The Buzzing From The Bathroom

The Buzzing From the Bathroom
Performer(s): Tim — First Appearance: ""To Josh, With Love.”"
Written by: Adam Schlesinger, Jack Dolgen and Rachel Bloom

The buzzing from the bathroom has finally been explained.

— Tim, “To Josh, With Love.”

"The Buzzing From the Bathroom" is a song performed by Tim. He finally figured out what was the cause of the noise coming from his bathroom and subsequently fell into a depression. The song was first heard in the Season Three episode "To Josh, With Love..”

The song with lyrics

Lyrics: [Broadcast version opening] Josh: Just feel like I’m faking it. Paula: Tim, you have never given your wife an orgasm. Rebecca: Fake being satisfied? Mrs. Hernandez: Sounds like a vibrator. Rebecca: You’re doing it wrong. Paula: Not even once. [Song start] Tim: Such profound humiliation. Such all consuming shame. The buzzing from the bathroom has finally been explained. That was no electric toothbrush. No facial scrub device. And now I finally know the meaning of the words ‘Tim, that was nice.’ We used different positions every other Sunday night. All her writhing, moaning, sighing... I thought I was doing it right. But as I drifted off to slumber thinking I had brought her joy she would slink off to that bathroom with that blasted plastic toy! Oh that buzzing, cursed buzzing! That damn, incessant hum! I used to think I was a hero can’t believe she didn’t come... to tell me that she needed so much more than I could give. Now that buzzing from the bathroom tells the lie that we both live. What is pleasure but a union. When with ones soul another joins, yet I’m haunted by the buzzing from the bathroom like Tinnitus is of the loins.

Trivia

Homage

The song is likely inspired by the similar song "Empty Chairs and Empty Tables" from the musical "Les Miserables.”

Les Miserables - Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

Broadcast version

The opening sequence featuring snippets of dialogue from various characters on the show is not on the official release release of the song. Instead of that protracted introduction the song starts almost immeditaly without preamble and Tim starting to singing.

Live performance

Actor Michael McMillian performed this song live while the show was on tour in Los Angeles.