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Recap / The Golden Girls S 04 E 01 Yes We Have No Havanas

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Blanche and Sophia are caught in a love triangle with an elderly Cuban cigar mogul. Rose enrolls in an adult education course taught by Dorothy.


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  • Back to School: Rose explains that she never actually finished high school because she developed a case of mono and was too ill to attend. She ends up enrolling in a class taught by Dorothy to get her diploma.
  • Book Dumb: Besides being a Cloud Cuckoolander, Rose never finished high school and struggles in Dorothy’s class, which she just barely passes when she recognizes her high school gym teacher as Eva Braun.
  • Embarrassing Roommate Teacher: Inverted. When Dorothy teaches a class for adults that never received their high school diplomas, she discovers that Rose is one of her students. Rose never graduated high school because of a nasty case of mono in her senior year, and felt too embarrassed to get it later until she saw that Dorothy would be teaching her.
  • Everyone Has Standards: When Dorothy points out that Fidel was never with her, one of his girlfriends remarks that even he had standards.
  • Funeral Cut: In this episode, Blanche and Sophia end up dating the same man, Fidel Santiago, negotiating an uneasy truce over their schedules with him. One night, they both have plans with Fidel at the same time and start arguing over who he'll go out with—only for Dorothy, who's just gotten a phone call, to tell them that he won't be going anywhere. Cut to Sophia in Widow's Weeds sighing "We killed him" at his funeral, which is attended by every other woman (at least twenty) that Fidel was seeing simultaneously.
  • Historical In-Joke: Rose's high school history teacher may or may not have been Adolf Hitler after he faked his death and was hiding under an alias. Rose's high school gym teacher openly went by Eva Braun.
  • Kissing Cousins: Rose's excuse for making a fool of herself in front of Fidel is that her cousins have been marrying each other for generations.
  • Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a parody of the song "Yes! We Have No Bananas" by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn from the 1922 Broadway revue Make It Snappy.
  • Real Joke Name: Dorothy is teaching an adult education course at a local community center, and calls roll:
    Dorothy: Jorge Vega...Michael Fachik...Jim Shu—"Jim Shu?" Oh, ha ha, I get it. "Gym shoe." Very funny.
    (A Japanese-American man stands up)
    Japanese-American Man: Excuse me—I am Jim Shu.
    Dorothy: (Embarrassed) I'm terribly sorry. I thought you were pulling my leg!
  • Really Gets Around: To put it very lightly. Fidel's funeral is attended entirely by women, and it's soon revealed that he'd been with nearly every single one of them (the sole exceptions being Rose and Dorothy) while he was seeing Blanche and Sophia.
    Blanche: My God! He had his burro hitched to every bedpost in town!
  • Refuge in Audacity: There's really no other way to describe Rose's high school gym teacher openly identifying herself as Eva Braun.

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