32: The Golden Girls Had a Gay Live-in Cook

“The Engagement” (September 14, 1985)

The pilot to Golden Girls features a fifth roommate who did not make it into the rest of the series: Coco the gay live-in cook, played by Charles Levin. The actor recently died, and in part because it’s timely and in part because Drew feels bad about his jokes that Coco was lost at sea, our first off-season episode is a Coco-centric look at this first-ever Golden Girls.

To read a transcript of this episode, click here.

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Outro song: Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship