Airdate: 3/2/89
They say pregnant women glow, but Lilith is positively
nuclear. Celebrating her fertility at Cheers ad nauseum, she eventually pushes
Frasier to his breaking point. But he later regrets his hasty words to her, and
when he hears the heartbeat of his in utero son, he and Lilith decide to go
live in a wooden cabin, stripped of all civilization and reliant solely on all
things natural for civilization. A fire building exercise proves to be the
ultimate test, which he of course fails, and it doesn’t take long for the
urbane twosome to grab a charter flight back to Beantown, just in time for
seating at their favorite restaurant. Subplot: Rebecca orders Woody to take a vacation to Italy; he spends a week at the
airport, loving every minute of it!
The Cranes rough it, or at least attempt to, but of course
the problem is that their idea of living off the land exists in theory only. We
know how this is going to end – futilely – but there’s plenty of overanalysis
and head-talk along the way. Lilith’s opening scene, in which she sings the
mawkish praises of her fertility at Cheers, is hilarious.
Cold open: A lawyer comes and tells Carla of her grandfather’s
passing, and about the $20 million fortune he amassed. Does she get an
inheritance? Nope, except for the lucky quarter that got the old man started.
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