ABC
May 10, 1994
Sitcom
DVD
C+
I don't know if it's Mackenzie's direction or the script by David Forbes, but this episode feels off, despite its potential. Bev fractures her pelvis and it turns out that, one, it was by falling off the bed while having sex with Jake, and two, she's never enjoyed sex. Meanwhile, Fred confides in Dan and for some reason Mark that he wants to propose to Jackie, but he instead suggests they live together. The scene where Fred tells off and humiliates Bev is one that I remember at the time finding less funny than shrill on her part and cruel on his. The tag is tone-deaf, going for shock value and throwing character and plausibility out the window, when Bev walks into her living room in a dominatrix outfit. Still, there are moments, especially with Roseanne's reactions, that work very well, and this is certainly not Season Nine or even Season Two's murder-musical bad.
Louisa Abernathy had also been a Nurse on the show four years earlier.
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