Cheers (TV Series) My Fair Clavin (1987) User Reviews

My Fair Clavin (#6.11)

[ComedyFan2010 · 6/10 · 2 June 2014]

Cliff moves from Norm into a condo and starts dating a woman there. She is not very attractive and they spend all the time watching jeopardy. To change it he gets her attractive and brings her to a bar. Only this doesn't go too well because she becomes attractive to other men too and doesn't want to go back to her old self.

Well it kind of serves Cliff right, if he concentrates on looks he has to deal with the consequences. The story is alright. It is actually not a very funny episode. But they worked so well with Sally's character making such a bog contrast between her old and new self.

The other story about Rebecca quitting smoking isn't so great. Kirstie Alley is very funny when met and Frasier's idea was also taken in a funny way, but it wasn't developed too well. Sam wanting to sleep with her like that was a bit creepy. And I guess that was supposed to be the point but I didn't like it.

Cliff Steps Out

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 26 August 2019]

Cliff buys a condo inhabited by singles. He is his usual ridiculous self. He manages to have a regular girlfriend, but he sees her as homely and unattractive and only sees her in his place. But things change when she gets a glamor magazine and does a makeover. This leads to one of the few times we see Cliff with insecurities. A secondary plot involves Rebecca starting to smoke again and Sam's plans for getting her to quit.

Bad Sally

[Bolesroor · 3/10 · 18 September 2013]

Ouch. This one hurts. It's almost impossible to make Cliff unfunny but this episode succeeds entirely. Mr. Clavin lands a girlfriend, a lanky spinster who tied for Employee Of The Month down at The Yarn Barn. Her name is Sally, and as played by the awkward, giraffe-like Karen Akers she's enough to make you vomit in a neighbor's toilet. I'd like to nominate Karen Akers for "Worst Cheers Guest Star," a very exclusive list that features- among others- Harry Connick, Jr. as Cousin Russell. Karen Akers is not so much an actress as she is a pterodactyl, and her pterformance is simply pterrible.

Cliff and Sally spend their courtship on his couch watching Jeopardy, until he decides to give her a make-over. It's hard to decide which is more nauseating: the beady-eyed sociopath Sally as "nerdy" or as "sexy." Neither one is believable and both should be destroyed for the good of humanity. Cliff finally brings her to Cheers, where Sam Malone- supposed womanizer- actually hits on her. Maybe Sam's herpes was flaring up that afternoon and he had temporarily lost his eyesight, or maybe he was just killing time until the middle school girls were dismissed for the day.

Sally- an unforgettable character- politely asks Cliff if she can interrupt her date with him to go on a date with another man. Seems reasonable. She assures him she'll be right back, and when the ginger flamingo returns she declares her decision to remain "pretty" and pecks through the trash barrel to snack on fresh worms. Okay I made up the worm part but the rest is all true.

In the Sam/Rebecca subplot Miss Howe promises to go to bed with Sam if she smokes another cigarette. She lights up but- being a hypocrite and liar- somehow manages to avoid serving Sam pie. This terrible episode is filled with manipulative women and the worst kind of teasing... we can only hope that Karen Akers served prison time as a result of this crime against television. If you see her, please pummel her with a broomstick or tire iron. You'll be glad you did.

GRADE: D-