"It's like we say in St. Olaf, Christmas without fruitcake is like St. Sigmund's Day without the headless boy."
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Blanche Delivers is the first episode of the sixth season of The Golden Girls and the one-hundred and twenty-ninth episode overall. Directed by Matthew Diamond and written by Gail Parent and Jim Vallely, it premiered on NBC-TV on September 22nd, 1990.
Blanche's very pregnant daughter Rebecca visits and wants to stay in Miami for the birth at a birthing center. Blanche angers her when she disagrees about the birthing center, but also does not want her giving birth in a hospital because she is embarrassed that her daughter was artificially inseminated. Meanwhile, Rose decides to fulfill a childhood dream of becoming a figure skater.
Plot[]
As Rose reveals that she going Ice Skating hoping to win a competition, Blanche gets a call from Rebecca who is near her due date and has come to Miami to have it. Blanche is still a little annoyed because she decided not to marry but she's willing to help.
After Rebecca arrives she looks at a Birthing Centre which has New Age ideals, Blanche, Dorothy and Sophia aren't impressed by the home comforts and Rose wishes she could conceive to enjoy it. As the boss promotes the joys to Rebecca, a mother goes into labour, as Rebecca tries to be positive about birthing there the painful screams finally convince her to try a hospital.
When at home Blanche and Rebecca argue about Blanche's worries over her reputation as Dorothy puts cheesecake in Sophia's mouth to keep her from insulting Blanche.
However that night, Rebecca goes into labor and all girls go with her. At the hospital, Blanche remarks about the fact that Rebecca was artificially inseminated. As the news becomes less, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia talk, Sophia spends it insulting Dorothy's birth and Rose admits she hates Skating, her parents wanted it and she feels bad she didn't do it as a kid and Dorothy and Sophia explain to her that it doesn't matter nobody can ever be that perfect.
In the delivery room, Blanche is supportive but also says the wrong thing, but she watches Rebecca delivery a healthy baby girl called Aurora.[1]
It is probably just another St. Olaf story, but, in real life, the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee are more likely to go to a big city in Minnesota like Minneapolis or St. Paul than to a small town.
Goofs[]
When Rebecca first comes into the house, she greets Rose and starts to embrace her. In the next shot, she is already going over to greet Dorothy and Sophia.
When Rebecca arrives and sits on the couch, her purse is on her left, still on her arm. It appears and disappears over the course of three or four scenes.
In the beginning Blanche tells Rose Blanche may enter the Senior Sports Classic when she is older. Blanche wasn't in the room yet when Rose told Dorothy and Sophia she was entering the Classic.
Given that she's days away from giving birth, Rebecca shouldn't have flown to Miami.
↑The Golden Girls, Season 6, Episode 1, “Blanche Delivers”. Parent, Gail and Vallely, Jim (writers) & Diamond, Matthew (director) (September 22nd, 1990)