Airdate: 3/27/86
Sam has either a brilliant or
disastrous idea, depending on whom you ask: he’s going to be the new
manager/host for the bar, greeting clients, booking events, in short – turning
the place into a real classy joint. Things go south pretty quickly, though,
culminating in an extremely sparsely attended conventioneer’s function (only
three show up, with one allergic to shellfish at an all-lobster spread).
Realizing his error, Sam goes behind the bar again, but now he’s gotta fire
Ken, the new bartender – an act easier said than done, especially with Ken’s
two kids in tow. So maybe Woody will go, realizing Ken’s family man status, but
when Sam fires him, Ken laves for a better job. Backtracking mightily, Sam goes
after Woody to offer his job back to him, but the not-so-naïve Indianan won’t
do it unless he gets a $100 a month raise (which later gets raised to $30 a
week thanks to Sam’s not so quick on the uptake bargaining skills).
Solid episode revolving
around Sam’s dream, ill-conceived and executed, but earnest as all get-out, God
bless ‘im. Funniest scene involves the two kids, used both as sympathy ploys and
as punchlines for jokes about Diane’s universally-offensive pretensions and
Woody’s obtuseness.
Cold open: Norm recommends an
auto mechanic to Cliff; Woody wonders if he can fix his toaster, so Norm has to
choose calculated words to explain that the toaster is not fixable by an auto
mechanic.
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