This is part of a series about romance in movies. 

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Referenced media:

• “Golden Girls” (Susan Harris, 1985-1992)
• “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (Stanley Kubrick 1964)
• “The Graduate” (Mike Nichols, 1967)

Audio quotation:

• “Harold and Maude” (Hal Ashby, 1971), including the songs “Don’t Be Shy” and “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out” by Cat Stevens