History TearJerker / Cheers

* "Coach's Daughter": The Titular daughter admitting that she knows her fiance Roy is a horrible jerk, but thinks so little of herself that she's willing to marry him for being the first guy to pay attention to her. It quickly turns to happy tears when she asks Coach to look at her just like anyone else.. and he still calls her beautiful and the two embrace, his daughter tearing up.

** Foreshadowed when Diane does a write up on Don Juanism based on Sam. Sam initially thinks it's a paper on his sexual prowess, but finds out that it's a critique on his inability to form any sort of relationships, has nothing but sex on his mind, and will become a disillusioned, bitter old man. While the episode ends on a light moment, the issue is never resolved.

* While being able to finally admit it was an impressive moment of self awareness and insight, Sam finally saying in a group therapy session that, after years of his sex life being his primary character trait and the only thing anyone at the bar every really praises or comments on anymore, he's become a sex addict--Even though he doesn't even like having sex with random women anymore, even though no woman takes him seriously as a romantic partner because of his hound tendencies (as Rebecca told him in an angry rant earlier that day), even though he's become unhappy with himself and his life, he can't stop thinking about sex or actively pursuing it. He's still in therapy when he shows up on ''Frasier'', and, as the episode's events suggest, still can't hold down a meaningful relationship.

* While being able to finally admit it was an impressive moment of self awareness and insight, Sam finally saying in a group therapy session that, after years of his sex life being his primary character trait and the only thing anyone at the bar every really praises or comments on anymore, he's become a sex addict--Even though he doesn't even like having sex with random women anymore, even though no woman takes him seriously as a romantic partner because of his hound tendencies (as Rebecca told him in an angry rant earlier that day), even though it doesn't even make him happy anymore, he can't stop thinking about sex or actively pursuing it. He's still in therapy when he shows up on ''Frasier'', and, as the episode's events suggest, still can't hold down a meaningful relationship.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMSW7gwMCcc last appearance of Coach]] was an outtake used for a stinger (observant viewers will notice Carla's not pregnant, when during that time she was), when Coach was visited by an old teammate who according to Coach was blind. The ex-teammate tells him he got the nickname "the Blind Man" because he sold venetian blinds door-to-door in the offseason; Coach naturally ComicallyMissesThePoint and is impressed with how he can still get around while blind. After he leaves, Carla tells Coach that the ex-teammate could see as well as anyone. Coach responds mystically, "In some ways, he can see more", a fitting last line by Coach in the series.

* The last appearance of Coach was an outtake used for a stinger (observant viewers will notice Carla's not pregnant, when during that time she was), when Coach was visited by an old teammate who according to Coach was blind. The ex-teammate tells him he got the nickname "the Blind Man" because he sold venetian blinds door-to-door in the offseason; Coach naturally ComicallyMissesThePoint and is impressed with how he can still get around while blind. After he leaves, Carla tells Coach that the ex-teammate could see as well as anyone. Coach responds mystically, "In some ways, he can see more", a fitting last line by Coach in the series.

** That entire episode is an example of HarsherInHindsight. From the title, to the above-mentioned scene, to several other dialogue exchanges, the Coach couldn't have gone out in a more painful to watch in hindsight episode.

* Diane's request for Coach to "watch over Sam" in "Cheerio Cheers" is doubly this when you realize that not only would Diane not see Coach again prior to his death in-universe, Coach's actor Nicholas Colasanto died only a few days after the episode was filmed.

** Not to mention [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3YyqoveDgk the scene directly before it]]... Sam ''knows'' Diane will not return even as she tries to convince him otherwise.

* The DreamSequence after Diane leaves for good in "I Do and Adieu", where Sam imagines what might have been with the two of them as an elderly married couple.

-->'''Diane:''' And then, um...when I was...twelve years old, my parents ''separated''. ''(Swallows)'' It was--maybe the worst night of my ''life''.... Believe it or not, I actually thought about throwing myself in the lake. But--then I...looked down at this ''cat'' in my lap, and thought, "Well...who would take care of Elizabeth?" ''(Tears finally escape)'' ''She saved my '''life''' that night!'' And I know it's--''crazy'', and it's irrational, but...oh, Sam, I can't help thinking that last night, ''when her time came'', '''she must have wondered where ''I'' was'''....

