- Diane receives what she believes is a "promising" rejection letter from a literary magazine for a poem she submitted. To prove that the letter is nothing more than a form letter, Sam bets her that if he submits a poem to the same magazine, he too will receive the same letter. Much to Sam's surprise, the poem he submits gets published in the magazine. Diane, believing that Sam has plagiarized a previously published work, lives for a week solely on coffee and cigarettes as she madly rifles through every poetry book to find the poem Sam submitted. She hits the furthest deeps of despair when offhandedly Woody mentions to her that he too submitted a poem to the magazine and received the exact same rejection letter as Diane. Feeling that Diane has gone through enough anguish, Sam admits to Diane the source of what was truly his previously unpublished poem. Meanwhile, Carla, the Elvis Presley fanatic, takes a trip to Graceland on the 10th anniversary of his death.—Huggo
- Diane has received a letter back from a literary magazine regarding a poem she submitted to them. However, while the others claim it is a rejection letter, Diane tells them that it is merely the magazine's way of saying they liked her piece, even though it wasn't published.
Sam claims that he could write something and get the same letter, and Diane requests he do so. However, she is soon shocked a few weeks later when Sam presents a new issue of the literary magazine, with a poem he's written published inside!
Diane is unsure how Sam could have written something like the poem, until she suspects that he plagiarized it! She then becomes obsessed, pouring over poetry books and delving into coffee and cigarettes. Frasier tries to console her, as does Sam, but Diane soon just breaks down, feeling that her dreams of creating great art are dashed, seeing as she is unable to finish any other poetry works.
Finally, Sam takes her into the back office of Cheers, and tells her a secret: he did plagiarize the poem, but it was from one of Diane's letters (which he shows her). This causes Diane to claim that the poem is great (even though she criticized it when it was under Sam's name), and that in a sense, something by her hand has been published!
However, she soon snaps out of her euphoric mood, and tells Sam that he is going to have to confess to the others what he did. This is followed a split-second later by another mood-swing of Diane's, where-in she kisses Sam, and claims that he did keep her love letters to him.
Sam on the other hand, tells Diane that he just happened to find the letter laying around his apartment, and claims he doesn't love Diane. Hearing this, she leaves the office, only for Sam to secretly put the letter he showed her, back in a stack of others hidden in a small lock-box.
It just so happens that Diane sneaks back in, and catches the scene, certain that Sam still does love her, even though he protests that the lock box contains other things.
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