CHEERS: DADDY'S LITTLE MIDDLE-AGED GIRL (TV)
Summary
One in this comedy series about a group of regulars at a Boston bar. In this episode, Cliff and Norm are excited to have a run-in with Ethel Kennedy, though their attempts to get a photo with her go awry. Woody tells the others that he has decided that he and Kelly will live in his small apartment together, as he has a ten-year lease. He adds that he has rejected her wealthy parents' offer to buy them a home, revealing that he has some antiquated Hanover-bred views about being "the man of the house." Rebecca's stern Navy captain father Franklin then arrives at the bar in search of his daughter, and Sam is flustered when he makes his dislike of him plain. Rebecca tells the other that her father considers her a "screw-up," and they are all highly amused that Rebecca's parents still support her financially with an allowance.
Kelly arrives and expresses her dislike of Woody's unimpressive apartment, but he stands firm in his decision to stay there. Franklin then informs Rebecca that she is moving back home with him, as she has proven herself too irresponsible to stay in Boston, ignoring Sam's protests that he is being unfair. However, he then tells Frasier that he is actually employing reverse psychology, hoping to spurn Rebecca into proving herself and refusing to accept any more allowance. Woody reconsiders his position when he arrives home to find the apartment bursting with Kelly's belongings, and Franklin realizes that his plan has failed when Rebecca packs her things and seems prepared to move back home after all. He admits that he was trying to trick her, but she declares that he was right and that she cannot make it on her own without his help, and he is forced to increase her allowance. Carla praises Rebecca's devious plan, and Rebecca admits that her mother was in on the scheme all along. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: December 10, 1992 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:22:53
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:69918
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1982-1993
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Tom Anderson … Executive Producer
- Dan O'Shannon … Executive Producer
- Glen Charles … Executive Producer, Created by
- Les Charles … Executive Producer, Created by
- James Burrows … Executive Producer, Created by, Director
- Dan Staley … Co-Executive Producer
- Rob Long … Co-Executive Producer
- Tim Berry … Producer
- Tom Leopold … Co-Producer
- Mary Fukuto … Associate Producer
- Rebecca Parr Cioffi … Writer
- Craig Safan … Music by
- Judy Hart Angelo … Theme Music by
- Gary Portnoy … Theme Music by
- Ted Danson … Cast, Sam Malone
- Kirstie Alley … Cast, Rebecca Howe
- Rhea Perlman … Cast, Carla Tortelli
- John Ratzenberger … Cast, Cliff Clavin
- Woody Harrelson … Cast, Woody Boyd
- Kelsey Grammer … Cast, Dr. Frasier Crane
- George Wendt … Cast, Norm Peterson
- Robert Prosky … Cast, Franklin Howe
- Jackie Swanson … Cast, Kelly Boyd
- Ethel Kennedy … Cast, Herself