The Golden Girls (TV Series) Nice and Easy (1986) User Reviews

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[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 16 November 2022]

Blanche's twenty year old niece turns up for a visit, pretty and flirtatious, and one for the men, Blanche does her best to put her on the straight and narrow path.

This first series has been consistently good, and I've enjoyed the mix of stories, some are outlandishly funny, some, more focused on feasible family events, are a little more serious, just like this one.

It's a bit of a carbon copy of an earlier episode, the one in which Blanches wayward grandson turns up, causes mayhem, and leaves a reformed character, it's pretty much the same scenario here with Lucy, but it's a formula that works.

Definitely a few funny moments here, the wannabe Miami vice cop chatting away with Rose was very funny, and Rose in general was funny here, rattling in about heaven knows what.

7/10.

Another rude young relative of Blanche's

[LaverneandShirleysucks · 8/10 · 24 December 2021]

A few episodes prior we had Blanche's grandson come to visit but was back out the door within 5 minutes of arriving to go other places. The same happens with Blanche's niece when she enters, drops her bags and is back out the door before anyone can say "How are you?". But instead of making friends with the kids in the neighborhood like he did, she's taking all night boat rides with a doctor she met on the plane, flying off to the Bahamas with a college instructor the next day and picking up a vice cop who arrests the college instructor on the way home from the Bahamas. This all in occurs in the span of two days and it's implied that she slept with all of them.

Lucy sure gets around and Sophia puts it a lot more bluntly and funnier than that. I don't think it's wise to repeat the line here, but the line is hysterical when she matter of factly says it.

The only thing that bothered me was how on earth did the girls know where the vice cop lived in order to get Lucy? I guess they can call the police station for that, but I doubt they would have freely given out the address of one of their vice cops to anyone who called. All's well in the end after Blanche gives her a talking to and Lucy won't be so loosey anymore. Great episode.

Nice and Easy (#1.17)

[ComedyFan2010 · 6/10 · 10 January 2014]

Blanche's niece Lucy come over to deal with a university and has a great time dating men. All our girls, including Blanche are not happy about it and talk her out of it. And they also have a mouse living in the house. Dorothy wants to call an exterminator but Rose begs her not to do it, and Dorothy manages to talk the mouse into leaving.

I surely hated the main story. Shaming women for their sexuality. Sure, trying to be liked through sex is dumb. But why is it always the reason they present girls being "easy". Yeah, guys like to have fun, girls just want guys to like them, he he he.Sickening. Of course this is an 80's show, but I still hate it, and the idea remains in our society.

What made me rate this episode above the average were two things: the Miami Vie guy, hilarious! and the mouse story was adorable. I am glad Dorothy has the gift of talking to them!

Like auntie, like niece.

[mark.waltz · 4/10 · 22 January 2020]

Loosey Lucy (Hallie Todd) really has no respect for her aunt Blanche just like grandson David didn't in an earlier episode. She shows up for a visit seemingly for a job interview and spends more time being a good time gal than really paying any attention to family or the goal for which she came. She's a selfish and obviously insecure girl, and fortunately like Rose's daughter Kirsten another one-off character who isn't even mentioned again. Yes, twenty is the rebel age, and by her own admission in stories over the series, Blanche was pretty rebellious for much of her whole life. Lucy doesn't spend any more than a few minutes at a time with her supposedly favorite aunt, picks up dates on the plane the way there, dumps them for a doctor, and then the person interviewing her.

Lucy's attempts to explain how she grew up fat and dumpy with braces and all of a sudden blossomed makes her self-hatred all the more pathetic. Only the presence of the idiotic Miami Vice cop (Ken Stovitz), delightfully dumb and geeky in spite of his facade of being handsome and strong and brave, adds any humor, and the exchange between him and Rose over "Miami Vice" trivia is very funny. The story was much better done on "Designing Women" when Julia and Suzanne's nieces showed up for a visit, showing identical personalities to their very different aunts, and the writing was obviously more thought out to have the plot make complete sense in addition to adding humor.