ROACH

COACH
1989-1997 ABC

ROACH
MAD # 296, July 1990
w: Stan Hart
a: Angelo Torres

Sitcom about Hayden Fox (Craig T. Nelson), football coach for Minnesota State. In the first season, his daughter Kelly (Clare Carey) is also a student at the college, living with him and away from her mother. He disapproves of her boyfriend Stuart (Kris Kamm). The coach lives with his girlfriend Christine Armstrong (Shelley Fabares). Rounding out the main cast are his assistants Luther (Jerry Van Dyke) and Dauber (Bill Fagerbakke).

Christine was a local newsanchor like Mary Tyler Moore. Coach and Stuart are always at odds because Stuart is a sensitive theater student rather than an athlete.

Eventually Stewart and Kelly married. Jackie Mason was big around this time, I can't remember why. He had a one-man show called The World According to Me. He had his own short-lived sitcom called Chicken Soup and Coach was the lead-in for it.

KOOCH
Cracked #275, October 1992
w: Lance Contrucci
a: Walter Brogan

The speech balloons are weirdly placed here. By this time, Kelly and Stuart were divorced and she was dating.