When it comes to quarantine you to definitely Dupree’s strange malady encourages, it contributes to particular light “Is we likely to pass away?” worry, but it’s really more of a headache than a risk. Detective Harris (played of the Ron Glass, here a feeling significantly more jive-y than simply he would get in later season) keeps invested 75 bucks on tickets to an enjoy their girlfriend wants to pick, and that is in hopes she will become “pleased all weekend.” Barney (starred by the Hal Linden) was probably capture his spouse to your coast getting their own personal vacation, just like the old Phil Fish (starred by the wry Abe Vigoda) is simply good that have staying straight away in the channel, since it mode the guy won’t have to go back home so you’re able to his perpetually nagging spouse Bernice. (If you are every person’s bemoaning the chance out of a beneficial quarantine, Seafood deadpans, “Don’t get excited up until we know that it’s real!”)
There are even several civilians caught throughout the quarantine. If episode opens, Det. Sgt. Nick Yemana (starred because of the Jack Soo) are scheduling a great prostitute exactly who says she was not creating something unlawful, which she questioned men having sixty dollars “to the an impulse.” Pursuing the medical disaster distracts the fresh investigators, the new prostitute flirts with Fish, obtaining your to allow their unique wade-even if its chats are mainly a reason to the publishers so you can slip in some more Vigoda one to-liners:
The last straw to them? (“Nine dated dudes just who dress in the black colored robes as well as e mail us peculiar!” Darryl complains.) Barney Miller’s attitude towards the Marty and you will Darryl is the better known as quasi-enlightened. Capt. Miller themselves try sympathetic, but only to a point, and you may one another letters was exaggeratedly mincing-specifically Marty, whom hears that he might’ve started exposed to smallpox, and gasps, “Oh Jesus, I’ve already had an adverse complexion!”