Golden Girls 3.7

Strange Bedfellows

With the election day just behind us, it's fitting that the Golden Girls would be involved with their share of getting out the message to vote. In this case, specifically Blanche. Their friend, Gil Kessler is running for city council, and the girls are active, helping him with his campaign. Blanche is dedicated to seeing that his campaign is going smoothly, and offers to drop some papers off at his house. Things start to get exciting when Gil is on the news for entertaining a lady friend, and in his interview claims that it is THE Blanche Deveroux! His claims that he is having an affair with Blanche not only upsets, but comes at the resistance of Blanche. This surprises the rest of the girls, but they don't know if they can really believe her because of the embellishments and other lies she has told in the past.

There is plenty of proof that Blanche could be lying. All she has to rely on is her testimony--even Gil Kessler is verifying that the report is correct. Blanche becomes more and more upset until she confronts Gil Kessler and convinces him to come forward to clear her "good name" (I mean, remember she's known as being the town hussy). He does come forward with the truth, costing him the race and the further demolishing of his character. While everyone feels sad that they accused her, Blanche is the one who has to learn the lesson.

We are characterized by what we do. If we embellish the truth, we will be known for blowing things out of proportion and when it comes to something really great happening, people will doubt its credibility. If we are always grumpy, people will expect us to be grumpy and adjust their behavior just to be around us...or stop coming around altogether. If we live our lives with honesty and integrity, when we get accused for something we didn't do, it will be that much easier to get others to believe us.