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Diane's ex-fiancé, Sumner Sloan, returns to Cheers looking for Diane. He has come to apologize and suggests to Diane that they go out for dinner so that she can meet his wife Barbara. Diane reluctantly agrees, but when Sumner mentions that Diane is welcome to bring any significant person in her life to the dinner, she does not mention Sam. Finding this out, Sam is hurt and offended, thinking that Diane is ashamed of him, especially in the company of brutally intellectual Sumner. Although she does eventually agree to bring Sam along, he suddenly realizes that he has agreed to a dinner with three intellectuals and that he will come across looking like an idiot. Cliff suggests that a good conversation piece with English professor Sumner would be Tolstoy's massive novel War and Peace, so Sam has five days between now and dinner to read the novel. Staying up for five days and nights, Sam finishes the novel just prior to dinner, however the five sleepless nights has physically and mentally ...

Norm wore a toga in (#1.7) "Friends, Romans and Accountants," making this episode the second time he appears in something other than a jacket and tie.

Sam comments about the Boston traffic. Throughout the 1980's, the Boston's transportation infrastructure was going through a major change to redevelop the entire downtown highway system known as "The Big Dig." It began in 1982 and was officially completed in 2007.

Sam pretends to read the August 1983 edition of Playboy with Sybil Danning on the cover.


Episode cast overview:
Ted Danson Ted Danson - Sam Malone
Shelley Long Shelley Long - Diane Chambers
Nicholas Colasanto Nicholas Colasanto - Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso
Rhea Perlman Rhea Perlman - Carla Tortelli
John Ratzenberger John Ratzenberger - Cliff Clavin
George Wendt George Wendt - Norm Peterson
Michael McGuire Michael McGuire - Sumner Sloane
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