User Reviews

"Jack, Jack no trade back!" Another great Bernice-ism for the ages. Not quite up there with "Black man, black man" or "Put that on your pulpit and smoke it". The Bernice segments are of course very funny, but the Payne story is rather soapy and sentimental, and very close to what went on with Dorothy's son, Michael went through on "Golden Girls"when he split up with his wife. The episode is told through flashback to show what happened when Alison and Carlene met Bernice for the first place. It makes it appear that while reading this episode, they realize that they had made a boo-boo and not showing how this meeting took place and decided to incorporate it in a new episode. It's an amusing situation, but seems rather forced. As far as the Payne situation is concerned, it's sweet, but it makes Julia seem very clingy. "That's what happens when you're a mother. You want your children to grow up to be independent yet need you desperately", Mary Jo explains for why mothers continue to be overly motherly when their kids come home for a visot, and it takes a lot of coup searching for Julia to decide how deal with this issue. It's embarrassingly sentimental, one of the maudlin elements of the elements that could be as cringy as the ultra liberal agendas that make people either love or hate the show.