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  Coach Ernie Pantusso - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ernie Pantusso, was a character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by Nicholas Colasanto for the first three seasons.
Coach was slow and forgetful, but always genial, warm, and caring, a marked contrast to the tough, plain-talking Carla Tortelli.
Coach's position at the bar was filled by Woody Boyd, who he had sponsored in a correspondence course in bartending, and the character was referenced throughout the show's run.
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 Coach (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coach, a type of road or rail vehicle
Coach (sport), a person who directs the players' activities in the game
Coaching, where a person, the coach, directs and trains others via encouragement
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 Cheers: Ernie "Coach" Pantusso   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Coach was not much of a student--as a child he attended parochial school, but he never quite made it to high school.
Coach entered the workforce as a busboy, later joined the Navy and was stationed in Florida.
Coach moved on from playing the sport and began coaching it, landing a position with Pawtucket, the minor league team for The Boston Red Sox.
www.tvland.com /shows/cheers/characters/char9.jhtml   (302 words)

  
 Episodes Cast for "Cheers" (1982)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Coach is distressed when his daughter, an insecure spinster, comes to town to introduce him to her boorish, obnoxious fiancé'.
Although they are at a crucial time in their relationship, they ultimately let the Coach stay for the evening as they realize they have the rest of their lives together and the Coach is all alone.
The Coach, having returned to the bar, admits that the funeral was a bit impersonal since T-Bone had lived in Phoenix for only a short time, to which Diane suggests that they should hold a memorial at the bar in Boston where all his old friends still live.
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 Maverick vs. Henry Gondorff vs. Sundance Kid vs. The Gambler @ WWWF Grudge Match
Coach is going to be replaced by Woody Harrelson, which is a fate worse than death.
Coach has picked up scraps from some of the defeated players, hovering around 250 grand, but it won't be enough.
Once Coach is eliminated (and I think we all know he will be), a mysterious albino who claims to be a Frenchman will ask to be dealt into the game, using a gold brooch as colateral for three dollars.
www.grudge-match.com /History/poker.shtml   (5905 words)

  
 Cheers: The Complete First Season (1982)
Sam is given a hand behind the bar by the tender-hearted Ernie Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto), affectionately known as “Coach”, a retired baseball coach/manager who’s never short on witty sayings or astute and perceptive advice.
Easygoing Coach (Nicholas Colasanto) is excited when his sweet, but lonely daughter, Lisa (Allyce Beasley), seems to have found the man of her dreams, a door-to-door salesman (Philip Michael McKenzie).
Problem is, Coach has his eye on the woman himself and he doesn’t appreciate Sam moving in on the lady of his dreams.
www.dvdmg.com /cheersseasonone.shtml   (2942 words)

  
 tvdvdreviews.com -- Cheers: The Complete First Season DVD Review
Ernie "Coach" Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto), who once coached Sam, is the absentminded but friendly bartender.
Over the course of the twenty-two episodes in season one, each of the secondary characters is also given one or two major plotlines of their own (the exception is John Ratzenberger as Cliff, who was not considered a regular in the first season).
"Coach Ernie Pantusso's Rules of the Game" rounds up some of Coach's best moments.
www.tvdvdreviews.com /cheers.html   (1238 words)

  
 Ask the Televisionary - tvguide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Coach was a lovably lunkheaded presence, but when Colasanto passed away in early 1985, producers introduced the lovably lunkheaded Woody Boyd (Harrelson) as his replacement.
Woody, an Indiana native who had corresponded with Coach by mail, came into the bar for a face-to-face and stuck around until the show went off the air in 1993.
The move was a bit of deft writing and casting and it illustrates a key ingredient for keeping a show on the air — flexibility.
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 The CLASSIC SITCOMS Guide: CHEERS
Coach meets his daughter's fiancé, an obnoxious salesman who's so thoroughly detestable that even the Coach can't stand him.
Glen and Les Charles admitted that their model for Coach Ernie Pantusso was baseball's legendary Yogi Berra, who was also well known for the peculiar logic of his public utterances.
Given the soap-operatic overtones of the show's continuing narrative line, the producers designed the opening teaser as a hook that would serve as an instant introduction to the show and its characters for the uninitiated--a useful weapon in the uphill ratings battle the series faced during the first year.
classicsitcoms.com /shows/cheers1.html   (1583 words)

