A crabby male customer is seen giving Dot a hard time. Although this seems like a throwaway bit, he will be crucial to the plot later on.
Nancy breaks the bad news to everyone that the building has been sold to a big corporation who wants to close the restaurant and renovate it into a fitness club (Olivia Newton-John's PHYSICAL was the #1 song on Billboard when this originally aired). They have two weeks before they all lose their jobs.
Finally!! -- a great episode for the revamped cast to show off their talents. This is probably my second favorite of the season. There is a real camaraderie among the characters when faced with a common threat.
Maggie's hair looks like Joan Crawford's in QUEEN BEE (1955) and she, Dot and Cassie all seem to be wearing the same shade of lipstick.
The scene in the employment office is wonderful and contains a series of quick cuts as each of the ladies try to sell their skills to their respective interviewers. Maggie's answers get increasingly bizarre - and hysterical. Her line about macrame brings big laughs. Louise Lasser brings a lot of her Mary Hartman-isms to this scene. I know many fans dislike this season because of her, but her lines were always the funniest parts of these Season 2 shows.
Cassie's responses during the interview paint her as the sexpot again - she's still not as sassy as last season but it's great to have her given lines like "I like MEN!" or "I date EXTENSIVELY".
The scene also allows the girls to give their condensed backstories -- making us privy to who these characters are and how they got here. And it ends on a very touching note, where each states the thing they liked best about working at Above the Top, was each other.
In the final scene back at the restaurant, they say their goodbyes -- Jan gives Cassie a nice compliment --and then Dot's crabby customer arrives to save the day. It seems he owns the building, likes eating there and the renovation to a health club is too costly anyway.
Richard McKenzie will return for two appearances in the syndicated era playing Jan's father.
Definitely a highlight of a rather weak season. It's too bad the cast were not gifted with scripts like this every week.
SONGS: Sonny sings "Stand by Your Man".
Nancy breaks the bad news to everyone that the building has been sold to a big corporation who wants to close the restaurant and renovate it into a fitness club (Olivia Newton-John's PHYSICAL was the #1 song on Billboard when this originally aired). They have two weeks before they all lose their jobs.
Finally!! -- a great episode for the revamped cast to show off their talents. This is probably my second favorite of the season. There is a real camaraderie among the characters when faced with a common threat.
Maggie's hair looks like Joan Crawford's in QUEEN BEE (1955) and she, Dot and Cassie all seem to be wearing the same shade of lipstick.
The scene in the employment office is wonderful and contains a series of quick cuts as each of the ladies try to sell their skills to their respective interviewers. Maggie's answers get increasingly bizarre - and hysterical. Her line about macrame brings big laughs. Louise Lasser brings a lot of her Mary Hartman-isms to this scene. I know many fans dislike this season because of her, but her lines were always the funniest parts of these Season 2 shows.
Cassie's responses during the interview paint her as the sexpot again - she's still not as sassy as last season but it's great to have her given lines like "I like MEN!" or "I date EXTENSIVELY".
The scene also allows the girls to give their condensed backstories -- making us privy to who these characters are and how they got here. And it ends on a very touching note, where each states the thing they liked best about working at Above the Top, was each other.
In the final scene back at the restaurant, they say their goodbyes -- Jan gives Cassie a nice compliment --and then Dot's crabby customer arrives to save the day. It seems he owns the building, likes eating there and the renovation to a health club is too costly anyway.
Richard McKenzie will return for two appearances in the syndicated era playing Jan's father.
Definitely a highlight of a rather weak season. It's too bad the cast were not gifted with scripts like this every week.
SONGS: Sonny sings "Stand by Your Man".