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Exit Laughing

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Exit Laughing is the eleventh episode of the fourth season on Wings, and the 61st episode overall in the series.

Synopsis[]

On a flight, Brian speaks to Brendan, a young man in the copilot seat, offering him a coloring book and trying to make small talk comparing the plane to a giant bird. However, Brendan corrects him on the differences avian flight and aviation flight. Impressed by his knowledge, Brian suggests that Brendan fly the plane while he colors.

Antonio enters the terminal exhausted and asks Helen for a cup of coffee, sharing that his neighbor has been using his loud leaf blower every morning at 5 am. Despite advice from his friends, Antonio is reluctant to have a face-to-face confrontation. Meanwhile, at the lunch counter, Fay notices a man snooping around the Sandpiper ticket counter. When Fay approaches him, he shares that he's an old friend looking for Joe. With Joe not here, Fay suggests that Connor wait for him at the lunch counter and speak to Helen (who is "conveniently unattached"). At the Aemomass ticket counter, Roy continues to encourage Antonio to engage in vandalism to get his neighbor to stop leaf blowing in the early morning. At the lunch counter, Connor and Helen are hitting it off when Joe enters the terminal and is pleasantly surprised to see Connor. After sharing how Joe earned the nickname "Skirts" by crossdressing to sneak into a sorority, Joe and Connor exit while Helen and Fay admire Connor's physique.

Later Joe and Connor enter the hanger and meet Lowell as Joe completes Connor's tour of the airport. As Joe and Connor begin discussing their social, Connor asks if Helen is available and Joe discourages him from pursuing him because he doesn't think they would be a good match. Moments later Helen enters with iced tea, but Connor has to leave to meet his colleagues. Very attracted to Connor, Helen asks Joe to put in a good word for her with him. When Lowell reveals Joe just discouraged Connor from pursuing Helen, she assumes that it's because Joe is jealous and berates him for interfering in her lovelife before demanding that Joe fix her up with Connor.

At the Aero Cinema, Connor and Helen settle into their seats to watch a Jerry Lewis film festival on their first date. Although she is initially enamored with Connor, Helen is quickly turned off, annoyed, and embarrassed by his extremely obnoxious and loud laugh. As other patrons leave the theater annoyed, Helen sinks into her seat.

The next day at the airport, Brian approaches Roy and Antonio at the Aeromass ticket counter inquiring about the situation with his neighbor. Antonio removes his sunglasses to reveal a black eye he got from his neighbor. Out of options, Antonio agrees to let Roy help. Joe enters and speaks Brian about setting up Helen with Connor. Brian immediately recognizes Connor as Joe's college friend with a horrible laugh and is surprise Joe would do that to Helen. Joe says he tried to warn her before she accused him of being jealous. Helen enters the terminal and claims to have really enjoyed her date with Connor. When pressed, Helen admits that Connor laugh was odd, but claims that women are not as superficial as men. Because they overheard the conversation, Helen explains to Fay, Roy, and Lowell that she actually didn't enjoy her date with Connor but doesn't want to give Joe the satisfaction of being right. Fay suggestions that Helen try to look past the annoy habit and shares an anecdote about her second husband while Lowell agrees that some annoying habits are just deal breakers. Helen reluctantly agrees to give Connor another chance.

Later that week in the evening at the airport, Roy enters the terminal to inform Antonio that his neighbor's yard is destroyed only to have Antonio realize that Roy vandalized his lawn and not his neighbors. At the lunch counter, Fay asks Helen if she's still going out with Connor and Helen shares that he's meeting her there. Despite going out with Connor every night for a week, Helen still can't get passed his laugh. Fay encourages Helen to be honest with Connor about his laugh and end it. When Connor arrives, Helen asks to have a serious conversation with him. Before she can get to her point, Connor stops her and says he has to break up with her because of her accent. Offended, Helen initially protests his pettiness until she's reminded that she was going to break up with him because of her laugh. While he's considering giving their relationship another try, Helen increases her southern drawl and uses some Texas aphorisms to force Connor into ending their relationship for good. Still annoyed that Connor dumped her, Helen lies and tells Joe that she ended thing with him because of his laugh.

Credits[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Cast[]

  • Christopher Miranda as Brendan
  • Steven Eckholdt as Connor McDevon
  • Trish Monaco as Aeromass Gal (uncredited)

Quotes[]

  • Roy Biggins - "Leaf blower, huh? That's not a problem. If it's gas powered, you put sugar in the fuel tank; if it's electric, you snip the cord. Then you simply pour caronseen on the guy's lawn and light it."
  • Antonio Scarpacci - "I just hope I'm not forced to call my Uncle Carmine. He knows people who know people..."
    Brian Hackett - "Antonio, do you really think that's necessary?"
    Antonio Scarpacci - "Yes. One of those people must have a place I could sleep."
  • Helen Chapel "Woo! That guy's incredible. You know, not many men have it all."
    Fay Cochran - "I know, so many men just work the upper body, so few have the legs to go with it."
  • Joe Hackett - "Helen, look, I don't care you who go out with."
    Helen Chapel - "Okay, well if that's true then stop meddling. You know I can take care of my own social life, thank you very much, so you can just but out. You know, I don't need you to speak to any man on my behalf. Is that clear?"
    Joe Hackett - "Perfectly."
    Helen Chapel - "Good. Now get in there on the phone with you friend Connor and fix me up!"
  • Roy Biggins - "The only way to handle a bully is to be a bully. I'll take care of it for you."
    Antonio Scarpacci - "Well, Roy, you really don't--"
    Roy Biggins - "Don't worry. I can handle it. Before all my neighbors moved away, I used to do this kind of thing all the time."
  • Fay Cochran - "Well, Helen, if that's the only negative then maybe you should try to find a way to live with it. For instance, my second husband George had this annoying habit of flicking his cigar ashes wherever he happen to be. I kept telling him "George, use an ashtray!" But he would just smile and go ahead and flick 'em right on the carpet. Well, it wasn't easy, but I got to the point where I was able to ignore them."
    Helen Chapel - "Fay, I think this is a little different than that."
    Fay Cochran - "Of course, when he died, I had him cremated. He's using an ashtray now."
  • Lowell Mather - "Sometimes a person just has annoying habits you can't overlook. Now Bunny had one. She used to drum her fingers on the table when she would read the morning paper. That drove me crazy. That's what broke up our marriage."
    Helen Chapel -"Lowell, I thought it was because Bunny slept with other men."
    Lowell Mather - "Oh, right. Well make that two annoying habits."
  • Roy Biggins - "My philosophy is: If a relationship isn't good from the get go, get going. Whenever I have a blind date, I ask them to wait for me on the curb. That way I can drive by, check out the goods. I don't like what I see, I leave 'em in a cloud of tire dust."
  • Fay Cochran - "Well, my grandmother used to tell me "Honesty is the best policy". Actually, she wasn't my grandmother, she was just some broad my grandfather was shacked up with. But the words still ring true."

Trivia[]

  • The scenes of the plane flying is actually the Cessna N121PB not the Cessna N121PP.
  • Connor reveals tha Joe's nickname in college was "Skirts" because Joe purposed crossdressing to sneak into a sorority. According to Joe, the plan would have worked if he hadn't broken a high heel on the stairs.
  • Antonio implies that he lives in a home in this episode, but in Et Tu, Antonio?, we see he lives in a studio apartment. This may be a continuity error or it is possible Antonio was renting the house and eventually moved into the smaller apartment the audience sees onscreen.
  • This episode is currently unavailable for streaming in the United States.
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