‘Ma Always Liked You Best’
Season 9, Episode 5 - Aired October 18, 1990
When Cliff doesn't want to give up his bachelor's paradise when his mother returns to town, Woody invites Esther to stay with him. Meanwhile, Rebecca's refusal to grease the wheels of commerce leads to construction gridlock outside Cheers.
Quote from Cliff
Cliff: Oh, hey, Rebecca, come on, you be Ma again and I'll be me, all right?
Rebecca: Oh, Cliff, you know, Sam does a lot better Ma than I do.
Cliff: Oh, yeah, right, right. [shouts] All right, Ma, get off my back!
Sam: [o.s.] I'm busy, Cliff.
Cliff: Oh, no, no, Sam. There's too much love in your voice.
Quote from Norm
Carla: Hey, you know who he looks like? Winnie the Pooh.
Frasier: Oh, Carla's right.
Carla: Yeah.
Frasier: Yeah, in that story where he eats too much honey and gets stuck in Rabbit's hole.
Norm: Yeah, well, how did they get him out?
Sam: Oh, it's hilarious. They starved him for a couple of weeks, then yanked him out.
Norm: Yeah. Now, when he got out, did Winnie the Pooh sue the damned Rabbit, huh?
Quote from Esther Clavin
Esther Clavin: Oh, Woody, that was fun. It's so nice to go shopping for shelf paper with somebody who doesn't nitpick over every design.
Cliff: Ma, when are you gonna stop taking those potshots at me?
Esther Clavin: When it stops being fun.
Quote from Woody
Esther Clavin: Well, Woody, are we ready to line some shelves with flags of the world? Woody? Woody, if you stick that lower lip out any further, a pigeon's gonna land on it. You know that they like shiny, ledge-like surfaces.
Woody: [crying] Don't bring up bird trivia now, Mother Clavin. It hurts too much.
Esther Clavin: Why, Woody, whatever are you talking about?
Woody: [crying and mumbling]
Esther Clavin: All right, all right, all right. Is this true, Clifford?
Cliff: Yeah, Ma, it is. I want you back.
Quote from Norm
Norm: So you guys ought to have me out of here in just a few minutes, huh? Right, guys? Guys! Vera?
Quote from Sam
Sam: Finally stopped, huh? It must be noon.
Frasier: Actually, I've only got ten till.
Sam: Oh, yeah, union guys.
Quote from Woody
Norm: So, Fras, what are they doing up there?
Frasier: Well, as near as I can tell, they're replacing the top step with a six-foot hole. [laughter] You know, you people wouldn't be laughing if you knew that I have a severe dust allergy. [more laughter] I'm serious.
I could have fallen and broken my neck
Woody: [laughs] Stop, Dr. Crane. Let me catch my breath.
Construction Guy #1: Hey, there's the guy who took the header into our ditch.
Construction Guy #2: Hey, why'd you do that, man? You almost broke your neck.
Woody: Hey, don't get him started. He's got this whole routine.
Quote from Woody
Rebecca: Bribing those men to do their job? What happened to an honest day's work for an honest day's pay? Frasier: [laughs] Now, that is funny.
Woody: [laughs] Nothing will top the one about you breaking your neck.
Frasier: It's all in the delivery.
Quote from Sam
Rebecca: Well, Norm's got the window out. Now he's starting on the iron bars. When he's finished, anybody who wants to can come into this bar right through that alley. [barking]
Sam: What was that?
Norm: Two big dogs chasing a Chihuahua. At least I think it was a Chihuahua.
Sam: If the health department asks, it was a Chihuahua.
Quote from Norm
Sam: You okay out there?
Norm: Yeah. I think they're as afraid of me as I am of them.
Carla: Yeah, except you don't carry rabies and have razor-sharp teeth.
Norm: Yeah, but they don't know that.