The Golden Girls was a celebrated sitcom show that was on during the 1980’s about a group of senior citizens. The premise was that these sassy older ladies lived together, loved life, and sometimes got into some peculiar situations. With a cast of women who were a combination of Broadway veterans, comedy legends, and just all around amazing it wasn’t a surprise that the show lasted for seven seasons and is still shown regularly on syndication with repeats everyday. Once that theme song gets stuck in your head, you’ll be singing it all day long, since it’s a total earworm. Here’s a line if you don’t remember…”thank you for being a friend, traveled down the road and back again!”

You might even think of the Golden Girls almost like friends, but there are some interesting things you might not know about them. Here are shocking things that went on behind the scenes and on set that you never knew about The Golden Girls.

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