Weinberger and Leeson won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for this episode at the 37th Primetime Emmy Awards on September 22 , 1985 , where the series won three of its eight nominations . Jay Sandrich won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series at the 37th Directors Guild of America Awards for this episode
37th Primetime Emmy Awards
37th Primetime Emmy Awards
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