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2	Episode: Season 9, Episode 14\
3	Title: Achilles Hill\
4	Directed by: Andy Ackerman\
5	Written by: Creator/KenLevine and Creator/DavidIsaacs\
6	Air Date: January 10, 1991\
7	Previous: Honor Thy Mother\
8	Next: The Days of Wine and Neuroses\
9	Guest Starring: Creator/BebeNeuwirth, Creator/KeeneCurtis, Creator/ValerieMahaffey, Creator/EricChristmas]
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11	"Achilles Hill" is the 14th episode of the ninth season of ''Series/{{Cheers}}''.
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13	John Allen Hill continues to drive Sam up the wall, not just with the fact that Sam now has to pay rent for his pool room and bathrooms, but also with the obvious pleasure that Hill takes in reminding him of that fact. Sam gets in the occasional good zinger about Hill's BaldOfEvil but is unable to annoy his arrogant upstairs neighbor--until he meets Hill's pretty daughter Valerie. Sam instantly gets an idea for a very good way to get revenge on Hill.
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15	In the B-plot, Woody pulls a foosball table out of the basement, only for Carla to insist that it's haunted.
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17	Last of four appearances by Eric Christmas as Father Barry. Creator/DiedrichBader appears uncredited as a Melville's waiter.
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20	!!Tropes:
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22	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Valerie actually thought Sam signing his rent check for the Pool room and Bathrooms to "John 'I Stink' Hill" was funny.
23	* BrokenTears: John Allen Hill is in the middle of telling Sam about the dinner specials when his facade cracks and he bursts into tears, saying "Please don't take her away from me, Sam!"
24	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Rebecca says Sam is only dating Valerie for the same reason he went after her, she says "the same reason as me". Woody hears this and thinks this means Rebecca wants Valerie.
25	* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Turns out this is why Valerie wants to go out with Sam. When Hill gives up and gives her his blessing, she loses interest, and dumps Sam.
26	* EroticEating: Sam tries to invoke this, with him and Valerie each eating one end of a breadstick, in order to annoy Hill.
27	* ForbiddenFruit: Rebecca correctly notes that the only reason Sam wants to go out with Valerie, even after getting out of paying rent to Hill, is that now he can't go out with her.
28	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Carla, the most superstitious person on Earth, is convinced the foosball table is cursed. Frasier dismisses this, but he still starts acting unusually psychotic after a few hours around it, so Carla calls in Father Barry to exorcise it.
29	* PopculturalOsmosisFailure: Sam says that he won't face any consequences for going out with Valerie, because he's "Sammy". Frasier sneers that Sam thinks he's Creator/FriedrichNietzsche's Superman, and naturally the others think he's talking about [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} the comic book]].

Context Recap / CheersS9E14