Stop in the Name of Love is the first episode of the fifth season on Wings, and the 73rd episode overall in the series.
Synopsis[]
After a week of dating, Brian and Alex still haven't slept together. Everyone is of course skeptical when Brian announces that his relationship with Alex is special and going to be different. To prove them wrong, they decide not to sleep with one another yet.
Credits[]
Main Cast[]
- Tim Daly as Joe Hackett
- Steven Weber as Brian Hackett
- Crystal Bernard as Helen Chapel
- Thomas Haden Church as Lowell Mather (credited only)
- David Schramm as Roy Biggins
- Rebecca Schull as Fay Cochran
- Tony Shalhoub as Antonio Scarpacci
- Farrah Forke as Alex Lambert
Guest Cast[]
- Trish Monaco as Aeromass Gal (uncredited)
- Katherine Moffat as Susan
- Susan Watson as Passenger
Quotes[]
- Brian Hackett - "You want to know the really amazing part? We still haven't slept together yet."
Joe Hackett - "A whole entire week without sex? Are you going to be alright?"
Brian Hackett - "Yeah, I'll be okay. I mean, we've been having such a great time I haven't even thought about sex. And you know me; everything makes me think about sex. Cars...a warm breeze...a cool breeze...Wilma Flintstone...a nice piece of fruit--"
Joe Hackett - "Wilma Flintstone?"
Brian Hackett - "Well, yeah. Fre was out of town, she parading around in the leopard-skin number."
Joe Hackett - "That's sick. Besides, Betty Rubble, she was the hot one."
Brian Hackett - "Now Pebbles, imagine what a babe she would be today."
- Helen Chapel - "I went out with this guy, Larry Thompson. He's not a ten, but that's okay. He took me to lunch, not dinner, but that's okay. What's not okay is he turned out to be an insurance salesman. He only asked me out to sell me a policy."
Joe Hackett - "Come on. You don't know that."
Helen Chapel - "Over coffee he said he would require a chest x-ray and a urine sample."
Joe Hackett - "Not a great come-on, but it's a little more original than "what's your sign?""
- Alex Lambert - "Fay, how can you let him talk to you like that?"
Fay Cochran - "Did he say something? I've learned to tune him out."
- Helen Chapel - "Hey, while you're grooming, you might want to check you hair. Looks like you're down a quart."
- Helen Chapel - "Face it Brian, everytime you sleep with a woman you immediately lose respect for her. I know I do."
- Alex Lambert - "That's...the most romantic thing I've ever heard. You like me enough not to sleep with me."
Brian Hackett - "Oh, hey, I like you enough to never sleep with you."
Trivia[]
- The title of this episode is a reference to "Stop! In the Name of Love", a 1965 Motown song recorded by the Supremes.
- Farrah Forke as Alex Lambert joins the main cast in this episode.
- Fay begins taking classes at the local community college.
- This episode marks the first onscreen appearance of Alex's bedroom. In It May Have Happened One Night, Joe stated that Alex had a four-poster bed, but she does not have a four-poster bed in this episode.
- This episode is the first in the series without Thomas Haden Church as Lowell Mather. Lowell is not present in this episode because we was given the day off for a Mather family funeral.