Golden Girls Thanksgiving

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Across
  1. 3. Which character often serves as the narrator or wisecracker in the girls’ staged tales (including Henny Penny)?
  2. 4. What recurring element (Rose’s tales and flashback bits) gives the show a “family holiday” feeling even without a formal Thanksgiving episode?
  3. 6. What role (the self-basting turkey) does Dorothy play when the women are roped into a school production that fans often treat like a Thanksgiving moment?
  4. 8. What comfort food do the women famously reach for during emotional and holiday-adjacent scenes?
  5. 9. Which Golden Girl ends up in the Turkey Lurkey costume during the Henny Penny production?
  6. 10. Which Broadway actor (last name) guest-starred in the Henny Penny episode as the director/villain of the school play?
  7. 13. What is the villainous fox character in the Henny Penny play who menaces the barnyard cast?
  8. 14. What common fan trivia point notes that The Golden Girls has many holiday/costume moments but no standalone Thanksgiving episode officially labeled as such?
  9. 15. Which character plays Lucy Goosey (or similar barnyard parts) alongside Rose and Dorothy in the Henny Penny staging?
Down
  1. 1. What do viewers commonly post around Thanksgiving that splice together turkey, Turkey Lurkey and holiday-style bits from various episodes?
  2. 2. What contagious illness sidelines Dorothy’s students and forces the Golden Girls into the school play?
  3. 5. Which episode title names the fairy tale the women perform in when Dorothy’s first graders come down with an illness and the ladies must take the stage?
  4. 7. Which character frequently recounts St. Olaf holiday tales and rural gags that fit a Thanksgiving vibe?
  5. 8. What phrase describes how the Turkey Lurkey / Henny Penny sequence is treated by fans every Thanksgiving season?
  6. 11. Which fictional Minnesota hometown of Rose provides the quirky rural holiday and family stories that fans associate with Thanksgiving humor?
  7. 12. What kind of performance structure are the Henny Penny costumes and turkey routine part of in the episode that fans clip around Thanksgiving?