Watched June 2, 2012 -
This episode dealt with something near and dear to my heart: Namely...hating the Yankees and their obnoxious fans. Calling Yankees fans scum is quite frankly not fair to scum. Carla goes nuts on a particularly loud and skeezy Yanks fan who comes into the bar after attending a Yankees-Sox game at Fenway. The gang at the bar had been watching the game, which the Yanks won 5-0. This prompted Carla to stand on the bar and announce that "As of this moment, she is no longer a Red Sox fan". This would seem like a major announcement if the entire bar wasn't chanting along with her every word...the joke being that Carla has made this announcement a few times.
When Big Eddie (The Yankee fan) comes in, he starts talking smack to the entire bar. He gets particularly cruel and mean, and even goes after Sam, who of course used to pitch for Boston. It becomes too much for Carla, and she goes nuts on Eddie. She assaults him from behind and slams his head into the bar several times. Eddie threatens to sue unless Carla is fired. Diane suggests therapy for Carla rather than firing her, and Carla meets with a psychologist. This sets up the climax as Big Eddie returns to the bar. He doesn't believe Carla has changed, and he tests her by unleashing a string of hurtful anti-Boston remarks. Carla just stares ahead glassy eyed and doesn't give in to his taunts.
Eddie leaves the bar and says he's going to drop the whole lawsuit, and as he's leaving, finds a little trouble of his own with a Boston Bruin who had been sitting and listening to some of the awful things Eddie had been saying...many of which centered around the Bruins.
This was a fun episode, but a bit of a letdown after Episode 2. Cheers is at it's best when Diane and Sam are at each others throats, and we don't get too much of that dynamic in this one. Coach has some awesome moments including buying a huge amount of cheesy napkins of which he tries to extol the virtues to a customer base that hates them, and the best moment in the show when he shows Diane his prowess at getting hit by a pitch. Coach is the best!
Best Line from the Episode:
Carla: You homesick for the Bronx?
Big Eddie (Obnoxious Yankee fan): Yeah
Carla: (Sticks out her tongue and blows raspberries at him)
Diane: You'll have to forgive Carla, sometimes she gets a little over emotional at times. But please bear in mind, you are in an alien camp. Tact is perhaps your wisest recourse.
Big Eddie: What'd you get? A vocabulary for Christmas?
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