Cheers best bits | S04E01 | "My name's Woody Boyd, I'm a friend of Coach's"
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- From "Birth, Death, Love and Rice"
Ted Danson "Sam"
Rhea Perlman "Carla"
Shelley Long "Diane"
John Ratzenberger "Cliff"
Woody Harrelson "Woody"
George Wendt "Norm"
Kelsey Grammer "Frasier"
"A cold open (also called a teaser) in a television program or movie is the technique of jumping directly into a story at the beginning or opening of the show before the title sequence or opening credits are shown"
Clever scene; introduces Woody while simultaneously informing the audience of Coach's passing. And by establishing the connection, it makes it as if Coach gives his de facto blessing!
Cheers decided not to recast the Coach similar to when Sesame Street lost Mr. Hopper around that same time
It only lasts a moment but the part where Sam reveals that Coach has passed away is really quite moving. A nice sensitive way to deal with the sad fact that actor Nicholas Colosanto died before the fourth season began. And Ted Danson's delivery is so good.
I was around 12 when I first saw it and I've never forgotten the line. It really moved me even at that age.
Right there with ya! I watched it live in the days before social media. Didn't now it was coming. Few times in television history have moved me more than this one. RIP Coach.
Well said. That moment is very moving - and Ted Danson delivers the line so well. I heard that towards the end, as Nicholas Colasanto was struggling with his illness, he hid little notes around the set with reminders of his lines. After he’d gone the other cast members used to find them unexpectedly during filming. So when Sam says ‘I’d like to think he’s still around’ it reflects the fact that, in a small way, Nick Colasanto / Ernie Pantuso still was.
@@robedmund9948 That's what's missing these days - no surprises - all out there in the teasers, trailers, IG, or FB.
When Sam said it, a lot of people didn't know. RIP NC.
@@scottshanahan3827 same! I was around 10.
This will always make me tear up. Coach was such a sweet spirit. Whoever was in charge of casting made an excellent choice w Woody Harrelson as Coach's replacement.
Woody tells the story that his friend and fellow actor, Leo Geter (who also auditioned for the role), was the very first person to mention "Cheers" to Woody and convinced him to audition. Woody had never seen the show. An amazing story!
I as working as a ER tech at Medical Center of North Hollywood in 1985 the night “Coach” arrived in full cardiac arrest. Didn’t recognize him at the time; I’ll never forget that experience. RIP “Coach”
OMG so sad 😞
Tell us the experience that night.
Never forget coach....God bless him .
@@kassemsaid8686 the best. Such a sweet kind spirit. Hard to believe he was only 61.
According to news reports he died at his home.
He went on to become a legend. Love Woody Harrelson 👌🏻
Woody Harrelson is my hero
I could watch all these episodes again and again
Who is better woody of jim igatowski from taxi.
Spell check I know
I do too
Just saw him in Venom 2. He was awesome.
My favorite Boyd bit was when Frasier was introducing Lillith, "This is Dr. Lilith Sternin, Ph.D, M.D., Psy.D." A confused look comes over Woody's face as he says, "Wow, her name isn't spelled anything like it sounds".
Lol...yup...classic woody
Actually I believe he says that it’s spelled just like how it sounds
@@breezingby2611 He says "Boy, it sure isn't spelled like it sounds."
@@breezingby2611 ua-cam.com/video/ZlyhoMzL1hw/v-deo.html
HahahaHahaha
Crazy how this show was still able to reinvent itself 4 seasons in. Couldn't imagine the show without Frasier or Woody.
If anything it didn't find itself until then. The first three seasons are really good but they hadn't anywhere peaked.
It's very reminiscent of Only Fools And Horses, which actually had a similar tragic retool from losing a cast member, around the same time and also in its fourth season. Both have sad reveals about the character dying with the actor, still with plenty oddball jokes, but affectionately done, since it just wouldn't be those characters if it wasn't.
In both cases, I only knew of the 'Coach' and 'Grandad' eras of the shows a long while after seeing the contemporary episodes and it later hit what had happened. It does show how well both cases managed to work around it without jumping the shark, but also sadder knowing what could have been and how a likeable star missed out on the show hitting its peak, so I appreciate them still showing poignant affection for them afterwards and how they wished they could have been around for the rest of it.
