Airdate: 3/30/89
To prove he’s still a Don Juan after getting shot down by
Rebecca for the umpteenth time, Sam bets he can bed the next dame that walks in
Cheers. She’s Shelia Rydell, and – not interested. Sam concludes it’s because
she’s an egghead psychiatrist, and friend of Frasier and Lilith’s, but that makes
his lust for her no less. He hatches a plan to get closer to her: pretend he’s
a patient, suffering from impotence. At her office, she’s immediately on to
him, and invents a crazy treatment for him conducted by a former Nazi, but
later on, beguiled by his readiness to make a fool of himself for her, she
accepts his date offer. It goes well, until afterwards at the bar when Sam
wants an honest assessment of his psyche. She concludes his life is utterly
empty, with the exception of women and sex; he’s so horrified by this he kicks
her out and abruptly ends the date. Rebecca tries to lift his spirits,
attempting to come up with any non-sex interest he might have. She does: the
Three Stooges!
Shelia fills in for Diane in this episode, assuming the
long-absent duties of reminding Sam what a dunderheaded horndog he is. 80s film
actress Madolyn Smith is stunning in the role, to the extent that it’s nearly
impossible to believe Sam would refuse having sex with her, no matter how
psychologically wounded he is. Ploy of using impotence as a fake illness is
clever too, and has some funny comic payoffs.
Cold open: Rebecca and Woody host a “guess the number of
jellybeans in the jar” contest, but Woody inadvertently gives the number away,
and Norm eats the spare beans slated for a do-over.
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