Season

Season 2

by Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue Mcclanahan, Estelle Getty, Tony Thomas and 24 others

The second season of The Golden Girls premiered on NBC on September 27, 1986, and concluded on May 16, 1987. The season consisted of 26 episodes.

(22 total)

Characters

Blanche Devereaux (8)Rue Mcclanahan (8)Barry Fanaro (5)Kathy Speer (5)Mort Nathan (5)Bea Arthur (4)Estelle Getty (4)Betty White (4)Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak (4)Rose Nylund (4)

“After 80, every year without a headstone is a milestone!”

— Barry Fanaro, Mort Nathan, Terry Grossman, Kathy Speer, Sophia Petrillo, Estelle Getty, imdb.com

Tagged: old age, Milestone, Tombstone

“She's really a very sweet woman. She just doesn't like to show it.”

— Russell Marcus, Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak, Bea Arthur, imdb.com

Tagged: insults, sweet

“Oh, I remember when Stanley told me he was having an affair. It was at least 24 hours before I cut the crotches out of all his slacks.”

— Harriett Weiss, Pat Shea, Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak, Bea Arthur, imdb.com

Tagged: Cheating, Betrayal, Revenge

“Rose: Oh, Blanche, how do you feel about performing in front of a video camera? Blanche: I think it's okay as long as you've already had at least three dates.”

— Winifred Hervey, Rose Nylund, Betty White, imdb.com

Tagged: Porn, Homemade Porn, Performing, Double Entendres

“Everything I have, you try to steal. May the bags under your eyes grow so large your head falls in 'em!”

— Barry Fanaro, Mort Nathan, imdb.com

Tagged: Eye Bags, Curses

“Rose: You know, sometimes when people are under pressure, they sleep to escape. Sophia: Dorothy's father used to do that. Unfortunately it was usually during foreplay.”

— Jan Fischer, William Widener, Rose Nylund, Betty White, imdb.com

Tagged: Sex, Falling Asleep During Sex

“At my age, how much can I sin? What, I had an impure thought? I'd kill to have an impure thought.”

— Terry Grossman, Kathy Speer, imdb.com

Tagged: Sin, Impure Thoughts, Aging, Getting Older

“I slept with my two brothers until I was seventeen. I was engaged to one for a very short period of time, but that's a separate story.”

— Barry Fanaro, Mort Nathan, Terry Grossman, Kathy Speer, Blanche Devereaux, Rue Mcclanahan, imdb.com

Tagged: Incest

“They were all buying T-shirts, you know, the ones that say, ‘Today is the first day of the end of your life.’”

— Bob Rosenfarb, Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak, Bea Arthur, imdb.com

Tagged: T-Shirts, Mortality

“Blanche: I once was told I bore a striking resemblance to Miss Cheryl Ladd ... although my bosoms are perkier! Dorothy: Not even if you were hanging upside-down on a trapeze!”

— Barry Fanaro, Mort Nathan, Blanche Devereaux, Rue Mcclanahan, imdb.com

Tagged: Boob-Shaming, Cheryl Ladd, Charlie's Angels

“I feel that you have backed me into a corner, and when I am backed into a corner, I come out fightin' like a wildcat. Unless I've had too much to drink, in which case I slide down the wall and make mad passionate love on the carpet.”

— Scott Spencer Gordon, Blanche Devereaux, Rue Mcclanahan, imdb.com

Tagged: bragging, Drinking

“Eat dirt and die, trash.”

— Scott Spencer Gordon, Blanche Devereaux, Rue Mcclanahan, imdb.com

Tagged: insults

“Grandma Hollingsworth always said I was a little flighty…or was it a little floozy?”

— Winifred Hervey, Blanche Devereaux, Rue Mcclanahan, imdb.com

Tagged: Floozy, Flighty

“Sophia: For starters, Jean is a lesbian. Dorothy: Ma. Blanche: What's funny about that? Sophia: You aren't surprised? Blanche: Of course not. I mean I've never known any personally, but isn't Danny Thomas one? Dorothy: Not Lebanese, Blanche. Lesbian.”

— Jeffrey Duteil, Sophia Petrillo, Estelle Getty, imdb.com

Tagged: Lesbian, Lebanese, Misheard, Danny Thomas

“That child over there is trying to steal my daddy away. She ain't better but a tick on a slow-moving hound dog.”

— Russell Marcus, Blanche Devereaux, Rue Mcclanahan, imdb.com

Tagged: Southern Slang, Hound Dogs

“Dorothy: Ma, where are you going? Sophia: [on Mrs. Claxton] To throw some holy water on her. If she spits up pea soup and her head spins around, we're in big trouble!”

— Kathy Speer, Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak, Bea Arthur, imdb.com

Tagged: The Exorcist, Linda Blair, Demonic Possession, Holy Water

“Jean is a nice person. She happens to like girls instead of guys. Some people like cats instead of dogs. Frankly, I'd rather live with a lesbian than a cat. Unless a lesbian sheds; that I don't like.”

— Jeffrey Duteil, Sophia Petrillo, Estelle Getty, imdb.com

Tagged: Lesbians, Cat Ladies, Shedding, Hairballs

“Rose: Where are you going? Dorothy: To either get ice cream or commit a felony. I'll decide in the car.”

— Kathy Speer, Rose Nylund, Betty White, imdb.com

“Rose: I never grew a beard! Sophia: You never grew brains, either!”

— Susan Harris, Rose Nylund, Betty White, imdb.com

Tagged: beard, Brains, insults

“No one in my family has ever seen a psychiatrist...except of course, when they were institutionalized!”

— Susan Harris, Blanche Devereaux, Rue Mcclanahan, imdb.com

Tagged: Psychiatrist, Institutionalized