User Reviews

This uses yet another standard sitcom plot: a mild mannered character becomes aggressively competitive when involved with sports. The fact that it's Coach - everybody's favourite kindly old guy - makes it a bit more interesting. Coach is given the chance to manage a little league team, and he's soon acting like a petty tyrant. Do-gooder Diane is upset, while Sam doesn't think it's a problem, until the kids come to him ready to quit.

Coach *has* gotten mad before, and Colasanto manages to make this funny. His off-the-cuff speech about his old teacher Mr. Spires seems to go nowhere, until Diane puts it all together. Not a bad episode at all.

(This episode has one of the all time best cold openings: the bar serenades Carla's baby over the phone with an Irish lullaby. The cast all have pretty good voices, and some of the regulars even get a little teary-eyed - at least until the brilliant punchline)

Coach decides to jump in when a man needs someone to coach a little league baseball team. Unfortunately, the guy turns into a tyrant, making the kids miserable, even as they win game after game. It's a pretty standard episode with very little surprise.

Great episode where Coach shows his true colors. The difference between Coach and Woody later on is that Woody was pure sweet and simple but Coach was brain damaged from having been a tough coach, and seeing him switch back and forth is great. Coach in a way is insane more than just slow and old, which makes him awesome. And he had two good seasons and this was his peak. The third season, alas, he was dying. This is Coach's peak.