- Woody, Norm and Cliff come bounding into the bar after a drunken evening of watching The Magnificent Seven (1960), and are feeling all macho. They talk about the lack of danger in everyday life, and crave for such. Another patron in the bar, Bob Speakes, is a skydiving instructor and suggests that they give skydiving a try. The three are all talk and no action, but finally agree to do it after Carla goads them into it. The next day, the three are up in a plane ready for the jump. They all chicken out, the first men ever in Bob's history of teaching that have ever done so. However, the three make a pact that they will say to the gang at the bar that they did it, keeping the story nice and simple: they jumped, the chutes opened, they landed. The two problems are Cliff, who needs to embellish the story to pump up his own so-called extraordinary achievements, and Woody, who has never told a lie in his life. Carla doesn't believe that they did it, until Woody, who is nervous in the lie, says that they did. He manages to convince Carla in the lie. Sam is jealous of the three as he's always wanted to skydive, and talks the three of them into taking him up for a jump. They can't weasel out of it, but especially Woody feels that, given another chance, he could do it and the lies he told would no longer be lies. Back up in the plane the following day, the three chicken out once again and the truth comes out that they didn't jump before. But Sam also chickens out, and suggests they continue with the lie. Back at the bar, the guys talk up a storm, and Rebecca suggests that they do one more jump holding a banner advertising Cheers, the act filmed by a camera crew. They all talk her out of the idea until she infers that the macho bravado of the act might be enough for her to go to bed with Sam, which is enough for him to agree. Will it be third time lucky for the four?—Huggo
- After drinking and watching the film "The Magnificent Seven," Norm, Cliff, and Woody return to Cheers, talking aloud how they want some danger in their life. Their conversation is overheard by a skydiving instructor named Bob Speakes. The three take him up on his offer, but when they get on the plane over the jump zone, they chicken out, and decide to spin a story for the others about their jump.
The story holds up with almost everyone at the bar...except Carla. Figuring that Norm and Cliff won't give her a straight answer, she asks Woody who is known for always telling the truth. Woody instead forces himself to partially lie (telling the truth about them going up in the plane, buy lying about their jump and freefall).
Sam is impressed and wants to do a jump with them as well. Unable to get out of it, they take Sam on another skydiving excursion. However, Sam soon realizes that the guys were lying about their first jump, and claims that he will actually jump...before getting scared and working with the guys to fabricate a new lie.
This time when the group brags about their jump, Rebecca suggests that they make another jump with a cameraman showing them opening up a banner with the Cheers logo during freefall. With no way to get out of it, they agree.
Like the last couple times, the guys are unable to go through with the jump. Bob Speakes suggests that he can get some of his guys to make the jump for them, pretending to be them. Almost everyone is in agreement to do this, except Woody. Still wracked with guilt from telling a lie, he actually jumps from the plane this time! Norm and Sam soon follow after him, but Cliff refuses...until the plane's engine starts sputtering (which is actually a ruse puton by Bob and the pilot to get him to jump).
In the end, the group's jump is a success, and Rebecca gets the image of the gang opening the banner in freefall, which is run on the evening news.
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