Amazing Stories: Guilt Trip (1985)
Season 1, Episode 9
8/10
'Guilt' Tough To Overcome, But Love Conquers All
30 August 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Dom DeLuise was rarely dull in anything he did. He had a way of getting your attention, usually making you laugh and care about his character. That's true here, too, even though he plays a fairly-unlikeable "emotion:" guilt. Yeah, he's a supernatural employee whose job it is, is to go around and place guilt in people's minds.

As he does so here, particularly early on, he sounds like Don Rickles with his insult jokes. Some were hilarious. One was another slam against Richard Nixon. What is it about these Hollywood Liberals and Nixon? They just can't stop dissing the guy. Get over it.

Anyway, after bungling an assignment because he got drunk and laid guilt on the wrong people (another funny scene), DeLuise is told to take a vacation cruise. On that cruise, he meets "Love," played by the lovely Loni Anderson...and she is more than a match for him. It's "All You Need Is Love," as the Beatles used to sing.

I enjoyed all the guest actors in here, almost all of them being familiar faces and good actors. It's not an outstanding episode, but it's good enough to keep your attention all the way and wonder what is "Guilt" going to do next.
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