User Reviews

This is the first episode to focus on Woody, but he gets some good comedic support from the rest of the cast. Woody is fitting in pretty well, but he's still awkward with women. It turns out he's still pining for Beth, his old girlfriend from back home. The gang arrange to bring her to Boston, and soon Woody and Beth are back to their old habits of overeating.

What's clever about this episode is that the subplot dovetails neatly into the main plot. Frasier is having a crisis of confidence following his rejection by Diane and is trying to rebuild himself by doing menial work at Cheers. (Is this just an excuse to keep Frasier at the bar? Probably, but who cares?) When everyone tries to come up with a way for Woody and Beth to tackle their overeating, Frasier goes into psychiatrist mode and comes up with a textbook Freudian explanation - it's all about sex - and it turns out he's right! Now that Diane has left him, Frasier is free to be the pompous, angry blowhard we all know and love. The episode ends with a cute punchline where Sam and Diane prove that there's something to Frasier's theory.

The plot of this wasn't anything to write home about, but the one liners come fast and the timing is superb. Woody is the perfect foil to replace Nick Callesanto who didn't make it to this season. The plot involved Woody longing for the girl he left behind in Indiana. It turns out that both of them had an eating disorder and now had dieted down to attractive figures. Frasier moves in (he's sweeping floors at the bar) and analyzes their lack of sexual relations as the reason for their fixation on food, which has returned now that they are together again.