Coach wants to ask out an attractive younger woman, but he doesn't have the guts. Sam sets his sights on her too, but he keeps getting shot down--badly.Coach wants to ask out an attractive younger woman, but he doesn't have the guts. Sam sets his sights on her too, but he keeps getting shot down--badly.Coach wants to ask out an attractive younger woman, but he doesn't have the guts. Sam sets his sights on her too, but he keeps getting shot down--badly.
Ebon Alabastur
- Bar Patron
- (uncredited)
Shirley Blackwell
- Tourist
- (uncredited)
Joan Carey
- Bar Patron
- (uncredited)
Linda Carlin
- Tourist
- (uncredited)
Marcello Clay
- Bar Patron
- (uncredited)
Ken DuMain
- Bar Patron
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe conversations between Sam and Nina became the basis of a memorable part of "Superstar Television," an attraction/show that ran from May 1, 1989 to September 26, 1998, at the Disney-MGM Studios theme park (*now called Disney's Hollywood Studios) at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, A park guest was chosen to play the role of Nina and have the "conversation" with Sam. Using video special effects, the park guest actually appeared on the theater's in-house TVs to be talking to Sam. While Sam and the others appeared via special effects, the park guest sat on-stage at a real scale model of the Cheers bar, which was built by Disney as an exact, but smaller, replica.
- GoofsThroughout the series, the women's restroom at Cheers is always the first door on the left (when entering the hallway from the front), while the men's is the second. They are reversed in this episode.
- Quotes
Sam Malone: [Norm enters the bar to his usual call of greeting] What's up, Norm?
Norm Peterson: My nipples. It's freezing out there.
- ConnectionsReferences 12 Angry Men (1957)
- SoundtracksWhere Everybody Knows Your Name
Written by Judy Hart-Angelo and Gary Portnoy
Performed by Gary Portnoy
Featured review
What were the writers thinking?
"Coach Returns to Action", where Coach is endearingly embarrassed by his crush on his new neighbour, Nina (played by a woman in her early 30s), inexplicably, however, Diane encourages him to ask her out. Coach's crush was believable but not Diane egging him on, such a strange choice, forget father, Coach is like a grandfather, loveable, just not in that way.
I'm giving the episode 3 stars and not 1 because I love early Cheers, even when the story's shaky, the atmosphere is special, the wit is always present, and this head scratcher of an episode isn't without it's stand out moments - take for example, a pristine Diane and a dishevelled Carla rallying together to give a pep talk to Coach, in Cheers' shabby men's bathroom no less!
This is a Coach episode, and Nicholas Colasanto is wonderful, you love him as Coach despite the material the confused writers gave him (and Shelley) to work with. It's worth watching for him.
The ending of the episode has Coach pulling a sad-sack trick to have Nina take pity on him, and then what? We don't know, it isn't made clear. Again, Coach makes sense this episode, Diane encouraging him to humiliate himself, makes none.
I'm giving the episode 3 stars and not 1 because I love early Cheers, even when the story's shaky, the atmosphere is special, the wit is always present, and this head scratcher of an episode isn't without it's stand out moments - take for example, a pristine Diane and a dishevelled Carla rallying together to give a pep talk to Coach, in Cheers' shabby men's bathroom no less!
This is a Coach episode, and Nicholas Colasanto is wonderful, you love him as Coach despite the material the confused writers gave him (and Shelley) to work with. It's worth watching for him.
The ending of the episode has Coach pulling a sad-sack trick to have Nina take pity on him, and then what? We don't know, it isn't made clear. Again, Coach makes sense this episode, Diane encouraging him to humiliate himself, makes none.
- mytwopence
- Apr 21, 2021
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