"Big Daddy's Little Lady" is an episode in the second season of The Golden Girls.
Blanche's father reveals that he is getting married, with which Blanche takes issues. Meanwhile, Dorothy and Rose enter a songwriting contest.
Tropes:
- Call-Back: After Big Daddy says hello to Sophia, she jokingly tells the girls to, "Get out the boots, he's back!" She said that she needs boots to listen to Big Daddy the last time he visited.
- Least Rhymable Word: Dorothy and Rose try to write a song about Miami and struggle to find a good rhyme for "Miami," though Rose comes up with a few (and a Painful Rhyme or two). Later, they can't find a rhyme for "orange," though Rose somehow becomes convinced that "cheesecake" could work after misunderstanding Dorothy's proposition to eat some cheesecake.
- May–December Romance: There's anywhere from a 30-40 year age difference between Big Daddy and Margaret.
- Painful Rhyme: Dorothy and Rose are competing in a songwriting contest and can't find a rhyme for "Miami." Rose proposes words like "Mammy," "whammy," "Hootenanny," and "salami" (pronounced as "salammy"). Dorothy responds, "'Hootenanny' is marginal, and I refuse to accept 'salammy.'" (Dorothy is Italian-American after all.)
- Parent with New Paramour: Big Daddy's much younger fiancée.
- Second Love: Big Daddy discusses the agony of watching someone you love dearly die and what a blessing it is to find love after that. Blanche assumes he's talking about losing her mother, but he reveals that he's actually talking about his fiancée, who was also widowed and that they're both so happy to find love again that the age difference is irrelevant to them.
- Second Place Is for Losers: Dorothy and Rose reveal near the end of the episode that they won second place, but they show no enthusiasm doing so. It's justified because only the first-place winner(s) would get any prizes, as the girls' dialogue illustrates.Blanche: How did you do?
Rose: We won second place.
Blanche: What did you get?
Dorothy: Treated badly. They told us to get out of the way while they had the first-place winner take pictures with Anita Bryant.
