"Fantasy Island" Nurses Night Out (TV Episode 1983) Poster

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(1983)

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6/10
My mom was a nurse, this would have irritated her.
mikeholmes-480122 April 2016
Warning: Spoilers
So i was at work and i tell a coworker that on Saturdays i like to watch an episode or two of Fantasy Island and review it. She laughs and says she never watched it and it must be all soap opera like, i was like no, some are real dark, like the video i showed her of that one the guy has family curse that axes the wife at age 50. I then explain it doesn't count for season 7 where they are love episodes. this is a season 7 one. I then later heard from her and was like , i m watching this one with three nurses and two may be love but one seems to be dark and will be good. I turned out to be kinda right but then realized the nurse was falling in love with the Doctor she hated, damn it.

So that was the first nurse, one that hated a Doctor who was crude, so much that she wished she could teach him a lesson. So they with a guy, her like the other two nurses, on a free fantasy island trip donated by an anonyonmous guy, and the Doctor and the dying patient their for i hope not for money for a fantasy .So the Doctor is a jerk, he walks out room and gets hit by the Crash Cart getting pushed too fast. as i mentioned above, it turned into her liking him out of sympathy and getting to know the real doctor as he was restricted to a wheel chair. They dig each other, i think the guy patient died and they felt bad , and they fell in love. Stupid. Daily i get cut off by jerks in their Doctor cars, probably this guy, (John Hopkins Bumper stickers, forget it) but I'm sure like this nurse, if i get to know them , i'd see how great they are. Liberal BS. one scene they talking over chess and she then ends it going "Check mate" . i hate that, its like the "obnoxoius statement, sip coffee" or so forth.

Then there is this blond, who was the night nurse for a Pro Quarterback. But he never saw her cause he was a good sleeper. Nurses will tell you they have to awake a patient at least every few hours to give medicine or check up on. So she sees the QB athlete and he looks like the uncle on Napoleon dynamite, who is that Uncle Rico right? They date, the QB tells Rourke he has a problem with Impotence and cant get a stiffy i guess, she dates him and like a whore is upset she gets nowhere the first date. He seems to have this problem cause all women he meet wants his autograph or play book (lol likely story) and eventually Rourke is like "in about 8 years, there will be this really crappy "how can we be lovers if we cant be friends song" and perhaps they can be friends first before doing it. SO the second date, they ride horses, neglect the horse to go to some dome shaped building (that looks like a park outhouse to me) and they do it there. When she was crying , Rourke gave her a hanky. she was about to give it back but was like "i should wash it". and she did but he should have burned it.

The most interesting lady was the red haired one. She wanted a week of doing nothing. Her name was Mrs. Green .So brunette, blond and now redhead, i was hoping for PC reasons a black nurse but we got Mrs . Green. Would Sharpton calm down if she was Mrs Black. i know i know, horrible. So i'm listening to the guy talk and i know the actor but cant pinpoint him till he says stuff and i realize its that Airplane pilot. Love that movie. So Mrs Green learns he has 3 months to live after changing her fantasy to be with him and he wants to be with her. but when Rourke says the 3 month thing , she is devastated and in a great moment. Mr Belevedere offers her a "brandy miss". lol. Its real sad the guy is going to die, you'd never know it . he should be happy he has a head full of nice white hair, like Leslie Neilson, i got to watch Airplane soon, and the Naked guns. I used to have them on VHS, hope i still do. I was thinking that last night watching a OJ Simpson 2 hour documentary .( i think he did it, shhhh). She tells him not in this exact way but "in about 6 years a song called "listen to your heart" will hit the charts. HE does, all the nurse find love. yay.

i did a lot of rewinding this episode . I missed if the dead patient was the one in the beginning, Beleveder told Rourke he was late cause he had to model for women ????, and the red head said something like "waiting for Sushi and Giesha girls" which made no sense, and i think there was one more.
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4/10
1 story in 2: A Very Dull & Oh-so-Boring Episode!
imdb-2528823 October 2022
Not even Peter Graves can save this one! To make matters worse, its 2 stories are one and the same. *sighs* And if "Julie" the cruise director... I mean Tattoo's odd female replacement, was dull as a bag of rocks, Mr. Belvedere here... I mean "Lawrence", grates on my nerves. Christopher Hewett is ill-fitted for this show. I like the idea of a stately butler, but his presence is all wrong. He is too big (read: portly and wide) and too tall to play opposite Ricardo Montalban. His presence overpowers himand it looks as if he is constantly competing with him to outclass him. Not a good casting choice, Aaron!

(Why do we always name Spelling and omit Leo here, the Goldberg?? Weren't they a team?!) Anyway!

As I was saying, not even Pat Klous, the lovely 1/3rd of the Charlie's of Angels of the air (some short-lived series in the '70s about air stewardesses) can save this dull and boring show. I have been watching these randomly, some on GET TV and some on TUBI, in hopes to catch the Halloweenish episodes, and they're rare. The rest are hit or miss. Incidentally, I just finished watching one guest-starring Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves' salt & pepper gravely counterpart, and his role was so despicable, it made me detest him, which should mean he's good actor but it almost ruined his fun parts for me. (Ok! Ok: I only disliked his demented extreme right-wing, overly Republican character in a pilgrim suit!)

As you can see,t here isn't much to say about this very dull episode. The best part of it is the drinks: fun slices of orange on the rims and maybe you'll spot little blue umbrellas on them too. Maybe! Otherwise, who cares about these dull nurses and their dumb Peter Grave fantasy, here? Was Spelling such a tightwad that he had to fire the good writers in favor of cheapo ones who couldn't write? And the same with decent directors who kept the pace into something not soporific unlike here, cameramen and editors etc. The series is truly huffing and puffing at this point. Herve Villechaize: you were right to quit while you were on top!

Anyway, you get the picture: this one is a dud. I can't even recall Mr. Roarke doing anything fun in the middle of it. No clown costumes, no Robin Hood cloaks, no nuthin'! Skip it or watch it if you're a Pat Klous or Peter Graves fan. A generous 4/10 for their presence, and believe you me: they actually filmed much worse than this!
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