RIP Nicholas Colasanto He deserves much more respect and attention than what he gets My respects to a man who fought against alcoholism and was in a show playing a bartender/coach ! Irony
In some ways he can see more ....that is a great line. Makes me feel the wisdom of Nicholas Colasanto. Amazing stuff from a true actor who deserved more credit than he really got.
This is one of my favourite Coach gags. Completely missing the point of a gag, but in doing so he totally finds awe and respect for someone for something they don't deserve. Like he's being so... slow here. But he just loves this man so much and is so impressed by the fact that he played baseball 'blind' that it's sweet.
The season was still in the middle of filming when Colasanto died but he had been too ill to work for a while before he passed. This was actually filmed much earlier in 1984 and was picked up off the cutting room floor so they could give him a proper sendoff in the season finale rather than have the character just disappear.
The thing is, this was not even a scene that was supposed to be used. It was something cut from an episode, and put as a bumper 3 weeks after Nick died.
Carla is obviously not pregnant in this scene, even though she was pregnant at that stage of the series, just like Rhea Perlman was in real life. This scene was obviously filmed alot earlier.
Colasanto hadn't appeared in the two previous episodes and this, I suppose, was the show's way of saying goodbye. He had been looking more and more frail during the course of the season, so I could never figure out why he looked healthier in this clip. Jonah Falcon has probably supplied the answer. Colasanto was also an accomplished director - check out his credits on IMDB. It was a great loss for the show when he died, but they lucked out when they cast Woody Harrelson.
Colasanto instructed Danson that he was the leader of the bar, and should act like it, before a single scene was shot. He was directing even when James Burrows was the director of episodes.
This was Coach's final scene that was aired, but it is totally not the last scene he filmed. It is actually an leftover scene from an earlier episode that was cut. One small detail gives this away - you can very obviously see that Carla was not pregnant in this scene, even though she was (like Rhea Pearlman was in real life) pregnant at the time of the filming of the episode where they put this scene into. Technically, this was Coach's final on-screen appearance, but it was obviously not the final scene he ever filmed.
The one where Sam views Diane’s painting, the one where sam almost relapses when he lost his lucky bottle cap, the amazing Grace scene with coach’s old dead friend, and the scene where coach talks to his daughter about her not being ugly.
@@joemamr710 Sam straightening the photo of Geronimo in the last few scenes after saying "Sorry we're closed....." I hated the ending as a kid but as an adult it's absolutely perfect, age changes our perspective
I hate how the cast and crew, besides John Ratzenberger, weren't allowed to take a few days out of filming to fly to Rhode Island for Colasanto's funeral. Coach was a great man to work with and have as a friend, I'm sure. You can thank NBC for the strong-arm arrangement. I wish they had all agreed to walking out.
I never liked how the show handled Coach's (the character's) death, either. It was basically treated like an afterthought. That was pretty much their one misstep. He deserved better.
I remember the week following his passing they played the Episode "The Coach's Daughter" from very early Season One. Before the opening clip Ted Danson made the comment "This episode of Cheers is dedicated to the life of Nicolas Colasanto" ...and that was pretty much all the recognition he received. Although Woody Harrelson stepped in and performed very well it hurt a bit without Colasanto's brilliant timing and facial expressions.
They had to film episodes out of order that season because they were hiding Shelley being an 8-months-along blimp. So the Europe trip shows were shot while they were still able to pretend she wasn't pregnant. Because of that, they had one show in the can with Colasanto in it (not counting this originally-cut scene that was rescued off the cutting room floor to honor him) that hadn't run yet. It was either throw it out, or do what they did and pretend he was somewhere else until the season was over. He was honored on the show in little ways, maybe not in "8 Simple Rules" "OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE JOHN IS DEAD!! LORD, TAKE ME INSTEAD!!!!!" ways. NBC were certainly cretins with regards to the whole situation -- though they did at least have the decency to pull the first-run episode scheduled for that week, one of the ones he couldn't be in, and replace it with a repeat that he was Emmy-nominated for. They were duly punished with the one-two death punch on two other hit series (Selma Diamond, "Night Court", Dolph Sweet, "Gimme a Break!").
This episode honored the memory of Nicholas Colasanto but it wasn't his last filmed scene. It's actually the last televised episode with the Coach in it. It's comprised of a much earlier in the year filmed scene which hadn't been previously televised showing him obviously in much better health. The episode "Cheerio Cheers" is the actual last filming of the actor playing Coach. Nicholas Colasanto sadly died just two days after this episode was filmed. He was a great actor and director
NBC wouldn't allow the rest of the cast to attend the funeral as it would mean a delay in filming schedule. Therefore, they only allowed Ratzenberger to attend, while the rest of the cast and the crew paid their tributes privately on the set on the day of the funeral.
Just finished this episode on Netflix. I know he died but did he just dissapear from exsistence? All I know is they never mention him the rest of the 3rd season.
