Cheers Fouls Out

Plot:

Frasier and Lilith are having a domestic spat, and Lilith is withholding sex. Frasier is going a little stir crazy because of it. Woody is having a spat in name only with <a href="/name/nm0083399/">Larry Bird</a> of the Boston Celtics who is originally from French Lick, Indiana, from where people of Hanover, Indiana are considered the dufuses of the state. Hanover residents have the same opinion of French Lick residents. With the rest of the gang, they're preparing for the next contest with Gary's Olde Towne Tavern, namely a three-on-three basketball game of bar employees. Gary "hires" a couple of extremely tall ringers. Sam goes one step further and "hires" Boston Celtic, <a href="/name/nm1652335/">Kevin McHale</a>. Sam tells Kevin that the game is for charity - an orphanage - to persuade him to do this for him. Because of the surety of winning, Sam bets Gary $5,000 on the game, Gary unaware that <a href="/name/nm1652335/">Kevin McHale</a> is Cheers' ringer. When Kevin ultimately finds out he was duped about the charity aspect of the game, he's mad but agrees to play if the $5,000 is donated to an orphanage. At the game, Cheers wipes out Gary's, but Woody also wipes out Kevin at the end of the game with what initially looks to be a severe ankle injury. The injury ends up being not bad. However the Celtics doctor comes to the bar the next day with news that McHale's injury is season ending. Carla bribes the doctor to keep Cheers' name out of the news, the bribe being the $5,000 winnings. The doctor ends up being a plant by Gary, as Kevin is OK and comes to the bar with the orphanage's priest expecting the $5,000. Gary bounds into the bar with the $5,000 to donate to the orphanage. The gang at Cheers is dejected at their ultimately show-up once again by Gary. Sam is especially dejected, he who sees themselves as being pathetic. But in their never ending quest to be number 1 or not the worst, the gang at Cheers see themselves as being at least not as pathetic as poor Frasier in his battle with Lilith.