Bill decides to join a gym. The staff learns a shocking, horrifying secret Dave Nelson has been keeping from all of them .Bill decides to join a gym. The staff learns a shocking, horrifying secret Dave Nelson has been keeping from all of them .Bill decides to join a gym. The staff learns a shocking, horrifying secret Dave Nelson has been keeping from all of them .
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- TriviaInspired by real life: writer Joe Furey said he had a similar experience with a gym salesman who gave him the really hard sell.
- GoofsDuring Mr. James and Dave's talk about his feelings on being Canadian and being afraid the kids would think he was a spy, the stapler on Dave's desk that's laying on top of a blue piece of office equipment, disappears and reappears a few times.
- Quotes
Lisa: You're Canadian?
Jimmy: I am?
Lisa: Not you, sir. Him.
Jimmy: Oh, no. Dave? He's from the Midwest, the heart of America where the real Americans live. You're as American as apple pie, aren't you, Dave?
Dave: Yeah.
Lisa: [holds up Dave's birth certificate] Well, then what is this all about?
Dave: What is what all abo... ab... uh, what's what?
Lisa: You're afraid to say it, aren't you?
Dave: No.
Lisa: Yes, you are.
Dave: No.
Lisa: Yes, you are. If you have nothing to hide, Dave, say "about."
Dave: No.
Lisa: Say it!
Dave: No.
Lisa: Say "out."
Dave: No.
Lisa: "House."
Dave: No.
Lisa: "Couch."
Dave: Your honor, I plead the fifth.
Lisa: I don't know if you have that right, Dave.
Dave: I do too, eh!
[Lisa gasps]
Jimmy: Oh my God...
- ConnectionsReferences Solid Gold (1980)
But I have to confess to being utterly enthralled by the other story line, in which Dave's Canadian origins are found out . . . and he proceeds to take heat from everyone in the office. Canadian jokes are low-hanging fruit, but there's something about seeing the character getting flack that's so tickling. Foley's a Canuck himself, so it feels like he's in on the joke.
It's the little things that make this work. Like this priceless one from Joe: "I can't believe it. All those hours I spent talking hockey with him and he pretended not to be interested!"
8/10
- Mr-Fusion
- Apr 11, 2016