Hell I'm sure many fans would have loved a universe where Coach and Woody somehow met.
What an incredible scene. They have to pay tribute to Coach, who never got a farewell episode, introduce his replacement and make it funny, touching and respectful at the same time - and they pull it off in four minutes. By the end, you know Woody is going to work out just fine.
3:26 Norm sits down in front of a full to the brim beer and without even touching it, it disappears glass and all in 2 seconds. Now that’s it talent.
yeah....they messed that one up....lol
Well the prop beer they used on Cheers was basically just colored water.
@@joemckim1183 That sounds like American beer to me.
@@joemckim1183 it was Near Beer like O’Doul’s or something like that. It has around 0.5% alcohol so it wouldn’t get you drunk doing take after take. However, to maintain a head on it while filming several takes in a row, they added salt to the beer. So during filming, Norm would be drinking warm, flat, salty beer.
@@JasonL77 If you notice in the first episodes of season 1 that they would have actual bottles of beer. But they went away from that quickly and just had generic "give me a beer" in a mug after that.
"but yeah, I'd like to think he's still around." - I can't out the wonder if that was Ted speaking as much as it was Sam
Coach certainly was around after Woody came in that door.
I swear, the two of them even share the same.... Oh, well let's just say DNA....
I’ve always wondered when Sam mentioned coach in the Thanksgiving episode was it in the script or ad-libbed
100%. I would guess one of the hardest bits of acting Ted ever did. Not crying right there
I hear his voice break just a smidge at the end of that line...
The "I like to think he's still around" line was carved into the set by Coach's actor because he forgot that line. It ultimately became a big representation for him after his passing.
"Id like to think hes still around". Think that was very real. And as difficult a task as it was, Woody managed to fill those hilarious shoes.
One of the best transitions from one character to another.
Also great was Diane to Rebecca. Kirstie Alley was absolutely brilliant her first season - the right blend of confident, insecure, sexy and hilarious. As her first season went on you see her hit her stride and how the cast responded. Love season 6.
Grandad to Uncle Albert in Only Fools And Horses (also for sad real life reasons) is another impressive one. I think one key here with both is how they connect the new characters to the old. I feel like this in bad execution would feel forced, the stock "new character that was always related but never mentioned before", but it helps in making them empathetic to the loss of the original, that they're not here just to take their place and make you forget about them, they loved them too and know the shoes they have to fill.
This guy has two Oscar nominations, and is pretty great in everything. But he was absolutely perfect in this role.
He's such a great versatile actor. Usually you don't expect the dimwitted actor on a sitcom after it ends to end up being the most well rounded actor of the bunch.
@@joemckim1183 I think it's because he started on Cheers very young. So when it ended he was able to go on and start a whole new dramatic career.
@@trawlins396 Its similar to Thomas Haden Church and Tony Shalhoub having the most success after Wings ended. The supporting actors had more success than the leads of the show. Well I should say That Ted Danson, Steven Weber and Tim Daly have been in a ton of stuff since but they've mostly been TV actors and not guys who're movie stars with their name above the title on movie posters.
Actually, he was nominated for 3 *Oscars* -- as *Best Actor* for _The People vs. Larry Flynt_ (1996) and as *Best Supporting Actor* for _The Messenger_ (2009) and _Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri_ (2017).
The writing for this show was brilliant. And the actors performing those lines were perfect.
It didn't get any better.
9
Definitely one of the best comedies ever. The writing was sharp, witty, poignant and hilarious. You don't comedy writers like this anymore. Sitcom writers today just want to prove how PC they are.
Was thinking the same thing. Superb writing!
As soon as he jumped over the bar, everyone knew at that moment, cheers was gonna be just fine...
1:18 That little smirk on Sam's face when Woody says it was Coach's idea... 😄
Totally. RIP Nic.
In retrospect, I think the Coach-Woody transition paved the way for the Diane-Rebecca change two years later. It prepared the audience for such a change, and made the more them more willing to accept a new face.
We were pen pals
You exchanged letters?
No, pens
It was coach's idea.
lol
That definitely is something those two would do.
Even when he’s gone, Coach makes us all laugh!
I actually like the idea. It’s on the nose, but it’s original.
