The law firm where Carrie (Leah Remini) works as a secretary is having a company picnic. Her deliveryman husband, Doug (Kevin James), begrudgingly tags along and ends up playing in a low-key softball game. Low-key for everyone other than Doug, who plays so intensely that he injures one of the corporate lawyers in a collision at home plate. Doug’s hustle and ability impress the firm’s senior partner, who recruits Doug as a ringer for the firm’s flailing team. Carrie is adamantly opposed to the charade, but Doug plays along. He’s even set up with a phone line … that Carrie must answer.
En route to the first game — in a limo — Doug is drilled by Carrie about his “law” background so he can cover his pretense. Here’s their conversation:
Carrie: Where did you go to law school?
Doug: I didn’t. I was home-schooled.
Carrie: Doug, c’mon!
You said you’d let me coach you through this.
Doug: All right,
fine. If anybody asks, I’ll just say I went to Stamford.
Carrie: I’m sorry,
did you just say Stamford, with an m?
Doug: Yeah. Stamford
Law School.
Carrie: OK, the
school you’re thinking of is Stanford, with an n.
Doug: No, it’s
Stamford. I know — I deliver there. I’ve seen the sign.
Carrie: OK, dumbass,
you’re thinking of Stamford, Connecticut. OK? Stanford Law School is in
California.
Doug: You know what?
I don’t like all this negativity before a game.
The writer pulled an anti-Doug. He was thinking of the
Connecticut city less than 20 miles from where I live but opted for the
California city and its eponymous university.
Those two humped letters look similar and are adjacent in
the alphabet, yet using the wrong one puts you off by miles. In this case,
2,583.5 of them.
* The title of that sports-themed episode is a play on
words. It sounds like David Justice, a former Major League Baseball player.
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