Cheers (TV Series)

Coach in Love: Part 1 (1984)

Nicholas Colasanto: Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso

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Quotes 

• Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : Normie, Normie, how did you propose to Vera?

  Norm Peterson : Well, I ah, you know something? I don't think I did. Do you think there could be a loophole in this terrible tragedy?

  Cliff Clavin : No, not if you consumated it.

  Norm Peterson : Egad, why couldn't we have had this conversation yesterday?!

• Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : What I want to say is... uh wait a minute.

  [pulls a piece of paper out of his breast pocket and starts to read] 

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : Irene, I'm not a rich man, I'm not a young man, I'm not a handsome man, I'm not a tall man, I'm not a strong man, I'm not a talented man, I'm not a well travelled man, I'm not a smart man, I'm not a milk man, I'm not a fat man, I'm not a gingerbread man, I'm not a...

  Irene Blanchard : What are you trying to say?

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : Ah, I don't need a piece of paper to tell you what my feelings are.

  [crumples up the paper and throws it on the floor] 

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : Irene, uh. Well, maybe I do.

  [picks up the paper and uncrumples it and starts to read] 

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : Uh, ah, Irene, I'm not a rich man, I'm not a young man...