The Golden Girls (TV Series) Strange Bedfellows (1987) User Reviews

Strange Bedfellows (#3.7)

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 18 January 2014]

The girls are helping the politician Gil Kessler with his election campaign. Blanche goes to bring him some papers and is caught on a photograph entering his place. Next day the press says that they had an affair and Gil confirms it. The other 3 don't believe Blanche. She makes Gil come clean and he has some more news.

A pretty good episode. For once I was all on Blanche's side. It is even weird the others wouldn't believe her. John Shuck was good in this role. I even felt bad for him.

His second secret was a bit of a shocker and in a way I was hoping he would stay in the election and win it after it. But I guess it was too early for the 80's, it is even too early for today!

Funny episode, Blanche gets thr moral high ground.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 2 May 2023]

The girls are helping politician Gil Kessler to get elected as City Councillor, but he's a somewhat anonymous figure, until he's snapped with Blanche in a compromising situation, when Blanche denies it, the girls don't believe her.

A pretty funny episode, maybe not a classic, but good, some funny one liners, and a bit of conflict, for once it's Blanche who's the injured party.

You have to laugh at the way Blanche enjoyed the limelight. Sophia and her hunches, that was a riot.

John Schuck does a good job as Gil, one of those actors that seems to have been around forever and a day, he's good here.

There's something in this storyline, when Gil states that people are taking notice of him for his supposed romps with Blanche, I think that it's quite relevant in this day and age.

7/10.

Silly puddy, Rose!

[mark.waltz · 8/10 · 29 September 2019]

Bea Arthur has one of the best line delivery talents in show business, giving the perfect pause before speaking her line and letting it land with a thud. John Schuck ("MacMillan and Wife") guest stars as Gil Kessler, a city council candidate whom the ladies are supporting, and a misunderstanding has Blanche being accused of having an affair with him. Meanwhile, Sophia has suspicions about him but can't pinpoint what is wrong, and boy, is the revelation unexpected. This is one of the funniest episodes of the series, with politics mixed in with the comedy and the set-up to the revelation leads to a hysterical series of gags that may have first time viewers choking in laughter.