Whenever they would try to make economic anxiety part of the plotline (like, if there was something they couldn't afford), I'd always think, "Well, maybe if you didn't spend every weekday sitting around your house, you wouldn't have to worry!" (Not to mention that every other week they attend some formal charity benefit in beaded gowns, not something I usually associate with people on tight budgets.) One thing I love is how these women seem to have the lightest work schedules of all time. but how hard would it have been to give Dorothy or Blanche one line in the hospital like, "I finally tracked down Miles in Europe, he's trying to get on the first plane back"? Things like that really made it seem like sometimes the writers just didn't give a shit. but if somebody is going in for triple-bypass surgery, don't you think you at least make an EFFORT to get in touch with their boyfriend who they almost got engaged to recently? I know why they didn't want him actually in the episode- it was the second-to-last one and it was supposed to be about the close bond of the four girls, not about Rose and Miles. They have a feeble line in the beginning of the episode where Rose says she can go to the high school reunion because "Miles is out of town". and that his daughter comes to visit but we later find out he's in the witness protection program and can't let any family or friends know where he is.ĪFTER the Cheeseman is arrested and he leaves the witness protection program, he not only continues to go by the alias "Miles Webber" (instead of his real name, Nicholas Carbone) but he even continues to work as a college professor, a job for which he apparently had no training or credentials in the first place.Īnd beyond all that factual stuff, it's really pretty callous that when Rose has a heart attack and might die, nobody fucking picks up the phone to call Miles. In addition to the previously mentioned facts that Harold Gould had already played Arnie, the first guy Rose lets into her widowed vagine. But she was so perfect as a young Bea Arthur, it's completely forgivable.Įverything about Miles was one of the most glaring inconsistencies of all. Lyn Green was the appropriate age in the flashback scenes."Īlthough Greene does play high-school age Dorothy in a flashback when Dorothy announces to Sophia that she's pregnant. "Dorothy was in her 60's during the GG, which was the late 80's, so she would have been in her 20's in the late 40's. and Blanche's young stepmother (or did Big Daddy divorce her?). and Blanche's sons Skippy and whatever other boys she mentioned over the years. Or, at least you're impressed until you realize that they forgot to even address the absence of Blanche's sister Charmaine. It was so flagrant that you actually find yourself impressed, on the episode with Big Daddy's funeral,that the writers remembered to include Blanche's sister Virginia and that the casting directors could even be bothered to pick up the phone and book Sheree North, the same actress who had played her previously. Phil and Gloria didn't come to their mother's wedding (unless we're supposed to believe that, due to Rose's "mixing up the invitation lists", they showed up a few days later at a meeting of the Hunk-A-Hunk-A Burnin' Love Unauthorized Elvis Fan Club). not only did Dorothy's kids not come to her wedding to Leslie Nielsen, they didn't even come to Dorothy and Stan's wedding, when their own parents were re-marrying each other. Seriously, it was like nobody ever showed up for anything. Phil's own KIDS didn't show up for his funeral!