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It's Valentine's Day, and Doug (Kevin James) has promised his wife
Carrie (Leah Remini) a dinner in a fancy restaurant, but then he finds
himself stuck at his nerdy friend Spence's (Patton Oswalt) birthday party
and can't leave after Spence ahs fallen out with his mum (Grace Zabriskie)
and she starts to show suicidal tendencies ...
Carrie meanwhile shares her table with a stranger (Shaun Weiss) after
Doug failed to show up, and tries to teach the guy, a terrible show-off,
some manners the Carrie-way - meaning she goes into battle-mode ever so
often and cuts the guy down to size.
Carrie's father Arthur (Jerry Stiller) in the meantime spends his
Valentine's Day at an old folks' dance where he meeds Mary (Anne Meara) - and claims he is married to not have to talk to her, and she
does the same. Against all odds, they start to show an interest into each
other from thereon and makes plans of how to secretly meet in a hotel for
some sex ... until they find out about each other that they're not married
at all, at which point they quickly lose interest in their proposed affair
...
Average episode of King of Queens that's based on too
weak a story to really work (though as usual, a few gags are quite
hilarious). Of the three narrative threads, actually only Arthur's story
is rather good, but it gets the least screentime and the least effort
seems to have been put into it.
By the way, in later episodes, Anne Meara, Jerry Stiller's real-life
wife, would take over from Grace Zabriskie as Spence's mother.
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