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She's Gotta Have It

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She's Gotta Have It is the sixth episode of the seventh season on Wings, and the 128th episode overall in the series.

Synopsis[]

At Brian's house, Joe and Helen prepare to meet their insurance adjuster. Helen is depressed and unable to create a detailed list of the items she lost in the fire while Joe saved photos of each item with receipts and serial numbers in a fireproof lockbox.

Later at the lunch counter, Antonio tells Fay that he is so desperate that has decided to going out with Edna (The Big Faced Girl) again. Meanwhile the ticket counter, Casey tries to get Brian to define their relationship. Wanting more than just sex, Casey suggestions they go on a date and Brian reluctantly agrees. When Joe and Helen arrive in the airport, the discusses strategies for getting money from insurance. Roy overhears them and offers to give them forged receipts for expensive electronics that he counterfeits as a hobby. In Joe's office, Helen and Joe are pleased to find that their insurance adjuster is their friend Phil. Despite being initially friendly, Phil is all business. However, the amount of money insurance is willing to pay makes Joe and Helen dance with joy singing "We're rich! We're rich!"

The next day at the lunch counter, Brian enters, sees Casey at the counter and immediately starts fighting with her about their bad date the previous night. Desperately, they try to find something they have in common with no luck. Meanwhile, Fay ask Antonio how his date went. Despite Edna praising the date, Antonio explains they just reheated leftovers and she watched while he paid bills. Joe arrives back from a flight very chipper and discusses the insurance money with Fay.

When Joe arrives home that evening, he is shocked to find the living room cluttered with expensive novelty items that Helen has been impulse buying. The couple has a heated argument about how to spend the money ending with Helen leaving to pick up her portable sauna from Sharper Image.

The next day at the airport, Brian and Casey are still trying to find one thing they can agree on. While they argue at one table, Fay and Roy bond over shared interest at another table until the are both put off by intimacy. As Brian and Casey finally decide they can agree on nothing, they both agree that they can't agree on anything and leave the terminal to have sex. Meanwhile, at the ticket counter, Joe asks Fay if she's seen Helen. Roy shares that Helen flew to New York that morning on an Aeromass flight to go to Harrington's Auction House. Panicking, Joe leaves to New York to find her.

At Harrington's Auction House, Helen wins Elton John's silver lamet platform shoes. Joe enters just as Helen begins a bidding war for the Monkeemobile with Peter Tork (from the Monkees). Joe and Helen have a heartfelt discussion about why Helen is buying these things and she realizes that it to fill the emotional whole left by losing all her most cherished possessions.

In the finally scene, we see the airport from Edna's point of view as everyone is shocked by the size of her face.

Credits[]

Main Cast[]

Guest Cast[]

  • Tom Parks as Phil
  • Craig Richard Nelson as Auctioneer
  • Patricia Place as Woman
  • Peter Tork as Himself

Quotes[]

  • Joe Hackett - "Helen? Did you finish that inventory? We're supposed to meet the insurance adjuster in an hour."
    Helen Hackett - "Yep. I'm done. Here's what I lost in the fire."
    Joe Hackett - ""Everything"."
    Helen Hackett - "Yep. That about sums 'er up."
  • Casey Chapel - "No, no. You have to take me out for a nice dinner. And that means ordering from a waiter, not talking into the face of a clown."
  • Roy Biggins - "Trying to squeeze a little money out of your insurance company, huh? Well, I got a little shortcut you might be interest in. Feast your eyes on these babies."
    Joe Hackett - "What are these?"
    Roy Biggins - "Receipts. Some people collect stamps, some do needle point, I counterfeit my own receipts. This one is for a video camera. Notice the craftsmanship, the subtle aging around the edges. I do my own distressing. So, what do you want, I got walkmans, I got watchmans, I got discmans, I got washers, I got dryers."
    Joe Hackett - "You got big screens?"
    Roy Biggins - "I got big screens. I got Mitsubishi, I got Toshiba."
    Joe Hackett - "Sony? I need Sony"
    Roy Biggins - "Sony, I got!"
  • Fay Cochran - "Edna call and said she had the most wonderfully romantic evening last night. My goodness, what did you two do?"
    Antonio Scarpacci - "We heated up leftovers and then she watched while I paid bills."
    Fay Cochran - "Well, I've heard of low maintenance girlfriends, but wow."
  • Fay Cochran - "I know the feeling. I got a beaut when each of my Georges died. Of course, nothing could make up for the loss, but all those zeros sure take the edge off."
  • Fay Cochran - "Oooh, yes. She's on the initial high you get when you receive a hefty settlement. When I got my first one I ran right out and bought a mink coat. Of course, I had to hock it a week later when I found out George hadn't paid taxes since 1963! [Directing her voice to the ground] Hot enough for you down there George?!"
  • Joe Hackett - "Tell me why you're buying all this stuff."
    Helen Hackett - "Because."
    Joe Hackett - "Because why?"
    Helen Hackett - "Because...Because...I need some stuff."
    Joe Hackett - "Why do you need stuff?"
    Helen Hackett - "Because, I don't know. Because all my stuff was destroyed in the fire. My house and my belongings and my whole life."
    Joe Hackett - "What do you mean your life, we have a life."
    Helen Hackett - "That's, that's Helen Hackett. I lost Helen Chapel in the fire. My journals, and my photo albums, and the blanket that my mom brought me home from the hospital in, and that little charm bracelet that I was going to give to our daughter someday. All that stuffs gone Joe, I don't have any of that left."
  • Peter Tork - "Hey, thanks for letting me have the Monkeemobile."
    Helen Hackett - "Sure. Enjoy it. I just hope you're as big a fan as I am."

Trivia[]

  • Antonio decides that he is going to try to get back together with Edna (The Big Faced Girl).
    • Given that Edna breaks up with Antonio at the start of the previous episode, it is likely that these two episodes aired out of order.
  • Casey reveals that she doesn't like Disneyland because she recently had a recovered memory about Jiminy Cricket.
  • Fay says that when she got her first life insurance check following the death of husband, she went out and bought a new mink coat, which she had to sell a week later because George had not paid taxes since 1963. However, in Fay There, Georgy Girl, Fay states that her first husband died in 1959.
    • This is possibly a continuity error, or Fay misspoke/misremembered and was actually referring to her second or third husband as there is precedence for her confusing details about her Georges.
  • Helen's auction number is 32.
  • Item's at the New York Rock 'n Roll auction include:
    • Elton John's silver lamet platform shoes
    • Meatloaf's treadmill
    • The Monkeemobile
      • During the auction for this item, the auctioneer refers Monkees songs including "The Monkees (song)", "Daydream Believer", and "Last Train to Clarksville".
    • The Partridge Family bus
    • Mick Jagger's leather jacket from the Sticky Fingers Tour.
  • Joe admits to once having a Monkees lunchbox.
  • Peter Tork mentioning being in a recent pizza commercial. The commercial was for Pizza Hut's Stuffed Crust Pizza and also starred Ringo Starr (from The Beatles) along with Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones (from The Monkees).
  • Despite claiming to be a big fan of the Monkees, Helen doesn't recognize Peter Tork.
  • This episode is currently unavailable for streaming in the United States due to the music rights for "Isn't It Romantic?", which is the tune Helen automatically plays on her electronic player piano.

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