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6/10
Tale of Two Cuties (#6.15)
ComedyFan20103 June 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Carla had the twins and while she is on the leave they need a replacement waitress. Drake calls in and asks to hire a woman he knows. Rebecca gets all jealous because she is sure that she is Drake's lover. But after she slaps her turns out that it is his daughter. And they also hire Carla's in law but it brings a lot of jealousy between her and her husband Anthony.

I did say that Anthony and Annie can cause a lot of laughs and I am looking forward to see more of it, but this episode was not the case. The story involving them was not funny and pretty boring. I guess they are good in smaller doses or maybe with a better script.

Rebecca's story was pretty predictable and didn't have too much funny stuff in it either. It was mainly due to the performance of Kirstie Alley that it was bearable to watch.
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6/10
Overreaction
Hitchcoc26 August 2019
Carla's daughter in law and her son play an integral role here, which means it's too much. With Carla out, there is a kind of rotating barmaid thing going on. Evan Drake asks Rebecca to take on a waitress job and Rebecca immediately jumps to the conclusion that it is his mistress. Really a filler episode with little that could be called creative.
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2/10
Trying too hard
talula106026 November 2019
This was a bad episode for implausibility reasons but also the acting was hideous. First of all, how on Earth could Annie work at a bar when she's clearly under 21? We know it would be an automatic loss of liquor license for a teenager to serve alcohol in a popular bar. She tries way too hard to be like Carla which I guess is the joke. Someone mentioned that they thought these two used to be funny in their first episode. That may be the case. For some reason, the actor playing Anthony decided to stop speaking normally and start mimicking the actor who plays his father Nick. He puts on this gravelly voice and even tries to mimic Nick's little vocal inflections. I think the director/writers may have instructed him to do this because isn't it HILARIOUS that Carla's son is just like his father and isn't it a KNEE-SLAPPER that he married a girl just like his mother? In a word: no. It isn't funny at all. It's just annoying. The girl playing Annie has exactly one note: aggressive. She is mean-spirited, rarely smiles, and her jokes aren't funny. They are trying to make her just like Carla which means she's not going to be funny. Listen to the audience sometimes when Carla makes jokes. She will get a few laughs but not the big belly laughs some of the other actors' jokes get. I think it's because she's so mean spirited about it. Annie is the exact same way which is why she isn't funny either. Considering it's a comedy show, not being funny makes this a complete failure as an episode.
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5/10
You Must Be The Slut
Bolesroor29 April 2011
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Too much Annie... too much Anthony. They were funny once, weren't they? I can't seem to remember... I have a vague recollection of Mandy Ingber and Timothy Williams being cute when they first appeared in "The Groom Wore Clearisil," but that was so long ago, and they're so screechingly unfunny here that I really can't tell anymore. Cheers hires not one but two temporary waitresses to cover for Carla on maternity leave, and neither one is funny.

Rebecca becomes positively unglued when she suspects Laurie of being Evan's mistress, and for our over-the-top visual of the week she actually punches the girl's lights out. Of course, this plot line only makes sense if Rebecca never asked for the girl's last name- which she would of course have to know in order to legally employ her at the bar. Best not to think about it.

The writers know Annie is not funny, so you can feel them ratcheting up her dialogue with as many bells and whistles as possible: "passionate macho stud-horse" being the worst offender. Still not funny. Anthony's voice is like gravel lurching around a broken blender, and there's something positively depraved at his gutter-stunted appearance. This is not one for the ages...

GRADE: C-
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