Guilt Trip

I'm not sure how this was to capture our attention. Dom Deluise plays Guilt (apparently, God has a group of anthropomorphic characters that go to earth and dump their emotions on people). If Guilt wants to, he can stop anyone in their tracks. The immediately are overcome with the guilt he provides. Because he does a lousy job, he is forced by the big guy to go on vacation. He ends up on a cruise ship with Loni Anderson (WKRP in Cincinnati). They have a brief affair and then things get more complicated. The sad thing about this is that it is utterly dull. It's played for laughs certainly, but there were none that I could think of. Let it lie.

This episode of "Amazing Stories" was directed by Burt Reynolds. Because of this, it's not at all surprising that Dom DeLuise, Loni Anderson and Charles Nelson Reilly (Reynold's friends and wife at the time) are in this one.

This episode is a comedy-romance, not at all like you'd expect from "Amazing Stories". There is no huge twist or strange "Twilight Zone" sort of aspect to the tale. Instead, it's a silly story about the personifications of emotions. One, Guilt (DeLuise) is having a bad run lately and his boss (Charles Durning) orders him to take a vacation. There he meets and falls in love with Love (Anderson) and the story is rather charming AND silly.

GUILT TRIP is a quite dreadful episode of AMAZING STORIES. It seems to be going for some quirky comedy vibe but the comedy falls flat over and over again. I mean, the main characters are personifications of Guilt and Love, and that's supposed to be hook to keep you watching, but I just found it dumb. This feels like something a student would have written for a class project as it bears no relation to the real world.

Dom DeLuise gives his usual larger than life performance and Loni Anderson is her typical pretty but vacuous self. But the script is poor and the situations forced. The most interesting thing about this episode is that it was directed by none other than Burt Reynolds, who shows no real aptitude for the job.

In this "Amazing Stories" episode from season 1 titled "Guilt Trip" has Dom Deluise as a man named Guilt who is like a good guardian angel who on earth seeks out those in need as he gives help and advice. Only one day his boss advises that he take time for himself and get a vacation, and this happens to be on a ship cruise. It's there that Guilt meets a lovely and beautiful nice lady named oddly enough Love(the beautiful Loni Anderson) and you guessed it love is at first sight. This is one little sweet episode that proves love is possible for anyone and it's unexpected this was such a great fairy tale story! A real delight for viewers who are dreamers too!

Amazing Stories is really a good series not serious like Twilight Zone, but more magical like his producer, in this episode Dom Deluise plays Guilt who bother everyone that try to overcomes some situations, but he is really tired and drinking sometimes, so your Boss call him back to takes a vacation, a cruise journey and there he finds Love, of course it's a typical Spielberg's style but delightfully silly!!!