+Jonah Falcon I never liked how the show handled Coach's death. It was basically treated like an afterthought; merely mentioned in passing. That was pretty much their one misstep. He deserved better.
+Jonah Falcon But when it was finally acknowledged in the Season 4 premiere, it was pretty much just, "Coach? Oh, he passed away." That was pretty much the extent of it. No big send-off for the character or anything like that (as we got for Phil Hartman on _NewsRadio_ or Mr. Hooper on _Sesame Street_ , for example).
He was mentioned in passing mostly in next few episode, but he was officially written off at the beginning of Season 4. Supposedly, they kept mentioning him in the script until the writers could figure out how to write him off.
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"In some ways he can see more"
Why does that hit my heart so hard when he says that. He left too early. RIP.
I fuckin' bust my shit laughing when I heard that the first
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Nearly Forty years later and I've sobbed watching this scene 😭❤️
RIP Nicholas Colasanto
He deserves much more respect and attention than what he gets
My respects to a man who fought against alcoholism and was in a show playing a bartender/coach !
Irony
This scene always gets me chocked up because this was his last one 😢
His final line is nice and the silence before the music starts is beautiful
It's the hand outstretched that has finished me off 😭❤️
You had to like Coach. He was so naïve and a sweet character.
Started watching this show from s1 on Netflix. Good stuff. Bummer without coach. The best.
Fortunately, Woody proved to be a worthy replacement -- as did Rebecca for Diane (who was frankly beginning to run her course on the show).
I'm watching now on Netflix great show but I love Coach
In some ways he can see more ....that is a great line. Makes me feel the wisdom of Nicholas Colasanto. Amazing stuff from a true actor who deserved more credit than he really got.
The crazy thing is that Woody Harrelson was 24 when he was cast as Woody Boyd and now he is a year younger than Nicholas Colasanto when he died.
That's crazy
Coach was the heart of this sitcom. anyone in june 2020?
Been binge watching Cheers. Currently p.o'd they took it off Netflix tho 🤦♂️💔
april 2024
July 24 😭😭
Touching final scene
(sigh) Coach... gone but not forgotten.
Coach had a beautiful mind.😊
This is one of my favourite Coach gags.
Completely missing the point of a gag, but in doing so he totally finds awe and respect for someone for something they don't deserve. Like he's being so... slow here. But he just loves this man so much and is so impressed by the fact that he played baseball 'blind' that it's sweet.
I really like how there’s no laugh track - it’s an obviously funny line but cutting to the melancholy piano intro kind of drives home it’s poignancy
@@rohunsaigal2576 it was kind of intended as a tribute to colosanto as he had just died I believe.
The season was still in the middle of filming when Colasanto died but he had been too ill to work for a while before he passed. This was actually filmed much earlier in 1984 and was picked up off the cutting room floor so they could give him a proper sendoff in the season finale rather than have the character just disappear.
RIP Coach this was the last appearance of coach in cheers a very sweet way to say goodbye so poignant given he had already died.
The thing is, this was not even a scene that was supposed to be used. It was something cut from an episode, and put as a bumper 3 weeks after Nick died.
Carla is obviously not pregnant in this scene, even though she was pregnant at that stage of the series, just like Rhea Perlman was in real life. This scene was obviously filmed alot earlier.
Colasanto hadn't appeared in the two previous episodes and this, I suppose, was the show's way of saying goodbye. He had been looking more and more frail during the course of the season, so I could never figure out why he looked healthier in this clip. Jonah Falcon has probably supplied the answer. Colasanto was also an accomplished director - check out his credits on IMDB. It was a great loss for the show when he died, but they lucked out when they cast Woody Harrelson.
+Gregoria H. Blackacre yeah, also carla isn't pregnant, like she was later in the episode
Colasanto instructed Danson that he was the leader of the bar, and should act like it, before a single scene was shot. He was directing even when James Burrows was the director of episodes.
Coach was truly incredible
This was Coach's final scene that was aired, but it is totally not the last scene he filmed. It is actually an leftover scene from an earlier episode that was cut. One small detail gives this away - you can very obviously see that Carla was not pregnant in this scene, even though she was (like Rhea Pearlman was in real life) pregnant at the time of the filming of the episode where they put this scene into. Technically, this was Coach's final on-screen appearance, but it was obviously not the final scene he ever filmed.
The last actual episode in which Coach appeared was Season 3 episode Cheerio, Cheers.
Coach was great. Well missed by all of us. RIP COACH
Cheers was by far the best US sitcom ever made but this is the best scene. RIP Coach :(
I would say this and the scene where Sam and Diane say goodbye
The one where Sam views Diane’s painting, the one where sam almost relapses when he lost his lucky bottle cap, the amazing Grace scene with coach’s old dead friend, and the scene where coach talks to his daughter about her not being ugly.
@@joemamr710 Sam straightening the photo of Geronimo in the last few scenes after saying "Sorry we're closed....."
