Romance, Roses and Rye Bread

The deli delivery guy, Bert (Sid Melton), is interested in Sally. He brings her a rose and invites her to go to a play, but she isn't interested. Later at work, Sally pretends she has a headache just so she doesn't need to deal with Bert. It's odd, as both are lonely people...and Bert seems so sincere.

In some ways, this is a very odd episode. After all, again and again, Sally has said she wants a man to marry her.... ANY man. But when she has a guy profess his love, she's uninterested. Of course, Bert isn't handsome but her behavior towards him seems very inconsistent and to me is a sign that the writing could have been better. Overall, a rather sad episode...not terrible but one that left me a bit disappointed.

So goes the Dwight Yokum hit. But no woman shows consistent desperation for a man than Sally Rogers. To the point of cringe inducing. Maybe the worse is the The Making of a Councilman when Rob's campaign manager arrives at Rob's house and Sally, who never met the man before, jumps up and runs to him, starts touching his tie and expresses "My aren't you a handsome campaign manager!" Never caring that the man may be married with a family ! And in this episode we have a character parachuted in for one show, which is always annoying and Sally all of a sudden has high standards that this blue collar low life can't aspire to. She deserves spinsterhood!