One Flew Over the Cooper's Nest is the eighteenth episode of the seventh season of Wings, and the 140th episode overall in the series.
Synopsis[]
Sandy Cooper returns to Nantucket and is dating Brian. Helen and Brian force Joe into psychiatric therapy due to his assertions about Sandy. However, during his second appointment, Sandy confronts him claiming they need marriage counseling. Meanwhile, Helen may have exposed Fay, Roy, Antonio, and Casey to a parasite virus in her tuna.
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[]
- Valerie Mahaffey as Sandy Cooper
- Robert Joy as Dr. Grayson
Quotes[]
- Brian Hackett - "Yeah. Yeah, you're right. She's attractive, funny, successful. I should just dump her and get back together with Gilda, the woman who stole my CDs by hiding them in her wiglet!"
- Helen Hackett - Hey, Joe, thanks for being so nice to Sandy at dinner. I'm so glad you're not obsessing about her anymore."
Joe Hackett - "Okay, here's the plan: I figured out a way we can trap her."
Helen Hackett - "Oh no! And you were acting so normal."
Joe Hackett - "Psssh! That was just a cover."
- Joe Hackett - "Okay. Look, there is a perfectly simple, rational explanation for all of this. There's a crazy woman who is obsessed with me. Two years ago, at my senior prom in her basement, I'm wearing a powder blue tuxedo and doing the Hustle. I mean, what is that? But that is nothing compared to my marriage in Helen's living room last year, and the honeymoon, two minutes, two countries, a nightmare. But she only does it when no one else is around, so no one believes me. So, you see I don't have a problem, she does. Thank you and goodbye."
- Joe Hackett - "My father was quirky."
Helen Hackett - "Quirky?! There was a month where he thought he was a waffle."
Joe Hackett - "We poured syrup on him, and he calmed right down."
- Brian Hackett - "Someone pour syrup on him. Poor bastard's a waffle!"
- Joe Hackett - "Wait a minute. If you're here, that means I'm not imagining this. That means I didn't imagine any of the this, and that means that I'm not crazy, you are!"
Sandy Cooper - "That's just the of talk that's ruining our marriage."
- Sandy Cooper - "Oh, god! I'm suffering from postpartum depression. You'll have to forgive me if I start acting a little strange."
Joe Hackett - "Start, huh?"
Trivia[]
- The title of this episode is a play on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the 1975 American psychological comedy drama film starring Jack Nicholson.
- This episode is the third and final appearance of Sandy Cooper. She previously appeared in 2 Good 2 Be 4 Gotten and She's... Back.
- Helen mentions Dr. Grayson's father. He appeared in season six's The Shrink.
- Roy reveals that he's the reason Antonio was almost deported in Marriage, Italian Style.
- Sandy yelling "I will not be ignored!" is an homage to Fatal Attraction (1987), in which Glenn Close's character dramatically states "I'm not going to be ignored".
- To stand in for a therapist, Sandy uses a teddy bear named Dr. Sydney Rosenbear.
