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Sam is invited for a dinner at Carla's and this is when her son announces that she will be a grandma. Carla gets absolutely depressed about having her life going away. Her not being in Cheers is hard to handle so Rebecca decides to throw her a slumber party, but it doesn't help.

Even though it has depressing parts it is still a fun episode. My favorite part was the dinner when poor Sam can't get any food. They sure do need to learn some social skills.

The ideas with slumber party and crashing it are ridiculous which makes it understandable that Carla didn't fall for it, but they give us some fun scenes. Like the boys making that ridiculous singing entrance and watching Lilith and her friend do slumber party stuff.

Carla learns her son and daughter-in-law are expecting, which would make her a grandmother, which would lead her to a mid-life crisis and a late-season episode that was less than spectacular. You can sense that the writers were going for bigger, broader story lines this season because they were still unsure of what "Cheers" would be without Diane Chambers/Shelley Long.

The good thing about the transitional nature of Season Six was that characters like Woody and Frasier began to develop: Dr. Crane marries Lilith and becomes the cynical slow-burner we know and love while Woody takes up acting, a plot line that would carry on until the series' end. The downside of Season Six is episodes like this- a weak premise with even weaker execution: the show goes completely off the tracks when Sam and The Gang crash the slumber party as "The Four Swell Guys." It's corny and embarrassing. Elizabeth Ruscio as Dorothy "Dorothy" Greenberg is dreadful, begging for a slap across the face, and horrific gargoyle Rhea Perlman looks even more frightening in her black shades and scarf.

There are some good lines sprinkled throughout but nothing to write home about.

GRADE: C