Airdate: 2/9/89
At a party hosted by Rebecca for a VP’s spoiled daughter,
bartender Woody adds a few comments to an overheard conversation – and incites
the ire of one of the WASPY guests, who challenges his irritant to a fistfight.
Poor Woody gets clocked after one punch, but his aggressor’s girlfriend, Kelly
(who also happens to be the VP’s daughter), also finds Woody kind of cute - so
he asks her out, first to get “revenge,” but later because he enjoys her
company. The blue-blooded boor wants Kelly back, but she’s not so sure – and
decides to continue dating the Woodman, with whom she has far more fun.
Classic theme of money as oppressor and love as liberator
serves up a hefty-helping of Woody-based comedy. Gou who plays the rich jerk is
easily hateable, and his girlfriend just as easily loveable. Money seems to be
he main loam of joke material here; more than one punchline caps off a joke
with a character expressing sentiment or integrity, then negating it by the
prospect of fast cash. Classic bit, but overused here.
Cold open: Cheap Cliff needs a present for his mother, who’s
turning 70. Carla shows off a gift her son had given her – an arts and crafts
project she cherishes for its sentimental value – and readily sells to Cliff
for three dollars.
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