Golden Girls Beatlemania episode and history of Beatlemania

Does anyone remember this episode of The Golden Girls? It's where Dorothy wins a ticket to a Beatlemania event. She said she had missed the actual Beatlemania event due to one of her children getting the flu. The Beatlemania event she was attending was a simulation of the original. She winds up dating a musician who portrays a Beatle at her Beatlemania event. I forgot how funny this episode was. It's hilarious. You can watch it below, or you could possibly find a better quality video on a t.v. show streaming service.



LOL! My favorite part is from 5:38-7:06. That part is a little bawdy, so you may want to take the kids out of the room-- unless you have headphones. There are more risqué scenes throughout the show, but hey, its The Golden Girls! The Golden Girls were known for spicing things up. I loved how Dorothy was acting like an overly excited teenage girl over Beatlemania. Rose said to Dorothy, "Beatlemania? You're giving up a date for Beatlemania?" Dorothy: "Oh, Rose, the Beatles were the first and only rock-and-roll group that I ever really loved. When they came to Shea Stadium, I managed to get a ticket, but one of my kids came down with the flu. It was one of those times when you have to pretend that you love your kids more than something you really wanna do."

Dorothy said she convinced Don, the musician she brought home from the Beatlemania event, to quit Beatlemania so he could write his own songs. Sophia said, "Don't you think I know what this is all about? It's about that British invasion that's been going on in your bedroom!" lol... This is my favorite Golden Girls episode hands down. Thought I would post about it since it details Dorothy's Beatlemania experience.

The real Beatlemania from the 60's:



Beatlemania was the fanaticism surrounding the English rock band the Beatles in the 1960s. The press adopted the term "Beatlemania" to describe the scenes of adulation from fans who attended the band's concert performances. It began in 1963 and continued over the years. On February 9, 1964, The Beatles made their first U.S. television appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. 73 million viewers, about two-fifths of the American population, tuned in that night to watch them perform. The show had the largest number of viewers that had been recorded for an American television program. The Beatles' success established the popularity of British musical acts for the first time in the U.S.

The Beatles gave no more commercial concerts from the end of their 1966 US tour until their break-up in 1970, instead devoting their efforts to creating new material in the recording studio. While the Beatles worked on their film Magical Mystery Tour in September 1967, it was the first opportunity for the public to see the band together in over a year. Gavrik Losey, a production assistant on the film, said, "We were staying in a little hotel outside West Malling and the crowd that came pushed in the front window of the hotel ... That level of adoration is just amazing to be around."

The last mass display of fan adulation took place at the world premiere of the Beatles' animated film Yellow Submarine, held at the London Pavilion in Piccadilly Circus on 17 July 1968. The event was attended by the four band members and, according to Barry Miles, an English author, "Fans as usual brought traffic to a standstill and blocked the streets."