Airdate: 3/20/86
The Cheers gang heads to
Sam’s to watch The Magnificent Seven on
TV, but Diane’s distaste for such lowbrow activity has her excluded once again,
and her ensuing depression impels Frasier to rally the gang together to attend
her favorite opera, albeit more than a bit begrudgingly. Diane get emotional
seeing all her pals enjoying (or at least pretending to) one of her favorite
pastimes for a change, and more than a bit aroused knowing Sam might finally be
getting compassionate, and potentially cultured. He breaks the mood by
informing her it was all Frasier’s plot, and that makes her love him all the
more, but not ready for sex, yet.
The most recent of several
episodes this season that traverse the walls of Cheers and features different
settings, in this case, the box seat at an opera. Great conceit, nice
development, and more mining of the Sam/Diane repressed passion ore. Best
scene: the Cheers gang has second thoughts about seeing The Magnificent Seven, but their gradual humming of its theme song
convinces them otherwise.
Cold open: Woody hires a new
waitress, a woman more at home at a truck stop than a bar, and Sam chastises
him for not getting someone with more sex appeal. She does appeal, however, to the old guy regular.
Norm’s opener: Sam: “How’s
life in the fast lane, Normie?” Norm: “Beats me. I can’t find the on ramp.”
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