Alex the Gofer

I watched this episode again last night and for me it always felt like an unused story for Bobby. In the episode Alex has two theatre producers as his fare and ends up working for them as a gofer. The odd thing is that Alex talks about in his younger days he would have done anything to get a foothold in the theatre. This is very strange considering that Bobby was the struggling actor looking for a way in. That's why I always thought this episode was something written for Jeff Conaway and his character of Bobby Wheeler. Up until now Alex never showed any interest in theatre or being part of that scene in any way but Bobby was all about acting be it theatre or tv or film. It would have been interesting to see this episode if it had been Jeff Conaway instead of Judd Hirsch who does a good job as always but it just seems a bit out of character for Alex to be involved with the theatre crowd when it should have been Bobby.