Sam suffers a hernia while trying to prove that he's not getting too old.Sam suffers a hernia while trying to prove that he's not getting too old.Sam suffers a hernia while trying to prove that he's not getting too old.
Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff
- Bonnie
- (as Pamela Bach)
Jere Fields
- Nurse Brenda
- (as Jere' Fields)
Larry Wright
- 139th Street Quartet 2nd Tenor
- (as Larry F. Wright)
Douglas Anderson
- 139th Street Quartet 1st Tenor
- (as Douglas M. Anderson)
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Did you know
- TriviaAround the time of this episode Ted Danson played one-on-one basketball with Woody Harrelson, who is 14 years his junior. Danson wasn't injured, but he felt his age while competing with the younger actor.
- Quotes
Woody Boyd: So, what rock groups do you like Bonnie?
Bonnie: I like The Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears, U2.
Woody Boyd: Oh, I love U2.
Sam Malone: Yeah, we look great together, don't we?
- ConnectionsReferences Star Trek (1966)
Featured review
AWFUL EPISODE BY AN AWFUL WRITER
This episode was pretty bad as Cheers episodes go. It was filled with silly coincidences that were totally implausible and lowered the caliber of the show. More annoying than funny which is not good for a sitcom.
I looked up who wrote the episode and it's the same guy who wrote Chambers vs Malone (arguably the worst Cheers episode), Peterson Crusoe (where Cliff inexplicably decides to move to Tahiti because of a health scare but hides in Sam's office for days without anyone noticing), and Coach in Love where Coach came off like an inexperienced buffoon (more than usual ) who spent the entire two episode arc in denial and struggling with what seemed like mental illness over a woman. It ended poorly and again, there weren't very many laughs. This writer seems to love to fill his episodes with totally unrealistic plot points and totally cumbersome dialogue that has no humor whatsoever. None of these episodes were any good and all of them completely disregarded what we already knew about the characters to that point. If you listen to the audience in this episode, you'll see that the audience isn't laughing all that much because the jokes just aren't funny.
Diane's behavior in this episode got a little ridiculous. She spent the entire episode nosing around where she didn't belong and didn't even try to hide it. Granted, she does that a lot anyway but in this episode, it really got silly. Frantically salling every hotel in Sugar Loaf even though Sam didn't say where he was going skiing? He could have been skiing anywhere. It seems a bit out of character for her to spend that kind of time openly stalking Sam and for no apparent reason other than a feeling she had. And the feeling seemed to be based on nothing which was also lazy writing. Sam has dated plenty of younger women so why no Earth was Diane suddenly concerned that Sam was getting old when she saw him with a younger girl? It made no sense and disregarded everything that came before it.
The worst thing in this episode is the way Diane found out Sam was in the hospital. Two nurses randomly discuss a patient while Diane happened to be standing there? When Diane asks about the patient, the nurses just give up that information to a waitress in a bar? This would never happen and the fact that it was written into the episode was an insult to intelligent viewers. It was just lazy writing. Why couldn't they have had the hospital call the bar to confirm employment and Diane answered the phone? Anything was preferable to what this writer did.
Generally, writers expect viewers to suspend their disbelief to some extent while watching a sitcom. This episode asked too much of us with its lazy writing, unrealistic plot points, and far too many coincidences with far too few laughs. Not one of Cheers' best. This writer should have been fired before he had the chance to subject Chambers vs Malone on us in the fifth season. Ugh.
I looked up who wrote the episode and it's the same guy who wrote Chambers vs Malone (arguably the worst Cheers episode), Peterson Crusoe (where Cliff inexplicably decides to move to Tahiti because of a health scare but hides in Sam's office for days without anyone noticing), and Coach in Love where Coach came off like an inexperienced buffoon (more than usual ) who spent the entire two episode arc in denial and struggling with what seemed like mental illness over a woman. It ended poorly and again, there weren't very many laughs. This writer seems to love to fill his episodes with totally unrealistic plot points and totally cumbersome dialogue that has no humor whatsoever. None of these episodes were any good and all of them completely disregarded what we already knew about the characters to that point. If you listen to the audience in this episode, you'll see that the audience isn't laughing all that much because the jokes just aren't funny.
Diane's behavior in this episode got a little ridiculous. She spent the entire episode nosing around where she didn't belong and didn't even try to hide it. Granted, she does that a lot anyway but in this episode, it really got silly. Frantically salling every hotel in Sugar Loaf even though Sam didn't say where he was going skiing? He could have been skiing anywhere. It seems a bit out of character for her to spend that kind of time openly stalking Sam and for no apparent reason other than a feeling she had. And the feeling seemed to be based on nothing which was also lazy writing. Sam has dated plenty of younger women so why no Earth was Diane suddenly concerned that Sam was getting old when she saw him with a younger girl? It made no sense and disregarded everything that came before it.
The worst thing in this episode is the way Diane found out Sam was in the hospital. Two nurses randomly discuss a patient while Diane happened to be standing there? When Diane asks about the patient, the nurses just give up that information to a waitress in a bar? This would never happen and the fact that it was written into the episode was an insult to intelligent viewers. It was just lazy writing. Why couldn't they have had the hospital call the bar to confirm employment and Diane answered the phone? Anything was preferable to what this writer did.
Generally, writers expect viewers to suspend their disbelief to some extent while watching a sitcom. This episode asked too much of us with its lazy writing, unrealistic plot points, and far too many coincidences with far too few laughs. Not one of Cheers' best. This writer should have been fired before he had the chance to subject Chambers vs Malone on us in the fifth season. Ugh.
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