Give Me A Ring Sometime - Plot

Plot

As owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson) opens up the bar, Professor Sumner Sloane (Michael McGuire) and his Boston University student and fiancée Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) enter the scene. They plan to go to Barbados to be married but do not have the wedding ring, so Sumner leaves the bar to retrieve the ring from his ex-wife. While she waits, Diane meets and learns more about other people around her in the bar. Sam is an ex-baseball player and a recovering alcoholic. Waitress Carla Tortelli is a "bitter" divorcée and a mother of four. Male patrons are playing the "body sweat in movies" trivial game, which repulses Diane. Sumner comes back a few hours later and offers Cool Hand Luke as a sweaty movie. He announces to Diane that he could not get his ex-wife's ring. Then his ex-wife calls the bar to say that she apparently has had a change of heart. Sumner becomes motivated into leaving Diane alone again, witnessed by everyone in the bar.

Diane and Sam argue over Sumner; Sam pointedly tells her that Sumner is probably on a plane with his ex-wife. In doubt, Diane calls the airport again to change the flight reservation, but then she finds out that "Mr. and Mrs. Sloane" have already use it. Heartbroken, Diane prepares to go home but realizes she now does not have a job (she was Sumner's teaching assistant). Feeling sorry for her, Sam offers her a job at Cheers as a waitress. Because of her educational background, Diane initially refuses, even at her further considerations. When she remembers a bunch of orders, including special requests, from one table, Diane reluctantly accepts the job.