Cheers (TV Series)

The Coach's Daughter (1982)

Allyce Beasley: Lisa

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• Lisa Pantusso : Look, Daddy. I'm not dumb. I know Roy's abrasive. I know he's insensitive, and I know he's probably only marrying me so he can get the Pennsylvania territory.

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : Why would you want to marry a man like this?

  Lisa Pantusso : Isn't it obvious to you?

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : Nothing's ever obvious to me.

  Lisa Pantusso : Daddy, don't make me say this.

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : What, what?

  Lisa Pantusso : I want to be married and I want to have children. Roy is the first man that ever asked me to marry him, and I'm afraid he's going to be the last.

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : Oh, come on honey. There must have been dozens of young fellas that proposed to you.

  Lisa Pantusso : No, Daddy. Wake up. Roy is the first one, ever.

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : But you're so beautiful, so...

  Lisa Pantusso : Beautiful? Daddy, you have been saying that I'm beautiful ever since I was a very little girl. But look at me, not as my father, but like you were looking at me for the first time and please, try to see me as I really am.

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : [after looking deep into Lisa's eyes]  Oh my God, I, I didn't realize how much you look like your mother.

  Lisa Pantusso : I know. I look exactly like her, and mom was not b...

  [Lisa pauses to reflect] 

  Lisa Pantusso : ...comfortable about her beauty.

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : But that's what made her more beautiful. Your mother grew more beautiful every day of her life.

  Lisa Pantusso : She was really beautiful.

  Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso : Yes, and so are you. You're the most beautiful kid in the whole world.

  Lisa Pantusso : Thanks, Daddy.

• Lisa Pantusso : I'm not going to marry you, Roy.

  Roy : But Lisa, what about Pennsylvania?

  Lisa Pantusso : You don't get me, Roy, and you don't get Pennsylvania, you just get more annoying.