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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 335432" data-attributes="member: 27">Had Who's The Boss? not come along to snatch her up, Katherine Helmond would likely have ended up in either the Rose or Blanche roles in The Golden Girls, since the producers of GG had worked with her on Soap and were eager to work with her again.  Helmond later said in interviews that she would not have felt comfortable with the Rose role, since it was so close to Jessica Tate's dim-wittedness on Soap.  She would have been fun in the Blanche role; Helmond was from Texas, so Blanche could still have been a 'Southern Belle'.  I do think Helmond made the right decision taking the WTB role though, since it allowed her to play the smartest person in the room for once.</blockquote>