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* BoyfriendBlockingDad: While not Joyce's actual dad, Sam acts like one around her, shooing away any man who goes near her, save Woody (since Sam figures Woody's too naïve and innocent to do anything untoward).
* GiverOfLameNames: This week's debate between Sam and Diane is baby names. Diane apparently earnestly wants to name their hypothetical son "Emil", and Sam disapproves.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: While it was oft suggested Coach's Coach-ness was a result of too many baseballs to the head, conversation with Joyce suggests there's just some natural disposition in there as well, since Sam's not only amazed at a Pantuso going to college, but that a Pantuso can ''say'' college in the first place.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: During the 2 1/2 seasons before Nicholas Colasanto's death, Coach had a little a niece that Sam apparently knew well, but while Coach did mention he had a brother in "Showdown", this is the first mention of having any other kin.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: During the 2 1/2 seasons before Nicholas Colasanto's death, Coach had a little a niece that Sam apparently knew well, but while Coach did mention he had a brother in "Showdown", this is the first mention of having any other kin.kin. Played with when Diane comes up to her and acts like they're old acquaintances. Turns out Joyce has no idea who ''she'' is.
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* SuicideAsComedy: Joyce's dad sends Sam a heartfelt letter imploring him to look after Joyce while she's in the big city, lest he go into his shed and kill himself.
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Episode: Season 5, Episode 22\\
Title: The Godfather, Part III\\
Directed by: Creator/JamesBurrows\\
Written by: Creator/ChrisCluess and Creator/StuKreisman\\
Air Date: March 19, 1987\\
Previous: Simon Says\\
Next: Norm's First Hurrah\\
Guest Starring: Creator/CadyMcClain, Creator/AlRosen]
"The Godfather, Part III" is the 22nd episode of the fifth season of ''Series/{{Cheers}}''.
There's a new arrival in Boston: Coach's niece! Joyce Pantuso, 18-year-old daughter of Coach's little brother, has come all the way from Reedsport, Oregon to attend Boston University. She gives Sam a letter from her dad asking Sam to look after her. Diane offers to let Joyce stay at her place. In the meantime, they need someone to show newly-arrived Joyce around the town, so they ask Woody to be her tour guide.
Woody and Joyce wind up going out together every night for a week. Diane starts to get nervous, but Sam dismisses her concerns--until Woody and Joyce tell Sam that they're getting married.
In the B-plot, it's Frasier and Lilith's first anniversary as a couple, and he's throwing out overt hints that he wants her to get him a set of golf clubs.
The actual movie ''[[Film/TheGodfather The Godfather, Part III]]'' came out three years after this episode aired.
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!!Tropes:
* AintTooProudToBeg: A terrified Sam resorts to this to talk Woody and Joyce out of a precipitate marriage.
--> '''Sam''': ''[drops to his knees]'' Have pity on me! Oh, please don't do this to me, please! I--I haven't had an easy life. This is going to hurt me, and I--I don't want to be hurt. I mean, I--I don't like pain... Please don't, please, come on, don't do this to me!
* ContinuityNod: Sam's ex-wife only popped up in one scene of one episode ([[Recap/CheersS1E2SamsWomen the second of the series]]), but this is one of a few episodes where he mentions a brief and disastrous marriage back when he was younger.
* FourthDateMarriage: Woody and Joyce get engaged after they've only known each other a week. Woody lampshades this when he says "I know we've only known each other for a few days, but it feels like... several."
* HypocriticalHumor: After he drops to his knees and goes on his "Please don't do this to me!" monologue, Sam finishes with "Don't make me beg!"
* MyNewGiftIsLame: After several weeks of hint-dropping, Lilith gets Frasier a gift of... a tie. Frasier brings it into the bar and stabs it repeatedly, yelling how he hates it.
-->'''Norm:''' Thank goodness she didn't get him a puppy.
* OneHourWorkWeek: Carla's BerserkButton with regards to Diane is pushed again when Diane says she's taking the night off to go see a Shakespeare play. Sam doesn't want to go, so he suggests that Carla go with Diane instead, whereupon Diane gives her ticket to Al the crusty barfly.