  
 Cheers: Coach in Love (2) Episode Cast Members - TV.com
He has been married to and is now divorced with Doreen Alderman and Leigh Anne Csuhany.
The beloved man who played the charecter coach on The hit sitcom Cheers Nick Colasanto may Have been known for cheers but he stared in many other movies and television shows his nominations and awards include Year Result Award Category 1985 nominated Emmy outstanding supporting actor in a...
Fans familiar with diminutive American actress Rhea Perlman only through her Emmy-winning characterization of wasp-tongued waitress Carla Tortelli on the TV sitcom Cheers are usually taken aback to discover that Perlman is as shy and soft-spoken as Carla was pushy and abrasive.
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 SH Forums - Another meaningless poll by AKA: Coach or Woody
01-27-2004 11:12 AM Coach was funnier in the way an old guy is funny and Woody was funny in an innocent farm boy hick way, but every now and then he knew what was going on, like when he quit and agreed to come back if Sam gave him a raise.
I didnt like Diane, so after she left the show just got better, and in my opinion it wouldnt have lasted as long if she had stayed.
Nicholas Colasanto died in the middle of the third season, but they had enough unused footage to "fly" into the episodes until the end of the season.
www.stevehoffman.tv /forums/printthread.php?t=28068   (598 words)

  
 Nick at Nite Schedule Grid
When Diane introduces Frasier as her new boyfriend to the regulars at the bar, a new waitress quits in a huff and Coach uses some psychology of his own to get Diane to agree to take her old job back.
(Part I) Coach Ernie Pantusso falls madly in love with Irene the moment he sets eyes on her, and when she seems to return his love he proposes marriage - and Sam is shocked when the woman's lovely daughter, Sue, constantly rejects his advances.
The Coach's romance is roaring along - until an abrupt and unexpected stroke of luck changes his life.
www.classictvhits.com /schedules/nickatnite/2002/mar9.htm   (1626 words)

  
 Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso - Reviews on RateItAll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Cheers is one of the funniest and best sitcoms-thank goodness it never became melodramatic nor political as other sitcoms before it did.
Cheers run with Coach reminds me of the first three seasons of MASH with Henry Blake and Trapper-both sitcoms were great but they were never quite as funny after these characters unfortunately left the programs.
Coach reminds me of every stumbling elder in my family.
www.rateitall.com /i-72057-ernie-coach-pantusso.aspx   (219 words)

  
 Modamag.com | Cheers Season 1 (DVD Review)
Anyway, I eventually became a fan of “Cheers”, but really only after Kirstie Alley joined the cast and that was because I recognized her from “Star Trek II”.
I’d never seen many episodes with Coach or even how the show began, so watching Season 1 was a welcome history lesson!
Sam Malone (Ted Danson) owns the bar and his only employees are Coach (the late Nicholas Colasanto) and the volatile Carla (Rhea Perlman).
www.modamag.com /cheersseason1_dvd.htm   (491 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Cheers: The Complete First Season -- Ted Danson - DVD
Watching the Season 1 episodes reminds one, too, of what a wonderful character Nicholas Colasanto created in "Coach," and how much we missed him after he passed on during the show's second season.
Coach's Daughter -- Clueless Coach reveals his heart when he wants something better for his down-on-herself daughter than the jerk she’s willing to settle for.
Coach Returns to Action -- Nobody can challenge Sam’s supremacy with the ladies, except perhaps Coach, when they unwittingly vie for the same woman’s affections.
video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=97360569247&pwb=1   (1100 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Ernie "Coach" Pantusso: The only thing he´s had in his hands this
Ernie "Coach" Pantusso: I´m working on a novel.
Ernie "Coach" Pantusso: My friends call me "Coach", but my other
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 Where Everybody Knows Your Name...
Sams former Red Sox coach Ernie Coach Pantusso worked behind the bar, and spitfire waitress Carla Tortelli carted the drinks out to regulars like accountant Norm Peterson and mailman Cliff Clavin.
In the debut episode, the staff got a new member in would-be novelist Diane Chambers, who took a waitressing job after her fiancé abandoned her.
Not long thereafter, actor Nicholas Colasanto (Coach) passed away, a fact that the show dealt with in a heartfelt farewell.
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 Better Living Through Blogging!: Cheers
What brought this to my attention, by the way, was watching the opening credits of a "Starsky & Hutch" rerun on TVLand a few minutes ago; I noticed the director's name was Nicholas Colasanto.
I loved the character of Coach; so sweet and so dazed.
Great line: Sammy said something to the effect of, "Gee, I must have fled out for a few minutes there..." To which Coach replied, "Yeah, it's kind of a nice break in the day, huh, Sammy?"
www.davidmsc.com /archives/000101.shtml   (141 words)

  
 Cheers
Helping him out behind the oak bar was Coach, an absentminded, kindly old man who had been in professional baseball as a coach and manager, and who entertained the customers with his experiences.
In early 1985, Coach passed away (actor Nicholas Colasanto had died in real-life), and a new bartender joined the crowd.
Young Woody, a naive farmboy from Indiana had been taking a mail-order course in bartending from Coach and had come to Cheers to meet him.
www.geocities.com /TelevisionCity/9348/cheers.htm   (799 words)

