Airdate: 1/6/83
A talent agent
enters the bar and is interested in Sam almost immediately. She’d like to
represent Sam for beer commercials, in return for… sex. At first excited, he
gets uncomfortable with the arrangement, as is almost too proud to confess to
Diane, who distrusted the “Dragon Lady” from the start. When Coach, quite
literally, kicks him in the pants to break up with her, Sam does so, and
confesses to Diane that he never cared much for morals until he met her.
Barbara Babcock
is terrific as Lana, Sam’s vampy paramour, whose wits are even sharper than
Diane’s. A veteran of countless TV shows and movies, she has a great final
scene here, where she “thanks” the bar patrons like an Academy Award recipient.
But by far the episode’s funniest character is Tibor Svetkovic, a Czech hockey
player whose vocabulary consists solely of TV commercial catchphrases!
Cold open: Sam
and Coach lock up the bar, telling each other their favorite exact time of the
day (Coach: 1:37; Sam: 8:15), but Norm is left behind, to his eventual delight,
singing “Quarter to Three!”
Norm’s opener:
(Coach: Want a beer, Norm?) Nah, I’d probably just drink it.
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