Best CHEERS character

I think I watched an episode of "The Tortellis" when it was on.

Took place in Vegas, that's all I remember of it.

i always assumed WE WIN was like the end of world war ii or something

the kid who played nick & carla's eldest son did a pretty passable dan hedeya impression

super otm

I remember reading somewhere on the net that the headline is about the local sport team winning the championship.

― Tuomas

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there is a shameful lack of nick tortelli clips on youtube

― charlie the luna (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, October 30, 2012 11:00 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this. my girlfriend didn't even remember him. :( maybe she only saw the woody harrelson seasons.

the episode where he has to pick two of his children out of carla's brood to go to his daughter's wedding is CLASSIC nick

Nick is a great character, and I love how his son started off as a young spunky dude and slowly developed into the Nick type character.

love the bit where carla can't explain to diane what nick's power is and then he basically seduces diane in 10 sec

nick is awesome in "to die for"

i watched an episode recently w/ anthony tortelli chasing after a young sherilyn fenn looking aboslutely ridic

wow

http://por-img.cimcontent.net/api/assets/bin-201210/331ccdca9f0259c1d8f18226352e22f5.jpg

Hedaya was great in Dick.

pretty sure his character is not that far removed from his character as the father in A Night at the Roxbury

I need to watch Blood Simple again, he's so good in that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzMQEZLjZlk

watching the season 5 finale right now, it's all the more remarkable the show continued to survive and flourish not just after the Diane departure but after the awful 'flash forward with everyone in old person makeup' gambit

take that back! that episode never fails to choke me up.

oh it's a good episode otherwise, i just hate that kind of thing

so into diane right now

some random cable channel (Reelz i think?) runs 2 Cheers episodes every afternoon, which i've been watching and enjoying the hell out of now and again lately, although it never fails to irritate me that invariably one episode is Diane/Coach era and one is Rebecca/Woody era (i love both eras, just kinda wanna spend time on one or the other and not switch gears halfway through the hour).

― some dude, Wednesday, August 22, 2012 11:21 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Reelz heard my cries of protest and started airing the show more or less chronologically! been fun watching nothing but season 1 episodes lately (in slightly shuffled order), really helps me appreciate the charms of the Diane/Coach years more than i had before.

they really had shit on point from day 1, it's pretty remarkable

and, and, the point, coach, is that you finally did learn the pledge of allegiance

no, sam, i never learned it

yeah, but uh you respected mr spires for trying to help you

no, i hated his guts, sam

but looking back on it now you respect him for it...

no, no, he died and i was glad he died

irish to remake cheers

darragh for sam, local garda for coach imo

"Woody, would you add up these receipts for me please"
"sure..........there's 8 of 'em"

I prefer smart (or semi-smart) Sam to dumb Sam, but this is too good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxaQ9cKYQXo

I do periodically steal one of dumb Sam's jokes:

"Do you think I'm pedantic?"
Me: "That depends."
"On what?"
Me: "On what 'pedantic' means."

http://www.avclub.com/articles/10-episodes-that-show-how-cheers-stayed-great-for,96297/

Holy crap I never knew about this! Cheers scene inside St Elsewhere scene

http://youtu.be/JhCyXui0e_Q

erm, St Elsehwere scene in the Cheers bar even.

http://www.newsfromme.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cheersmuncie.jpg

yeah that's how it ties into tommy westphal universe and ergo frasier, the 86 celtics, etc

feel like i've gotten dragged into a cornhole

participated in some cornhole just the other day tbh

I've been living in a cornhole
I've been living in a cornhole

woody was a black santa claus...

Watched the ep the other night with Carol Kane as a woman who hooks up with Sam and immediately becomes obsessed with him, and she gives a great weird unhinged performance, really fascinating to watch.

The results for this poll are weird.

I just caught one of the Nick Tortelli episodes. Why is Dan Hedaya doing Pacino in Scarface?

because it funny

Watched the Cassavetes episode of Columbo just last night, always a mindblower that it was directed by Ernie "Coach" Pantusso

itv4 are showing a cheers double bill every weekday @ 7pm.

in chrono order i believe.

only found out last week, so no idea of they started with series 1/coach era, as we are up to the beginning of frasier/lillith relationship.

has been absolutely brilliant seeing it all again through my aged perspective as i get a lot more this time round than i did when i was a young'un.

Cheers is my favourite sitcom, no question. But there's a point early in the rebecca era where sam's constant badgering of her for sex gets pretty indefensibly crepey imo

I like how all the characters on this show are smart and stupid at the same time.

The results for this poll are weird.

How come? I totally agree with the top 5, except that I would put Lilith above Cliff, and Carla above Coach.

I don't know, I'd think for an ensemble show like this the votes would be more spread out. And I think Sam and Diane should be higher since they were the central focus of the show for so long (and Danson and Long are both amazing). Like 3 votes for Sam just seems like contrarianism. Cliff is funny but there's no way he's the best character on the show, especially by a five-vote margin.

I like how all the characters on this show are smart and stupid at the same time.

definitely. i think that's why it was so unusually good at 'class' comedy - diane and frasier look down on sam and the others because they are poor and not educated, but diane and frasier are every bit as dumb (and as smart) as anyone else in the bar. so the joke's (at least) as much on them as sam et al.

i've torrented the whole thing but have not yet begun to rewatch -- but iirc sam was pretty savvy at first and they made him dumber. (beyond diane making him dumber, of course)

everyone got dumber. Rebecca got pathetic, which was amusing at 1st but then just seemed lazy and cartoonish.