Thank You For Being A Friend was a #25 hit for Andrew Gold in 1978. Though the song later got life as the theme song to The Golden Girls, it developed a notorious reputation in 2003 when VH1 Classic began to overplay it, soon making it the #1 most hated video on the whole station (behind Gold's own Lonely Boy and Hot 'N' Nasty by Black Oak Arkansas). In 2004, notorious troll John Binson pulled an extremely low stunt by requesting it on the All Request Hour and thanked the VH1 Classic Team for their "hard work". Andrew Gold is an American singer and songwriter. ... Getty as Sophia, McClanahan as Blanche, White as Rose, and Arthur as Dorothy The Golden Girls was a popular television sitcom that originally aired Saturday nights on the NBC network from September 14, 1985 to September 7, 1992. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Black Oak Arkansas, a southern rock-band formed 1970 in Black Oak, Arkansas. ... John Binson is a notorious [[VH1 Classic] message board troll who pulled a nasty prank by requesting Thank You For Being A Friend by Andrew Gold, the most overplayed and hated of all videos on VH1 Classic. ... Show that debuted in 2002 in which VH1 Classic airs videos that are requested by its viewers via email. ...

Thank You For Being A Friend turns up on VH1 Classic about once every week, and the even more notorious Baz Ladaria claims that 12 million people want to see the video. Baz Ladaria is a notorious VH1 Classic message board troll who uses twisted logic to defend his view of how VH1 Classic should be. ...