Sleepless in Nantucket is the nineteenth episode of the fifth season on Wings, and the 91st episode overall in the series.
Synopsis[]
Brian and Alex decide to move in together, but immediately regret the decision when neither can sleep and both are annoyed by the other. After waffling back and forth, they ultimately chose to stay living together. Meanwhile, Lowell has difficulty choosing a name for his sister's newborn child and his godchild.
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
Quotes[]
- Lowell Mather - "Do you think Sylvan is a good name for a little boy?"
Antonio Scarpacci - "Only if he's a little boy who doesn't mind bleeding."
- Fay Cochran - "Uh, why are you reading 1001 Names to Given Your Child?"
Lowell Mather - "'Cause there's a baby on the way. I can't avoid my responsibility."
Roy Biggins - "Give me $50 bucks, I'll get you five guys who will swear that were with her."
- Lowell Mather - "The baby is due any day now, and it's a Mather family tradition for the godfather (that's me) to name the baby."
Fay Cochran - "Oh, well, remember Lowell, you want to make sure the first and last names sound good together. What's your sister's last name?"
Lowell Mather - "Mather."
Helen Chapel - "Oh, Lowell, I think she means her married name."
Lowell Mather - "Ooh. Mather."
Antonio Scarpacci - "Wait a moment, uh, she married a Mather?"
Joe Hackett - "Trust me, this is family tree you do not want to climb."
Helen Chapel - "Lowell, please tell me your sister is not marrying your brother or something."
Roy Biggins - "No, no. That didn't work out."
Lowell Mather - "What's the big deal? They're third cousins. I mean, the way you guys are carrying on you'd think she married a perfect stranger."
Fay Cochran - "Well, you know, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt were cousins."
Helen Chapel - "Hmm. Yet another similarity between the Roosevelts and the Mathers."
- Helen Chapel - "Lowell, you've still got that book. You haven't picked out a name yet?"
Lowell Mather - "No, but I've narrowed it down to three: Kelbo, which means persecuted and afflicted; Maurice, which means gangster of love; and, Felix, which means wonderful, wonderful cat. What do you think?"
Helen Chapel - "Oh, well, um, I can see you've given it a lot of thought...Give it some more."
- Fay Cochran - "Well, if it's any helps, when my first husband George died, I turned his den into a sewing room. Then when I married my second husband George, he turned my sewing room back into a den. And when I married George the third, he turned my den back into a sewing room. He was an odd duck, but it was worth it. He made this blouse."
- Roy Biggins - "I've neverminded staying up all night because of a woman."
Helen Chapel - "Well, you don't have a choice. If you dozed off she'd escape."
- Helen Chapel - "Oh, Lowell, I heard your sister had the baby. Congratulations!"
Joe Hackett - "Oh, yeah, congratulation, Lowell."
Lowell Mather - "Yeah, yeah, it great. She threw me a curve ball. she had twins. Now I got to come up with two names."
Helen Chapel - "It's no big deal Lowell, you'll come up with another name."
Lowell Mather - "Yeah, but everybody knows twins names are supposed to rhyme. You know, if I call him Leon, I can't very well call her Neon...or Freon...or Peon..."
Joe Hackett - "Lowell, Lowell, Lowell, listen, listen. Just because their twin doesn't mean their names have to rhyme. I mean, you don't have to name them, like...Nancy and...Fancy."
Lowell Mather - "Hey...Nancy and Fancy. Thanks, Joe! You're a lifesaver."
Helen Chapel - "Years from now, when I large, angry man named Fancy Mather comes looking for you - hide."
- Roy Biggins - "Isn't half the fun of being single the thrill of the hunt? Making eye contact with a woman across the room. Wondering if she's as hot for you as you are for her. Wondering if--"
Helen Chapel - "She'll take a check or insist on cash?"
Roy Biggins - "Let me tell you something, Roy Biggins doesn't pay for it...The Roy Biggins Corporation does."
Trivia[]
- The title of this episode is a play on Sleepless in Seattle, a 1993 American romantic comedy film directed by Nora Ephron starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
- Names that Lowell considers for his nephew include Sylvan, Kelbo, Maurice, Felix, and Leon.
- Lowell states there are 1,078 ceiling tiles in the terminal.
- The plane in the hanger is the Cessna N121PB not the Cessna N121PP.
- After a flippant comment from Joe, Lowell decides to name his sister's newborn twins, Nancy and Fancy Mathers.