Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Thank you for being a fan : 40 years of the Golden girls
  • Part I. Industry and historical context. "Picture it, U.S. 2020..." : Sitcom nostalgia during the pandemic / Kate Fortmueller
  • Interview : meet our special guests and their little slice of The golden girls
  • Disney's renaissance woman : Susan Harris, the Golden girls, and Touchstone Television / Peter C. Kunze
  • Interview : creating The golden girls
  • Miami thrice : The golden girls in rerun syndication / Taylor Cole Miller
  • Interview : "thank you for being a friend"
  • Golden memories : narrative complexity and flashback episodes in The golden girls / Jessica Hoover
  • Interview : the weekly schedule : taping seasons 1-3
  • Part II. Texts. Enquiring minds : the Golden girls and tabloid culture / Claire Sewell
  • Interview : the weekly schedule : writing seasons 5-7
  • I need a cheesecake : 1980s diet culture and the Golden girls / Ashleé Clark
  • Interview : memorable moments with the girls
  • "AIDS is not a bad person's disease, Rose" : contagion and comedy on The Golden girls / Andrew J. Owens
  • Interview : photographing the girls
  • Sex and the "biddy" : an examination of age and sexual performance in The golden girls / Jared Clayton Brown
  • Interview : editing and laughter
  • Thank you for being a mom : contradictory lessons in mothering from The golden girls / Beth L. Boser
  • Interview : the myth of ad-libbing and the great herring war
  • Part III. Audiences and reception. Golden girlfriends : Black women's fandom and the implicit Blackness of the Golden girls / Alfred L. Martin, Jr.
  • Interview : on Bea and Betty
  • Smut upon a time in Miami : the Golden girls' camp comedy / Ken Feil
  • Interview : why The golden girls is still popular
  • Thank you for making drag safe : mainstreaming queerness through live Golden girls stage productions / Eleanor Patterson
  • Interview : from The golden girls to The golden palace.