Richard Long plays David Gurney a married man waking up with a hangover after a very late night out with his wife Wilma.\u00a0 As he staggers around his bedroom trying to shake off his hangover he berates his sleeping wife for not even removing his shoes before letting him fall asleep the night before.\u00a0 Getting ready for work, he is sore at his wife because she can sleep late so he slaps her on the butt to wake her up.\u00a0 She wakes up but then becomes noticeably upset claiming Gurney is a stranger to her and threatening to call the police if he doesn\u2019t leave her bedroom immediately.\u00a0 David decides it\u2019s some sort of joke cooked up between his wife and one of his friends at work.\u00a0 After a few sarcastic words with Wilma he heads out of the house and drives to his job at the bank in his car.<\/p>\n
When he gets to work nobody greets him and everyone acts as if they don\u2019t know him.\u00a0 When he sees someone sitting at his desk he gets angry and tells the occupant to leave.\u00a0 The bank guard comes over and Gurney gets into an altercation with him.\u00a0 The guard pulls his gun out and forces David out onto the sidewalk.\u00a0 There waiting for them are a few policemen and Wilma.\u00a0 David attempts to convince them that he is who he claims to be but they arrest him and take him in the patrol car.<\/p>\n
In the next scene David is in the office of a psychiatrist who tries to convince him that he has built up an imaginary persona under the influence of a mental illness. To convince David of this the psychiatrist calls up the telephone numbers of the friends and family who David says will know him.\u00a0 All of them, including his mother deny the very existence of David Gurney.\u00a0 Desperate to prove his existence David dives through the office window and escapes in a stolen truck.\u00a0 Going to his favorite bar he tries to get his friend the bartender to recognize him but with no success.\u00a0 Finally, he goes to a photographer\u2019s store and asks for the photos that he had taken with Wilma.\u00a0 Looking in the envelope he sees a photograph of himself with his arm around Wilma.\u00a0 Just as he\u2019s leaving the store, the police and the psychiatrist intercept him.\u00a0 David triumphantly tells the psychiatrist that he\u2019s found proof of his own existence but when the psychiatrist looks in the envelope the picture only contains David.\u00a0 Now David breaks down and starts wailing that he does exist.<\/p>\n
The scene shifts to David back in his bedroom crying out in his sleep.\u00a0 Wilma wakes up and tries to reassure him that he\u2019s only having a bad dream.\u00a0 David is overjoyed to wake from the bad dream to find that his wife knows him.\u00a0 He wants to kiss her but she tells him to wait until she takes off her cold cream and her hair turban.\u00a0 But when she returns from the bathroom Wilma is now a blonde instead of a brunette and even though she knows David he is seeing a woman different from the wife he married.\u00a0 Dant, dant, Dahhhh!<\/p>\n
To start off I\u2019d like to express the opinion that Wilma #2 is significantly better looking than Wilma #1 so all things considered this hardly seems like a nightmare ending he\u2019s left in.\u00a0 Secondly this episode is a \u201cman screaming at his surroundings\u201d episode which I have often condemned on aesthetic grounds.\u00a0 But I must confess that a number of details in the episode amused me.\u00a0 First off, I found his hectoring of his sleeping wife and then slapping her on the butt very naturalistic. I always enjoy the portrayal of the war between the sexes as long as the playing field isn\u2019t tilted against the husband as it so often is.\u00a0 Secondly Richard Long is a decent actor and he made the character personable and sympathetic.\u00a0 And finally, the psychiatrist was not as ingratiating and condescending as so many characters in that persona typically are portrayed.\u00a0 Let\u2019s give it a B-.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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