Sitcoms in the 80s for most lgbtq communities, it was a very dark time. seems, you had a transfusion while you were there. the hospital thinks the blood may have contained hiv antibodies. hiv? wait a minute. you re talking about aids. the golden girls being about older characters gave the show license to go further. and really, show how the women reacted to important issues. dammit, why is this happening to me? i mean, this isn t supposed to happen to people, like me. you must ve gone to bed with hundreds of men. blanch says a line that i think america needed to hear which is aids is not a bad persons disease, rose. it is not god punishing people for their sins. you re right, blanch. well, you re damn straight i m right. it was something that, in 1990, so many people needed to hear and the golden girls were
fr friends sitcom. it happens when we sit at a moment which divorce rates were rising. we seem to be going downhill in life s most important venture, marriage. do you compare everybody to your ex-wife? sure i do and compare blanch, everyone looks good. they began to explore the breakup of the family on television. two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy. the perfect opening to a sitcom was, of course, the odd couple opening, which told all the back story and set it up in this beautiful way. felix was asked to remove himself from this place of residence. that request came from his life. the odd couple was a neal simon play on broadway and became a movie ex came to television in 1970, thanks to garry marshall. would you do me a favor? what?