Airdate: 1/21/88
In Carla’s absence a waitress is needed, but two girls fill
in. One is Annie Tortelli (Carla’s daughter-in-law), whose husband’s insecurity
over her employment and his “un” is transmuted into jealousy over what he
perceives to be an affair between Sam and his wife. The other is a young girl
personally endorsed by Mr. Drake, and right away Rebecca jealously concludes
she’s his mistress. Bordering on psychopathic, she pries and wheedles her way
into to get the truth, ultimately slapping he poor girl in the face. Drake
enters to clear things up: she’s his daughter, leaving Rebecca to excuse her
slap as being a nervous tic that requires medication to subdue. And Frasier’s
reading of a murder mystery is spoiled by everyone else at the bar – he gets
revenge with some spoilers of his own, including the revelation that Darth
Vader is Luke’s father.
Carla’s babies are finally delivered (she’s in the cold open
and the very end), so the title could very well also refer to her offspring.
But of course it really covers the two wkaitresses, and the comedy of errors
arising from Rebecca’s neurotic crush on Evan Drake, and Carlas son and
daughter-in-law’s adolescent (in every sense of the word) marriage, fraught
with everything from guilt to oversexualization. A melting pot f mayhem if
there ever was one!
Spoiler alert! In addition to ruining the ending of The Empire Strikes Back, Frasier also
does some damage to Citizen Kane and Murder on the Orient Express. You have
been warned. And BTW, Woody’s doubt that Darth is Luke’s dad based on the
difference in their surnames is anachronistically nullified in Episode I: The Phantom Menace, when we
learn Darth’s real name is Annakin.
Cold open: In a completely silent scene (we’re behind the
hospital glass) the Cheers crew is all gaga over a set of twins – that are not
Carla’s. When corrected, they still go back to the original, and presumably
cuter, set of twins.
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