Al dreams he's a detective on the verge of a big case.Al dreams he's a detective on the verge of a big case.Al dreams he's a detective on the verge of a big case.
Ted McGinley
- Jefferson D'Arcy
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Did you know
- TriviaIt is revealed that the previous episodes of season 6 were all a dream. Katey Sagal had miscarried in real life, so the writers decided to get rid of Peggy and Marcy's pregnancies.
- GoofsAl drops a woman's dress shoe into a fish tank to show how it will fall apart when wet. In a medium close-up shot, Al (wearing a suit jacket) reaches into the tank to retrieve the shoe, but when he pulls it out, his arm isn't wet.
- Quotes
Vanessa Van Pelt: I'll be right back. I'm just going to get my coat. Uncle keeps it just freezing in here.
[Vanessa walks out]
Al: As I watched her leave, I realized that she really did put the bomp in the bomb-she-bomp.
[stares from everyone]
Al: [voice-over] Uh-oh. I think I said that out loud.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Pam & Tommy: Drilling and Pounding (2022)
- SoundtracksLove & Marriage
(Theme Song)
Written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen
Arranged and Conducted by Nelson Riddle
Performed by Frank Sinatra
Featured review
Surely, a better title would have been 'Al, the gumshoe'.
Peggy wants Al to get a second job so that they will be a two-income family. Al gets work as a janitor for detective Jack Dallas, but when a beautiful blonde woman, Vanessa Van Pelt (Traci Lords, looking amazing), enters the office while Dallas is out, Al pretends to be the private eye's partner.
Vanessa believes that she is about to inherit a priceless gem from her elderly Uncle Franklin, and needs protection from her other greedy relatives. Al visits the Van Pelt mansion to check out the situation, but while he is there the lights go out, and when they come back on the uncle is dead, the diamond is missing, and he is holding the murder weapon, a bloody dagger.
This episode is a lot of fun for fans of old detective movies, Al providing a noir-style voice-over, with Lords putting in a sizzling performance as a Veronica Lake-style femme fatale. The other relatives are also an amusingly eccentric bunch: a suave young man, a big breasted brunette, a man with two hooks instead of hands, and the family idiot, all of whom have an alibi.
Al finally manages to solve the case using his shoe knowledge and is rewarded with a cheque for $50,000, but wakes up to find that it has all been a dream.
This is also the episode that does away with the pregnancy plot that has dominated season six by revealing that it too was part of his dream.
Vanessa believes that she is about to inherit a priceless gem from her elderly Uncle Franklin, and needs protection from her other greedy relatives. Al visits the Van Pelt mansion to check out the situation, but while he is there the lights go out, and when they come back on the uncle is dead, the diamond is missing, and he is holding the murder weapon, a bloody dagger.
This episode is a lot of fun for fans of old detective movies, Al providing a noir-style voice-over, with Lords putting in a sizzling performance as a Veronica Lake-style femme fatale. The other relatives are also an amusingly eccentric bunch: a suave young man, a big breasted brunette, a man with two hooks instead of hands, and the family idiot, all of whom have an alibi.
Al finally manages to solve the case using his shoe knowledge and is rewarded with a cheque for $50,000, but wakes up to find that it has all been a dream.
This is also the episode that does away with the pregnancy plot that has dominated season six by revealing that it too was part of his dream.
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