Recap / Cheers S 10 E 10

Episode: Season 10, Episode 10
Title: A Fine French Whine
Directed by: James Burrows
Written by: Dan Staley and Rob Long
Air Date: November 21, 1991
Previous: Head Over Hill
Next: I'm OK, You're Defective
Guest Starring: Jackie Swanson, Anthony Cistaro, Nancy Arnold, Paul Willson

"A Fine French Whine" is the 10th episode of the tenth season of Cheers.

Henri is still hanging around Kelly and annoying the bejesus out of Woody with his constant taunting about how he's going to steal her away. So Woody is pretty happy when Henri receives a letter from Immigration, telling him that his visa has expired and he has to go back to France. However, that seemingly happy news threatens to backfire on Woody, when Henri plants an idea in dimwitted Kelly's head: they can get married so he can stay in the country.

In the B-plot, Frasier has a headache he can't shake, and since conventional cures have failed, Lilith suggests acupuncture.

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Tropes:

• Bait-and-Switch: Hearing that Henri is to be apparently deported, Woody seems to sadly lament what kind of country would force him out but allow Woody to stay... then he immediately starts enthusiastically chanting "USA!"
• Citizenship Marriage: Kelly agrees to one to keep Henri in the country. It turns out to be a ruse.
• Easily Forgiven: So, how does Kelly respond after learning that Henri faked an immigration letter so he could get Kelly to marry him and have sex with him?
  Kelly: Oh, I can't stay mad at you, you silly!
• Hypocritical Humor: The Running Gag where the barflies grumble about how Henri is a big phony and they can't stand him, only to greet him cheerfully.
• Lying Finger Cross: Woody usually Cannot Tell a Lie but it seems he can when he crosses his fingers, as he pretends to feel bad about Henri getting deported. Kelly catches him though, saying "Are you making crossies?"
• Not So Above It All: Lilith initially seems like she's outraged at the gang betting on how long Frasier will last with acupuncture before he wusses out. Then she puts down a bet as well.
• Three... Two... One...: Henri plants his "foolish idea" that somebody could marry him to keep him in America. Kelly leaves. Henri waits by the door to the bar counting "un, deux, trois". On the count of "trois" Kelly comes back in and says that hey, she can marry him.
• You Just Told Me: Done by Woody, of all people. He correctly deduces that Henri wrote a fake deportation letter to himself in his latest scheme to steal Kelly away. It was just a hunch, but Henri's response confirms it.

  Henri: How did you figure that out?
  Woody: You mean I'm right? Wow, score one for the Indiana school system!