Cheers (TV Series)

Coach in Love: Part 1 (1984)

Shelley Long: Diane Chambers

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Quotes 

• Diane Chambers : Hi, I'm finally here - better late than never.

  Carla Tortelli : Wouldn't be my choice.

• Diane Chambers : I trust you'll return the favor. I may have inadvertently left one or two things at your place. I'm almost sure I left my beige sweater there.

  Sam Malone : No problem, I'll take a peek under the bed.

  Diane Chambers : Oh, but you can keep that little hand puppet you loved so much.

  Sam Malone : Hand puppet?

  Diane Chambers : Yes, Brian the Lion.

  Sam Malone : Oh yeah, Brian the Lion.

  [Cut to Carla wiping down the front of the bar with what might possibly be a lion hand puppet] 

  Diane Chambers : Remember how touched you were that I actually gave you something I had in my childhood.

  Sam Malone : Yeah, touched, extremely!

  [Leans over the bar, and says quietly to Carla] 

  Sam Malone : I'll give you five bucks if you run out of the room right now. Go on.

  Carla Tortelli : You got it!

  [puts Brian the Lion to Sam on the bar in front of Sam. Sam picks it up and attempts to give it to the now departing Carla] 

  Sam Malone : No, no, take this with...

  [He looks up and Diane sees Sam with Brian the Lion looking very much the worse for wear, in his hands. Diane inhales with a little shriek] 

  Diane Chambers : Brian?

  Sam Malone : Oh, really? By golly, in this light it does look a bit like... Brian.

  Diane Chambers : Brian the Lion - a bar rag? Sam Malone, you are the most insensitive, insufferable boob I've ever had the misfortune to run across.

  Sam Malone : Oh come on, it just wasn't meant for things to work out between me and... Brian. I wasn't cut out to be a puppeteer.

  Norm Peterson : That's got to be a tough thing for a man to admit in public.

  Sam Malone : Oh come on!

  [Putting Brian the Lion in front of his face and putting on his version of a lion voice] 

  Sam Malone : Oh come on, please Diane, Don't be mad at me, hmmm, please?

  Diane Chambers : Well, I guess I'm overreacting.

  Sam Malone : Oh good then how about a little kiss? Hmm?

  [Still as Brian] 

  Diane Chambers : Oh-kaaay.

  Sam Malone : And put some tongue in it!

  [Diane grabs Brian the Lion, and looks at Sam with incomprehension] 

• Diane Chambers : I trust you'll return the favor. I may have inadvertently left one or two things at your place. I'm almost sure I left my beige sweater there.

  Sam Malone : No problem, I'll take a peek under the bed.

  Diane Chambers : Oh, but you can keep that little hand puppet you loved so much.

  Sam Malone : Hand puppet?

  Diane Chambers : Yes, Brian the Lion.

  Sam Malone : Oh yeah, Brian the Lion.

  [Cut to Carla wiping down the front of the bar with what might possibly be a lion hand puppet] 

  Diane Chambers : Remember how touched you were that I actually gave you something I had in my childhood.

  Sam Malone : Yeah, touched, extremely!

  [Leans over the bar , and says quietly to Carla] 

  Sam Malone : I'll give you five bucks if you run out of the room right now. Go on.

  Carla Tortelli : You got it!

  [Puts Brian the Lion on the bar in front of Sam. Sam picks it up and attempts to give it back to the now departing Carla] 

  Sam Malone : No, no, take this with...

  [He looks up and Diane sees Sam with Brian the Lion looking very much the worse for wear, in his hands. Diane inhales with a little shriek] 

  Diane Chambers : Brian?

  Sam Malone : Oh, really? By golly, in this light it does look a bit like... Brian.

  Diane Chambers : Brian the Lion - a bar rag? Sam Malone, you are the most insensitive, insufferable boob I've ever had the misfortune to run across.

  Sam Malone : Oh come on, it just wasn't meant for things to work out between me and... Brian. I wasn't cut out to be a puppeteer.

  Norm Peterson : That's got to be a tough thing for a man to admit in public.

  Sam Malone : Oh come on!

  [Putting Brian the Lion in front of his face and putting on his version of a lion voice] 

  Sam Malone : Oh come on, please Diane, Don't be mad at me, hmmm, please?

  Diane Chambers : Well, I guess I'm overreacting.

  Sam Malone : Oh good then how about a little kiss? Hmm?

  [Still as Brian] 

  Sam Malone : Oh-kaaay.

  Sam Malone : [Still as Brian]  And put some tongue in it!

  [Diane grabs Brian the Lion, and looks at Sam with incomprehension] 

• Diane Chambers : Coach, that's the most romantic thing I've ever heard in this place!

  Sam Malone : Hey, wait a minute - what about when I invited you to my nude limbo party?

• Diane Chambers : Well, Sam, you seem to be working awfully had to get a date with a woman who obviously wouldn't cross the street to spit in your hair.