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* PlayingAgainstType: Glenn Shadix, already known for playing flamboyant fey men, plays a boorish telephone service agent who hits on women with the most creepy, obnoxious lines, and calls them “lesbians” when they reject him. Shadix himself was famously out and proud.
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* AnalogyBackfire: Trying to mediate between the arguing Boyds, Lilith brings up the example from ''Gulliver's Travels'' of SillyReasonForAWar. Unfortunately, Kelly and Woody disagree on ''that'' as well.
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'''Kelly:''' Well, that's ridiculous. Of course it's the rounded end.\\
'''Woody:''' ''(distraught)'' Oh, Kelly, I don't even know who you are anymore!
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'''Kelly:''' Well, that's ridiculous. Of course it's the rounded end.\\
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Episode: Season 11, Episode 2\\
Title: The Beer Is Always Greener\\
Directed by: James Burrows\\
Written by: Tom Leopold\\
Air Date: October 1, 1992\\
Previous: The Little Match Girl\\
Next: The Beer Is Always Greener\\
Guest Starring: Jackie Swanson, Glenn Shadix, Julia Montgomery]
"The Beer Is Always Greener" is the second episode of the eleventh season of ''Series/{{Cheers}}''.
Two weeks have passed since the back part of the bar burned down in "The Little Match Girl". After some amazingly quick renovations (including magically recreating all the knickknacks and decorations on the wall), Cheers is ready to reopen.
In the meantime, Carla has been working at some chain bar/restaurant called Mr. Pubb's. Sam sends word to come back to Cheers but Carla doesn't come. It turns out that even though she hates it there--it's bright and cheerful, she has to wear a uniform, she has to sing "Happy Birthday" for customers, she has to ''be nice''--they are paying way more that Sam does. Norm and Cliff are sent to retrieve Carla, but Mr. Pubb's has complimentary ribs for happy hour, and attractive hula girls, and a whole row of big-screen [=TVs=], each tuned to a different game. Eventually all of his regulars are at Mr. Pubb's, and Sam has to go there himself.
In the B-plot, newlyweds Woody and Kelly have reached their first fight: Woody is Lutheran Church of Missouri Synod whereas Kelly is Lutheran Church of America.
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!!Tropes:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Bernard, the guy repairing the phones at Cheers, is a creepy fat guy who makes a series of crude sexual advances towards Rebecca. He winds up going home with Carla.
* ArtisticLicenseReligion: No, devotees of the Lutheran Church of America and Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod do not believe members of the other sect are going to hell.
* BadJobWorseUniform: Among the indignities that Carla has to suffer at Mr. Pubb's is wearing a dorky uniform, one that is rather similar to the dorky uniforms that Rebecca how made her employees wear way back at [[Recap/CheersS6E1 the beginning of Season 6]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: More foreshadowing of the coming Crane breakup, as Frasier's attempting to reassure Kelly and Woody that their differences are no big deal leads to him raging at Lilith (who is Jewish) for not allowing him to have a Christmas tree.
* HypocriticalHumor: Cliff, laughing over Carla's Mr. Pubb's uniform, says "Wearing a dorky uniform, out in public all day--there but for the grace of God, eh Norm?". He's wearing his USPS uniform.
* KitschyThemedRestaurant: Mr. Pubb's is one of those casual chains like TGI Fridays or Applebee's, with neon and big screen [=TVs=] and huge rib platters. It's way different from Cheers, which is basically a place to get drunk and maybe stuff peanuts up your nose. All the Cheers regulars wind up liking Mr. Pubb's way too much.
* SayingTooMuch: When Norm and Cliff enter Mr. Pubb's, Norm boggles at the neon and light and says that it looks like the inside of a UFO. Cliff says "No, actually they're quite different." Then after Norm gives him a look Cliff says "I guess."
* SimilarSquad: Despite how much she hates it, Mr. Pubb's pays Carla much more than Sam does. She's tempted to stay for good, until she's introduced to a new recruit--a blonde Boston University student called Ellen, who is ludicrously pretentious and insists she's a "poetess". And happens to be an eerie dead ringer for Diane Chambers. Carla screams, runs for it, and makes Sam vow to never set foot in that bar again.