I hated the ending as a kid but as an adult it's absolutely perfect, age changes our perspective
I hate how the cast and crew, besides John Ratzenberger, weren't allowed to take a few days out of filming to fly to Rhode Island for Colasanto's funeral. Coach was a great man to work with and have as a friend, I'm sure. You can thank NBC for the strong-arm arrangement. I wish they had all agreed to walking out.
I never liked how the show handled Coach's (the character's) death, either. It was basically treated like an afterthought. That was pretty much their one misstep. He deserved better.
I remember the week following his passing they played the Episode "The Coach's Daughter" from very early Season One. Before the opening clip Ted Danson made the comment "This episode of Cheers is dedicated to the life of Nicolas Colasanto" ...and that was pretty much all the recognition he received. Although Woody Harrelson stepped in and performed very well it hurt a bit without Colasanto's brilliant timing and facial expressions.
ComeOnIsSuchAJoy I think they just didn’t want to make an hour long sob fest of the crew morning Coach’s death. They knew it was tragic enough.
They had to film episodes out of order that season because they were hiding Shelley being an 8-months-along blimp. So the Europe trip shows were shot while they were still able to pretend she wasn't pregnant. Because of that, they had one show in the can with Colasanto in it (not counting this originally-cut scene that was rescued off the cutting room floor to honor him) that hadn't run yet. It was either throw it out, or do what they did and pretend he was somewhere else until the season was over. He was honored on the show in little ways, maybe not in "8 Simple Rules" "OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE JOHN IS DEAD!! LORD, TAKE ME INSTEAD!!!!!" ways. NBC were certainly cretins with regards to the whole situation -- though they did at least have the decency to pull the first-run episode scheduled for that week, one of the ones he couldn't be in, and replace it with a repeat that he was Emmy-nominated for. They were duly punished with the one-two death punch on two other hit series (Selma Diamond, "Night Court", Dolph Sweet, "Gimme a Break!").
@@17Helton Woody was nothing more than just a milder version of Sam.
Until Netflix I had never watched the early seasons of Cheers before. Coach was adorable and he was gone way to soon.
A wonderful man. Absolute gentleman.
Coach was the best!
This episode honored the memory of Nicholas Colasanto but it wasn't his last filmed scene. It's actually the last televised episode with the Coach in it. It's comprised of a much earlier in the year filmed scene which hadn't been previously televised showing him obviously in much better health. The episode "Cheerio Cheers" is the actual last filming of the actor playing Coach. Nicholas Colasanto sadly died just two days after this episode was filmed. He was a great actor and director
I loved Coach.
Coach was the best! It just wasnt the same without him.
R.I.P. Nicholas Colasanto aka Coach
Nick actually looked pretty good in this opening scene, just watching him, you wouldn't think there was anything wrong with Nick as well
I don't know about that, he had lost a lot of weight and his voice was a lot more hoarse.
His last ever appearance on the show. And what a joke to go out on!
Poor coach
rip
Abyssiana coach pantuso, RIP mr. colasanto.
Yeah,
Maybe I have a little cataracts
This Nicholas Colasanto’s last appearance in Cheers. He died soon after.
Umm...
Yeah.
I'm kind of getting blind...,
Coach's favorite superhero is Daredevil.
I heard only ‘cliffy ‘ cliff ratzenbeger ‘ went Nicholas Colosento went to his funeral bit sad if true .
NBC wouldn't allow the rest of the cast to attend the funeral as it would mean a delay in filming schedule. Therefore, they only allowed Ratzenberger to attend, while the rest of the cast and the crew paid their tributes privately on the set on the day of the funeral.
Just finished this episode on Netflix. I know he died but did he just dissapear from exsistence? All I know is they never mention him the rest of the 3rd season.
They talked about him a lot. One episode said he went to a family reunion, etc. Season 4's first episode reveals Coach died after Diane left.
+Jonah Falcon I never liked how the show handled Coach's death. It was basically treated like an afterthought; merely mentioned in passing. That was pretty much their one misstep. He deserved better.
They do reference him.
Nick Colasanto was sick all season and then died before the end of it.
+Jonah Falcon But when it was finally acknowledged in the Season 4 premiere, it was pretty much just, "Coach? Oh, he passed away." That was pretty much the extent of it. No big send-off for the character or anything like that (as we got for Phil Hartman on _NewsRadio_ or Mr. Hooper on _Sesame Street_ , for example).
He was mentioned in passing mostly in next few episode, but he was officially written off at the beginning of Season 4. Supposedly, they kept mentioning him in the script until the writers could figure out how to write him off.
imagine that the ghost of coach appearing in front of Sam saying " Saaaaaaaam, why have you forsaken me Sam?"
Christopher Caridi vhjiiikjjjop
"Saaaaaaam..." is John Allen Hill's line. ; )
its like he was pointing to god, like he knew his time was getting cut short
sadly this was removed from the syndicated version