Airdate:
10/19/89
Margaret O’Keefe (from “Please Mr. Postman”) is back from
Canada, and she wants to make Cliff her beau. But the letter carrier discloses
he has an unfortunate malady related to his relations with the opposite sex:
blindness. During moments of anxiety (translated: commitment) he’s as blind as
a mole, and so his “big night” with Maggie requires some assistance from a
professional – that would be Sam. After a comedy of errors (and Sam’s
departure), Cliff takes a backward spill off the balcony and into the pool.
After drying off at Cheers, Cliff is followed by Margaret, who apologetically,
and sadly, ends their union. When Cliff steps up to the plate and stops her
retreat – announcing that he will have
her – he finds he can see again, but now he’s paralyzed from the waist down.
Welcome reappearance by Annie Golden as Margaret illuminates
this otherwise cornball offering – and does beg the question: why didn’t this
blindness ever occur before, as Cliff has had several assignations of a
potentially lurid persuasion? Ah, no matter; it’s just another broad premise of
which to fill with the usual Cheers irony-laden,
snappy jokebook. Subplot too silly to mention.
Cold open: Cliff and Norm try to job Robin’s memory of the
show The Millionaire so he can give
strangers (them) a boatload of dough. Cliff offers to pay for the bigwig’s
drink: a Louis XIII cognac costing $75 a glass.
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