According to producer Ken Levine, when, at 19.46, Coach tells Lisa that she looks just like her mother, the audience howled with laughter. The laughter was deleted from the final print because the line was supposed to be poignant.
NBC re-aired the episode the week of Nicholas Colasanto's death as a memorial tribute. The re-airing began with a still photo of Colasanto along with a voice over dedication by Ted Danson.
The inside of Sam's office is shown for the first time at 17.55.
Allyce Beasley has the distinction of guest starring on two memorable and classic episodes of two classic series that aired exactly a week apart from each other. Beasley guest starred in The Coach's Daughter, considered one of Cheers best episodes, on October 28th, 1982. Just one week before this episode aired, on October 21st, 1982, Beasley would guest star as Cindy Bates on the classic Taxi episode, Sceneskees From a Marriage. In that episode Beasley plays cabbie stranded in a blizzard on the New Jersey Turnpike who Andy Kaufaman's Latka Gravas goes to save. Latka becomes trapped with her and the only way to generate the necessary heat to stay warm is for the two of them to make love to each other. This later causes problems for Latka and his wife Simka, played by Carol Kane, leading to one of Taxi's funniest episodes. Both Taxi and Cheers aired on the same night on NBC for the 1982-83 television season and both shows had the same production staff. In 1984 Beasley would go on to her most famous role as Agnes DiPesto in the classic series Moonlighting.
Diane's recreational reading: *Analytical Psychology: Its Theory & Practice* by C. G. Jung.