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For what it's worth, the Sun Sentinel called it a 'classy Golden Girls rip-off' when it debuted in September 1986. http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/198...worth-thomason |
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![]() It's pretty hard to laugh at a TV show when the producers and writers are using the show to constantly force their political views down your throat. Golden Girls was great, Designing Women was garbage.
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![]() There wasn't much political views on Golden Girls.
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I know. I was talking about Designing Women. |
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Thanks, but not what I was looking for. I specifically quoted Big D In Charge to get their perspective as to why it was ripoff. That article does nothing except give examples of how both shows are similar. If two shows being similar is grounds to declare one a ripoff then there should be plenty of others that qualify as well.
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![]() I liked DW, but never got into it to the level I did GG. It wasn't quite as magical as GG at its peak.
The DW creator certainly looked to GG for inspiration, but I wouldn't call DW a "ripoff." It's like when "Friends" became popular- you saw other shows follow that mold/put their spin on it. Post-GG, we had DW, "Living Single," "Sex and the City," "Desperate Housewives," etc. Course, "The Facts of Life" had "The Power of 4," but it didn't start out that way. |
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I think that DW also doesn't hold up as well because it was at the end of the day, very much a product of the '80s. |
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The production of Designing Women was not a well oiled machine in the end. The Thomasons left the show to concentrate on Evening Shade and then became more concerned with getting Bill Clinton elected than the shows they were producing, which merely became platforms for them to (quite wrongly) broadcast Democrat propaganda. Delta Burke was an ill women, she was suffering a nervous breakdown, had eating problems and was being hounded by the press - rather than sit her down and tell her she needed help and write her out for half a season (as would happen today) the production outcast her and called 'difficult'. Annie Potts was promised her pregnancy would be written into season 6 and it wasn't, she was therefore told to cover it up and had bad storylines written for her that didn't involve her doing much. And Dixie Carter (a strong Republican) was forced to sprout more and more Democratic political mumbo jumbo in order to convince America to vote for Bill Clinton. All of this she would have found very difficult! |
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Can we be sure of this? GG premiered in September 1985; DW premiered only 1 year later. It's already been said that Linda based Julia and Suzanne on their characters in Filthy Rich, and Charlene and Mary Jo on characters from a project they were on together (I've forgotten the name but it's in Delta's book; I'd have to look it up). So it could be just a grand coincidence that the shows have similar personality types. |
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