Doug Out

This week's Baseball on TV entry is from The King of Queens. A second season episode titled Doug Out.

This particular episode follows formula number three of the show.

Doug becomes frustrated with his father-in-law Arthur. Doug thinks he is insulting Arthur to his wife Carrie. Arthur overhears the insult. Doug feels bad about it. Doug includes Arthur in an outing. Doug regrets taking Arthur almost immediately. Doug does something embarrassing. Arthur makes him feel guilty. Doug does something crazy to redeem himself and we all learn a little something about life...until the next episode.

In Doug Out the pattern develops this way,

Doug can go to a Mets game
Doug -- thinking he is talking to Carrie -- calls Arthur a demented old circus monkey.
Arthur hears this and is asked to go to a Mets game at Shea Stadium.
Doug regrets spending time with Arthur and decides to sneak down to some empty box seats with his friend Deacon.
In the seats in which he shouldn't be sitting, Doug catches a foul ball that was headed for a youngster and taunts the kid.
Doug is shamed into leaving the box seats and returns to Arthur and Carrie.
Arthur mentions that he has never caught a foul ball.
Doug runs on the field to get a foul ball and winds up being arrested.
Arthur bails him out and everything is great for the King of Queens.

There are a few other things that happen in this episode, but those are the highlights.

Now, for the real reason I chose this episode for this week's post. The scene of Doug stealing the foul ball from the kid...from a German language version of the show.

German is such a beautiful language.