Love on the Lanai! Who Did ‘The Golden Girls’ End Up With?

The beauty of television is that the flame of a love story can sizzle and be smothered in a single episode.

Few shows knew this better than The Golden Girls, the sharp-tongued comedy about four women living in a lavish Miami home starring Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak, Betty White as Rose Nylund, Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux, and Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo. In a single 22-minute episode of the series, the women would often meet new men, fall in love, and sometimes even receive marriage proposals. It was like speed dating — but on TV time.