History Recap / TheGoldenGirlsS05E17AnIllegitimateConcern

-->'''Rose''': Strudel is our pet name for s-sex.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Consider the frequency of [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex Rose and Charlie having sex (seven to midnight, five to seven AM, and until noon on Sundays)]], the length of time Charlie was in {{Cuckold}} after what he did with a farmer's daughter, as Rose confides to Blanche, can count.
-->'''Rose''': I was so mad, I refused to serve strudel for a year.

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Rose's account of her participation in the Miss St. Olaf beauty pageant in 1951 includes the evening gown and log-rolling competition. Apparently the contestants do the log-rolling while wearing their evening gowns.

* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Sophia and Dorothy trying to look like ''[[Music/SonnyBono Sonny]]'' and ''Music/{{Cher}}'' doesn't garner the kind of recognition from Rose and Blanche that they hoped for.

* ShoutOut: To ''Music/SonnyBono'' and ''Music/{{Cher}}'' when Sophia and Dorothy don the clothing said duo wore during TheSixties. Their duet of choice was "I Got You, Babe".

* GoneHorriblyRight: When the young male visitor expresses difficulty stating what he wants to say, Blanche advises him to just say it quickly in one go. He does, but the statement contains news that Blanche is ''not'' prepared to handle.

* LikesOlderMen: Upon the young male visitor claiming to be too nervous to confides to the girls the reason for his visit, Blanche advises him to say it quickly in one go, citing a story that took place in her younger days in which she decided to dump the Captain of the [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball football]] team, whom she was seeing at the time. The guy she dumped him for was the ''coach''.

* RebuiltPedestal: Blanche comes to have reestablished faith in George after the events of the episode. An exchange near the end makes an explicit example of this.
-->'''Rose''': You're gonna have to find a way to forgive George.
-->'''Blanche''': I will forgive him. It'll just take a little time.
* RecognitionFailure: Sophia and Dorothy trying to look like ''[[Music/SonnyBono Sonny]]'' and ''Music/{{Cher}}'' doesn't garner the kind of recognition from Rose and Blanche that they hoped for.

Blanche is in for a shock when a young man approaches her and claims to be the illegitimate son of her late husband, George. Meanwhile, Sophia enlists Dorothy's help for a mother-daughter pageant at Shady Pines.

Blanche is in for a shock when a young man approaches her and claims to be the illegitimate son of her late husband, George. Meanwhile, Dorothy and Sophia enter a mother-daughter pageant at Shady Pines.

* LikesOlderMen: Upon the young male visitor claiming to be too nervous to confides to the girls the reason for his visit, Blanche advises him to say it quickly in one go, citing a story that took place in her younger days in which she decided to dump the Captain of the [[AmericanFootball football]] team, whom she was seeing at the time. The guy she dumped him for was the ''coach''.

-->'''David''': George Devauraux, your husband, was my father.

* SeductionProofMarriage: Blanche thought her marriage was without either of them succumbing to their own temptation, only for the arrival of George's illegitimate son to shatter such a belief of hers.

* CurseCutShort: Blanche does this at the end the episode as she looks at a picture of her late husband, George, after learning that he had fathered a child with a mistress.
-->'''Blanche''': You son of a... you put me through all this, and I could've had Andy Rooney.

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