Frozen Dick (26 Mar. 1996)

The Solomons have their first experience with snow and act appropriately, or so they think.

Director:

Robert Berlinger

Writer:

Linwood Boomer

Stars:

John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart

Cast

Episode credited cast:
John Lithgow	...	Dr. Dick Solomon
Kristen Johnston	...	Sally Solomon
French Stewart	...	Harry Solomon
Joseph Gordon-Levitt	...	Tommy Solomon
Jane Curtin	...	Dr. Mary Albright
Simbi Khali	...	Nina Campbell
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gigi Bermingham	...	Singing Trucker
Tami Tappan Damiano	...	Barbara (as Tami Tappan)
Linda Dangcil	...	Singing Trucker
Karl Hamann	...	Singing Trucker
Robert Knott	...	Ellis
Rex Linn	...	Chuck
Ian Lithgow	...	Leon
Skye McKenzie	...	Last Customer
Carolyn Pemberton	...	Customer #2

Storyline

Harry finds a job at a video store. Tommy has to write a book report but figures it's easier and less boring to just rent the film. While he's at the video store with Harry it starts snowing. Meanwhile, Dr. Albright and Dick are going to Chicago where they'll both be given an award, but it turns out Dick isn't very keen on flying. At home, Sally is alone and afraid of the snow until a rather stressed Leon enters the house to turn in a paper for Dick. Sally tells Leon it's their duty to be fruitful and multiply to save the human race.

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Plot Keywords:

character name in title

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Genres:

Comedy | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 March 1996 (USA)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Looking out of the plane window, John Lithgow shouts, "There's something on the wing!" This is a reference to his part in _Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)_ reprising William Shatner's famous _"The Twilight Zone" (1963) {Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (#5.3)}_. They'll make reference to this again when Shatner appears as the Big Giant Head later in the series.

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Quotes

[in the Adult Videos section]
Harry Solomon: We got "Fat Frauleins." "A lusty romp through the cheese and sausage shops of Communist East Berlin."

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Connections

References Oklahoma! (1955)

User Reviews

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One of the best episodes of "3rd Rock," beyond a shadow of a doubt, is "Frozen Dick"!

Though the snow thing is a mystery considering the time of year that this episode was released (though, I suppose, maybe not in Ohio), the aliens' first experience with it is one of their best discoveries ever. Dick gets himself and Mary thrown off a plane and then crashes their car into a snowbank. Harry suffers through the lack of customers at the video store. But to take the Kewpie doll, Sally, thinking the race has gone extinct and she and a visiting Leon are the last individuals on Earth, decides it is her duty to repopulate the planet. An episode full of hilarious gags, witty humor, and a classic reference to the only good part of "Twilight Zone: The Movie."

"'A lusty romp through the cheese and sausage shops of Communist East Berlin.'"