Airdate:
12/22/88
Cliff, Norm and Woody return from a Magnificent Seven film festival hopped up on testosterone,
lamenting the lack of bravery-testing trials in the modern age, when an
eavesdropper suggests skydiving. He’s an instructor willing to take the trio up
and give them their shot at adventuring, but when they go up in the plane, they
chicken out. Back at the bar, they tell their fish tale pretty convincingly;
even Woody manages to lie for the first time, though it’s clearly eating him up
inside. Sam is impressed, so impressed, in fact, that he wants to go up, and when they agree to it, he calls them out on
their lie when they chicken out a second time. Now the four of them, back at
the bar, have to live with their falsehood, when Rebecca suggests they go up
again and advertise Cheers by holding a banner. Here we go again – but Woody’s
so torn up he jumps just to sleep at night, followed by Sam, who’s turned on by
the prospect of Rebecca being turned on by a skydiver, followed by Norm,
followed by Cliff (nudged just a bit after being falsely told the plan is going
down). The trip is a success – as rite of manhood and publicity stunt, though
Rebecca’s turn on steers her in the direction of… the instructor.
A fan favorite, this one has all the crowd-pleasing elements
– and the comedic device of repetition – to make it a home run. Cowards that
they are, we just know they have to
jump by episode’s end, and they do. Third episode to feature chaos on an
airplane; Cheers recognizes the comic
potential of the situation.
Cold open: Rebecca nixes ideas from a suggestion box, but
one holds her interest, until she discovers it’s a proposition for sex from
Sam!
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