Dreamgirl is the nineteenth episode of the eighth season on Wings, and the 167th episode overall in the series.
Synopsis[]
When Fay goes on vacation, Brian and Joe need to find someone to fill in. And the best applicant is a woman named Shannon. Brian doesn't want to hire her because she's very attractive and Joe concurs, but Helen tells them that's not right so Joe hires her. And Helen is also uncomfortable when she sees her. Brian so uncomfortable when he's with her that he constantly goes into Helen's freezer. And Helen and Joe have dreams of him being "with" her. Meanwhile, when Antonio's cab business is waning because of the new airport shuttle, Casey gets him a job at the store where she works. Antonio discovers that Casey and her co workers are slacking; going in late because they got someone covering for them. But he goes in on time. Eventually he gets promoted and is now Casey's boss and puts an end to her slacking.
Credits[]
Main Cast[]
- Tim Daly as Joe Hackett
- Steven Weber as Brian Hackett
- Crystal Bernard as Helen Hackett
- David Schramm as Roy Biggins
- Rebecca Schull as Fay Cochran
- Tony Shalhoub as Antonio Scarpacci
- Amy Yasbeck as Casey Davenport
Guest Cast[]
- Vince Lozano as Job Applicant/"Mr. Doe"/Inmate #72144
- Samantha Smith as Shannon Carson
Quotes[]
- Brian Hackett - "Alright, look, listen, he'd only be working for us for a fews days. It's not like we're replacing Fay."
Shannon Carson - "Hi, I'm Shannon Carson. I'm here about the job."
Brian Hackett - "Oh, well, now, we just have to replace Fay."
- Helen Hackett - "Who's going with a convict? Casey? Well, maybe she can hang on to this one."
- Fay Cochran - "Oh, give me some space! I just spent three days trapped in a bus with 52 people and chemical toilet. Back off! That was the worst excuse for a vacation I ever had. The corpse and her husband the bus driver had a big fight and stormed off the bus leaving the rest of us stranded at the side of the road. I don't want to even tell you what happened when we ran out of food. We might as well have been a soccer team in the Andes."
- Antonio Scarpacci - "Casey, did you hear what happened? They found some stolen merchandise in my locker. I got fired."
Casey Davenport - "Yeah? Consider yourself lucky."
Antonio Scarpacci - "What does that mean?"
Casey Davenport - "My backup plan involved an "accident" in kitchenware."
Trivia[]
- The name of Casey department store is revealed as "Henley's".
- The scenes of the plane flying at night are of Cessna N160PB not the Cessna N121PP.
- Fay's comment "I don't want to even tell you what happened when we ran out of food. We might as well have been a soccer team in the Andes." is a reference to Alive, a 1993 American biographical film based on Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details a Uruguayan rugby team's crashing in the Andes mountains and restorting to survival cannibalism to survive.