Stanley's (Dom DeLuise) mother (Kathleen Freeman) is matchmaking by inviting a nice girl over to dinner. Millie (Jackie Joseph) is a librarian that Stanley fears will be "built like a book". He is surprised when she arrives in a tightly-fitting dress and finds her attractive. Stanley's best friend Bummy (Jack Knight) drops in unsuccessfully asking him for a blood transfusion for a mutual friend, Charlie. Millie is more refined than Stanley's usual girlfriends and he struggles to communicate with her. After failing in trying different things to seduce her, Bummy suggests that Stanley takes her to a dirty movie. When she finally consents he is shocked by the terms.
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Dom's potential crush
jameselliot-128 September 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Jackie Joseph (the original Little Shop of Horrors and the ex-wife of F-Troop's Ken Berry) is a girl that frustrated nebbish Dom is set up with. Jackie was a slim, slinky brunette comedienne actress and like similar-looking TV actresses Elaine Giftos and Elaine Joyce, Jackie was not a TV sexbomb but had a certain kind of natural sex appeal and an attractive face so she was good for this role. Dom eventually takes her to a porn theater and messes up in his nervous, nebbish way by suggesting that they go to a motel, even for an hour. She tells him that she'll cost $25 for the hour, revealing that she is a prostitute and has a double life, working part-time as a librarian. That totally deflates Dom's interest in a funny but cringeworthy moment and of course, he doesn't take her up on it. It's not an unrealistic kind of story. In Las Vegas, a lot of women mostly from California who have regular jobs during the week come into town to work the casinos in a non-obvious way, turn some tricks and go home on Sunday. (The pandemic has changed that.) It would have been interesting if she had returned for a few more episodes to explore what kind of relationship they could have had given her life choice. He could have left his job to become her pimp and worn a big velvet hat.
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