Who's dumber, Coach or Woody?
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cultfilmfreaksdotcom — 10 years ago(December 15, 2015 11:37 AM)
Woody was a great replacement, but Coach, as "dumb" as he was, did have a reason to be slow as the OP points out, but he also had a very strange depth to him. He knew how to manipulate, and every once in a while an anger would rise from his character being that he was a coach in the past (when he coached the kid's team is a great example, featuring Corey Feldman When he tells the one kid, "Go home and tell your mother you're a flop!" is one of the funniest lines ever).
So I think Woody is smarter on a surface level as in, he's younger, more normal, more innocent and sweet and not stupid in that sense. His sweetness keeps him from being a quick-witted person. But Coach was a deeper character, and those layers come through the more you watch the show. It's like the person he was in the past would rise up every once in a while, and then he'd lose it again.
Woody was great, but Coach, during the first two seasons, was my favorite And yet CHEERS is an off-shoot of TAXI, and both Coach and Woody are basically sober characters based on Christopher Lloyd's Jim, with a little of Tony Danza's punchy boxer thrown in.
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