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I Love Brian

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I Love Brian is the seventeenth episode of the fourth season on Wings, and the 67th episode overall in the series.

Synopsis[]

Antonio enters the terminal laughing and tells everyone that he saw I Love Lucy for the first time last night during an I Love Lucy marathon. Although most talk about how much they like the show, Brian feels like the show is stupid and the premises are absurd. Later that day Brian sits down at the table near the lunch counter next to Alex who is reading the newspaper. Alex shares her disappointment that the tickets are sold out for the Clint Black concert in Boston tonight. Brian then claims to know Clint Black and promises Alex to get her tickets for the concert. After Alex leaves, Brian sit at the lunch counter and asks Antonio "Who's Clint Black?"

Later that day, Roy struggles to explain to a French speaking passenger that he can only have one bag on the plane. Fay approaches and offers to help. Although she only speaks very broken French she's able to communicate the general idea to the passenger. As Alex sits at the lunch counter, she asks Helen if Brian knows Clint Black. Helen laughs and shares that catching Brian in a lie is fun to watch. When Brian enters the terminal, Helen thanks him for the tickets as Alex invited her because it would be just as easy to get three tickets as it would be to get two.

Later in Joe's office, Joe enters as Brian is on the phone with the venue in Boston trying to convince them he needs three tickets to the concert for a cardinal. Joe is surprised that Brian has pulled the old "we're good friends" routine again. As Joe leaves, Lowell enters and Brian asks if he know anyone with three ticket to the Clint Black concert. Lowell shares that he has four ticket and he and his friends were planning to go and look for stuff under the bleachers. Brian convinces Lowell to sell him the tickets and then tells Alex and Helen he was able to get the tickets. Brian then reassures the girls that he does indeed know Clint Black and Helen says she excited to meet him because obviously if he and Brian are such good friends, they wouldn't go to the concert without saying "hi".

That night, Alex, Helen, Brian, and Lowell watch the Clint Black concert in Boston. As the concert concludes, Brian tells the girl the Clint's manager said that they are leaving for Nashville right after the show only to have a woman behind them contradict him and say that Clint is having an after in the penthouse of the hotel across the street after the concert.

Back at the airport, Antonio watches the I Love Lucy marathon at the lunch counter. Roy comments that he's amazed Antonio can watch so much of it and Antonio admits it is a little far fetched that someone could get into all these zany adventures. Back in Boston, Brian and Lowell enter Clint's penthouse party posing as waiters and wearing ill-fitting dress jackets. Brian tries to bend in but spills an entire tray of champagne flutes on Clint and are immediately kicked out by Clint's bodyguard. Next Brian and Lowell climb down the trellis and onto the balcony of hotel penthouse, but the doors are locked. However, Alex and Helen are already in the party and see the boys locked outside and let them in. Brian again tries to speak with Clint, but is again thrown out by his bodyguard. Later, Clint is being pestered by Rebecca Howe (from Cheers) who is trying to get him to come to her bar because she told her friends that she knows him, but Clints bodyguard hurries her out of the party as Brian sneaks back in. Alex finally calls Brian out for not know Clint Black and actually calls Clint Black over and asks him if he know Brian. Clint plays allow pretending to know Brian and Alex is very impressed. Helen then comes over and admits she set up Clint agreeing to pretend to know Brian. As they arrive back at the airport, Alex says it was kind of impressive how much Brian did to pretend to know Clint Black, but when he turned out to actually know him, it became less impressive.

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Quotes[]

  • Helen Chapel - "I don't me to laugh at you, it's just that such vintage Brian. Once he told this girl in high school that he knew one of the Apollo astronauts and even called her up on the phone with this really nasally voice and told 'em that he was calling long distance from the moon."
    Alex Lambert - "And she bought it?"
    Helen Chapel - "Well, he did sound real and I was kinda lonely."
  • Helen Chapel - "Well, once Brian starts tap dancing it's just a matter of knowing when to roll the marbles across the floor."
  • Brian Hackett - "Would you by any chance know anybody with three tickets to see Clint Black tonight?"
    Lowell Mather - "Three tickets to see Clint Black? Huh? Three ticket? Sorry Brian, I can't help you out. I had a heck of a time getting ahold of these four tickets."
  • Clint Black - "And what did you say your name was again?"
    Rebecca Howe - "Rebecca, Rebecca Howe. But you know what, Clint? You can just call me 'Becky'."
    Clint Black - "Well, Becky, I'd love to help you, but I have to leave town first thing in the morning."
    Rebecca Howe - "Oh, well that works for me. Could you come with me right now? Please! I told all my friends at the bar that I know real well."
    Clint Black - "Sorry. Maybe I can take a raincheck and do it next year?"
    Rebecca Howe - "Next year? But we don't know where any us are going to be next year!"
    Clint Black - "I'm sorry."
    Rebecca Howe - "Okay, fine, fine! But let me tell you something, I'm not calling you late at night anymore and you no more banana bread. And who do you think you are anyway? Gene Autry? I don't think so!"

Trivia[]

  • The title of this episode is a play on I Love Lucy, an American sitcom classic that aired on CBS from 1951 to 1957 and is referenced throughout this episode in both dialogue and story.
  • Brian reiterates that he doesn't like Country Music, a fact that he revealed in Labor Pains.
  • Lowell mentions that he doesn't have a problem with spiders, but in Labor Pains he lists spiders as one of the three things he's afraid of.
  • This is the third and final crossover with characters from Cheers. The previous crossover episodes include The Story of Joe in season two and Planes, Trains, and Visiting Cranes in season three.
  • When Rebecca Howe comments about not knowing "where any us are going to be next year", this was a clever reference to Cheers being in its final season.
  • This episode is currently unavailable for streaming in the United States likely due to the music rights of Clint Black.
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