Happy Holidays is the eleventh episode of the fifth season of Wings, and the 83rd episode overall in the series.
Synopsis[]
The Christmas season brings little joy to the crew at the airport. Bunny arrives on Nantucket to attend a friend's wedding, and ends up having sex with Antonio in the backseat of his cab. Racked with guilt, Antonio struggles to find a way to tell Lowell. Meanwhile, Fay becomes too demanding while trying to organize the perfect Christmas party, Joe deals with a dying Christmas tree, and Brian is reluctant to meet Alex's family in Florida for Christmas.
Credits[]
Main Cast[]
- Tim Daly as Joe Hackett
- Steven Weber as Brian Hackett
- Crystal Bernard as Helen Chapel
- Thomas Haden Church as Lowell Mather
- David Schramm as Roy Biggins
- Rebecca Schull as Fay Cochran
- Tony Shalhoub as Antonio Scarpacci
- Farrah Forke as Alex Lambert
Guest Cast[]
- Trish Monaco as Aeromass Gal (uncredited)
- Laura Innes as Bunny Mather
- Nicholas LaCasale as Teenager #1
- Michael Bacall as Teenager #2
Quotes[]
- Brian Hackett - "Okay, so...No, no. Fine, fine. Instead of cavorting on a satin covered bed with Alex I'll be in a Tallahassee retirement village sleeping on an Army coat next to brother Dwayne and his collection of enemy teeth."
- Fay Cochran - "All right, Helen. Time for a status report. Did you bake the cookies?"
Helen Chapel - "Yes, I did."
Fay Cochran - "Did you get the eggnog?"
Helen Chapel - "Yes, I did."
Fay Cochran - "Did you take the strawberries out to thaw?"
Helen Chapel - "Yes, I did."
Fay Cochran - "Am I sensing an attitude here?"
Helen Chapel - "Yes, you are."
- Bunny Mather - "Ah, Christmas. It's such a wonderful time of year, isn't it?"
Antonio Scarpacci - "It's magical."
Bunny Mather - "Bunny Mather: Making angels in the snow..."
Antonio Scarpacci - "Listening to carolers..."
Bunny Mather - "Decorating the tree..."
Antonio Scarpacci - "Watching It's a Wonderful Life..."
Bunny Mather - "Being downtown with all the lights and the decorations and seeing all the...happy couples walking hand in hand."
Antonio Scarpacci - "Sitting alone at midnight mass."
Bunny Mather - "Opening the Christmas present you bought for yourself and trying to look surprised."
Antonio Scarpacci - "Watching It's a Wonderful Life again, wondering why Jimmy Stewart didn't jump off that bridge sooner."
Bunny Mather - "I hate Christmas!"
Antonio Scarpacci - "It sucks!"
- Joe Hackett - "Hey, why don't you go to confession? That might make you feel better."
Antonio Scarpacci - "I already did. I don't think I'm the first person to confess about Bunny. When I mentioned her name the priest lowered my penance from ten Hail Marys to four."
- Antonio Scarpacci - "You don't understand. When Antonio Scarpacci sleep with another man's wife he tells him. That is a friend."
- Fay Cochran - "I should have seen this coming. You've all been disloyal to me from the start."
Helen Chapel - "Oh, Fay. Give it a rest."
Fay Cochran - "Oh, I tried to run this party properly but you thwarted me at every turn. All of you. It was sabotage. First Joe tried to make me look foolish with the Christmas tree. And then there were the strawberries. Ah, the strawberries. I know there were two containers, not one. And I could have proved it if I had the time. ...I could have. I really could have."
- Lowell Mather - "Now then, just tell old Santa Claus what you want for Christmas."
Antonio Scarpacci - "Forgiveness from God."
Lowell Mather - "How 'bout a train set?"
Trivia[]
- Alex reveals that she has four brother and they were all stationed at Fort Benning in December, 1993.