Is there a Golden Girls 12-Step program?

I don’t think there’s been more than 10 nights in the last 8 years that I have gone without watching The Golden Girls in reruns. Rue, Betty, Estelle and Bea are constantly knocking on my brain to watch even more.

Lately, I’ve slowly weaned myself from watching their crazy antics, and trying to drive that energy into experiencing newer programs, and I now feel I’m tiring of them.

I’ll admit, watching the episodes over and over...and over throughout the years, it’s still quite unbelievable how the writing is still relevant to any situation today. It’s a show that was written for the 80’s, but the subject matter is still ahead of its time, and right on time.

So, here I am thinking about how I got to the point of GG addiction, and I’ve come up with a list that I think many of you GG fans out there may want to check off to see if you too are falling into the grasp of GG overdose:

The 10 signs that you are addicted to The Golden Girls:

1) You can’t go to sleep without watching at least one episode.

2) You find yourself working the one-liners from the show’s script into your everyday conversation.

3) You took a trip to the back lot of Disney Studios, so you could see the façade they used for outside cutaway scenes of the GG house.

4) You taped the GG Reunion that aired about 5 years ago, and kept it on your DVR to watch over and over for nearly a year after.

5) You attend every Broadway show that any of the ladies has been in since GG ended nearly 16 years ago.

6) You pre-ordered every DVD release of all 7 seasons of the show from Amazon.com, so that you could be the first to get it

7) You watch the shows and compare notes about what has changed since the pilot episode, and catch all the little inconsistencies in the scripts over the years. Like Blanche’s bedroom used to be where the lanai is, and how the island in the kitchen got bigger.

8) While watching other current TV shows or films, you see an actor or actress that was once featured on GG, and you abruptly point out to whoever’s within earshot, “Hey, they were on the GG!”

9) You play GG trivia on Lifetimetv.com and you cringe when you get one of the answers wrong, and you keep taking the test until you get them all correct.

10) You are desperately waiting for the day they release a DVD full of all the bloopers and outtakes from the show. (That day probably won’t come, but one can dream, can’t they?)

Okay, maybe one more #11 - you find yourself watching repeats of Roseanne as an excuse to not watch GG.

And another...#12 - you find yourself blogging about it!