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Carla and Gloria get their inheritance. Gloria gets $100 while Carla gets everything else which ends up being lots of bills. Gloria gives her $50 and says that she is sure Carla would split with her too. And then Carla finds out that she gets $50000 from the insurance and has some moral struggles about her promise to Gloria.

Just in my last review I said I want to see Robin and Frasier in a story, and while we didn't get a story we got a great scene in the beginning with the too reciting Shakespeare! Was great, and a nice comedic ending with Woody doing the buttwalk instead! The main story is pretty good. Carla and Gloria compliment each other well. I actually prefer Carla and Gloria stories than Carla and Eddie.

Carla collects Eddie's life insurance money but refuses to split it with his other widow Gloria.

What an opening! Roger Rees and Kelsey Grammar- as the show's two pompous pseudo-actors- try to out-monologue one another in a dramatic face-off! Classic! The stunt double who does Woody's butt walk left a little to be desired. But the episode is still great...

Carla has never been more funny or more engaging than in this episode and "Death Takes A Holiday On Ice," and I credit this to the presence of Anne DeSalvo as Gloria LeBec. I LOVE her and her character... she's completely believable, and consistently hilarious, even from the moment she walks in and delivers her first line: "Give me back my coat or I'm leaving with your pants." The plot provides a realistic moral dilemma for Carla: she needs the money, and her husband wanted her to have it, but she DID promise Gloria she'd split whatever she got.

Okay, so the idea of Carla developing the shakes because of guilt is a little broad, but the relationship between her and Gloria more than makes up for it. Maybe it's their shared circumstance- and husband- but the two of them seem to have an understanding as characters, a natural chemistry, and when Gloria's around the writers aren't busy making Carla out to a cold-hearted monster... it's suddenly possible to relate to Carla. Gloria seems to slip in and get the better of her without even trying, and maybe it's just nice to see Carla getting screwed for once instead of the other way around.

Woody is stuck in a pointless B-story about doing a nude scene in a play. Okay, the payoff is great, in which Frasier, Norm and Woody relate the horror of the performance, but that's about it. The real joy here is Anne DeSalvo working her magic as Carla's foil... I would have loved to see Gloria become a regular character and do this every week.

GRADE: A-