The Golden Girls is one of the all-time greatest sitcoms, picking up new generations of fans as the decades go by. However, one episode of the beloved series, which ran from 1985 to 1992 on NBC, ruffled some feathers, with one of the show’s writers claiming he received death threats.

In Season 6, Episode 14 of The Golden Girls (“Sisters of the Bride”), the show featured an LGBTQ+ wedding. Blanche’s brother Clayton, who came out as gay in Season 4, tied the knot. Of course, Blanche (Rue McClanahan) didn’t take the news smoothly at first.

“We came up with the idea, let’s bring him back. And she thinks it was a phase and he’s probably over it,” Marc Cherry, who penned the episode with then-writing partner Jamie Wooten, recalled on the Soapy podcast via Parade. “But he comes back with a guy,

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