Airdate: 12/3/87
Before we start – here’s the game plan. We’re doubling down,
and doubling up: starting today, you get two Cheers blog posts per day for the price of one! You see, we’re not
even halfway done the series (that occurs with episode 9.14, just a fewaway),
so we gotta pick up the pace a bit. What can I tell you – it’s hard work but
somebody’s got to do it. On with the recap…
Evan Drake, the company VP and the apple of Rebecca’s eye,
stops in for a visit and has some straight talk with Sam, including news that
the “boys upstairs” are a bit uncertain about Rebecca’s sexuality. Sam tells
her this, and she nervously inquires if he set him straight. “Based on what?”
he replies, but she’s worried that her true love will get the wrong idea about
her, so she endeavors to find the perfect male
date to take to Evan’s black-tie party. When Woody, none-too-subtly,
announces that her hired escort can’t make it, she succumbs to desperate
measures, that is – taking Sam. At the party, however, she takes his advice –
to go up to Evan and announce her feelings toward him – a little too far,
pretty much attacking him with a smooch better described as athletic than
amorous. Humiliated, she storms back to the bar,
and Sam has a new plan – tell Evan they had a lover’s tiff
and the kiss was a way to make him jealous, but when Evan says he wants to…
apologize, Sam lies and says the boss just ain’t buying it: they need to make
their passion seem more real. She obliges, and it seems to work, until Even
reveals the truth, and Ms. Howe shows a different kind of passion this time!
Fun, bedroom farce-toned escapade, noteworthy for featuring
the first appearance of millionaire Even Drake, as played by veteran film/TV
star Tom Skerritt. A new wrinkle, too, is the revelation that Rebecca has been
celibate since her torch-carrying started, around two years ago, much to Sam’s
surprise, and utter revulsion. Fun stuff here, with escalating hijinks,
volcanic climax and the usual messy dénouement. Subplot involves Cliff staying
at Norm’s, and being blamed for doing too
much around the house, leaving Vera too idle for Norm’s taste. Other
subplot: Frasier gets a case of psychosomatic hiccups when his published
article gets refuted.
Cold open: the return of Harry the Hat (Richard Anderson),
who scams Woody out of cash when he asks for change for a 50.
Norm’s opener: Sam: “How’s life treating you?” Norm: “It’s
not, Sammy, but that doesn’t mean you can’t.”
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