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* SimpleSolutionWontWork: Downplayed. Strictly speaking, the simple solution of telling Eddie to take a hike and letting him try and take them to court on such an obviously absurd bet probably would work, but Sam refuses. As he says, the press made him a laughingstock after his drinking problem ruined his baseball career and he doesn't want to risk going through that again by standing up in court and admitting he made a stupid bet while drunk.
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* NiceGirl: The "Jacqueline Bisset" Cliff finds for Sam is a sweet, innocent young farm girl. She's reluctant to participate in this at first but becomes smitten with Sam as she gets to know him.
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Episode: Season 3, Episode 18\\
Title: Bar Bet\\
Directed by: Creator/JamesBurrows\\
Written by: Creator/JimParker\\
Air Date: February 14, 1985\\
Previous: The Mail Goes to Jail\\
Next: Behind Every Great Man\\
Guest Starring: Creator/MichaelRichards, Creator/LaurieWalters]
"Bar Bet" is the 18th episode of the third season of ''Series/{{Cheers}}''.
One Eddie Gordon (Creator/MichaelRichards, several years before he hit it big with ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'') enters the bar and greets Sam as an old friend. Sam has no idea who Eddie is and eventually admits it, which is when Eddie says he and Sam met during a night of drinking--this happening during the time that Sam was OffTheWagon following his breakup with Diane. Soon it becomes clear that Eddie has ulterior motives. It seems that during some drunken binge Sam made a wager with Eddie that if Sam wasn't married to actress and famous sexpot Creator/JacquelineBisset (''Film/{{Bullitt}}'', ''Film/DayForNight'') within a year, Eddie would win the bar. And Eddie intends to collect.
Sam huddles for advice from his friends, and one of the bar patrons, a law student, says that there's no way Eddie could collect on his bet: Sam was drunk when he made it and it's a ''bet'', not a contract. But Sam realizes that even so, he will be required to stand up in court and admit to having fallen off the wagon, and he dreads the thought of doing that. So the bar comes up with another idea: find anyone named Jacqueline Bisset, and marry that person.
The first episode that Nicholas Colasanto (Coach) missed due to his rapidly declining health. In fact, this episode aired just two days after Colasanto died of heart failure.
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!!Tropes:
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Sam is unpleasantly reminded that he bet the whole bar in a drunken wager that he would marry Jacqueline Bisset.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Sam introduces Eddie to Jacqueline Bisset (Laurie Walters), Eddie says "Wow, Jacqueline Bisset. What happened to her?"
* ContinuityNod: A reference to the alcoholic spree Sam went on between Seasons 2 and 3, which was a major plot point at the beginning of Season 3.
* NamedLikeMyName: His chances of marrying ''the'' Jacqueline Bisset being slim, Sam decides to marry ''any'' Jacqueline Bisset.
* {{Perfumigation}}: One of many many jokes Diane makes about Sam's cologne.
--> '''Diane''': I believe I do detect a hint of fresh air coming through your cologne.
* ARoundOfDrinksForTheHouse: Sam offers "drinks on the house!" after he sends Eddie packing.
* WrittenInAbsence: Due to the absence of Creator/NicholasColasanto, Coach is said to be off in Vermont taking a driver's test.
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Episode: Season 3, Episode 18\\
Title: Bar Bet\\
Directed by: Creator/JamesBurrows\\
Written by: Creator/JimParker\\
Air Date: February 14, 1985\\
Previous: The Mail Goes to Jail\\
Next: Behind Every Great Man\\
Guest Starring: Creator/MichaelRichards, Creator/LaurieWalters]
"Bar Bet" is the 18th episode of the third season of ''Series/{{Cheers}}''.
One Eddie Gordon (Creator/MichaelRichards, several years before he hit it big with ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'') enters the bar and greets Sam as an old friend. Sam has no idea who Eddie is and eventually admits it, which is when Eddie says he and Sam met during a night of drinking--this happening during the time that Sam was OffTheWagon following his breakup with Diane. Soon it becomes clear that Eddie has ulterior motives. It seems that during some drunken binge Sam made a wager with Eddie that if Sam wasn't married to actress and famous sexpot Creator/JacquelineBisset (''Film/{{Bullitt}}'', ''Film/DayForNight'') within a year, Eddie would win the bar. And Eddie intends to collect.
Sam huddles for advice from his friends, and one of the bar patrons, a law student, says that there's no way Eddie could collect on his bet: Sam was drunk when he made it and it's a ''bet'', not a contract. But Sam realizes that even so, he will be required to stand up in court and admit to having fallen off the wagon, and he dreads the thought of doing that. So the bar comes up with another idea: find anyone named Jacqueline Bisset, and marry that person.
The first episode that Nicholas Colasanto (Coach) missed due to his rapidly declining health. In fact, this episode aired just two days after Colasanto died of heart failure.
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!!Tropes:
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Sam is unpleasantly reminded that he bet the whole bar in a drunken wager that he would marry Jacqueline Bisset.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Sam introduces Eddie to Jacqueline Bisset (Laurie Walters), Eddie says "Wow, Jacqueline Bisset. What happened to her?"
* ContinuityNod: A reference to the alcoholic spree Sam went on between Seasons 2 and 3, which was a major plot point at the beginning of Season 3.
* NamedLikeMyName: His chances of marrying ''the'' Jacqueline Bisset being slim, Sam decides to marry ''any'' Jacqueline Bisset.
* {{Perfumigation}}: One of many many jokes Diane makes about Sam's cologne.
--> '''Diane''': I believe I do detect a hint of fresh air coming through your cologne.
* ARoundOfDrinksForTheHouse: Sam offers "drinks on the house!" after he sends Eddie packing.
* WrittenInAbsence: Due to the absence of Creator/NicholasColasanto, Coach is said to be off in Vermont taking a driver's test.
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