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Woody is going to meet Kelly's mother and he is very nervous because the rest of the family doesn't like him and he feels like this is his last chance. But she likes him a bit too much. He yells at her at the dinner that he won't have sex with her. But Kelly then explains that her mom is just a flirt. but in the letter she wrote for him it doesn't look like it.

A fun Woody episode. Kelly is just great in it. Her invitation to Sam was hilarious. Sam is very funny as well when he has to deal with all those expensive chairs and steals food. The final scene when Woody reads the letter is great as well since it seems that nobody gets that the flirt was an actual asking for sex, even though it is so obvious. Or maybe they just pretended they agree with Woody?

Woody meets his girlfriend's Mother, whose innocent flirtations might not be so innocent.

Melendy Britt guest-stars as Roxanne Gaines, Kelly's Mom and upper-class cougar. She's playful and sweet and sexy enough that if I were in Woody's shoes I'd have a hard time turning her down- I'd be more likely to turn her inside out. Britt is believable as Jackie Swanson's mother AND as a naughty seductress: it's her breezy charm that makes the episode successful.

The mechanical bull B-story is pure bull: we've accepted the single-set sitcom that is "Cheers" but the idea of an entire invisible sub-plot taking place just offscreen is too obnoxious to accept. If we're not even going to show the machine, why stop at a mechanical bull? Why not just claim to have a nuclear missile in the poolroom? Or Bigfoot? Or Fenway Park? To have an unexpected character like Carla get stuck on the bull might have been funny, but to dump on bar punching-bag Cliff is repetitive and offensive.

Luckily the main story features Woody squirming in high society, doing his best to fend off Roxanne's advances while trying to remember which fork to use for his salad, and the strength of these sequences more than make up for the bogus bucking bronco. My favorite part is Mrs. Gaines' apology letter:

"I ache for you my strong young coconut... I live for the moment I can harvest your lusty fruit..."

How could they have not brought Melendy Britt back as Roxanne Gaines?!?

GRADE: A-