The Dark Side of ‘The Golden Girls’

Would some of the sitcom’s un-”woke” jokes have made it on air today?

The Golden Girls circle the cheesecake (Photo: NBC)

Who doesn’t love The Golden Girls? The NBC sitcom was binge-worthy television before binge-watching was even a thing.

I’m old enough to have watched it sporadically during its original run, from 1985 to 1992, when high school and college took priority over TV. If…