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mikeholmes-4801223 December 2015
Warning: Spoilers
In the Season four series i like with no stupid tattoo story lines in the beginning, they first meet Robert Goulet, who i know nothing about other than he seems like a Vegas guy based on the Simpson's episode where they trick him into Bart's Casino Treehouse. I did a lot of looking up facts after this episode. He's dead, a lot of the actors in this one are.

So Robert Goulet is some guy that manages a crap load of money in investing for rich guys and wants to be like them. So he switches places with one of these guys who wants to be like him and take a weekend off. Ricardo Montabaum keeps warning him that its a bad investment. I figured its a bad idea. remember that stupid episode where the two women who want to go on shopping sprees? So he meets the millionaire and guess what, they look alike, its two Robert Goulets. They have a brief chat, neither seems curious about you know , a guy that looks just like them and wondering if....well anyhow , even if he thought of that the secertary is really hot and he likes her, he looks out the window and sees his wife with a golf instructor and its obvious she is cheating. So he flirts with secertary and then the flirting golf pro and wife are trying to murder him with bad luck. But then the golf guy and the wife decide to poison him and like all poisoning people, use a fancy gold plated vial, and then poison a drink and throw it away but Mr Rourke catches it, goes to the table, and foils it and extracts, i guess a confession, ala Murder she Wrote, that makes the bad couple give themselves up to the Fantasy Island Mountie police instead of running into the dense woods or trying the court system with a high priced OJ lawyer. Then as Robert Goulet leaves sad he wont see that secertary for a while, Rourke surprises him with the ever so predictable "happy" ending where some interested lover basically says "i am ready to take a long plane ride home with you, who i barely met, know and such and by the way, need a place to stay." But if fairness , they aren't really "Fantasy Island super serious" cause they didn't pledge marriage before the flight home.

THe other story was about a doctor who wants to bring back the dead, cause he operated on his wife and killed her . Rourke gives him a surprisingly mild warning as opposed to one above , and brings him to a , yes, exciting, a vacant building previously used for medical experiments, that is abandoned and has a caretaker. I was so super excited this would be a Dark Episode. But then his Daughter went with him and she also had a fantasy of hanging out with her Dad again and becoming a family . That killed that . Also the vacant building was well taken care of . no spider webs, no sheets on furniture and Tattoo showed her to her room. Does he get tipped, i wondered? Anyhow the Doctor is all impressed with the crappy Star Wars 70's equipment. a bunch of blinking lights on a file cabinet and hes like "they look like mine". turns out they are his, and were transported, this is when i groaned. So he wants a dead body to start his experiment and Rourke is like, you gotta wait its coming . then his daughter who was hot Butts in and is like complaining the doctors obsession is too much and when her mom died, she lost both of them. I was like Zing. I looked her up, she was in EIght is Enough. I never watched that show and the picture i saw of all the family members and that stupid Adam Rich kid made me glad i didn't. THe Doctor is Matthew Brodericks dad. I also learned Matthew Broderick was on vacation in 1987 with that dirty dancing girl and crashed head on in the wrong lane with two people he killed and could have got five years jail and all that but got a 175 dollar fine. that s crazy. So anyhow , the doctor is eagerly awaiting his cadaver, the hot daughter with the frizzy 70's hair wants to go swimming ,and Rourke warns him about natives getting mad about bringing dead to life as his assistant Roarke lends him Marcolo did. Marcolo has big scar along his neck and cant talk. He looked like a bad ass and upon research, was a football player, Wrestler, and part black , part Indian. I would not mess with this guy. So then the daughter goes swimming, turns out to be the cadaver due to swimming accident (then what cadaver was he waiting for previously) and he fights to bring her back but nothing works, then a native peeks through the window , alerts others ,causes a scene , they steal the body, bury it, he goes and sees the burial plot, then sees her ,a then it turns out Rourke messed with the equipment to make her dead (and he convently never checked breathing pulse, etc) and she was alive and everyone was happy. Yay. What a stupid ending. I'd rather he bring her back to life and she a brain dead zombie.
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When one Robert Goulet isn't enough
stones7816 October 2014
I feel the most notable aspect of this episode is the dual performance of Robert Goulet, who plays himself, as one of him wants to be rich, and the other him wishes to be left alone. I thought he did a decent job at both roles, and displayed some acting chops, even though I know little of Goulet, other than his singing. The other faces include Britt Eklund, Phyllis Davis, and an odd appearance by Troy Donahue. Nothing that memorable happens in this segment, but all's well that ends well, as I liked the forced, but satisfying conclusion. The other story stars James Broderick(one of his final acting credits), Laurie Walters, and Woody Strode, as it revolves around a doctor trying to bring back his dead wife. I'm not an psychology expert, but I didn't sense any real chemistry between Broderick and Walters, and this segment was a bit predictable as well. This wasn't a bad story, but it did seem rushed, and the ending wasn't a big payoff either, but it did end nicely. I've also noticed that these middle seasons use Mr. Roarke much more than before, and while that's not a bad thing in general, it does take some of his mystique away.
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