Rebecca Howe has two primary goals in life: to work her way to the top of the corporate ladder, and to land a rich husband while she's on her way up. Her approach in all things -- work, life, men -- is that everything and everyone is a project to be managed. Yet Rebecca seems perpetually stuck in the two steps up, three steps back job track. And as for that rich fella, it's not quite working out either.

None of this is for a lack of trying. Lord knows she gives her all to the job and uses her womanly charms as best she can to land a man, but there's something of the self-saboteur in Rebecca. Perhaps she doesn't quite believe what's she's selling, which is herself as a capable, confident, and pulled-together corporate woman. Maybe it's because Rebecca still sees herself as the chubby teen she used to be, trying her best to fit in, but ever feeling like the outsider.

Carla and Sam don’t help matters either. Sam doesn't like the changes he finds when he returns to Cheers after traveling the world, nor does he like the idea of taking orders from a sexy but high-strung woman. Carla, on the other hand, has nothing but contempt for Rebecca and her ambitiousness. Both do all they can to undermine her. Sam resorts to what he does best; he turns on the charm and flirts with her every chance he gets. Carla just hurls insults. When the Lillian Corporation sells the bar back to Sam, he demotes Rebecca to waitress, which makes Carla giddy with power, knowing that she'll be under her thumb. Whoever said turnaround is fair play, clearly never played with Carla.

One could call Rebecca's propensity to chase after wealthy men an obsession that is borderline masochistic. She falls hopelessly in love with Evan Drake, her boss at the Lillian Corporation. He finds her adorable in a frantic puppy dog kind of way, but he thinks a relationship with her wouldn't be a prudent merger. Her next romantic "project" is Robin Colcord, a rich investment banker who proposes to Rebecca only after losing everything when he's sent to jail. She has a bit of a fling with Frasier, and even gets together briefly with Sam, but it is humble plumber Don Santry that she marries. Poor Becky, even that doesn't work out -- Don strikes it rich and dumps her. Years later, when Sam meets Frasier in Seattle, he tells Frasier that Rebecca is back. When he asks if that means she's back working at the bar, Sam replies, "No, she’s just ‘back at the bar.’ "