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Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 12:15 am
by wease
washing machine wrote:Anders wrote:Coach was there before Woody.
For Jorge, but not now.
- Spoiler: show
- This whole thing always resonated with me. I still think about it sometimes. One of my favorite bits of TV lore.
Colasanto's character was written out of the show as also having died. The fourth-season premiere episode, "Birth, Death, Love and Rice" (1985), deals with Coach's death and introduces Colasanto's successor Woody Harrelson, who played Woody Boyd.[24] Colasanto had hung a picture of Geronimo in his dressing room; after his death it was placed on the wall in the bar of the Cheers production set in his memory. Near the end of the final episode of Cheers in 1993, eight years after Colasanto's death, bar owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson) walks over to the picture and straightens it.[25]
Goddammit. Now I’m going to cry.
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 12:16 am
by wease
washing machine wrote:I too will admit to wondering about Coach when I first met him, but I guess it's been so long that I now assume that everyone knows all the Cheers characters in the internet age.
You won't find a more loveable soul than Nicholas Colasanto.
I’m slowly making my way thru Columbo. He directed a few of them
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 4:50 am
by Jorge
washing machine wrote:Anders wrote:Coach was there before Woody.
For Jorge, but not now.
- Spoiler: show
- This whole thing always resonated with me. I still think about it sometimes. One of my favorite bits of TV lore.
Colasanto's character was written out of the show as also having died. The fourth-season premiere episode, "Birth, Death, Love and Rice" (1985), deals with Coach's death and introduces Colasanto's successor Woody Harrelson, who played Woody Boyd.[24] Colasanto had hung a picture of Geronimo in his dressing room; after his death it was placed on the wall in the bar of the Cheers production set in his memory. Near the end of the final episode of Cheers in 1993, eight years after Colasanto's death, bar owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson) walks over to the picture and straightens it.[25]
What do you mean, "for Jorge but not now"? When should I click that? Will I just... know?!
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 3:36 pm
by wease
Jorge wrote:washing machine wrote:Anders wrote:Coach was there before Woody.
For Jorge, but not now.
- Spoiler: show
- This whole thing always resonated with me. I still think about it sometimes. One of my favorite bits of TV lore.
Colasanto's character was written out of the show as also having died. The fourth-season premiere episode, "Birth, Death, Love and Rice" (1985), deals with Coach's death and introduces Colasanto's successor Woody Harrelson, who played Woody Boyd.[24] Colasanto had hung a picture of Geronimo in his dressing room; after his death it was placed on the wall in the bar of the Cheers production set in his memory. Near the end of the final episode of Cheers in 1993, eight years after Colasanto's death, bar owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson) walks over to the picture and straightens it.[25]
What do you mean, "for Jorge but not now"? When should I click that? Will I just... know?!
Yes. You will know exactly when. You’ve still got a bit to go, but you’ll know.
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 5:57 pm
by Jorge
I hope I remember, geez
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Tue January 18, 2022 7:05 pm
by Biff Pocoroba
The character was already named “Woody Boyd” before Woody Harrelson was cast, or so Harrelson has said.
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Fri January 21, 2022 3:06 am
by Jorge
I love Carla
Diane is pretty insufferable, but I think she's supposed to be. At least in the early episodes
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Fri January 21, 2022 3:21 am
by spike
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Wed January 26, 2022 8:12 pm
by Jorge
Aw the episode where they introduce Coach's daughter was very sweet
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Wed January 26, 2022 8:31 pm
by washing machine
spike wrote:

Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Wed January 26, 2022 8:34 pm
by washing machine
Jorge wrote:I love Carla
Diane is pretty insufferable, but I think she's supposed to be. At least in the early episodes
I'm currently watching The Great, Season 2, and can't help but think of Sam and Diane.
I can see now how awful Diane really is (and yeah, Carla is terrific), but man she really did it for me when I was a pretentious young college dropout sipping chai and PMing Mickey about Proust.
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Wed January 26, 2022 8:35 pm
by washing machine
wease wrote:Jorge wrote:washing machine wrote:Anders wrote:Coach was there before Woody.
For Jorge, but not now.
- Spoiler: show
- This whole thing always resonated with me. I still think about it sometimes. One of my favorite bits of TV lore.
Colasanto's character was written out of the show as also having died. The fourth-season premiere episode, "Birth, Death, Love and Rice" (1985), deals with Coach's death and introduces Colasanto's successor Woody Harrelson, who played Woody Boyd.[24] Colasanto had hung a picture of Geronimo in his dressing room; after his death it was placed on the wall in the bar of the Cheers production set in his memory. Near the end of the final episode of Cheers in 1993, eight years after Colasanto's death, bar owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson) walks over to the picture and straightens it.[25]
What do you mean, "for Jorge but not now"? When should I click that? Will I just... know?!
Yes. You will know exactly when. You’ve still got a bit to go, but you’ll know.
Yes. You will know.
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Wed January 26, 2022 9:06 pm
by EJ
spike wrote:
I'll see your Paul and raise you an Al.

Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Wed January 26, 2022 9:08 pm
by washing machine
EJ wrote:spike wrote:
I'll see your Paul and raise you an Al.

One of the best things about those guys is that they aren't

Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Wed January 26, 2022 9:10 pm
by washing machine
Category: Movies
Answer: "Archibald Leach, Bernard Schwartz and Lucille LeSueur"
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Wed January 26, 2022 10:45 pm
by Biff Pocoroba
For me Cheers hit its stride midway through season two and up through Shelly Long’s departure. There plenty of good Kirstie Alley episodes but I never liked how they tried to force Sam & Rebecca relationship at times.
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Wed January 26, 2022 10:57 pm
by washing machine
You've got the right idea, biff.
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Thu January 27, 2022 2:21 pm
by Jorge
Somehow I remembered Norm being a lot more boorish. But he's very lovable
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Sun January 30, 2022 1:45 am
by Jorge
Sam's bar slide is impressive but his pours are atrocious. 80% foam in that thing
Re: TV: Cheers
Posted: Sun January 30, 2022 2:07 am
by wease
Best slide in Boston