SAM: I've eaten through worse than this.
Viewers who complained that second season Cheers was in danger of becoming the Sam & Diane Show could point to this one as a key example. It's funny, but it's also spinning its wheels with the notion that our lovers are hot for each other but completely wrong for each other.
Markie Post (a year away from joining the cast of Night Court) plays Diane's old friend Heather. It's not exactly a perfect match - Heather seems too down-to-Earth to have been friends with snooty Diane - but that's beside the point. The main problem is that Heather is clearly attracted to Sam. Sam, being a major Babe Hound, is keyed into this right away, while Diane only comes to realize this when Carla fills her in.
It's a familiar dance - conflict is introduced, Diane blows up at Sam, followed by a tentative reconciliation. It's getting a bit old, but in the new year they'll move on to other things.
The subplot involves Coach getting a big dog to protect the bar, and it illustrates an interesting point: animals are funnier when heard but not seen. The image of "The Beast" conjured by a few sound effects is funnier than actually showing said pooch would have been.
Viewers who complained that second season Cheers was in danger of becoming the Sam & Diane Show could point to this one as a key example. It's funny, but it's also spinning its wheels with the notion that our lovers are hot for each other but completely wrong for each other.
Markie Post (a year away from joining the cast of Night Court) plays Diane's old friend Heather. It's not exactly a perfect match - Heather seems too down-to-Earth to have been friends with snooty Diane - but that's beside the point. The main problem is that Heather is clearly attracted to Sam. Sam, being a major Babe Hound, is keyed into this right away, while Diane only comes to realize this when Carla fills her in.
It's a familiar dance - conflict is introduced, Diane blows up at Sam, followed by a tentative reconciliation. It's getting a bit old, but in the new year they'll move on to other things.
The subplot involves Coach getting a big dog to protect the bar, and it illustrates an interesting point: animals are funnier when heard but not seen. The image of "The Beast" conjured by a few sound effects is funnier than actually showing said pooch would have been.