The Golden Girls is one of my favorite shows (I have all 7 seven seasons on DVD). When we got to Marger's chapter on Italian Americans, I thought about the fictional character Sophia Petrillo. I found some quotes from the show that I thought were relevant:
Dorothy: [laughs while showing old slides of the family] Pop was sure a lousy photographer. Who is that?
Sophia: Uncle Vittorio.
Dorothy: His head's cut off. How can you tell?
Sophia: Because that's exactly how he looked in the morgue when he turned in state's evidence against Benny the Blade.
Blanche: These things don't happen to people like me! They happen to people named...Petrillo!
Sophia: I take offense to that! No one in my family ever, EVER....left a body to be found!
I think these lines from the show reinforce the common stereotype that Italians are often associated with crime, which Marger mentions in the chapter.
- Josh Steffen
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