy played the straight woman to Rose's good natured ditziness, Blanche's nymphomania, and Sophia's old world wisdom. With four older women as its key performers, The Golden Girls could get away with being one of the dirtiest comedies ever aired on prime time television. Not many writers from other series would have had the gaul to incorporate "slut," "shmuck," and various references to sexuality and homosexuality into the script. It was also one of the funniest. Besides the one-liners (ie. "A toilet in front of the television? It's an old lady's dream!"), the friendly hostility expressed by the characters, especially Sophia, was all the more reason to watch. Other noteworthy characters included Dorothy's ex-husband Stan (Herb Edelman), the priest Uncle Angelo (Bill Dana), and Burt Reynolds as himself ("If I'm not, I must be wearing the wrong underwear"). And who could forget Rose's St. Olaf stories...