Golden Girls Wiki
Advertisement
Golden Girls Wiki
The Golden Girls Wiki
809
pages
in: Subpages, Incomplete, A to Z,
and 4 more

And Ma Makes Three

Sign in to edit
Synopsis
Transcript
Gallery
"It's like we say in St. Olaf, Christmas without fruitcake is like St. Sigmund's Day without the headless boy."

This article is incomplete. You can help the Golden Girls Wiki by expanding it.

And Ma Makes Three is the twentieth episode of the third season of The Golden Girls and the seventy-first episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Winifred Hervey, the episode premiered on NBC-TV on February 20th, 1988.

Summary[]

With all her friends either dying or moving away, Sophia becomes the "third wheel" in Dorothy's latest relationship, and acts as a chaperone on their dates.

Plot[]

Sophia is blue after her last best friend “Bernice” has moved away + her other friends (Gladys went to live with her daughter, Eddy got married, Alice died, Lillian’s still around, but she thinks she’s pinky lee), so Dorothy feeling sorry for her, lets come on the golfing date with Raymond her current boyfriend. However, in the days that follow Sophia clings to them, Dorothy tries dumping her but fails so Raymond suggests a trip to the Bahamas, which Sophia invites herself.

That night Dorothy doesn't know what to do, she's thinking about canceling the trip, Rose tries to help with a story from a comic strip which fails, also has her hitting Sophia on the door. The next day Sophia is packing but not for the Bahamas she went to the centre and made some new friends and they are going to Cancun, Dorothy thinks she's pretending and so Dorothy decides to end it with Raymond feeling that Sophia needs her more.

Blanche and Rose have been competing with each other to Fashion Show Chair, only to lose to a woman who's husband offered cheap liposuction. Sophia is waiting for her ride, Dorothy tries to get her to stop lying only for the doorbell to ring and Sophia's new friends are waiting, Dorothy is shocked realising she underestimates her Mother.[1]

Tall Tales[]

Picture It...[]

To be added.

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Stars[]

  • James Karen as Raymond
  • Frank Smith as Duncan
  • Steven M Porter as Waiter

Notes[]

  • Sophia's friend Lillian from the small description might be the same Lillian who later appears in "Sophia's Choice".[2]
  • This is the first episode where a sidewalk from the driveway is evident. It makes no sense in relation to the home's interior, but at least it shows a way into the house.

Goofs[]

  • When Sophia packs for her trip, she folds a blue shirt twice.
  • When Raymond asks Sophia if she's played before, her hand is on the door frame. In the next shot, she is gesturing with this same hand.
  • Rose puts at least two pancakes on the plate, but when Blanche takes it there is only one.

Site Navigation[]

V - E - H
List of The Golden Girls episodes

Season 1 The Engagement • Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding • Rose the Prude • Transplant • The Triangle • On Golden Girls • The Competition • Break-In • Blanche and the Younger Man • The Heart Attack • The Return of Dorothy's Ex • The Custody Battle • A Little Romance • That Was No Lady • In a Bed of Rose's • The Truth Will Out • Nice and Easy • The Operation • Second Motherhood • Adult Education • The Flu • Job Hunting • Blind Ambitions • Big Daddy • The Way We Met
Season 2 End of the Curse • Ladies of the Evening • Take Him, He's Mine • It's a Miserable Life • Isn't It Romantic • Big Daddy's Little Lady • Family Affair • Vacation • Joust Between Friends • Love, Rose • 'Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas • The Sisters • The Stan Who Came to Dinner • The Actor • Before and After • And Then There Was One • Bedtime Story • Forgive Me, Father • Long Day's Journey into Marinara • Whose Face is This, Anyway? • Dorothy's Prized Pupil • Diamond in the Rough • Son-in-Law Dearest • To Catch a Neighbor • A Piece of Cake • Empty Nests
Season 3 Old Friends • One for the Money • Bringing Up Baby • The Housekeeper • Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself • Letter to Gorbachev • Strange Bedfellows • Brotherly Love • A Visit from Little Sven • The Audit • Three on a Couch • Charlie's Buddy • The Artist • Blanche's Little Girl • Dorothy's New Friend • Grab That Dough • My Brother, My Father • Golden Moments, Part 1 • Golden Moments, Part 2 • And Ma Makes Three • Larceny and Old Lace • Rose's Big Adventure • Mixed Blessings • Mister Terrific • Mother's Day
Season 4 Yes, We Have No Havanas • The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo • The One That Got Away • Yokel Hero • Bang the Drum, Stanley • Sophia's Wedding, Part 1 • Sophia's Wedding, Part 2 • Brother, Can You Spare That Jacket • Scared Straight • Stan Takes a Wife • The Auction • Blind Date • The Impotence of Being Ernest • Love Me Tender • Valentine's Day • Two Rode Together • You Gotta Have Hope • Fiddler On the Ropes • Till Death Do We Volley • High Anxiety • Little Sister • Sophia's Choice • Rites of Spring • Foreign Exchange • We're Outta Here, Part 1 • We're Outta Here, Part 2
Season 5 Sick and Tired, Part 1 • Sick and Tired, Part 2 • The Accurate Conception • Rose Fights Back • Love Under the Big Top • Dancing in the Dark • Not Another Monday • That Old Feeling • Comedy of Errors • All That Jazz • Ebb Tide • Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas • Mary Has a Little Lamb • Triple Play • Clinton Avenue Memoirs • Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom • An Illegitimate Concern • 72 Hours • Twice In a Lifetime • Sisters and Other Strangers • Cheaters • The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present • All Bets Are Off • The President's Coming! The President's Coming!, Part 1 • The President's Coming! The President's Coming!, Part 2
Season 6 Blanche Delivers • Once, In St. Olaf • If At Last You Do Succeed • Snap Out Of It • Wham, Bam, Thank You Mammy • Feelings • Zborn Again • How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia? • Mrs. George Devereaux • Girls Just Wanna Have Fun... Before They Die • Stand By Your Man • Ebbtide's Revenge • The Bloom Is Off the Rose • Sisters of the Bride • Miles to Go • There Goes the Bride, Part 1 •There Goes the Bride, Part 2 • Older and Wiser • Melodrama • Even Grandmas Get the Blues • Witness • What a Difference a Date Makes • Love for Sale • Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home, Part 1 • Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home, Part 2 • Henny Penny — Straight, No Chaser
Season 7 Hey, Look Me Over • The Case of the Libertine Belle • Beauty and the Beast • That's For Me to Know • Where's Charlie? • Mother Load • Dateline: Miami • The Monkey Show, Part 1 • The Monkey Show, Part 2 • Ro$e Love$ Mile$ • Room Seven • From Here to the Pharmacy • The Pope's Ring • Old Boyfriends • Goodbye, Mr. Gordon • The Commitments • Questions and Answers • Ebbtide VI: The Wrath of Stan • Journey to the Center of Attention • A Midwinter Night's Dream, Part 1 • A Midwinter Night's Dream, Part 2 • Rose: Portrait of a Woman • Home Again, Rose, Part 1 • Home Again, Rose, Part 2 • One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, Part 1 •One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, Part 2

References[]

  1. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 3, Episode 20, “And Ma Makes Three”. Hervey, Winifred (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (February 20th, 1988)
  2. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 4, Episode 22, “Sophia’s Choice”. Gamble, Tracy and Vaczy, Richard (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (April 15th, 1989)
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
Advertisement