Golden Girls- "I Think I'm Pregnant"

Sophia reveals to Dorothy why she's saving up so much money

*From the episode "Rose Strikes Back" (Season 5)*

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• golden
• girls
• nbc
• bea
• arthur
• betty
• white
• rue
• mclanahan
• estelle
• getty

[ptboy18]

I don't get the rabbit part???

[LorettaSwitFan1]

"what happened? The rabbit died laughing!?"

sound's alot like MAUDE... (season: 1, disc: 2, Episode: "Maude's Dilemma - Part 1") when Maude (Bea Arthur) tell's her best friend, Vivian (Rue McClanahan) that she's pregnant...

Maude: "There's no mistake, Vivian, the rabbit died... Laughing, no doubt!!"

LMAO!! too funny!! :)

[TheBubbleGlasses]

The rabbit died laughing! LOL :DDDDD!!!!

[te4888]

@ptboy18 a rabbit is a symbol of fertility. so back in the day a rabbit would be used to test if a woman is pregnant or not.

[MaraZys]

thanks to everyone explaining the rabbit part :)

[nosuchpersonvideo]

1 - Maude is not a movie. It was a 1970s sitcom that also starred Bea and Rue

2- The rabbit joke comes from an old practice for testing for pregnancy. Look it up, because it isn't nice or pretty.

[2012nebula]

This is so sad...I'm a golden girl fanatic...yet I don't remember this scene at all!

[cutiekiska]

@LorettaSwitFan1 Are a lot of jokes associated with that movie?

[GFMarshallx1]

@ptboy18 Back before we had the medical science needed to isolate pregnancy (or any) hormones specifically, they did what was called the "rabbit test". They took the urine of the woman in question and exposed it to the reproductive tract of the female rabbit. The excess/deficiency of estrogen etc would develop the rabbit ovaries so that you could tell if the woman was pregnant. This sitcom was from the 80s so there were still quite a percentage of the population who used this.

[GFMarshallx1]

@fontenayperi Back before we had the medical science needed to isolate pregnancy (or any) hormones specifically, they did what was called the "rabbit test". They took the urine of the woman in question and exposed it to the reproductive tract of the female rabbit. The excess/deficiency of estrogen etc would develop the rabbit ovaries so that you could tell if the woman was pregnant. This sitcom was from the 80s so there were still quite a percentage of the population who used this.

[blueandwhite72]

@hailzmarie1 It's referring to Bea Arthur's show "Maude" from the 70s.

[fontenayperi]

i don't get this rabbit joke?