i assume that’s woody in the first and last lines
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 21:22 (two years ago) link
surely
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 21:25 (two years ago) link
Yeah that's Woody, and talking to Diane.It's season 5 episode 10 where Woodys girlfriend turns up with another bloke and Woody goes on a fake date with Sams cleaning lady
― Ste, Thursday, 18 August 2022 06:22 (two years ago) link
tbf she had "five stars the best" in Sam's little black book
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Thursday, 18 August 2022 10:32 (two years ago) link
Cliff: Check out this headline "SUICIDAL TWIN KILLS BROTHER BY MISTAKE"
― Ste, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 14:55 (two years ago) link
Pretty sure I missed this poll, but I’d have voted for Shelley Long.
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 15:01 (two years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/3f/7f/ee/3f7fee3b717b96328347c8243301baed--golden-girls-meme-girl-memes.jpg
― Bait Kush (Eric H.), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
Definitely should have been more love for Diane. Certainly above Carla
― Ste, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link
Classic cold open where Frasier attempts to discuss Ingmar Bergman with the gang at Cheers. pic.twitter.com/ufUQ72nYcf— Adam Rackoff (@AdamRackoff) September 20, 2022
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link
example of the good frasier material
― mh, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 00:34 (two years ago) link
"To the layman"--someone should have decked him!
― clemenza, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 01:24 (two years ago) link
they’re used to it by that point - it’ll take more than that - “to the layman” merely the foothills of frasier’s mountainous condescension
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 07:50 (two years ago) link
The turn to Abbot & Costello/Martin & Lewis at the end is the mark of genius.
I think one of my favourite Cheers runs is the episode where Frasier is reading Dickens, and starts to read some to the bar, but when they get restless he adulterates it with some horror/action movie schtik to keep them interested. By the end, he's reading lines like, "It's a far, far better butt-kicking I give today..."
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 08:22 (two years ago) link
seriously how is Cliff only mid-30s when this show started..
― nashwan, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 23:38 (one year ago) link
Reaganomics
― def jeftones (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 02:26 (one year ago) link
Watching this again from s01e01 with my partner, who only watched scattered episodes back in the day. It's my nth run-through, but it's still so hilarious. Really struck this time by how Shelly Long is the MVP in every episode - scripts are all unimpeachable, every actor is perfect, but she is just bringing this extra energy to every line, is entirely dialled-in to her oddball character and owns every scene she appears in.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2023 10:57 (one year ago) link
100%
and so much of it is danson just reacting genuinely in the moment to how incredible she is
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 September 2023 11:13 (one year ago) link
Me and my partner have been doing a similar thing (she is a scriptwriter and worships the show as the summit of all human achievement). Had completely forgotten S01 E16 The Boys in the Bar episode - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_in_the_Bar- which seems even more relevant today.
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 15 September 2023 11:20 (one year ago) link
I’m always surprised by how consistently funny it is - there are plenty of old sitcoms that I love that are like warm blankets, comfort watches with the occasional chuckle, but Cheers is properly laugh-out-loud several times an episode. And Coach’s timing is incredible.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 15 September 2023 11:21 (one year ago) link
Coach is another MVP. My heart keeps breaking as we watch along to know he only had a couple of years left (but what a last hurrah for Colasanto). Got a bit choked the other evening telling my partner how as Colasanto's heart disease progressed and his memory faltered, he wrote his lines on parts of the set in case he forgot them, and in subsequent years the cast campaigned for them not to be painted over, and how the show's penultimate shot is basically Sam dusting off the framed portrait of Geronimo they kept on the wall in tribute to Colasanto.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2023 11:28 (one year ago) link
And the end of that early episode w/ his daughter is genuinely an amazing bit of acting - never fail to tear up when his daughter (Ms Dipesto off Moonlighting!!) says she's ugly, Coach says she looks like her mum, she falters as she tries to say "And mum was not beautiful", and Coach says "Your mother grew more beautiful every day I knew her"... ack, am choking up a bit as I type. And the words themselves aren't even a very strong denouement, but the way Colasanto delivers them is truly remarkable.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2023 11:31 (one year ago) link
Matt Baume, whose work I really enjoy, did a couple of good clips on Cheers and on that Boys In The Bar episode in particularhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iIsPz0KBB0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTieRMQ2_H0
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2023 11:33 (one year ago) link
Also love the fact that Colasanto directed the Johnny Cash Columbo episode.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 15 September 2023 11:50 (one year ago) link
Indeed. He directed a few iirc.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Friday, 15 September 2023 11:53 (one year ago) link
... actually two, the murderer in the other one was John Cassevetes!
