Recap / Cheers S 6 E 4

Episode: Season 6, Episode 4
Title: Little Carla, Happy at Last: Part 2
Directed by: James Burrows
Written by: Cherie Eichen & Bill Steinkellner
Air Date: October 2, 1987
Previous: Little Carla, Happy at Last: Part 1
Next: The Crane Mutiny
Guest Starring: Jay Thomas

"Little Carla, Happy at Last: Part 2" is the 4th episode of the sixth season of Cheers.

Events follow immediately after the end of the previous episode. Eddie LeBec has bailed from his marriage to Carla at the last moment, not because of all the superstitious fears they had in the last episode, but because his mother forbids it. While Carla rages in the office, Rebecca Howe starts freaking out because Evan Drake, her crush, was supposed to come to the reception. After Sam Malone strong-arms Rebecca into promising to get rid of the ugly green uniforms if he can get the wedding going again, he springs into action. Sam drags Eddie back into the bar while sending Frasier after the dress, hoping to get the superstitious couple back together.

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Tropes:

• Bad Job, Worse Uniform: Sam gets Rebecca to get rid of the uniforms in return for him getting the wedding back on.
• Death Glare: Rebecca's comment about how she'll have egg on her face if there's no reception leads to Cliff going into one of his spiels, this time about how egg is actually good for tightening the pores. Rebecca's Death Glare cuts Cliff off, and he stammers "Although yours look pretty tight to me!"
• Drowning My Sorrows: Rebecca gets hammered on wedding champagne after Evan Drake does not show up for the reception.
• Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Rebecca proudly displays her "WOBBie" Award. Sam asks, "What's a wobbie, Webecca?" (It's a Women Of Boston Business award.)
• Foreshadowing: Frasier catches the bouquet. In the very next episode he gets engaged to Lilith.
• Hypocritical Humor: After Eddie cancels the wedding Cliff sneers that it's ridiculous for a grown man to be that tied to his mother's apron springs. Then he gets mad after a phone call from Ma Clavin telling him that she won't be home for dinner.
• Lady Drunk: Rebecca comes off as this when she gets drunk, with her hair askew, muttering bitterly, drowning her sorrows, after Evan Drake doesn't show. This is the first time that the audience has seen Rebecca drunk, but as Characterization Marches On it happens more and more frequently.
• Parental Marriage Veto: Eddie's mom exercises it decisively, leading Eddie to cancel the wedding.
• Previously on…: Starts with a quick montage summarizing the last episode.
• Reset Button: Eddie gets cut by the Bruins, which leads Carla to take back up her job at Cheers. While this was not out of nowhere, as Eddie was already stated to be a marginal NHL goalie, it has Carla come back to the bar.
• The Stateroom Sketch: Carla and Eddie have to get married in the rectory chapel after they run late. Cliff's is the only recognizable face amongst the crowd crammed cheek-to-jowl in the chapel, but Carla's bouquet can be seen when she knifes her way through the crowd.
• Superstition Episode: After all those other superstitions and hexes, Carla and Eddie believe their marriage is doomed because they got married at 4:01 pm. (The psychic forecast said it had to be no later than 4.). Eddie promptly gets cut by the Boston Bruins, which he attributes to bad luck—which makes Carla realize that no, Eddie got cut because he's a bad goalie. That helps her to get past all the other superstitious nonsense.
• Wedding Episode: Carla and Eddie finally manage to have their wedding, in a side chapel so crowded that no one can move, with tiny Carla only visible by the bouquet she's holding up.
• Zip Me Up: Played for a gag when Carla asks Sam to zip her up in her wedding dress.
  Sam: I'll be darned, these things go up too, huh?