* RememberTheNewGuy: During the 2 1/2 seasons before Nicholas Colasanto's death, Coach had a little a niece that Sam apparently knew well, but while Coach did mention he had a brother in "Showdown", this is the first mention of having any other kin.
* SherlockScan: Sam is able to figure out Diane begged Woody and Joyce at a glance at Diane's knees, since she's wearing nylons.
* ShoutOut: Joyce says "Can we see Old Ironsides"--the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constitution USS Constitution]]--"first", and Woody answers "Well I don't know if Raymond Burr lives in Boston." He's thinking of the TV show ''Series/{{Ironside|1967}}''.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Joyce and Woody agree they could probably still date at the end of the episode, but we never hear of them, or Joyce, again.
Episode: Season 5, Episode 22\\
Title: The Godfather, Part III\\
Directed by: Creator/JamesBurrows\\
Written by: Creator/ChrisCluess and Creator/StuKreisman\\
Air Date: March 19, 1987\\
Previous: Simon Says\\
Next: Norm's First Hurrah\\
Guest Starring: Creator/CadyMcClain, Creator/AlRosen]
"The Godfather, Part III" is the 22nd episode of the fifth season of ''Series/{{Cheers}}''.
There's a new arrival in Boston: Coach's niece! Joyce Pantuso, 18-year-old daughter of Coach's little brother, has come all the way from Reedsport, Oregon to attend Boston University. She gives Sam a letter from her dad asking Sam to look after her. Diane offers to let Joyce stay at her place. In the meantime, they need someone to show newly-arrived Joyce around the town, so they ask Woody to be her tour guide.
Woody and Joyce wind up going out together every night for a week. Diane starts to get nervous, but Sam dismisses her concerns--until Woody and Joyce tell Sam that they're getting married.
In the B-plot, it's Frasier and Lilith's first anniversary as a couple, and he's throwing out overt hints that he wants her to get him a set of golf clubs.
The actual movie ''[[Film/TheGodfather The Godfather, Part III]]'' came out three years after this episode aired.
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!!Tropes:
* AintTooProudToBeg: A terrified Sam resorts to this to talk Woody and Joyce out of a precipitate marriage.
--> '''Sam''': ''[drops to his knees]'' Have pity on me! Oh, please don't do this to me, please! I--I haven't had an easy life. This is going to hurt me, and I--I don't want to be hurt. I mean, I--I don't like pain... Please don't, please, come on, don't do this to me!
* ContinuityNod: Sam's ex-wife only popped up in one scene of one episode ([[Recap/CheersS1E2SamsWomen the second of the series]]), but this is one of a few episodes where he mentions a brief and disastrous marriage back when he was younger.
* FourthDateMarriage: Woody and Joyce get engaged after they've only known each other a week. Woody lampshades this when he says "I know we've only known each other for a few days, but it feels like... several."
* HypocriticalHumor: After he drops to his knees and goes on his "Please don't do this to me!" monologue, Sam finishes with "Don't make me beg!"
* MyNewGiftIsLame: After several weeks of hint-dropping, Lilith gets Frasier a gift of... a tie. Frasier brings it into the bar and stabs it repeatedly, yelling how he hates it.
-->'''Norm:''' Thank goodness she didn't get him a puppy.
* OneHourWorkWeek: Carla's BerserkButton with regards to Diane is pushed again when Diane says she's taking the night off to go see a Shakespeare play. Sam doesn't want to go, so he suggests that Carla go with Diane instead, whereupon Diane gives her ticket to Al the crusty barfly.
* RememberTheNewGuy: During the 2 1/2 seasons before Nicholas Colasanto's death, Coach had a little a niece that Sam apparently knew well, but while Coach did mention he had a brother in "Showdown", this is the first mention of having any other kin.
* SherlockScan: Sam is able to figure out Diane begged Woody and Joyce at a glance at Diane's knees, since she's wearing nylons.
* ShoutOut: Joyce says "Can we see Old Ironsides"--the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Constitution USS Constitution]]--"first", and Woody answers "Well I don't know if Raymond Burr lives in Boston." He's thinking of the TV show ''Series/{{Ironside|1967}}''.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Joyce and Woody agree they could probably still date at the end of the episode, but we never hear of them, or Joyce, again.