-->'''Diane:''' And then, um...when I was...twelve years old, my parents ''separated''. ''(Swallows)'' It was--maybe the worst night of my ''life''.... Believe it or not, I actually thought about throwing myself in the lake. But--then I...looked down at this ''cat'' in my lap, and thought, "Well...who would take care of Elizabeth?" ''(Tears finally escape)'' ''She saved my '''life''' that night!'' And I know it's--''crazy'', and it's irrational, but...oh, Sam, I can't help thinking that last night, when her time came, '''she must have wondered where ''I'' was'''....

-->'''Diane:''' And then, um...when I was...twelve years old, my parents ''separated''. ''(Swallows)'' It was--maybe the worst night of my ''life''.... Believe it or not, I actually thought about throwing myself in the lake. But--then I...looked down at this ''cat'' in my lap, and thought, "Well...who would take care of Elizabeth?" ''(Tears finally escape)'' '''She saved my ''life'' that night!''' And I know it's--''crazy'', and it's irrational, but...oh, Sam, I can't help thinking that last night, when her time came, ''she must have wondered where I was''....

-->'''Diane:''' And then, um...when I was...twelve years old, my parents ''separated''. ''(Swallows)'' It was--maybe the worst night of my ''life'.... Believe it or not, I actually thought about throwing myself in the lake. But--then I...looked down at this ''cat'' in my lap, and thought, "Well...who would take care of Elizabeth?" ''(Tears finally escape)'' '''She saved my ''life'' that night!''' And I know it's--''crazy'', and it's irrational, but...oh, Sam, I can't help thinking that last night, when her time came, ''she must have wondered where I was''....

--'''Diane:''' And then, um...when I was...twelve years old, my parents ''separated''. ''(Swallows)'' It was--maybe the worst night of my ''life'.... Believe it or not, I actually thought about throwing myself in the lake. But--then I...looked down at this ''cat'' in my lap, and thought, "Well...who would take care of Elizabeth?" ''(Tears finally escape)'' '''She saved my ''life'' that night!''' And I know it's--''crazy'', and it's irrational, but...oh, Sam, I can't help thinking that last night, when her time came, ''she must have wondered where I was''....

--'''Diane:''' And then, um...''(Tears finally escape)'' '''She saved my ''life'' that night!''' And I know it's--''crazy'', and it's irrational, but...oh, Sam, I can't help thinking that last night, when her time came, ''she must have wondered where I was''....

* Diane's recounting of her relationship with her beloved cat Elizabeth, whom she's found out has just died, in "Let Me Count the Ways." It gets progressively harder and harder to listen to what she tells Sam without breaking out in tears of our own, culminating with:
-->'''Diane:''' And I know it's--''crazy'', and it's irrational, but...oh, Sam, I can't help thinking that last night, when her time came, ''she must have wondered where I was''....

* Diane's request for Coach to "watch over Sam" in "Cheerio Cheers" is douby this when you realize that not only would Diane not see Coach again prior to his death in-universe, Coach's actor Nicholas Colasanto died only a few days after the episode was filmed.

** At that point, all of the guests at the wake declare how T-Bone hit on (and actually slept with) their wives too. They all go to lynch his cardboard picture, before Diane starts singing "Amazing Grace" - causing the others to stop and join her, finally forgiving T-Bone.

** It's more than even Sam can bear, as he finds himself shedding some ManlyTears at this.

* Diane's recounting of her relationship with her beloved cat Elizabeth, whom she finds out has just died, in "Let Me Count the Ways." It gets progressively harder and harder to listen to what she tells Sam without breaking out in tears of our own, culminating with:

* "Sorry, we're closed." (*adjusts Geronimo picture*)

** It's more than even Sam can bear, as he finds himself shedding some ManlyTears at this.

* Sam's tearful goodbye with his imaginary son in "Go Make". The son says "see you in a few years," but Sam never remarried to date.

* Diane's recounting of her relationship with her beloved cat Elizabeth, whom she finds out has just died, in "Let Me Count The Ways." It gets progressively harder and harder to listen to what she tells Sam without breaking out in tears of our own, culminating with:

* Sam's tearful goodbye with his imaginary son. The son says "see you in a few years," but Sam never remarried to date.