Talk:They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar

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[edit] Death of a Salesman

This sounds an awful lot like Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman." Can anyone confirm that this was the inspiration for the episode and, if so, does it merit inclusion on the page?

I don't the them as being all that similar, since Willy Lohman's interaction (or lack of the right type of it) with his family is the key to Salesman, and here it is how Windom's character Riley recedes into a happier past as typified by his good times at the bar and how that world was more real to him than his present one. The main similarity is that both are about salesmen facing a "midlife crisis". Rlquall 16:46, 11 July 2006 (UTC)