Summary (from Wikipedia): Shelly turns out not to be pregnant; it was all in her mind. To further complicate her relationship with Holling, her twenty-year-old hockey player husband, Wayne, shows up, looking for a divorce so he can marry her best friend. As they get reacquainted, they begin having second thoughts.
Fleischman finds a growth on Rick's chest. Mindful of the weird, untimely deaths of all Maggie's other boyfriends, he becomes worried. It turns out to be a false alarm, but Maggie resents Rick's belief in the "O'Connell Curse".
Ed has trouble picking a subject for his screenplay. He imagines the other residents in scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark and Midnight Cowboy before finally taking Dr. Fleischman's advice and writing about what he knows - the inhabitants of Cicely.
This episode I must not have been paying too much attention the first time I watched it because a lot of it I don't remember, but I DO remember watching it.
The Indiana Jones scene was very well done. Squint and it looks like that scene in Raiders :P
Maurice has a Macintosh. Noted. Also, a sandwich named after Ed? I wonder if it would be a PASTRAMI ON RYE FROM THE STA- sorry. I really want one.
So, Mike from Twin Peaks shows up claiming to still be married to Shelly? No, I know it's not Mike. Well, it's Mike's clone at least; squint and it looks like Mike :P
Are the various Holling/Shelly/insert_name triangles something the writers love? There's H/S/Maurice, H/S/Wayne, isn't there another one in Season 2 or 3? Not that it's boring; guess Holling will have to buy Shelly something expensive and addictive to keep her past from catching up with her... oh, wait... Also: ohhhh boy... more crap between Holling and Shelly :\
Man, the Midnight Cowboy scene... This cast is full of good actors that can act way out of their NoEx characters for these dream sequences/visions/etc.
"Forgive yourself, Wayne." Hehe.
Y'know, seriously, this Wayne guy is so Mike (from TP), although they are both just average high school guys. "Oh, I'm not your friend."
You won't live with a married woman who doesn't like her husband, but you're fine living with a woman not your wife? Holling, what about that made you think the sensitive timebomb Shelly would just get over? Tsk tsk tsk... I have to admit; I am glad to see an older character who isn't a stubborn a-hole.
So, since I didn't really watch this episode before, like I said, I hadn't realized that this is when Ed's movie is first mentioned, as he's writing the screenplay. The continuity in this show is fun.
Marilyn's awesome. Also, wow, who's the Native American MC? Squint and he looks not so awkward.
Oh, and about last night's episode: The Twin Peaks moment wasn't as much an homage as it was a jab back at critics at the time who compared Northern Exposure to Twin Peaks, yet someone who truly watches both shows can see they aren't the same at all. They each have their own charm.
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