The Golden Girls (TV Series) Whose Face Is This, Anyway? (1987) User Reviews

Whose Face Is This, Anyway? (#2.20)

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 16 January 2014]

Blanche goes to her sorority reunion all excited about showing off her beauty to her former sisters. But she returns all depressed because they all looked much better since they got plastic surgery. So she thinks of getting one herself. But the surgeon asks her on a date and she cancels her operation.

A pretty good episode about ageing and plastic surgery. I like how they resent both sides pro and against it without real judgement. And while I personally have nothing against plastic surgery, just like Dorothy I think whatever makes you happy, I liked how they came up with the ending when Blanche cancels because she knows that she also has her charm that adds to her physical beauty. And the scene with the guy they confuse for Blanche was very funny.

Correction to summary

[jrmoutdoors · 8/10 · 1 September 2008]

I saw this episode this morning. Blanche went to her college sorority reunion, not a high school reunion. When she returns, she says it has been "thirty years" since she has seen her sorority sisters, which confirms Blanche to be in her early fifties at series start. This episode is filled with name-drops: Fess Parker (five times), Joe Pepitone, Wilford Brimley, Shelley Hack, to name a few. The name drops will probably restrict the comedy to folks who remember these actors and what they look like. This episode features one of the best open-and-close sequences I have seen on TV comedy, in which Dorothy remarks, "she had me right in her corner up until...".

Dorothy looks like Fess Parker in heels, but it's Blanche who wants plastic surgery.

[mark.waltz · 7/10 · 16 September 2019]

There's a lot of deprecating humor towards Bea Arthur in this episode that has Rose shooting a video for her film class, and vain Blanche decides to go under the knife after she sees herself on film. She's upset after attending her sorority reunion and of course wanted to look better than anyone else. But will she actually be able to go through the process? In the funniest twist, the girls think that Blanche had something quite different done, rivaling Bernice's rhinoplasty on "Designing Women". It's a funny episode, but shows why Blanche's shallowness didn't exactly make her the most endearing character. Bea, however, continues to be the most interesting character as she deals with constant insults and can be delightfully self deprecating.

Blanche considers going under the knife.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 7/10 · 17 April 2023]

Blanche attends her college sorority, and instead of coming away happy and content, she's made to feel old, and decides to go under the knife, and have some surgery.

It's a fun episode, it's perhaps not the strongest episode from series two, but it does have its highlights. Cosmetic surgery is such a hot topic at the moment, Madonna for example, it's been around for a long time, and of course, people never learn.

Very much a Blanche episode, and of course she's her fabulous, confident self throughout, some of her lines are wide splitting.

I can't imagine Fess Parker ever had quite so many mentions in anything, he's name dropped multiple times over, to great effect, Sophia had some cracking one liners.

The scene in the hospital bed was perhaps the funniest moment, and despite being telegraphed it's still funny.

7/10.