This season marks Woody Harrelson's television debut as Woody Boyd after Nicholas Colasanto, who portrayed Coach Ernie Pantusso, died during the previous season. If “You’ll Never Walk Alone” is not confirmed in such a list by the time I’ve rewatched absolutely every episode then there truly are treasures ahead.The fourth season of Cheers, an American television sitcom, originally aired on NBC in the United States between September 26, 1985, and May 15, 1986, as part of the network's Thursday lineup. So, I’m still in Season One, and I think I already have an all time top ten Cheers moment. She first looks shell-shocked before acquiring a sense of innate dignity and her gait develops a stately poise as she determines to “own” this moment. Will she bolt from the bar shouting “so-long suckers!”? Will she dash the glass to the ground, insulted by the charity? What she does, silently, is far more extraordinary to watch. As the bar joins in and the money glass is presented it is unclear how Carla will react. Diane commences the singing of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and it initially sounds as hilariously awkward as her rendition of “People” (also directed at Carla).
At this point, the scheme emerges for the bar itself to come together and support the new child. Diane has triumphed and Carla is left to raise an even larger family on her own. Of course, the truth comes out, and Marshall disappears. “Baboom!” intones Diane, over and over again as the sound of the beating accusatory organ echoes round the bar until Carla finds she has internalised the beat and hears it even when Diane isn’t around.
As she relates the story of the “Tell Tale Heart” to an increasingly perturbed Carla, a woman sitting at a nearby table is thereby moved to suddenly confess her infidelity to her husband. If Marshall is a decent guy who is prepared to relieve the distress of the Tortelli family, what is “truth” really worth? Carla makes a good case for the strategic redistribution of wealth on the basis of relieving the greater need.ĭiane, like one of those annoying deities from Good Person of Szechuan, insists that the value of truth is absolute and unequivocal and enlists Edgar Allen Poe to her cause. This episode is one of Rhea Perlman’s finest half hours – a half hour written for her by her half-sister Heide. It is Diane who instinctively distrusts Carla’s version of events and what unfolds is positively Brechtian in its ruthless inquiry into whether abstract morality can survive economic necessity.
The real father is Carla’s ex-husband Nick, who would later be played onscreen very memorably by Dan Hedaya. Marshall is more than good-natured and responsible – he promises to make all of Carla’s children financially secure.
This, the story’s climax, is reached after quite a disturbing narrative which involves Carla’s seemingly successful attempt to pin the paternity of her latest child on Marshall, the MIT computer geek who we met in the previous episode.
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There are very few things I’ve ever seen in a sitcom as simultaneously strange, hilarious and touching as Carla processing slowly through the bar and out the door while carrying a pitcher full of money as everyone sings “You’ll Never Walk Alone”.
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