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is the second episode of the fifth season of The Golden Girls and the one-hundred and fourth episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Susan Harris, it premiered on NBC-TV on September 23rd, 1989. It is the second part of the Season 5 premiere.
Dorothy's friend Dr. Weston refers her to Dr. Chang, who diagnoses her with chronic fatigue syndrome. Although there is no cure, Dorothy is relieved to put a name to her condition. Blanche stays awake for three days and deliriously writes a manuscript, but is rejected by publishers. She believes there will be nothing special about her if she fails ...
Dorothy visits her friend and pediatrician Dr. Harry Weston, who empathizes with Dorothy and agrees that she is sick with an illness despite the difficulty for doctors to find a specific diagnosis. He recommends her to see another specialist he knows: Dr. Chang.
Back at home, Blanche is delirious after depriving herself of sleep to write her novel, claiming she has written incredible material. When offered to Rose to read it, Rose simply tells Blanche she has written mostly nonsense. Offended, Blanche struggles between thinking no one understands her genius and the world needing to read her works. She is eventually comforted and put to bed by Rose.
Dorothy is accompanied by Sophia to visit Dr. Chang. She is relieved when Dr. Chang diagnosis Dorothy's condition as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), which is relatively new in the medical world and often dismissed by other doctors since there are no obvious signs that can be seen, and doctors can often blame the victim for failing to diagnose anything. He says he'll run some tests to confirm that this is what Dorothy has, and tells her that CFS has never killed anyone, and remission works out differently for everyone, but so far there is no cure for it, so she simply has to live with it and treat her symptoms individually. Despite this, Dorothy is relieved to finally identify what she has.
At home again, Blanche is angry to receive another rejection letter from a publisher to publish her novel. She is also offended at the rejection letters being form letters, saying that they could not even give her any concrete reason and that she could take any harsh criticism thrown her way. Rose tries to comfort Blanche again, telling her that being kind and loving is enough to define a person when Blanche worried that she would not have anything to define herself after her looks fade, which was a pretense for her desire to be a novelist. Blanche dismisses Rose as simply spouting more "Minnesotan crap," which sets Rose to tell Blanche off for always criticizing her upbringing and culture, and that Blanche is no better than her. Blanche is stunned silent, but when Rose asks "Was I too harsh?", Blanche smiles at her.
Main Cast
•Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak •Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux •Betty White as Rose Nylund •Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo
Guest Stars
•Richard Mulligan as Harry Weston •Park Overall as Laverne Todd •Keone Young as Dr. Chang •Michael McGuire as Dr. Budd •Bibi Besch as Helen Budd •Glenn Walker Harris Jr. as Oliver •Eric Poppick as Waiter
•Chronic fatigue syndrome was officially classified by the CDC in 1987, which had previously been labeled as "myalgic encephalomyelitis" and still used in other parts of the world.
•This is Rue McClanahan's favorite episode, as she loved being disheveled and unglamorous.
•This is another crossover episode with •Dorothy is wearing Chanel earrings in the restaurant scene.
•The $430 bottle of champagne would have been worth over $880 in 2020.
1.The Golden Girls, Season 5, Episodes 2, "Sick and Tired, Part 2". Harris, Susan (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (September 30th, 1989)
2.The Golden Girls, Season 1, Episode 15, “In A Bed of Rose’s”. Harris, Susan (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (January 11th, 1986)
An FBI agent investigates the girls' lives for a possible visit. Beatrice Arthur, Rue McClanahan, Betty White and Estelle Getty are back for this multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning comedy. These four young-at-heart ladies couldn't be more different, but they stick together through thick and thin.
The fifth season of The Golden Girls premiered on September 23rd, 1989, and concluded on May 5th, 1990. The season consisted of twenty-six episodes.
The girls take in 16-year-old pregnant Mary (Julie McCullough), who has been thrown out of her home; Blanche's prison pen pal, Merrill (John Dennis Johnston), has just been released and is looking for her. Guest stars: Julie McCullough as Mary; John Dennis Johnston as Merrill; Lorry Goldman as Fred. 116.
S5.E18 ∙ An Illegitimate Concern. A young man shocks Blanche when he shows up unannounced from Dallas, Texas and tells her that her late husband George was his father. Meanwhile, Sophia convinces Dorothy to participate with her in the Shady Pines Mother/Daughter pageant.
These are six episodes from the fifth season of the NBC sitcom The Golden Girls. They include audio commentary from one of the cast members. These commentaries come from the DVD. UPDATE 23 January 2024: Subtitles are now available for each episode as SRT files.
