It has much to contribute to any longer study of the so-called #MeToo movement. This is an extraordinary episode – one that should be broadcast over and over and over again. This is an episode that highlights again the essential joyless aridity of Sam’s dogged promiscuity as well as the thin thin line between anger and lust – a theme which will be over-developed in the course of the next few seasons. Eventuallly, Rebecca can only be consoled by pretending that Sam and Diane are in a passionate relationship. Later in the poolroom, Diane is first angry with Sam for exploiting Rebecca and then angrier still when it’s revealed that Sam climbed out of the window rather than stay with her – repelled to state of detumescence by her insistent pretentious chatter. Rebecca phrases her direct invitation to have sex as a “would you mind…?” question to which Sam says “no” and so they leave. Having insisted that Sam say “no” to whatever Rebecca proposes. Diane instantly becomes aware of the obvious proximate opportunity available and does what she can to prevent her friend from taking advantage of it. She is now desperate for some raw uncomplicated sex with some jock who is utterly bereft of any intellectual pretensions.

Here are four more episodes of Cheers to ponder.Ī good friend of Diane’s called Rebecca appears in the bar having split up with her intended.

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