New York and Queens (Drew Carey Show episode)

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“New York and Queens”
The Drew Carey Show episode
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 46
Guest stars Donald Trump
Carol Channing
Nicholas Turturro
Luis Antonio Ramos
Paul Cassell
Peter Iacangelo
Written by Terry Mulroy
Christy Snell
Directed by Brian K. Roberts
Production no. 465924
Original airdate May 14, 1997
Episode chronology
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New York and Queens is the 46th episode of the sitcom The Drew Carey Show and is also the season finale of the second season.

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[edit] Info

Original air date: May 14, 1997

Writer: Terry Mulroy & Christy Snell

Director: Brian K. Roberts

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

At Winfred-Louder, Drew is speaking with an incompetent employee who comes to work late everyday. He is also very rude and even asks Mimi how her trip to a Marilyn Manson concert was. At the same time that Drew is speaking with the employee, Mr. Wick comes out of his office and gives Drew an award for coming to work 3,001 days in a row without missing a day. After Drew accepts the award, he begins to feel he has wasted a part of his life. Everyone who works at Winfred-Louder begins to call Drew "Old Man Carey", thinking of him as a stable and responsible lower level manager. Drew joins Kate, Lewis, and Oswald in the Buzz Beer delivery truck to help make deliveries to local bars on Sunday. Drew is still depressed about his continous work period and suddenly steers the delivery truck to an off-ramp in the direction of New York City. The rest of the gang are shocked at first, knowing that they will not be back for work the next morning in time, but then they all decide to go along with Drew to watch the Cleveland Indians play the New York Yankees. After singing a few songs to pass the time, counting cows, and finding new uses for Slim Jim wrappers the gang first arrives at Hershey, Pennsylvania. In New York City, they get stuck in a massive traffic jam, not able to move more than six inches in an hour. Donald Trump asks the gang for an ice cream bar, since he thinks their Buzz Beer delivery truck is an ice cream truck. When they tell him that they are visiting New York City from Cleaveland, he gives them free tickets to his box seats at Yankee Stadium. The gang is then annoyed when somebody keeps ramming their truck from behind. When they check to see who it is, they discover Carol Channing yelling at them. Finally, the traffic clears up and as they prepare to leave they realize that the delivery truck ran out of gas. They quickly grab a few cases of beer from the back of the truck and sell to a local bar to get gas money, since they spent all their money in Hershey. As they sell their beer, an ice cream cart vendor begins hitting their truck with a baseball bat because he thinks that they are attempting to take over his territory. As they argue with him, a police officer arrives and arrests the gang for selling alcohol without a license. When they are released they return to Cleveland without being able to watch the baseball game. However, Drew convinces Kate, Lewis, and Oswald to go watch a midnight screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. They arrive at the theater all wearing different costumes of the characters in the movie. But as they read the title of the movie playing at the theater, they are shocked to see that their film has been replaced with The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert. Outside of the theater, Mimi, Mr. Wick, Larry Almada, and a group of other fans are all dressed up in drag. The gang argues with the Priscilla fans, claiming that The Rocky Horror Picture Show is a better movie. The gang is backed up by other fans and finally the two groups have a dance-off. After a few minutes of dancing back and forth, police officers arrive and arrest Mimi and Drew as the rest of the fans escape. At the conclusion of the episode and season, the gang is back at Drew's house soaking their feet. Kate asks why they keep getting sucked into large musical numbers and Drew gets up and sings and dances again.

Spoilers end here.

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[edit] Recurring Characters

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[edit] Quotes

Drew: Look, if this is about the employee picnic, I was drunk and I misunderstood the term "three-legged race."


Drew: Yeah, and I only drink beer because those frogs are so damn cute.


Oswald: How far is it to Yankee Stadium?
Drew: I don't know, but we're six inches closer than we were an hour ago.
Lewis: That's just because the guy behind us rear-ended us.


(the gang tries to sell beer for gas money)
Clerk: It's from Cleveland? What do you guys know about beer?
Lewis: (pointing at Drew) Would you like to meet our spokesbelly?


(the gang decides to go see "The Rocky Horror Picture Show")
Lewis: Only this time we won't get wasted and question our sexuality (pause) Like everyone except me did.

[edit] Trivia

  • This episode received three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Choreography, Outstanding Art Direction for a Series, and Outstanding Costume Design for a Series.
  • This episode ends with a dance-off featuring the Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches & Herb from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Both songs were later included on the soundtrack Cleveland Rocks: Music From the Drew Carey Show.
  • Drew, Lewis, Kate, and Oswald are all dressed in various costumes from characters in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. These characters are:
    • Drew Carey - Brad Majors
    • Lewis Kiniski - Riff-Raff
    • Kate O'Brien - Janet Weiss
    • Oswald Harvey - Dr. Frank-n-Furter

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