Cheers

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The 1,467 users who count themselves as Cheers fans have written a total of 88 reviews.

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Sam (Ted Danson), a former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, owns and runs Cheers, a cozy bar in Boston. Somewhat snobby, beautiful and intelligent Diane (Shelley Long) -- forced to become a waitress when her fiance jilts her -- constantly bickers with Sam. Eventually, they fall in love. Several wacky characters...  more

Sam (Ted Danson), a former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, owns and runs Cheers, a cozy bar in Boston. Somewhat snobby, beautiful and intelligent Diane (Shelley Long) -- forced to become a waitress when her fiance jilts her -- constantly bickers with Sam. Eventually, they fall in love. Several wacky characters make the bar their home-away-from-home, including sarcastic waitress Carla (Rhea Perlman), beer-loving Norm (George Wendt) and Boston letter carrier Cliff (John Ratzenberger) A few seasons later, Sam sells the bar to buy a boat and sail around the world. But his boat sinks and he returns to bartending. Rebecca (Kirstie Alley), the new (more ambitious) manager, hires him back. They love to hate each other and eventually get together as well.

Intro Theme:
Making your way in the world today takes everything you got.
Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see our troubles are all the same.
You wanna be where everybody knows your name.
You wanna go where people know people are all the same.
You wanna go where everybody knows your name.

Nielsen Ratings:

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• Shelley Long on "Modern Family"

  I saw Shelley Long on "Modern Family" on ABC last night. She was the guest star and played the mother of the character played by Julie Bowen. For me that was perfect casting, exactly who I would have cast. Shelley was my crush 27 years ago, and Julie was my crush 5 years ago on a great show called "Ed".

  I saw Shelley Long on "Modern Family" on ABC last night. She was the guest star and played the mother of the character played by Julie Bowen. For me that was perfect casting, exactly who I would have cast. Shelley was my crush 27 years ago, and Julie was my crush 5 years ago on a great show called "Ed". less

  chipsaugratin Last online Oct 22, 2009
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• TV Land Schedule?

  Hello, I've been watching Cheers on my local NBC affiliate (in Denver, Sun - Fri at 11:30 PM). Unfortunately, While NBC is co...more

  Hello, I've been watching Cheers on my local NBC affiliate (in Denver, Sun - Fri at 11:30 PM). Unfortunately, While NBC is covering the Olympics, Cheers is being preempted (until the 27th of Feb). I was severely bummed until I thought to look at the TV Land schedule. What a treat. It's even on at the same time - most nights - so I won't have to do without my nightly Cheers fix. The schedule has me a little confused, though. On Wednesday Night Cheers doesn't air at 11:30 pm (all times are MST), but I can record it at 9:30 pm. I think I can remember to do that (11:30 is a good time for me to watch Cheers). But now I see that on Monday and Friday, the 9:30 and 11:30 episodes are different - and they don't appear to be in sequence. Does TV Land run two separate threads, as it were? How does the schedule work? Is there a grid schedule for TV Land somewhere online? I can't find one. Thanks less

  cycletourist Last online May 10, 2007
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• Romantic & Sexual Subtleties & Modesties of "Cheers," The

  As I watched the climactic episode where Rebecca & Sam finally become intimate, I'm reminded of what the subject title is ab...more

