The Definitive "Golden Girls" Cultural Reference Guide

by Matt Browning

Overview

The Definitive Golden Girls Cultural Reference Guide is an in-depth look at the hundreds of topical references to people, places, and events that make up many of the funniest lines from the ever-popular television series, The Golden Girls. Over the course of seven seasons and 180 episodes, The Golden Girls was a consistent top 10 hit, yielding 68 Emmy nominations, multiple spin-off shows, and millions of lifelong devoted fans with its biting observations and timeless humor about such issues as dating, sex, marriage, divorce, race, gender equality, gay rights, menopause, AIDS, and more. Reruns are run on multiple cable networks daily and are streaming 24/7 on Hulu. This book brings 21^st Century viewers in on the joke while educating readers about pop culture and world events from the past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493060351
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	09/15/2021
Pages:	408
Sales rank:	503,864
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Matt Browning is a lifelong Golden Girls fan and aficionado who founded EmptyNestTV.com in 1998, which gets 10,000 visits per month and has nearly 6,000 Facebook and Twitter followers. He has a master’s degree and nearly two decades of experience in marketing and communications. He lives in South Charleston, West Virginia.

Editorial Reviews

12/01/2021

The Golden Girls has kept audiences laughing since 1985, and fans of all ages often wonder about the show's numerous cultural references. Enter Browning (founder of the blog Empty Nest TV, devoted to a Golden Girls companion series), who leaves no stone unturned in this exhaustively researched guide. Each of the show's seven seasons gets a section, in which each episode's references are explained. There are subject and episode title indexes and recurring subjects are cross-referenced, making it easy for new and longtime fans alike to look up even the most obscure mentions from Golden Girls. Some readers may need to do more research to fully grasp the humor of certain bons mots, but Browning's explanations of the references are concise and provide jumping-off points for topics from Baked Alaska to the Ziegfeld Follies. VERDICT A superb resource for popular culture and media studies collections; Golden Girls fans will be delighted.—Claire Sewell, Rice Univ., Houston, TX

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