Photo by Aaron Richter
Here’s something you probably didn’t know about the Coathangers: they’re huge fans of the greatest geriatric sitcom of all time, The Golden Girls. Well, frontwoman Julia Kugel is at least. As she revealed in a recent eMusic interview, the band’s latest LP—the barnstorming Larceny & Old Lace— “is the name of a Golden Girls episode. I’m obsessed with the Golden Girls. I wrote two papers in college on the show, and I was watching one of my favorite episodes and I saw the name and was like, ‘I love the way that sounds together.’ Then I found out the play Arsenic and Old Lace was about a killer, so it all came together.”
In the following exclusive, Kugel breaks down five of her favorite GG-related YouTube clips for the uninitiated…








