Diane announces that she is leaving Cheers forever to go to Europe with Frasier. This marks Nicholas Colasanto's final filmed episode.Diane announces that she is leaving Cheers forever to go to Europe with Frasier. This marks Nicholas Colasanto's final filmed episode.Diane announces that she is leaving Cheers forever to go to Europe with Frasier. This marks Nicholas Colasanto's final filmed episode.
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- TriviaNicholas Colasanto died two days after this episode was filmed. Production was shut down for three weeks as the cast and crew mourned and scripts were re-written. For the rest of the season, different explanations were given for Coach's absence.
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Dr. Frasier Crane: Diane, I've got the most exciting news. It just couldn't wait.
Diane Chambers: What is it? You're positively tingling.
Dr. Frasier Crane: Come and sit down. I have been awarded an honor that surpasses anything that I could have hoped to have achieved at this point in my career, it goes beyond even my most wild and ambitious dreams.
Cliff Clavin: Hey, hey, Doc, what are we talking here, a Nobel Prize, huh?
Dr. Frasier Crane: No, we're not talking Nobel Prize.
Norm Peterson: What, Pulitzer? Come on.
Dr. Frasier Crane: No, I didn't win the Pulitzer Prize.
Diane Chambers: Oh, a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Dr. Frasier Crane: No, it's not a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Cliff Clavin: Oh, what did you win, a canned ham? You lost all the big ones.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 37th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1985)
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Written by Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl and Al Stillman
Performed by Rhea Perlman
The first event was Shelley Long giving birth to her daughter. The writers had planned for this, having Diane go to Europe with Frasier, so all her scenes could be filmed to hide her pregnancy. (Interestingly, Long had wanted them to write the pregnancy into the show; presumably the cliffhanger would have been whether the baby was Frasier's or Sam's).
The other event, of course, was Nicholas Colasanto's death. This episode was filmed in late 1984 to accommodate Long's pregnancy, and it ended up being Coach's last regular appearance in the series. The difference of a few months means that Colasanto appears a bit healthier than he did in "earlier" episodes. The scene where he says goodbye to Diane has an added poignancy.
There's a lot happening in this episode, most of centring around Frasier and Diane's imminent departure. Frasier is convinced that Sam and Diane still have feelings for each other, and paradoxically this almost brings them back together. Neither Sam nor Diane really know what they want, and poor Frasier is feeling the fallout.
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