Cheers (TV Series) Let Sleeping Drakes Lie (1988) User Reviews

So You Just Left Her In The Closet?

[Bolesroor · 9/10 · 29 April 2011]

This is an episode so absurd, so outrageously bizarre, that it transcends mere sitcom and becomes sublime stupidity. Rebecca gets stuck in Evan Drake's closet and Norm has to rescue her... the episode may be part two of the painting adventure they started in "Paint Your Office." It is so original, so unusual, that you can't judge it by normal standards, and you have to love it.

Sam is stuck in a cheesy B-story about a dancing-addicted mental patient, but the heart of the story is in getting Evan Drake out of bed so that Rebecca can escape. The escalating absurdity of the situation as well as the sheer number of times that Norm returns is just hilarious. It plays like a fever dream, a hallucination so strange it can't possibly be real. Tom Skerritt plays Evan Drake completely realistically... you can feel his exhaustion and disbelief when his house-painter refuses to leave him alone for unknown reasons.

The final shot of the Cheers gang applauding Norm carrying Evan's tiny body is the perfectly outlandish sight gag that was the hallmark of this sixth season. Not to be missed.

GRADE: A

Fantastic Norm episode

[ethansprenger-96772 · 9/10 · 22 November 2020]

This episode was so stupid it was funny. Norm brings Rebecca along to paint Evan Drakes bedroom well he is in Europe. He comes back unexpectedly from Europe and Rebecca hides in the closet. Norm tries and fails to get Drake from his bedroom by saying he wants to carry a rich man through his lawn. The funniest part was when the gang at cheers keeps asking if Norm left Rebecca in the closet that's how ridiculous and funny it is. My favourite Norm episode by far!

Let Sleeping Drakes Lie (#6.18)

[ComedyFan2010 · 10/10 · 3 June 2014]

Norm is hired to paint Evan Drake's bedroom. He takes Rebecca with him to check out Evan's place, but he comes back unexpectedly and Rebecca is stuck in the closet. Norm goes through everything to get her out but it keeps on failing. At the end he just comes up with a ridiculous story that he wants to carry a rick man in his pajamas across the lawn and Rebecca escapes.

Wow this is an amazing episode. Absolutely hilarious. Norm trying to save Rebecca was great. Loved how everyone kept on asking him if he left her in the closet and the finale made me laugh so hard I almost cried. Norm, Evan and Rebecca were all absolutely perfect and at their best in this episode.

Carry a Rich Man Across the Lawn in His Pajamas

[stephanie-wills · 10/10 · 11 January 2023]

One of my favorite episodes! Norm is trying desperately to get Rebecca out of Evan Drake's bedroom and he is coming up with every reason to get him out of the bedroom so Rebecca can leave and not be seen.

One of the absurd reasons he gives is that he has a fantasy to carry a man across the lawn in his pajamas. When Norm picked up Evan Drake just did me in and left me in laughter!

I would have loved to see the blooper reel for this episode as I don't know how Tom Skerrit as Evan Drake could keep from not laughing

Kirstie Alley, May she RIP was always my favorite over Diane (Shelly Long) and playing selfish Rebecca Howe was meant for Kirstie. I loved it when Rebecca is panicking to Norm in Evan's closet about being caught that she will be fired and Evan would not be her boyfriend....this episode is one of the reasons I loved Cheers. The goofiness and silliness of these episodes are classic.

Sam and Ginger

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 26 August 2019]

In this throwback to slapstick, Norm has been hired by Evan Drake to paint his house. Nosey Rebecca ends up checking out his bedroom, but Drake comes home early and Becky ends up in the closet. The rest of the episode is Norm trying to distract Drake and get Rebecca out of there. It is hilarious. In a really minor subplot, Sam is pretending to be a dancer to he can bed one of Frasier's patients who can't resist dancers. The problem is, Frasier has more than one patient.