Episode: Season 10, Episode 3
Title: Madame La Carla
Directed by: Tom Moore
Written by: Phoef Sutton
Air Date: October 3, 1991
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Guest Starring: Georgia Brown
Title: Madame La Carla
Directed by: Tom Moore
Written by: Phoef Sutton
Air Date: October 3, 1991
Previous: Get Your Kicks on Route 666
Next: The Norm Who Came to Dinner
Guest Starring: Georgia Brown
"Madame LaCarla" is the third episode of the tenth season of Cheers.
Carla is terrified when she is informed that her psychic, Madame Lazora, called for her at the bar. Carla assumes that it must be some sort of terrible news, but when Madame Lazora shows up, she has a surprise: she is retiring to Florida and she wants Carla to take over her job as a psychic. Carla is surprised, but Madame Lazora insists that her spirit guide, "Princess Katja", says that Carla has the gift.
In the B-plot, Woody has a part in his theatrical troupe's presentation of Arsenic and Old Lace.
Tropes:
- Earth All Along: Discussed Trope. Sam fell asleep before the ending of Planet of the Apes and the others blow his mind when they tell him that Charlton Heston was on Earth all along.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Frasier, the bar skeptic, is creeped out when a supposedly psychic Carla divines the name of Sam's childhood dog. When Sam says that he lied to make Carla feel better, a rattled Frasier says "Can I have a scotch?"
- I Never Told You My Name: Woody's clumsy attempt at hiding behind the bar is busted when Rebecca calls Bradken the director by name, and Bradken observes that he never told Rebecca his name.
- Phony Psychic: Not that it wasn't obvious before, but out of nowhere, right before Carla is about to see her first client, Madame Lazora says "I'm a complete fraud." At the end Carla has decided to take up the role of a phony psychic.
- Shout-Out:
- Woody has a part in Arsenic and Old Lace. Cliff's mom seems to have really enjoyed a story about old ladies poisoning people.
- Sam fell asleep and missed the ending of Planet of the Apes on TV.
- Tempting Fate: Norm tells a bummed-out Woody that while the theater critic may have panned his performance, at least they got his name right. Rebecca then observes that the article actually says "Woody Doyb is weak."
