Labor Pains is the thirteenth episode of the fourth season on Wings, and the 63rd episode overall in the series.
Synopsis[]
After seeing a friend in Boston who works as a mechanic at Logan Airport, Lowell is offered a job with better pay. Following Antonio's advice, Lowell asks Joe and Roy for a raise and threatens to take the job in Boston if leave his demands aren't met. When Joe can't afford the raise and Roy refuses to pay any more money, Lowell's bluff is called and he has to leave though in actually doesn't want to. However, pushed on by Antonio, Lowell pretends to leave for Boston but is unsettled when a new mechanic is hired to replace him. The next day, Joe and Brian are surprised to see Lowell working at the airport again until they discover that Lowell has trapped Gil and Antonio in oil drums that he's trying to dispose of. Meanwhile, Helen discovers that Brian still carries around the small fragment of his blue security blanket from childhood. She borrows it leading to Brian experiencing bad luck.
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
Guest Cast[]
- Trish Monaco as Aeromass Gal (uncredited)
- John Petlock as Waiter
- Lisa Edelstein as Marsha Peebles
- Phil LaMarr as Gil Cooper
Quotes[]
- Brian Hackett - "Boy, Helen, nobody makes a tuna melt like you."
Helen Chapel - "Thanks Brian."
Brian Hackett - "I suppose you could take that as a compliment, couldn't you."
- Lowell Mather - "You know what, that's a good point. I am going to ask for a raise. Fay, you tell Joe I want to see him right now. There's no time like the present!"
Fay Cochran - "Uh, Lowell, Joe's on a flight, he won't be back till 12:30."
Lowell Mather - "Well, then there's no time like 12:30. And you tell Roy to have his sorry butt in there too."
Fay Cochran - "Roy's at lunch, and his sorry butt won't be here till a little after 1:00."
Lowell Mather - "Well, then there's no time like a little after 1:00."
- Helen Chapel - "I know want you want. You want your blanky."
Brian Hackett - "It's not a blanky. It is a good luck charm and yes I would like it back because in the course of one afternoon I have lost my wallet, dinged my car, and for some unknown reason I cannot get the music from Final Jeopardy out of my head."
Helen Chapel - "I'm sorry. I was cruel of me to take it. Here, but just remember the next time you strut through the airport like top dog of the kennel club I'll know the real Brian Hackett is just a scared little 5-year-old boy curled up in his bunk bed with his thumb in his mouth."
Brian Hackett - "...Am not."
- Lowell Mather - "These oysters are looking rather appealing tonight. Bring me all 24, waiter."
Waiter - "Uh, sir, 24 is the price and that's a dozen."
Lowell Mather - "I believe 12 is a dozen."
- Marsha Peebles - "I'm Marsha Peebles. It's like "pebbles" but with an extra "E", one less "B", and a capital "P"."
Brian Hackett - "That stands for pool."
Trivia[]
- After learning Brian still carries around the small fragment of his blue security blanket from childhood, Antonio admits that his blanky was yellow.
- Lowell reveals that he's only afraid of spiders, the sound a can makes coming out of a vending machine, and Boston.
- Joe's comment "That stands for pool" is a reference to the song "Ya Got Trouble" from The Music Man.