The Fab Four

The Golden Girls celebrate its 40th anniversary

- BY DYLAN FORD

WE DON'T CARE if you're a Carrie or a Miranda. It doesn't matter to us if you're a Chandler, a Ross or a Joey. What we really want to know is: Which Golden Girl are you? A sarcastic and uncompromising Dorothy (Bea Arthur)? A delightful but ditzy Rose (Betty White)? A fearlessly flirtatious Blanche (Rue McClanahan)? Or a wise but wisecracking Sophia (Estelle Getty)?

These four legendary ladies are more than just the mothers and grandmothers of the "which one are you?" sitcom debate. In fact, the whole point of The Golden Girls is that women over 50 are more than mothers and grandmothers, period.

It's hard to overstate the impact of this beloved 1980s and '90s comedy about four women of a certain age sharing a home in Miami. Before