"It's like we say in St. Olaf, Christmas without fruitcake is like St. Sigmund's Day without the headless boy."
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The Stan Who Came to Dinner is the thirteenth episode of the second season of The Golden Girls and the thirty-eighth episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes, and written by Kathy Speer and Terry Grossman, it premiered on NBC-TV on January 10th, 1987.
Rose tells the ladies about one of the lambs on the Lindstrom farm, a little lamb named Thor who became depressed after they separated him from his mother. After some time of Thor refusing to eat, sleep, or frolick with the other sheep, the Lindstroms decorated a car tire to look like a sheep to help Thor adjust to life without his mother. Thor became very attached to the tire, which the family later named Brunhilde, and he began to come out of his shell. Unfortunately, one day Thor got a bit too playful and bit Brunhilde, and stood there in shock as his mother deflated before his very eyes. According to Rose, Thor was never the same after that.
The title is a reference to the critically-acclaimed 1939 stage play The Man Who Came to Dinner. In the play, Sheridan Whiteside, an opinionated and arrogant radio personality injures himself slipping on ice and becomes an unexpected houseguest for a prominent area family. Whiteside proceeds to make brash proclamations and offer his unsolicited advice to the family members.
Goofs[]
When Rose tells her story about the lamb, Dorothy puts her hand on Rose's. It is not there in the next shot and Rose's hand is now raised.
When Dorothy carries the towels into Stan' room, the way they are folded, particularly the bottom one, changes between shots.
When Stan comes into the kitchen wearing Dorothy's pink robe, you can see his chest and there are no recent surgical scars.
At around 20:45, when Rose talks about Blanche being irritable, the shadow of the boom mic can be seen on the wall behind Stan's bed.
↑The Golden Girls, Season 2, Episode 13, "The Stan Who Came to Dinner". Speer, Kathy and Grossman, Terry (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (January 10th, 1987)
