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Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom is the seventeenth episode of the fifth season of The Golden Girls and the one-hundred and nineteenth episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Philip Jayson Lasker, it premiered on NBC-TV on February 10th, 1990.
Blanche has a pacemaker implanted, and is afterward so scared of intimacy that she decides to give up sex.
Plot[]
Blanche returns from the Doctors with him wanting her to see another due to something wrong with her heartbeat, clearly scared Blanche, despite the confidence of the girls she is told she will need a Pacemaker.
After the surgery Blanche recovers well, but she feels different and acts strangely because she "had a out of body experience" she goes on a date with Simon but she declines to finish the date in the normal way, she tells the girls she is giving up sex and makes crafts out of popsicle sticks but in the end she goes out with Simon to tell him the truth.
However that night she explains to Simon that she is scared she'll have a reaction to having sex but Simon at least is willing for defeat asks for a kiss and seeing there is nothing bad happen she and Simon make love with the girls leaving her to it.[1]
Uncut microwave scene from S5E17 - Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom Tom
When this episode was released on DVD, a portion of a scene in Act 2 was removed. In the original airing, before Blanche enters the kitchen, Sophia goes to the cupboard and finds her instant popcorn is missing. Dorothy and Rose reveal they are selling the microwave due to a risk of it hurting Blanche. After Blanche exits, Sophia makes a joke about them giving up a favorite microwave snack for Blanche. These lines are also removed from the DVD. When Blanche laments that life has no meaning, Sophia asks if anyone wants popcorn.
The scene was removed from the DVD release due to threats of a lawsuit from microwave manufacturers, due to microwaves no longer being dangerous to people with pacemakers.
Goofs[]
After the two transportation people get Blanche to move over on the gurney. They move her out of the room and down the hall with the side rail on the side she transferred over. Still down. This is something that's not done in a hospital setting. The rails of the cart, gurney, or bed are supposed to be up unless a patient is being ambulated. And definitely, when that patient is being transported. Falls are a huge problem in hospitals. And serious steps are always a part of patient care.
↑The Golden Girls, Season 5, Episode 17, “Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom”. Lasker, Phillip Jayson (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (February 10th, 1990)
