Airdate:
10/16/86
Frasier has a good reason for
everyone at Cheers to miss 30 minutes worth of football time: he’s slated to be
on a local “Point-Counterpoint”-type psychology show, with his opponent none
other than Lilith Sternun, a female colleague with whom he had a disastrous
date a year earlier. He’s furious, probably because, as noticed by Diane, he
may be head over heels in love with her, particularly when she lets her hair
down, which is exactly how she arrives to debate. The objective discourse on
phobia treatment quickly devolves into a none-too-subtle demonstration of
mutual sexual attraction, all before a slightly bit confused moderator, and a
gleeful bar crowd with a newfound appreciation for psychology. Ashamed, Frasier
and Lilith meet again at the bar, stoically agreeing to forget everything for
the sake of their careers, but Diane “needs” Lilith’s hairpin, and it’s all
over for the buttoned-up shrinks.
Triumphant return of Bebe
Neuworth as Lilith establishes her romance now with the jilted Frasier Crane,
so now we won’t have his ruing over Diane anymore. As anyone who reads this
blog knows, I love it when Cheers deals
with psychology, and this one mines it for all its hearty comic value. Neuworth
skillfully shuttles from clinical doublespeak to vulnerable insecurity– just
the same type of bipolar neurosis that has kept the Sam/Diane dynamic alive so
long. And speaking of – Diane continues her torch-carrrying for Sam, although
truth be told, it’s getting a little pathetic.
Cold open: Cliff and Norm
plan a gladiator film festival.
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