Sam and Diane

So these people are not slouches.

And the James Burroughs part of this comes out in the Sam and Diane dynamic and the ways that their relationship, not relationship plays out.

They kind of took the architecture of that from the Mary Tyler Moore show.

Yes.

We need to jump in and spend some time with the cast.

But first, let's talk about the show's secret weapon.

And that was the Sam and Diane relationship.

The writers discovered something powerful.

case that really stands out.

Sam and Diane.

Like the couple from Cheers.

I don't watch television.

Frasier was going to go to the Boston Pops concert with Diane.

He can't go, so he suggests that Diane take Sam.

And they both enjoy the concert in good spirits and mild flirtation in the course of the episode.

That's not necessarily Halloween related, but it starts off with the discussion of it at that Halloween party they have at the beginning.

The woman doesn't show up.

And Cliff is upset.

He goes in Sam's office.

And then Norm has this heart-to-heart conversation, encouraging him to go out and meet this woman, which is a great conversation.

I wouldn't say, for instance, every couple that dates is a duo.

Like, Sam and Diane, associated together, but the dating thing, I, I, like I view d-

Oh, so you're gonna be a real stickler today.

I view duo more like Norm and Cliff, like duo.

Like Norm and Cliff sat next to each other for 11 years.

Duo.

Sam and Diane, like sorta, but like to me, less so.

You're gonna be a riot today, aren't you?

It's like, okay, all right, we'll put more pieces together.

Um, the crew uh watches serena talking about a certain couple on a video screen about sam and diane these are fake names for a fake couple not fake couple but she's this is the pseudonyms it's of one of the most famous tv couples of all time Yeah, although later we'll find out Serena had no idea what that meant.

But yeah, so she says, you know, the thing about Sam and Diane was that Diane would hold onto this jewelry that Sam once gave her and it meant the world to her.

And Elizabeth's like, I have a feeling that Sam and Diane are Casey and Serena.

So that's something we need to look into.

Um, you know elizabeth calls out that when serena her casey is moving to her like she pretty much calls out the whole thing she's like when when serena her case was moved to new york she snapped and smollett is still like wagner's phone is still skeptical like uh i don't know and also basically like plays on wagner's fear she's like hey we need to really figure this out before we get to like we get to court and all fall

circumstantial evidence

and then we just got to find the one little piece of evidence that we can we can really link here but everything else is extremely circumstantial Yeah.

They weren't, they weren't in love yet.

They were like Sam and Diane before, but then like af- they're, later on they're like Sam and Diane in the later seasons.

You know, Sam and Diane don't get married.

They don't.

There you go again.