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Friday, 15 September 2023 11:54 (one year ago) link
One of the best ones!
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 15 September 2023 11:59 (one year ago) link
woah, i did not realise that!
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2023 12:37 (one year ago) link
oh God yes, I haven't thought of that scene in decades but I'm totally welling up now.
― henry s, Friday, 15 September 2023 12:47 (one year ago) link
Coach is another MVP
Coach's little song from when he was trying to learn world geography is still in my head nearly 40 years later. "Albania, Albania, you border on the Adriatic." I don't think he ever got any further.
― trishyb, Friday, 15 September 2023 13:31 (one year ago) link
there's a whole verse! "your chief export is chrome!"
― mark s, Friday, 15 September 2023 13:35 (one year ago) link
We also get a line or two from one of his other songs, when he's triumphantly returning to the bar following their exam.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2023 13:39 (one year ago) link
That song is also forever replaying in my head.
I just learned the same songwriter-singer behind the Cheers theme also did the (even better) theme song for “Punky Brewster”
― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.), Friday, 15 September 2023 13:48 (one year ago) link
For some reason I thought at the time that Gilbert O'Sullivan was the singer-songwriter behind the Cheers theme.
― henry s, Friday, 15 September 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
At a younger age I had though that all sit-com theme songs were sung by the cast members. I was really off as a kid.
― henry s, Friday, 15 September 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
(Trying hard not to mention Dennis Waterman here)
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Friday, 15 September 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
dennis waterman sang and will continue (via the posthumous magic of AI) to sing all sit-com themetunes at all times
― mark s, Friday, 15 September 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link
this is the mark s guarantee
― henry s, Friday, September 15, 2023 7:05 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't know if I though this about all sitcoms, but I definitely thought it was Woody singing the Cheers theme song.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 15 September 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
I also get Coach's Albania song in my head all the time.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 15 September 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
I thought Nicholas Lyndhurst sang the Fools and Horses theme, and he should certainly sing the new Frasier one.
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 15 September 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link
John Sullivan sang the OFAH theme song (see also Ian La Frenais singing the main song in the Porridge movie - a co-write with Ray Russell!)
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 15 September 2023 19:45 (one year ago) link
I REALLY thought the "Three's Company" theme was sung by John Ritter, then I saw that it was performed by Ray Charles, which REALLY blew my mind. (Turned out to be a different Ray Charles.)
― henry s, Friday, 15 September 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
The Nightingales theme for the end credits was sang by Robert Lindsay, though it doesn't sound much like him. It's beautiful and one of my fave sitcom theme tunes
― Ste, Friday, 15 September 2023 21:03 (one year ago) link
"Alone again, at the place where everybody knows your name"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 15 September 2023 21:43 (one year ago) link
Onto Season 4 with Paramount and on a new TV but the quality is markedly poorer compared to how previous seasons looked on both Prime and Channel 4 though. Anyone else find this?
― nashwan, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 23:51 (nine months ago) link
nicholas colasanto was born 100 years ago today
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 January 2024 22:47 (eight months ago) link
rip Coach, gone way too soon
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 19 January 2024 22:56 (eight months ago) link
Luv ya Coachy.Only the season 4 opener looked awful on Paramount weirdly, rest is fine.
― nashwan, Friday, 19 January 2024 22:57 (eight months ago) link
I just learned the same songwriter-singer behind the Cheers theme also did the (even better) theme song for “Punky Brewster”― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.)
― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.)
wow, was the punky brewster theme song randomly transphobic too
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:47 (eight months ago) link