It's a big day at Phil's when a bathroom stall door from the bar is donated to the Smithsonian institute. While at first we think that's a plus going to revolve around Corky's phone number being on the men's room door, it changes when Murphy makes an innocent short joke that sets off a rage against her, with the president of an organization for men of smaller stature (Jonathan Prince) demands a public apology. Murphy is humiliated in public when her table at Phil's becomes covered with shrimp cocktail, a short stack of pancakes and a Napoleon dessert. She decides to confront Prince at one of his club's meetings, and this brings on a series of insults against others with so-called physical imperfections, and Prince is revealed to be just as bigoted towards those group (bald men and heavy set men) as Murphy was assumed to be against short men. She tries to tell the story of how as the tallest girl in her class, she never got asked to dance, but Prince doesn't allow any sympathy until other members stand up against the hypocrisy that he reveals. He claims in ridiculing bald men that it was only a joke, the same thing that Murphy had claimed, and she calls him on his double standards. Lots to learn here and lots to laugh at, another good moral lesson without the finger wagging, and Candice Bergen as well as the short men are all very funny. When the men stand up to their president for his joke, it shows they are much bigger than their height, and that makes them very good points in a classic sitcom episode.
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