No
Watching this as a kid, I knew there was something about Woody Harrelson, just knew he was going to be a star.
Yes, like seeing Jodie Foster when she was a kid.
I was in my late 20s when Woody on Cheers and thoroughly enjoyed him. I feared he would get stereotyped by that role but wow was I wrong. What a great career he has had since.
Happened upon this. Cheers was sooo good. Really an all around quality. The one liners are precious. Just realized how much I missed it. All the more so because there's nothing at all around to replace it.
Right there with you, just saw this today. It feels like we lived on a different planet back then.
I'm currently going through and watching every episode of Cheers for the first time. I recently watched this episode for the first time. I was really impressed by how elegant and respectful the writing was to transition the audience from Coach to Woody, as well as how well Ted Danson delivered the line. All class!
The writers were A plus. And the whole cast loved Coach.
Enjoy! It is still my favorite show. It was very creative.
This world needs MORE people like that of Woody's character here .... xD
What an entry into the big cinema! And no one better than Woody Harrelson for that role! One of the greatest!
This is my favorite Woody scene..thank you for posting.
3:50 - a rare use of the now-common term Mixologist back in 1985
In 1972 I worked in a seaport town, where a prominent figure worked as a 'wharfie' (loading/unloading cargo). His delicate ego demanded that he be referred to as a cargo-ologist. He was also a person with whom one did not argue.
As a mixologist, I’d prefer the term liquid engineer
@@swimmer8585 how about liquid doctor president
It was around back in the 80s. You just think it wasn't because of shows like bar rescue. The term was just as prominent with bartenders in training back in the 80s. Smh
Woody always struck me as being a near reincarnation of coach. He's got the mannerisms down perfectly!
Fav show of all time. I routinely watch the series at least once a year. Fav episode? Woody's wedding. It was actually split up over two episodes. Last line of the series? " "I'm sorry, we're closed". Sad day.
My favorite episode is "Golden Boyd', where Woody meets Kelly. When Nash comes into Cheers to fight Woody and the gang is cheering him on
"Woody, Woody, Woody!"
Pow!! . Woody hits the floor.
"Rich guy,Rich guy, Rich guy!!".
😂😂😂😂
Woody showed his talent in being able to "replace' Coach and have everyone love him!
I watched this when I was younger (like a kid 🤣) and he annoyed me lol maybe I'll have to rewatch
I remember this scene like it was yesterday, a 25 years ago yesterday
that is scary, innit! 1995 was 25 years ago!!!!
This was 1985. 35 years ago.
Tfw this is the man who's gonna be Carnage
And this was the man who played Tallahassee in Zombieland and one of the Texas Rangers in The Highwayman.
Tfw you dont know if it will be rated R because they didnt with Venom
God you comic book nerds. Woody Harrelson was in White Men Can't Jump, Natural Born Killers, The People vs. Larry Flynt, No Country for Old Men but it's a fucking Marvel movie. That's when I go out to the movies it's all fucking Marvel movies
Norm drank that Beer pretty fast
Seems more intelligent here than he was in future episodes.
The writers eventually started to make him more and more dimwitted. Just like they did w Sam. In the earlier episodes Sam wasn't written as a buffoon.
Even back then Woody had some serious acting chops
And thus a legend was born...
And so began the legend of Woody…
Woody Harrelson is the best!
Thank you and a heavy show with the unfortunate loss of Coach. 🇮🇹🙏🏻💯❤️
I didn't get into Woody right away as Coach's replacement, but he eventually grew on me.
01:08 pen palls, the way people email each other before the internet
Correction: it was the way we exchanged pens
Love Woody. The time when he asks a guy for ID. The guy shows it. Where's yours, he says to the person sitting next to him (identical twin wearing exactly the same clothes)!