  
 Cheers in Morty's Mall
All 25 episodes from season three--including the two-part "Rebound," the two-part "Coach in Love," "If Ever I Would Leave You," "Bar Bet," "Cheerio, Cheers," and "Rescue Me"--are collected in a four-disc set.
"Coach Returns to Action" when he winds up competing with Sam for the attentions of the same woman.
Sam isn't sure how to react over a former Red Sox teammate's "coming out" in "The Boys in the Bar." Then, Diane's attempts to gain sympathy from the gang after her cat dies fall on deaf ears in "Let Me Count the Ways."
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 Cheers
Carla (Rhea Perlman), a feisty waitress with a weakness for hockey players, kept the men in check with her ascerbic comments.
Bartender "Coach" (Nicholas Colasanto) was the slow-witted and ironically funny straight man of the ensemble cast.
When Colasanto passed away in 1985, Woody Harrelson joined the cast as Woody, a young bartender who took slow-wittedness to new heights.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/C/htmlC/cheers/cheers.htm   (964 words)

  
 Nicholas Colasanto Quotes - Quotation
Ernie "Coach" Pantusso : I'm working on a novel.
Ernie "Coach" Pantusso : The only thing he's had in his hands this whole week is Diane's ass.
Ernie "Coach" Pantusso : My friends call me "Coach", but my other nickname is Red.
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 WDUN News Headlines
And Coach Ernie Pantusso, the lovable lunkhead behind the bar has passed away, making the way clear for Woody Harrelson to pl
Of course, there's plenty of verbal sparring between Sam and Diane (Ted Danson, Shelley Long) as their on-again, off-again relationship is brought to the front in several well written installments.
The loss of Coach is only briefly referenced in the first episode of the season, but he is memorialized much more resoundingly in "A Fool and His Money" as Sam uses one of Coach's own methods to patch up a rift with Woody.
www.accessnorthga.com /articles/afullstory_wdun.asp?ID=88754   (1058 words)

  
 ZoomInfo Web Summary: Ernie Pantusso   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Coach Ernie Pantusso is filled with joy when Irene accepts his proposal of marriage, but after winning a two million-dollar lottery her life changes dramatically and he isn't sure where he fits into it.
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 Cheers - The Complete Second Season DVD
With John Ratzenberger signing on as a full-time cast member (playing pompous jive-slinger and postman Cliff Claven), and those opaque one-liners by the clueless Coach (Nicholas Colasant...
When I watch this DVD I think of how impressive Cheers was in that it had heart - genuine affection and incredible rapport between characters - but was also irreverent in its humor and unshy of the racy and the less than wholly tasteful.
Sam has three employees - bartender Ernie "Coach" Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto) and waitresses Carla Tortelli (Rhea Pearlman) and Diane Chambers (Shelley Long).
tv.watchondvd.com /cheers-dvd/season-2   (549 words)

  
 Cheers - The Complete First Season - elfdepot.com Product Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The bar is owned by former Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Sam Malone (Ted Danson).
Sam has two employees - bartender Ernie "Coach" Pantusso and waitress Carla Tortelli.
Things are great for Sam until he hires a jilted graduate student named Diane Chambers (Shelley...
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 Amazon.ca: Cheers #01:Give Me a Ring Some: Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Boys In Blue is also another classic where Sam discovers his best friend is gay and has to forced to face up to his prejudices at the insistence of Diane.
Each and episode is excellent and a must see and the acting is superb all-round with the rest of the regulars at Cheers being Norm Peterson, well known for his usual seating spot on the corner of the bar, Coach played brilliantly by Nicholas Calasanto and Cliff Clavin, played by John Ratzenberger.
Sam "May Day" Malone (Ted Danson), the ex-Red Sox relief pitcher and recovering alchoholic, runs his Boston bar with the less than able assistance of his old pitching coach Ernie Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto) and Carla Torteli (Rhea Perelman), the wise-cracking waitress.
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 Cable TV Talk - View Single Post - Cheers 48-Hour Marathon, 5/29 & 5/30
Though out of practice in the dating world, Coach Ernie Pantusso harbors a crush on his attractive neighbor, Nina Bradshaw, who visits Cheers and is relentlessly pursued by Sam, until the shy Coach astounds everyone with his foolproof technique for winning over women.
The coach is reticent to reveal his feelings for the considerably younger Nina, but when he confides in Diane, she builds his confidence and urges him to "go for it." Diane warns Sam to refrain from flirting with Nina without explaining why, so a snot to betray Coach's confidence.
When the sweet-talking Sam forges ahead with his usual line, the Coach thinks he can't compete.
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