CHEERS Season 8, episode 24: “Mr. Otis Regrets”
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It occurred to me that this episode is the last one about Sam pulling some kind of trick on Rebecca to get her to have sex with him. There were many funny episodes with that type of plot in seasons 6, 7, and 8. But with what is about to occur in the next few episodes, the Sam/Rebecca dynamic changes significantly for the rest of the series, i.e., he is no longer pursuing her, at least not in the way he was before.
We often divide Cheers between the Diane years and the Rebecca years, but the Rebecca years themselves have a big dividing line between Seasons 6, 7, and 8 on the one hand– in which the corporation owns the bar and Sam is trying to get Rebecca into bed — and seasons 9, 10, and 11 on the other hand — in which Sam again owns the bar and has already been with Rebecca. It’s a pretty big change in the series.
That’s a very good point. On the next episode I mention the first half of Rebecca’s time as the corporation era, but I didn’t think that that was also the era when Sam truly pursued her. Good catch.
For the bit of Woody saving himself for marriage with Kelly, I think that ship sailed when Woody’s first girlfriend visited him with the whole “they ate a lot to suppress having sex.” Also when Woody says “that should be after marriage. Right, Mr Peterson”, and Norm replies “you go on believing that.” Were you and Tom thinking it was Norm protecting Woody’s innocence, or was Norm joking about sex *after* marriage! That’s how I took it.
Bebe’s singing voice is amazing, but we’ve heard it a little before. Way back when she and Frazier moved in together and had Sam and Dianne over for dinner, they broke into a spontaneous round of “Our House” at the piano. Huh. Two weird bits of continuity in an episode that was mostly a one-and-done.
For me, the funniest bit was the bar flies terror that Sam lied about having sex with Jeanne Marie, like they were being told Santa wasn’t real. And amazingly, Ted plays it comforting but ambiguous, like maybe he has exaggerated his exploits. We certainly know he’ll bend the truth to save face with the guys. How many times has he said “she couldn’t keep her hands off me” when the audience saw a very different scene? I’d say this is yet another callout of the show’s conceits, like “other people go home, you people come to this bar.”