The Golden Girls

Vacation

Season 2, Episode 8, Aired 11/29/86

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The girls' dream vacation in the Caribbean turns out to be far from what was advertised in the brochure, as they get stuck in a cheap motel, sharing the bathroom with three men. Meanwhile, with the girls away, Sophia begins a romance with the gardener.

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Betty White

Rose Nylund
Bea Arthur

Dorothy Zbornak
Rue McClanahan

Blanche Devereaux

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The girls go on vacation and wind up sharing a room with three jerks.

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By tvFanatic2008, Oct 09, 2006 Report Abuse

Not only did I not like the whole vacation story, but the three rude guys just made it worse. The whole storyline was not funny. It was more background information as we learned new things about the girls as they sat around the fire waiting for the guys to get back. I really didn't even enjoy Sophia and the chinese man. It could have been a lot funnier, but I think they cut it off too soon. All in all, not my favorite episode at all.moreless

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Trivia
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- Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose along with their three male counterparts are supposedly involved in a storm and a shipwreck. Yet when they finally run onto the island, their hair and clothes are completely dry, with the exception of Dorothy's pants. Edit
- In a future episode we find out that Dorothy has a serious fear of flying. However, she has no problem in taking a flight in this episode. Edit
- Tom Villard who plays Rick in this episode returns in a seventh season episode entitled Rose: Portrait of a Woman playing Dorothy's ex-student who offers her a job. Many may know him from 1991 movie My Girl starring Macaulay Culkinin as the hippie student in Vada's writing class. Sadly, Mr. Villard passed away from AIDS related pneumonia in 1994. Edit
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- This episode was videotaped on August 22, 1986.
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- Tom Villard, who plays Rick in this episode, would later appear in the Golden Girls episode "Rose: Portrait of a Woman." Edit
- The background shot during the closing credits features Dorothy, Rose and Blanche smiling around the campfire. Edit
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- Ramone: You Americans! You measure everything by the almighty dollar! Rose: We're trying to learn the metric system, but it isn't easy! Edit
- Sophia: It will be nice to have the house to myself. I can vacuum in the nude! Edit
- Sophia: (to Mr. Mitsumo) I know you look at me and think I'm a girl who gets around. Edit
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