* TemptingFate: Carla says that she hates everything about Mr. Pubb's, but for that much money "there's nothing I can't take." Then she's introduced to her new trainee, a clone of Diane. Carla runs from Mr. Pubb's, screaming.
* TheUnsmile: Carla, who is always angry and mean unless she's inflicting misery on others, has to be happy and cheerful at Mr. Pubb's. She wears a frightening rictus of a smile.
Episode: Season 11, Episode 2\\
Title: The Beer Is Always Greener\\
Directed by: James Burrows\\
Written by: Tom Leopold\\
Air Date: October 1, 1992\\
Previous: The Little Match Girl\\
Next: The Beer Is Always Greener\\
Guest Starring: Jackie Swanson, Glenn Shadix, Julia Montgomery]
"The Beer Is Always Greener" is the second episode of the eleventh season of ''Series/{{Cheers}}''.
Two weeks have passed since the back part of the bar burned down in "The Little Match Girl". After some amazingly quick renovations (including magically recreating all the knickknacks and decorations on the wall), Cheers is ready to reopen.
In the meantime, Carla has been working at some chain bar/restaurant called Mr. Pubb's. Sam sends word to come back to Cheers but Carla doesn't come. It turns out that even though she hates it there--it's bright and cheerful, she has to wear a uniform, she has to sing "Happy Birthday" for customers, she has to ''be nice''--they are paying way more that Sam does. Norm and Cliff are sent to retrieve Carla, but Mr. Pubb's has complimentary ribs for happy hour, and attractive hula girls, and a whole row of big-screen [=TVs=], each tuned to a different game. Eventually all of his regulars are at Mr. Pubb's, and Sam has to go there himself.
In the B-plot, newlyweds Woody and Kelly have reached their first fight: Woody is Lutheran Church of Missouri Synod whereas Kelly is Lutheran Church of America.
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!!Tropes:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: Bernard, the guy repairing the phones at Cheers, is a creepy fat guy who makes a series of crude sexual advances towards Rebecca. He winds up going home with Carla.
* ArtisticLicenseReligion: No, devotees of the Lutheran Church of America and Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod do not believe members of the other sect are going to hell.
* BadJobWorseUniform: Among the indignities that Carla has to suffer at Mr. Pubb's is wearing a dorky uniform, one that is rather similar to the dorky uniforms that Rebecca how made her employees wear way back at [[Recap/CheersS6E1 the beginning of Season 6]].
* {{Foreshadowing}}: More foreshadowing of the coming Crane breakup, as Frasier's attempting to reassure Kelly and Woody that their differences are no big deal leads to him raging at Lilith (who is Jewish) for not allowing him to have a Christmas tree.
* HypocriticalHumor: Cliff, laughing over Carla's Mr. Pubb's uniform, says "Wearing a dorky uniform, out in public all day--there but for the grace of God, eh Norm?". He's wearing his USPS uniform.
* KitschyThemedRestaurant: Mr. Pubb's is one of those casual chains like TGI Fridays or Applebee's, with neon and big screen [=TVs=] and huge rib platters. It's way different from Cheers, which is basically a place to get drunk and maybe stuff peanuts up your nose. All the Cheers regulars wind up liking Mr. Pubb's way too much.
* SayingTooMuch: When Norm and Cliff enter Mr. Pubb's, Norm boggles at the neon and light and says that it looks like the inside of a UFO. Cliff says "No, actually they're quite different." Then after Norm gives him a look Cliff says "I guess."
* SimilarSquad: Despite how much she hates it, Mr. Pubb's pays Carla much more than Sam does. She's tempted to stay for good, until she's introduced to a new recruit--a blonde Boston University student called Ellen, who is ludicrously pretentious and insists she's a "poetess". And happens to be an eerie dead ringer for Diane Chambers. Carla screams, runs for it, and makes Sam vow to never set foot in that bar again.
* TemptingFate: Carla says that she hates everything about Mr. Pubb's, but for that much money "there's nothing I can't take." Then she's introduced to her new trainee, a clone of Diane. Carla runs from Mr. Pubb's, screaming.
* TheUnsmile: Carla, who is always angry and mean unless she's inflicting misery on others, has to be happy and cheerful at Mr. Pubb's. She wears a frightening rictus of a smile.
