#i love the emotionally heavy episodes too ofc! but it’s nice to have a silly funny time every once in a while :)

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

I don't watch Henny Penny that often but it's just because other episodes are my comfort episodes, I had no idea people didn't actually like it?! When the creeptastic Mr Terrific is right there too.... HennyPenny is cute! At worst it's a weird season finale but all the Golden Girls finales are weird like that for some reason (like none of them feel like season closers just random episodes, but it's nice too, there's never anything too major going on).

I know, anon, right?? It’s such a good episode!! I saw somebody on Instagram quote it as one of the worst in the series and I was *shocked*!! Mr Terrific is definitely more worthy of the title, by virtue of its male lead alone 😅 Although I have to say — the only episode I find bad is Empty Nests. That one is just unsalvageable. There’s others I’m not fond of, for one reason or another, but that’s the only one that I really couldn’t stomach rewatching.

Henny Penny is a bit strange as a season finale, even by Golden Girls standards! With the notable exception of the S7 finale, season finales tend to have a simple underlying plot and lots of flashbacks (either newly acted or cut from previous episodes), which is a fun way to end a season of a sitcom, I think. If you disregard Empty Nests, then Henny Penny is the only other exception to this rule, and that makes it just a pinch more special to me :)