in fact i just see a short but wasnt complet and someone say the original was longer so a i came jejejjee

Indeed I did! And it was worth it.

​@necro664 we must have seen the same short 😂

I got it from a short

FACTS!!!

Almost positive that is Estelle Getty.

@@roykentseyebrows4196it was. They told the story on the reunion show. Betty White made up those St. Olof stories on the spot.

@@roykentseyebrows4196And Bea giving her the look...

Lmaooo

😂😂😂😂

She had to hear it first before she could tell it 😂😂😂😂

I applaud her for keeping a straight face, until the end. FYI: Bea Arthur despised cheesecake.

She is a gift from God.

RIP

its just brilliant acting

That’s like the funniest part, just breaking the fourth wall for a second to laugh at the audience

Idky people try and hide moments when people break character. It's sometimes the best moments

That’s exactly why I just looked up this clip. So glad I did. Best laugh I’ve had in a long time. 🤣 R.I.P ladies. ❤️

Betty White is such a master of timing and delivery. If you haven’t yet, look up the compilation of her appearances on Craig Ferguson - most of the humor is just from Betty’s body language and timing.

I hadn’t remembered this was from the pilot until I saw this longer version of the clip! RIP to all of them.

Yes, that timing was so perfect

Bea seriously looked like she was going to cry with laughter after she said the line. You can see her bite her lip.

@@claudiamastroianni4300 technically, it's from the season one Finale "The Way We Met", but chronologically, would have taken place before the pilot.

And Betty White kept it straight, no clue how she did it

I don’t think they were supposed to. This is supposed to be the first story ever.

Agreed. Especially Rue's audible laugh @ 1:53.....😂

Exactly, Don't watch Rose, Keep your eyes on blanche and dorothy and you'll cry with laughter like i do just watching them...

Trying to keep it together? They didnt!

❤

Golden Girls still cracking us up 40 years later. Betty was a genius.

When Dorothy begins to ask the question (already barely able to speak), it almost looks as if she's momentarily eyeballing the director as if asking, "Are we still doing this?"

@@Shy411 nice catch! 😉

To me it looked like they were just trying to hide their laughter from Rose.

Their lsughter is scripted as the end of an argument between friends in the story.

I didn't get the joke can someone explain it to me?

It was scripted, not improv. But she was definitely a comedy genius.

Yup. Scripted. But it does take a comedy genius to deliver the lines in such a way that she broke two other legends!

Im sure the story was that they went offscript in this scene. They broke character by laughing but carried on making jokes and improvising. ​@@aziraphaleangel

Hopefully cracking jokes and eating chocolate cheesecake.

No eating herring ☺️ ​@@jeffmorse645

@@jeffmorse645 And discussing the Territorial Battle of the Bluegill.

Trueee omg

Reminds me of the times on “I Love Lucy” where you can clearly hear Desi Arnaz’s distinctive laugh from offstage during some of Lucille’s wackier moments on the show.

Never noticed but my friend agrees with you

@@crystalp7242 Yes - especially the "Slowly I Turn" skit. You can DEFINITELY hear Desi lose it!

They sure do

It actually wasn't. It was fully scripted and blocked.

+dragonheart8706 Their reactions are actually Bea and Rue's reactions, because Betty told the entire story on the spot.

Love this

*herring

This was the last episode of season 1 which was about how they met. Even though by this point in this series they had already heard St. Olaf stories, timeline wise this was the first time they heard one.

Me, too.

@Logia SD so the original script was released. It would seem that Dorothy was supposed to laugh first right after her cannon line. Then Rose talks about they shot him into a tree, which makes Blanch and Dorothy laugh. Rue and Bea laugh much earlier than the script had called for, leading me to believe they probably weren’t acting. It’s possible they had the giggles in anticipation of the story they knew was coming. In the end, it simply works and the blurred lines between fantasy and reality only helps the scene (and the show as a whole).

@@sammykewlguywhere can I find the script? For years I have wondered whether this was improvised.

