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Wish "The Golden Girls" A Happy Anniversary!

It's bad form to ask a lady her age, but we have it on good authority The Golden Girls turns 29 today. The seminal sitcom launched on September 14, 1985, and television was never the same.

Celebrate this momentous occasion by checking out our casting choices for a (totally hypothetical) Golden Girls reboot.

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Dorothy Zbornak

Bea Arthur was 63 when the show premiered, and her shoes would be pretty difficult to fill. (Not just because they were a size 11.) We know at least one acclaimed actress can wither you with a deadpan stare, and wear a crappy ‘80s suit like it’s straight-up couture: Phylicia Rashad, now 66, has proven her sitcom prowess and would dig into the script like a fresh slice of cheesecake.


Rose Nylund

Though she's eternally youthful, Betty White was 63, and the oldest cast member, when The Golden Girls debuted. Having gained notoriety as insatiable bitch Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, White was definitely playing against type asTGG‘s naïve Rose. So let’s get another icon to change her image: It’s about time Wonder Woman's Lynda Carter made a return to television—and she's 63, to boot!


Blanche Devereaux

Did you know Rue McClanahan was only 51 when GG premiered? How about another lady who can play a voracious cougar on the prowl: 53-year-old Jennifer Coolidge.


Sophia Petrillo

Estelle Getty was a year younger than her on-screen daughter, Bea Arthur, but added decades with lengthy stints in the make-up chair. Why not let Wanda Sykes, 50, lend her signature sass to the character?


Stan Zbornak

52-year-old Herb Edelmen made several appearances as Dorothy’s greasy ex-husband. Alec Baldwin is only four years older, and clearly needs a new sitcom to occupy himself with.


Miles Webber

Playing Rose’s longtime beau, Harold Gould was 62 when Girls started. To get the right combination of bookish and sweet (and to attract the all-too-desirable geek demographic), we nominate 60-year-old Star Trek Voyager veteran Robert Beltran.

After so much time in far-flung galaxies, he’d no doubt welcome a restful stay on the lanai.


Clayton Hollingsworth

One of the show’s most progressive moves was giving Blanche a gay brother. To replace Monte Markham, then 50, we nominate 53-year-old George Clooney.

He already appeared as a police detective in an episode of the original, so why not step out of the closet on the remake?


Mario

A 14-year-old Mario Lopez played Mario (big leap there), an outstanding student in Dorothy’s class who turns out not to be a U.S. citizen. They’d have to revive this premise, given GG‘s penchant for touching on pressing social issues. Ugly Betty's Mark Indelicato might be 20, but he can still pass for a tween on screen.


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