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The King of Queens - White Collar
episode 1.18
USA 1999
produced by David Litt, Annette Sahakian Davis, Jeff Sussman, Michael J. Weithorn (executive) for Hanley Productions, Columbia/CBS
directed by Rob Schiller
starring Kevin James, Leah Remini, Jerry Stiller, Victor Williams, Merrin Dungey, John F.O'Donohue, John C.McDonnell, Derek Luke
story by Dan E.Fesman, Harry Victor, screenplay by Tom Sheehan, created by David Litt, Michael J. Weithorn, music by Andrew Gross
TV-series King of Queens
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Delivery truck driver Doug (Kevin James) is temporarily promoted to an
office job, which he quickly starts to hate, yet his wife Carrie (Leah
Remini) is so impressed that he dares not trhow it to do what he likes to
do again - drive a delivery truck that is. Then he has a fall-out with his
black colleague and best pal Deacon (Victor Williams), who thinks he would
have deserved the job more than Doug but was ignored because of his race
(and is maybe right, too), so Doug tries to get out of the job pretending
to do Deacon a favour - only Deacon wants no favours. So in the end he
has to confess to Carrie that he doesn't want to be locked up in the
office anymore, and she shows much more understanding that he had
expected. And in the end, Deacon, who has now been promoted in Doug's
stead, hates the office job just as much as Doug did. An
episode that beautifully plays with Doug's very own character traits,
showing him as harmless and unambitious, yet not a total slob (e.g. he
likes his actual work as a driver), and as someone who tries to use crazy
schemes (like using Deacon's race in his favour) to get out of certain
situations - not malignantly though, just to find an easy way out, and
always unsuccessuflly. Apart from that though, this is a rather average
episode of the series, yet with enough laughs to make you want to watch it
anyhow.
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