Woody is just so sweet & adorable I just smiled the whole introduction. Man cheers had discovered so many stars. Best ensemble cast ever on a tv show. Very sweet nod to " coach " & the producers said they wanted a younger version of coach. Like the light bulb is on but a little dim. I wonder if midwesterners who are the heart & are the bulk of a shows audience since they are the entire country except for the coasts mind that in cheers & golden girls the two people from the midwest were stereotyped as very sweet but dim. Like rose from Minnesota & of course woody from Indiana. Carson had that enormous audience on nbc bc he was a born & bred midwesterner & that's who gave him that huge audience, then leno. The talk show people now have abysmal ratings bc everything they do bashes middle american ideals. They think they are just playing to nyc & l.a. & once u get an or 2 north of nyc it's like the midwest. Hell ny touches ohio. Buffalo probably does not even feel like ny , they have their own football team & nobody in southern ny likes them. It's all giants & jets who actually play in Jersey. I grew up right outside the city in westchester & anyone north if there was called a " hick " by people I grew up with. NYC & westchester & long island literally should just sever from the rest of ny bc they are like night & day.
Even after all these decades later, hearing Sam tell Woody that Coach passed away still makes me cry.....
At @03:27 there is a glass of beer in front of Norm. At @03:36 it is magically gone.
Oops.
He drank it then ate the glass 😆
Woody Boyd kinda reminds me of Kelso from That 70s Show
Only a much better human being
Norm sits; beer in front of him. Camera cuts away and quickly back. Beer missing.
Imagine a young Woody Harrelson stepping into the role on an already hit TV show, a short time after one of its most popular actors and his character, passed away in sitcom life and real life simultaneously. I wonder how much pressure he felt to maybe not “replace” Coach, but to at least hold his own as they went on to transition after the untimely passing of a very likable person and character.
That was a very hard job but Woody was perfect.
He had recently turned 24 when he made this first appearance. Everyone else was pushing 40 or older.
Who'd a thunk all those years ago that Woody would be a big star some day?
I remember when Coach passed and wondered how they could replace him. Woody was just Coach 30 years younger. It was peak TV!
Thank you for sharing that part, I never got to watch Woody's first entry scene.
Woody is like Tom Hanks and Bradley Cooper, you never expected them to be the breakout stars they became when they first started out
I actually did expect it with Tom Hanks - perhaps not to 'winning an Oscar' degree but still becoming very well known and famous.
He was very funny, sarcastically OR straight 'ha-ha' funny, when I first saw him on Bosom Buddies.
Good in Bachelor Party and then became a st🌟r with BIG.
I didn't follow, or know Bradley Cooper as well - just that he was quite appealing to the ladies.
I wouldn't say I was surprised Hanks became such a big star. At the time I wouldn't have expected him to do more than comedies though.
@@timfarney5165 Later in life he's really done well thengeneral public and gives back. From what I can tell he's very down to earth and remebers his roots.
@@sarahswomley2580 I feel the same about Timothee Chalamet. He's becoming a huge star. I first saw him as a kid on Homeland and I could tell he just had IT.
Coach was legend. I still know all about Albania to this day!
Great scene to introduce Woody and very nice tribute to Coach. --Woody is wearing black shoes on entering but white shoes when he jumps over the bar.
His shoes look white the whole way through to me.
@@jhew6999 If you pause it at 2:56 and then 2:59 you can see the difference.
@@jettelecttro This seems like a silly amount of time to spend on this, but at 2:56 his feet are in the shadows (dark) and at at 2:59 they're in direct light (bright). ETA: Cheers was shot with three cameras, so these two angles were likely shot together, especially when you consider the position of the glass and napkins on the bar is identical in both angles and the movements of the two guys by the door line up perfectly on both sides of the cut, meaning the movement started before the cut is continued after the cut.
What if…
Woody makes his appearance ahead of time while Coach was around and he’s being trained by Coach as a bartender and after Coach’s passing, Woody replaces him with Coach leaving him a final message
“Treat everyone with respect and never screw around”
So what will it be?
“Beer”
Yep...
I love how Norm's beer is there when he comes out from the back, but is gone immediately as he sits down.
One of the funniest us comedies ever
I definitely would of loved to see a convo between Coach and Woody lol
"This is amazing! Hundreds of bottles red AND white wine glasses, high stool covers, and a brass rail...and a big city bartender with a joke at the ready!"
Love that line xD
Pigsty with a jukebox .. if we had a jukebox 😆
0:47
In real life when someone tells you about what happened to a friend you get that feeling in your chest and your upper legs that feeling of shock and it makes you feel it makes you wonder what it would be like if you were dead
So you think about yourself when hearing someone has passed? Uh ok.
