"Bidding On The Boys" is about a charity bachelor auction at the bar, at least the first act is, and when it's focused on the auction the episode is great. When it moves to a hotel and Lilith's attempts to seduce Sam it completely derails and ruins everything that came before.
The wildly sexual Bebe Neuwirth- who does an amazing job playing the repressed, clenched Lilith Sternin- breaks character completely with sultry swaying and orgasmic gyrations... she's too damn hot for me to be angry with her but this was not a good idea for her character. The idea that Sam comes *this* close to banging his friend's future wife is not funny, just disturbing, and Sam has already emasculated Frasier by stealing Diane... let's leave Lilith off-limits to Sam.
Sharon Barr is great as the chain-smoking dragon lady who "purchases" Woody with the presumed intent of swallowing him whole. The first two-thirds of the episode are great but the last act turns into soft-core porn and stupefying love babble: "I knew you were following me, yin to my yang!" Let's just move on.
GRADE: C-
The wildly sexual Bebe Neuwirth- who does an amazing job playing the repressed, clenched Lilith Sternin- breaks character completely with sultry swaying and orgasmic gyrations... she's too damn hot for me to be angry with her but this was not a good idea for her character. The idea that Sam comes *this* close to banging his friend's future wife is not funny, just disturbing, and Sam has already emasculated Frasier by stealing Diane... let's leave Lilith off-limits to Sam.
Sharon Barr is great as the chain-smoking dragon lady who "purchases" Woody with the presumed intent of swallowing him whole. The first two-thirds of the episode are great but the last act turns into soft-core porn and stupefying love babble: "I knew you were following me, yin to my yang!" Let's just move on.
GRADE: C-