Jake wins the bet (of most arrests) and takes Amy on the supposedly worst date ever--except it is fun! And it turns into a stakeout where Jake realizes that he doesn't just feel attraction to Amy (because he obviously always has) but enjoys her company as well--and she might reciprocate.
Frasier, "Three Valentines"
David Hyde Pierce gives an entirely silent hilarious virtuoso performance of an agitated man preparing for a date--and, of course, everything goes wrong.
Coach, "Real Guy's Guy"
Coach inadvertently ends up on a date with one of his players, who happens to be gay. His (misunderstood) exclamation at the end: "I'm here to take him home!" (He wants to get him back to the dorms before curfew.)
I like this episode because while Coach and Luther are upset by one the players being gay, Dauber is completely indifferent. There were gay team members on the team when he was playing: he didn't care then; why should he care now?
It's a live-and-let-live attitude that I admire. And likely more common to locker-rooms than singled-out, upsetting stories allow for.
As Time Goes By, "Getting to Know You - Again"
Lionel and Jean reminisce about when they started to date, the first time.
Jean Mary Pargetter: "Excuse me," you said. "Could you direct me to Curzon Street?"In a much later episode, Lionel remembers that meeting again:
Lionel Hardcastle: Pretty steamy opening gambit, wasn't it?
Jean Mary Pargetter: Why did you want to go to Curzon Street?
Lionel Hardcastle: I didn't. It was the first street that came into my head.
Lionel: I saw you, and I stopped breathing. I really did."Getting to Know You - Again" is the same episode where they both remember the "little rosewood pencil box."
Jean: Did you?
Lionel: I started again, obviously, or I would have died, but for that moment there was nobody in that park; nothing else in the park, just you.
