Henri: “Knock-knock”
Woody: “Who’s there?”
Henri: “Henri, who is going to steal your girl”.
Woody: “Henri who is going to steal my girl who?”
And when Woody finally confronts him:
"Now hold it right there, Frenchy!
“You probably think you’re hot stuff, with your exotic accent, your sophisticated tastes, and your strong chin, and… (muttering to himself) this isn’t going the way I wanted it too”.
Henri’s conversation with Lillith was priceless:
Lillith: “Tres biene”.
Henri: “Pardon?”
Lillith: “Tres biene”.
Henri: “I’m sorry, I do not understand”.
Lillith: “Tres biene”.
Henri: “Oh, OK, you mean tres biene… I see I will have to show you the French tongue”.
Lillith: “Tres bee-yen”.
Henri: “Pardon?”
Lillith: “Tres bee-yen”.
Henri: “I’m sorry, I do not understand”.
Lillith: “Very good.”
Henri: “Oh tres biene… I see I will have to show you the French tongue”.
Another Norm line:
Woody (or Sam): What’s the story Norm?
Norm: Oh, same old story…man meets beer, man drinks beer, man meets another beer.
I’m new here. The guy who played the chef - I recall being in “Oscar” starring Sly Stallone. He was one of the brothers. I can’t readily recall his name, either. But you can find a listing name for him in those credits, as well.
Help- Help –
I’ve searched through DVD after DVD - and just keep “missing” it somehow – does someone know exactly which season show and teaser had the phone ringing at Cheers, Woody answers it and a woman is apparently angry and distraught. Carla asks who it is, and Woody tells her he doesn’t know, but it’s some woman and all he can make out is “double crossing and two timing” … Carla screams for Sam to get the phone, it’s one of his woman. Sam gets on the phone and then has to come up with an excuse about how he sent flowers with the wrong name on the card. And in the end, his explanation is that at Christmas time you, “Karen” the gifts? Anyone remember that and where exactly it can be found on the DVDs? Which season and title of the show? It was an opening teaser. Cheers had THE BEST teasers!
I like the scene where Woody, clearly impressed at that moment by Rebecca’s beauty, says something like, “Wow! Ms. Howe, you look like 10 bucks!”
Also great is the scene where Woody is compelled to give chase to the previously-mentioned French stud Henri who is leaving the bar with Woody’s girlfriend. Urgently, he begins to chase them, but then he realizes that he is holding a chair. So, he turns around and goes back to replace the chair but about halfway back he realizes that this is all taking far too long and that he will, in fact, take the chair after all. A very quick and simple scene but executed so perfectly that the effect is sheer brilliance.
Wow, seamless zombie thread. Is that the definition of a classic ?
If it hasn’t been mentioned already :-
Coach : It’s too easy to call guys gay. I had these guys in my team once who never dated girls, and lived together, and were very into interior decor and male fashion. But those guys weren’t gay, they just had unusual interests.
Sam : Eh, coach :- those guys were gay.
Coach :- Oh. That’s fine of course. But I’m surprised.
I am going to butcher the details, but the punchlines still work:
Diane is giving Sam some long-winded explanation of something that had occurred. She says, “blah, blah, blah…and when I saw your face, Sam, it made me blanch…blah, blah, blah…”
Diane: “Sam, did you follow what I just said?”
Sam: “Well, everything except the part where you changed your name to Blanche.”
Another was a Christmas-in-July episode where Sam dressed as Santa for a bunch of little kids. There was no A/C and Sam was sweating profusely and eager to get out of there.
Sam: “Santa has to go now, kids.”
Kid: “But Santa hasn’t even roasted his chestnuts yet!”
Sam: “Oh, yes he has!”
mmm
“Cheers: Bad Neighbor Sam (#9.9)” (1990)
[Woody is phoning Kelly to find out who the man was that took suggestive photos of her. A French speaking man answers the phone]
Woody Boyd: [to Norm, Frasier and Cliff about the man on the phone] Do you know what that pervert said to me? ‘Allô’. What does that mean in English?
Norm Peterson: Wai, wai, wait, I took some French in high school. I think allô, allô means, um, ‘I’ve got your girlfriend in my arms and, um, soon we’ll be naked, you stupid cuckold’.
Cliff Clavin: That’s funny, Norm, because I thought it meant, ‘I have your girlfriend in my arms and we’re already naked, you stupid cuckold’.
Dr. Frasier Crane: [to Norm and Cliff] Oh, for God sake, stop hectoring the poor lad.
Dr. Frasier Crane: [to Woody] It simply means ‘I enjoyed your girlfriend’…
Woody: Miss Howe, you’re looking pretty puny today. Have you lost weight?
Rebecca: Woody, that’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me.
Woody: You’re hair’s looking pretty ratty, too…
Rebecca: Unfortunately, that’s the second nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me.
Diane: Sam, do you know the difference between you and a fat, braying ass?
Sam: No.
Diane: The fat, braying ass would!
From memory, so these might not be completely accurate.
Norm! How’s the world treating you?
Norm: Like I slept with its wife.
One of the writers has a blog, and he once wrote about that episode. Interestingly, when they filmed that scene in front of an audience, that line got huge laughs, even though they were not going for humor. They had to re-film it without an audience.
Manchild in Beantown Redux (aka the film Diane makes for Woody’s parents). Especially the shot outside Frasier’s office window with the jumper.
Also when Rebecca finds out her inadvertent role in Robin’s insider trading: “I am too stupid to live!” (and when she’s trying to convince herself nobody will trace it back to her, Norm tells her, “You know, maybe you are too stupid to live!”)
I think it was a bloodthirsty clown. Who beckoned innocent children into the sewer and swallowed them whole. (Cliff: “That’s a neat trick!”) From the same episode:
Frasier: it was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Norm: Wait. Which was it?
Frasier: Just stay tuned, Norm.
Norm: “Bars can be very sad places. Some people spend their entire lives in bars. Just yesterday some guy sat right here next to me for eleven hours.”
The episode where they start a pool to guess when John Allen Hill will drive Sam completely insane. After being burned by Hill again and again, Sam goes through the roof. They ask Woody who won the pool, and “well what do you know, it’s our upstairs neighbor, John Allen Hill!” Which of course sends Sam even farther around the bend.