Blanche's plans to marry go awry when she discovers her fiance is a bigamist.Original airdate, September 14, 1985.
Tropes:
- Brutal Honesty: Sophia to Blanche: "You look like a prostitute!". All the girls blame her brutal honesty on the stroke she had years ago.
- Comically Missing the Point: Rose, numerous times during conversation with Dorothy.
- Deadpan Snarker: Dorothy, in her Establishing Character Moment.
- Delinquent Hair: Dorothy complains that some of her students had this style. Two girls had shaved heads (one of whom had a nose ring), and three boys had green hair.
- Gay Best Friend: Dorothy's gay best friend Coco in his debut.
- It Meant Something to Me: Blanche is hurt when her fiancée Harry is arrested for being a bigamist. And Harry writes in his goodbye letter that he did like Blanche and that "this time was different".
- Lipstick-and-Load Montage: Dorothy reacting to Blanche putting on her face for her fiancée.Dorothy: Would you look at this, she has more colors than Benjamin Moore Paints.
- Pretty in Mink: Blanche borrowing Dorothy's mink stole for a date.Blanche: Oh, Dorothy. Can I borrow your mink stole?Dorothy: It's Miami in June, only CATS are wearing fur.
- Really Gets Around: Blanche. Dorothy and Rose discuss how she needs a man as she had a date as soon as her husband was buried at his funeral.
- Sarcasm-Blind: Rose forgets that Dorothy is using sarcasm in their conversations together, leading to hilarity and misunderstandings.
- Serial Spouse: Blanche's fiancée Harry had six wives all without divorcing them.
- Shot Gun Wedding: Rose waited two years to get married. Dorothy got married only because Stan got her pregnant so he had to marry her.Rose: Charlie and I waited two whole years before we got married.Dorothy: I got married before my father finished the sentence.Rose: You married your father?Dorothy: My father told Stan that he had to marry me. I was pregnant.Rose: You had a blowgun wedding?!Dorothy: If you live in the Amazon, Rose. In Queens it's called shotgun.
- Teen Pregnancy: Dorothy reveals she got married before her father finished his sentence. She had to get married because Stan got her pregnant.
- Toilet Humor: Rose discusses how she stops all liquids at noon so she doesn't have to get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. Sophia discussing her bathroom schedule to the other girls.Sophia: I never have that problem! Never! I sleep like a log! I never have to get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. I go in the morning. Every morning, like clockwork, at 7am - I pee. Unfortunately I don't wake up 'till 8.
