Cheers (TV Series)

Show Down: Part 2 (1983)

Nicholas Colasanto: Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso

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• Diane Chambers : Coach, do you think I'm a smart person?

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : You're the smartest person I ever met.

  Diane Chambers : Well I, Diane Chambers, bred and educated to walk with kings, once offered a full scholarship at the Sorbonne, have allowed myself to become attracted to a six foot three inch bubble gum card.

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : Well gee, I think I can help you with the sore buns, Diane, but the rest of what you say is all over my head.

• Cliff : Well Coach, it's just clear we've reached a philosophical impasse here, you know, much like the question of the tree falling in the woods.

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : The what?

  Cliff : The tree falling in the woods.

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : Oh.

  Cliff : The question is, if a tree falls in the woods, and if there's nobody there to hear it, does it make a sound?

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : Well if there's nobody there, I mean, how do you know it fell?