"Excuse me... where is your bathroom?""Right next ti my bedroom...!?!"
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Sunday, 28 April 2024 04:54 (one month ago) link
Apologies for the typo (my phone is a potato)
I was in desperate need of comfort viewing after watching a particularly effective horror movie the other night and I decided to start watching Cheers from the start. A show I haven't really thought about since I was a kid watching with my parents on Friday nights So glad to delve back in. It's sumptuous to watch this as an adult. To appreciate the scripting, the acting, just how tight and charming it is. A few beats are dated, sure, but I'll forgive it for now
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Sunday, 28 April 2024 05:00 (one month ago) link
Right now Cliff is only a walk on guy. Diane is fantastic any minute she's on camera. Right now I'd vote for her, Coach or Carla
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Sunday, 28 April 2024 05:04 (one month ago) link
There's just something about how the characters react quietly to things happening around them that works. You're in their minds as soon as the joke lands. I don't know how to describe it better
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Sunday, 28 April 2024 05:05 (one month 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.
Got to this bit the other day during my rewatch of S1. Devastating.
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 3 May 2024 09:58 (three weeks ago) link
yeah great scene
― Ste, Friday, 3 May 2024 10:39 (three weeks ago) link
Saw the first Lilith (instantly great) episode recently having not been aware it's a while before she reappears.
― nashwan, Friday, 3 May 2024 11:10 (three weeks ago) link
Been watching through Cheers recently. It's such a perfect show. The only character I don't really like is Diane so looking forward to her leaving
― a3poify, Friday, 3 May 2024 11:14 (three weeks ago) link
Ah, but Shelly's performance is so strong those first few seasons - I really felt on my last rewatch that she is the centre of the show at first.
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 3 May 2024 11:28 (three weeks ago) link
Love Diane.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Friday, 3 May 2024 11:34 (three weeks ago) link
It's a great performance I just don't enjoy the character unfortunately
― a3poify, Friday, 3 May 2024 11:42 (three weeks ago) link
I only remember the later seasons from the first run/syndication, jarring to see the first couple of seasons with a completely different Cliff and things 30% less wacky in general.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 3 May 2024 11:58 (three weeks ago) link
Oh I really like Diane. I love it when Shelley Long and Ted Danson almost break character just a tiny bit after a laugh to show they're kind-of in on the joke. Yeah Diane is quality
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 3 May 2024 14:00 (three weeks ago) link
does Cliff change a lot in later seasons? it really is strange coming back to these as an adult, when last time i watched it i must have been about 12 or 13
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 3 May 2024 14:02 (three weeks ago) link
I don’t think Cliff changes too much - a little more depth to his shallowness perhaps but you’d expect that over eleven seasons
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 3 May 2024 15:28 (three weeks ago) link
Slightly mindblowing watching today to realise that Cliff and Norm are in their mid-30s when Cheers starts.
― Maggy Scraggle, Friday, 3 May 2024 15:33 (three weeks ago) link
Early thirties I think! It is one of those WTF feelings knowing that the entire main cast (not including Coach) were around that age
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 3 May 2024 15:35 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah Coach was a bit older - early 40s I think
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 3 May 2024 15:50 (three weeks ago) link
Older surely?
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Friday, 3 May 2024 15:56 (three weeks ago) link
Played an old mob boss in Raging Bull--two years before Cheers goes on the air.
― clemenza, Friday, 3 May 2024 16:01 (three weeks ago) link
Nick Colasanto was 59 when the show began
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 3 May 2024 16:14 (three weeks ago) link
Sorry, failed joke attempt
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 3 May 2024 18:11 (three weeks ago) link
Ha! Sorry!
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 3 May 2024 19:36 (three weeks ago) link