Updated: 10/20/2005
| 1. When the Russian basketball player asks Jackson what
his favorite music is, Jackson replies, “Funkadelic.” 2. Celebrities such as Sparky Anderson show up at the funeral that the players staged for Coach in order to make money. 3. Coach states that despite what everyone thinks, Hayward is the best player on the team, not Coolidge. 4. Goldstein flips out in front of the whole team because they were dissing him for living with his grandparents. 5. The entire golfing episode. 6. Michael Warren (b.k.a. Bobby Hill), appearing as a thug who’s got game, drills what looks like a 35-foot jump shot in the face of the entire team, quieting everyone in the gym. 7. Coach goes on a double date with Salami; maybe inappropriate by today’s standards, but no one seemed to have a problem with it in ’79. 8. During a flashback to coach’s days as a fair-to-middling player for the Bulls, the camera shows him sitting on the bench and then pans to Artis Gilmore sitting a few seats down. 9. When the principal of the school—who was Coach’s teammate when they played at Boston College—is shown taking a two-handed set shot. 10. Finding out that the show’s producer, Bruce Paltrow, was also Gwyneth’s dad and wondering how one person who could create something so sublime could also make something so banal. 11. Watching St. Elsewhere years later when the actor who played Coolidge, Byron Stewart, was working as a custodian in the hospital with some vague references to him being an ex-high school phenom who never made it to the pros because his knee blew out. On one episode the actor who played Salami, Timothy Van Patten, appeared as a street tough. At one point Van Patten gets into an elevator. As the door is closing, Stewart stops it and says, “Salami!” Salami replies, “You must have me confused with someone else” and the elevator door closes. Irrefutably the greatest moment in television history, save perhaps the Pine Tar Incident. |