"I dunno. I'd look pretty silly with chalk in my ears". Such a great exchange.
Choked me up a little. Nice entry.
I love the joke that fell flat.
Norm: "Nice helicopter, but you should chalk the cues before you stick them in your ears."
Cliff: "what and look ridiculous with chalk in my ears?"
Beer disappears from 3:21 to 3:36. Norm can really drink 'em fast.
My name is woody boy 😆🤣😂great show
I was expecting Norm's order to be "beer after beer after beer".
3:30 Norm finishes that beer so fast he even ate the glass in a blink of an eye...
This man's Haymich wow.
Damn, I remember seeing this when it first aired. I remember the twinge when he mentioned he was a friend of Coach's.
Sam: You From Out of town?
Me: Yes and also out of this galaxy.
LOL! Congratulations Woody on your entrance into the Star Wars franchise. And there was a banner that was used on Everybody Loves Raymond that said "Congratulations Woody" when it was supposed to say "Congratulations Robert". It was a mistake that one of the elderly characters made in that show/episode. It is possible that the banner was originally used on Cheers for Woody Boyd. ???
Coach died 2 days before my Grandpa! Talk about a couple of blows back to back!
Don't you know who this is?
He use to be one of the
best pitchers in baseball.
Samuel "Mayday" Malone.
I coached this kid
down in pawtucket in
double a ball, and up
here with the Red Sox.
He was one of the best
relievers ever to play the game.
Take it easy, coach.
No, I mean it. He was the very
best, as sure as the earth is round.
You don't believe that, coach.
No, I never used to believe it
Sam, till I saw those pictures
from the space shuttle.
Love cheers
Woody's character is Adorable cus nobody knows if he is an idiot or a savant.
Great Show!
There is sort of a culture clash, Woody, from Indiana is so polite and those at cheers are little put off by this.
I forgot that woody's character name in cheers was woody.
I guess that helps him stay in character.
FUN FACT: The character was called Woody before Woody Harrelson was cast or even auditioned. Pure coincidence.
Happy birthday Woody Boyd🎉
Didn't Nicholas Colosanto have a photograph of an American Indian in his dressing room? That they put on the wall of the bar/ set to commemorate Coach?
He did, a picture of Cochise. It's the picture that Sam stops to straighten after everybody has left in the last minute of the final episode. If you pause the video at 1:05 you can see it on the very back wall just up and to the right of the dark-haired woman's head.
When Woody asked if Coach was still around it hit me. I knew Nick had died suddenly.
Woody was the best, right from the get-go!
Total scene stealer from the beginning!
Turns out he was a damn fine actor
03:26 fresh beer for Norm 03:37 gone.
The characters on Cheers Thursday Night 80s
Here only after seeing him in zombieland. This show was a little bit before my time though thats why. Its weird seeing him this way haha
PERSONALLY I think they should have made Woody be Coach's cousin. That would explain how they are so equally dimwitted
Or nephew. But then they wouldn't be able to get THIS scene where Sam tells Woody (and the audience) that Coach has passed. As his family he would already know that. This scene was important for viewers who didn't know.
Funny, but really kind of bittersweet.
Stupid Netflix is taking this great show off their streaming as of July 1, 2020.
Well, NBC Universal pulled it from Netflix. I'm sure Netflix would have loved to hold onto it.
It's on paramount now. Just get that service to
Never realized how young Woody looked in this 1st episode.
this was haymitch's first job
And to think. . .his real-life father was one of the most prolific hitmen in the country.
That's an exaggeration.
2:57 I guess they can jump.
I heard that this “woodie” roll came down to Harrilson and the guy who moved to Alaska to live amongst the grizzlies. He eventually was eaten by a bear.
Classic TV
3:27 there's a beer on the bar 3:37 it's gone
Woody in real life is older than Coach NOW! Coach died in 1985 and Woody is 63 now in 2024
Woody looked disappointed when they only ordered...... 🍺 Great actor.
Woody would be a guy I would not mind hanging out with.
Mine either.
Who said White men can't jump, the way Woody jumped over the bar he'd make a great basketball player ⛹️♂️
During Coach’s Passing the actor Who played him Nicholas Colosanto had died So Woody Harrelson took his Place
LOL best TV show(CHEERS)