FYI, there was no improv here. The scene was fully scripted and blocked.

This scene was fully improved.

Bea Arthur actually did like Betty White, there were just some thing's that Betty did that would just irk Bea sometimes. Like for instance; Betty had a habit of engaging and talking to the audience if they flubbed a scene and Betty would then sometimes interact with the audience. Then she'd notice Bea would roll her eyes. There was a documentary they made for Betty on ET that Betty White explains this all herself!

The scene was fully scripted and blocked. There was never a question about it being kept, it was meant to be there.

This scene was fully improved.

​@@erikthomas5895No, it wasn't.

@@mikehunt2625 I believe up until the "The Lindstroms wanted to train them for the circus..." part was scripted. After Rue makes the comment about the elephant you can see Bea chuckle and look off stage, then Betty kept it going. So it was partially improvised.

I came in here for the express purpose of making that comparison, but I see you beat me to it.

The way Rue kept ducking her head to try (unsuccessfully thank goodness) to cover her laughter, was just like Carol did in the elephant skit.

Conway was a genius, and the Siamese elephants bit is great. But I think the second half of the dentist sketch is even better: the part where he keeps injecting himself with novocaine. All of that was improvised. Conway and Korman had a running bet. If one of them made the other crack up during the show, the laugher had to pay $1 to the other guy. Korman broke up so often that liked to say that he had put Conway's kids through college, one dollar at a time.

@@cherylstein7021 Conway was an improvisational monster. Great, great talent.

chuck davey that makes sense

It was scripted up through "and Lindstroms wanted to train them for the circus..." Rue went off script with the elephant line, and Betty just nailed it. Bea tried to play her singular ever ad-libbed line (because she thought they'd scrap the take, she never ad-libbed in her life) joke waiting for the scene to be called and Betty kept going... and going. And slayed the scene.

I read somewhere almost all of Rose's stories about home the producers asked her to ad lib it when at all possible.

I KNEW IT

It's totally true, and the other 2 can barely hold their laughter, it's hilarious

The slight giggle was already a great part.

You are in for a treat!

magdalena wyrobek Betty White said that the Writers usually kept the content of the St.Oloff stories hush hush till the sit down readings, now at times they would add or delete some content. In this segment, I can swear Bea Arthur broke Character as did Rue. This is probably the most memorable, i think the "Founders Day Parade" was funny to, with her Father pulling the Mayonaise Jar Float! "The Amazing Shapiro" St. Oloff's OBMAG(Obstetrician Magician), "She's a Gercominockun", Rose about Blanche: "Its the precise moment when Dog Doo turns white." "Mean Old Lady Hickenlooper" Rose finds out that Old Lady Hickenlooper was not mean, she was just born without "Smiling Muscles", so she told Old Lady Hickenlooper that a Frown is just a Smile turned upside down! So, from that point on, every time she saw Rose, Old Lady Hickenlooper stood on her head, and waved to the kids. And of course, St.Oloff's only Black Blacksmith, the Town welcomed him by wearing Sheets and singing songs!

That was Estelle Getty, apparently, laughing offscreen

Jill beautifully said and your statement is so true

Cut me a slice! ;-)

Cherry sauce on mine!

Bea was already laughing when the line "Wouldn't it be hard to see them riding on the elephants?" was said.

i have the script. I'm not being a party pooper but this was not improvised. Everything in that scene was written, blocked, and rehearsed. it was Season 1 Episode 25 "The Way We Met" (a flashback episode of how they met) . it Aired May 10, 1986. Sorry to spoil all the stories but it's just not true. and it does not take away from how brilliant the show really was.!! Every line was scripted.

YES! I was going to say the same thing! About the only difference is no Vicki Lawrence’s “Mama” type character here to steal ... no, explode 💥 ... a comeback punchline!

Me too.

White was amazing at improv. But this was not an example of that. It was fully scripted and blocked.

This scene was fully improved.

Sadly it wasn't improv. It was all scripted.