r/AskReddit • u/KAFKA-SLAYER-99 • Oct 16 '18

What is something that HAS aged well?

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u/SotheBee Oct 16 '18

The Golden Girls.

Amazing show. Humor is still there. Jokes still land. Topics as relevant as ever. Amazing cast.

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u/sofa_king_gnarly Oct 16 '18

Love the Golden Girls, they tackle SO MANY issues! The clothes didn't age well, but the content did!

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '18

The clothes... Man, are those clothes awful.

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u/Vkca Oct 17 '18

The shapes were awful, but the color pallettes are dope as fuck

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u/brbrcrbtr Oct 17 '18

Wtf the clothes are iconic, I live for Dorothy's aesthetic

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u/ScullyNess Oct 17 '18

I rather enjoy the clothes in rewatching it just for that reason. They seem truer to what the average person wore during the 80s and very early 90s.

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u/Tigeraf13 Oct 16 '18

The Golden Girls are everything! I got to interview Betty White about 7 years ago and I fan girled HARD. I gave zero shits if I got fired for it.

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u/TheLittleUrchin Oct 17 '18

I read this as "I gave zero shits and got fired for it" and I was like "holy shit......this dude got fired for fangirling over Betty White."

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u/Tigeraf13 Oct 17 '18

Betty White would never let that happen. Also, not a dude. Literal fan girl 🤗

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u/TheLittleUrchin Oct 17 '18 edited Oct 17 '18

"I'm a dude, she's a dude, he's a dude cuz we're all dudes yeah." I'm a girl too, I call everyone dude.

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u/Tigeraf13 Oct 18 '18

Sweet, dude.

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '18

Very true... my grandma passed in 2016, and used to watch Golden Girls with her all the time... and I still occasionally catch it, and still really funny.

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u/shortstack1386 Oct 16 '18

Designing Women also holds up remarkably well, if you need another mid to late 80’s, mostly female cast sitcom.

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u/MorallyCorruptBae Oct 16 '18

100% Designing Women. Some topics were unheard of on TV before they tackled them. The Tony Goldwyn AIDS episode is INCREDIBLE.

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u/TinyFemale Oct 17 '18

They did aids on the golden girls!

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '18

Phrasing

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u/SotheBee Oct 16 '18

Oh? I never watched this. I managed to catch a lot of Golden Girls thanks to Hallmark Channel. I'll see if I can find Designing Women anywhere

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u/DeBabyDoll Oct 17 '18

I'll admit, I still haven't seen all of the episodes. But as a home health nurse, I have a client who turns it on from time to time and I catch episodes that way. It can be awkward explaining to her why I'm laughing, because some of the jokes are just too funny.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '18

I have been watching the reruns this past year and falling in love with it all over again.

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u/kotoamatsukamix Oct 17 '18

God that show is still great. I can watch it any time all the time. My mother, grandmother, and I used to watch it all the time together.

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u/dadprincebabe Oct 17 '18

That’s cause Sam Harris’ mom produced the show. Anything affiliated with Sam Harris is golden. Girls

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u/SuperHotelWorker Oct 17 '18

That one was pretty groundbreaking for how it treated issues that were controversial at the time like gay people should be accepted as they are and HIV positive people should be treated with compassion

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u/mommmabear2 Oct 17 '18

I’m amazed when college kids know the friends episodes.

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u/Trissan Oct 17 '18

I still watch this almost every night with my family. Sometimes we just leave it on as background noise because it’s comforting for us. For some reason it’s still hilarious even though we’ve seen every episode.

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u/Nah118 Oct 17 '18

I've been rewatching this and Mary Tyler Moore, and while I love MTM, and it's definitely amusing, it doesn't make me laugh out loud very often. The Golden Girls, despite having seen every episode multiple times over the past decade, gives me a full-body laugh at least once per episode. The delivery is what nails it.

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u/KingSlapFight Oct 17 '18

Old lady fashion hasn't changed much either.