  As I watched the climactic episode where Rebecca & Sam finally become intimate, I'm reminded of what the subject title is about. Um, I have 2 b amazed @ how the interacting characters (Sam & Diane, than Rebecca, Frazier & Lilith, Carla &, well, u-name-him) can display such romantic & sexual chemistry w/o needin' 2 be, um, explicit. Let's compare "Cheers" to "Two & a Half Men." The latter, like "Cheers," is a poplar show in it's decade; it has a few Emmy nods but not as much awards. Comparing the "alpha males" of the shows, Sam Malone was almost verbally explicit whenever he made moves on any women, whether it was some unknown chick on one ep, on&off-again suiteheart Diane, or the more resistant Rebecca. Perhaps such pick-up lines seemed OK b4 one of our Supreme Court Justices taught us what "sexual harrassment" is. But maybe it's the art of the chase. Sam's portrayal as a player is certainly different from Charlie Harper's, where in almost every episode you c Charlie not say such inventive or horny lines 2 a woman but often she is in his bed undressed the next scene, if not the 1st. Perhaps u must assume that Charlie always gets the girl. 2ndly, Sam also has a unique chemistry w/ Diane and Rebecca, the two women who I think shaped his aspect on being a player & on, um, female companionship. Rebecca was kind of just one agonisingly long conquest, which could be done if she & Sam couldn't readily fall deeply in love w/ each other. Diane, on the other hand, was such a polar opposite whose chemistry was unstable enough 2 drive Sam to do life-changing things, e.g. relapse, sell the bar, sail around the world. On the other hand, Charlie's interaction w/ women such as paramours Mia or Chelsea, or perhaps even stalker Rose, is so uninteresting. I think Mia was supposed to be distinguishable by the fact that she was harder 2 woo than any other girl. But after that, she just became a girlfriend that tried 2 change Charlie & failed. Well, as I can see by the scroll bar, I've typed enough, & it is 1:41 AM. Lemme w8 4 any replies & I can + on 2 the thread. But I do wanna mention 1 more thing. Sam Malone did have one code of ethics: never to sleep w/ women who were underage, married, or comatose. Charlie Harper has had sex w/ wives not his own, & u can assume he's seduced a comatose chick. But he does draw the line on 17-year-olds & younger. I dunno about Hell, but @ least jail is real. & oh yeah, also distant relatives (i.e. Gloria). less

  TheGloriousSOB Last online Sep 23, 2009
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  10 Perfect

  Best Comedy Ever hide show

  "Where Everyone Knows Your Name" and you felt like you were at the bar watching and laughing.. Cheers is just a classic show plain and simple. Smart, Funny and Iconic. It has some of the best writing ever on a sitcom. And Everyone Really Knows the names of the characters , Sam, Norm. Cliff, Diane, Carla, Rabecca, Coach, Woody, Fraiser, Lilith... Some of the shows I couldn't eat or drink during because I laughed so hard. The show could be the reason I love bars now. Maybe I am looking for a bar that made me feel the way Cheer's did.

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  maniac72 Added Mar 24, 2009 All my reviews
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  9.5 Superb

  Growing up with the gang at Cheers hide show

  Cheers is a special show for me. I grew up as a teenager watching Cheers. For me, I really didn't like the Cosby Show or Family Ties. I was one of the few who watched Cheers not as a part of NBC's Thursday lineup, but as a fan of Sam, Diane, Norm, Cliff, Coach and eventually Frasier, Woody, and Rebecca.
  
  I'd even watch midnight Cheers episodes on WPIX while in high school - they were airing in syndication while the show was still on NBC. There's dialogue I'll always remember, and while it suffered in its later years, it ended strongly - and introduced me to my favorite all-time sitcom, Frasier.

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  JonahFalcon Added Jan 23, 2009 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  Outstanding writing, strong characters, strong direction combine to create one of the best comedies in a place of "where everybody knows your name." hide show

  Cheers was to some extent two shows: with Diane and without Diane. In general, the "with Diane" shows were far superior because of both the character tension between Sam and Diane ("two people who not only should not marry, [they] should never see one another again") and the fact the Shelly Long is a far more accomplished and stable actress than Kirstie Alley whose Rebecca Howe was a poorly defined character in part I suspect because Alley was so unstable (something that became quite apparent after the show went off the air).
  
  That said, the without-Diane shows were greatly enhanced by the expanded presence of not only Frazier Crane but also (and especially) that of Lilith Sternin Crane, a tour de force for Bebe Neuwerth.
  
  The writing on the show was consistently outstanding and probably its greatest strength. The acting, with the exception of the very uneven Kirstie Alley, was uniformly solid and Rhea Perlman was particularly strong in making the audience largely look past the fact that her character was almost entirely two-dimensional with little function other than delivering sarcastic punch lines. The directing too was outstanding. Because the other characters (excepting the aforementioned Rebecca Howe) were so well drawn and well acted, the viewer (at least this viewer) felt a sense of watching real people cope with life. The show's lessons (or morals) were subtle and subtly delivered with wonderful positive humor ("put your faith in God, I know I'm going to" spoken by the head nun of the convent as advice to Diane and a comment on eating Diane's "creative" entree). The show was comforting and life affirming, imperfect people accepting other imperfect people. Whatever triumphs or tragedy befell them, there would always be the place "where everybody knows your name."
  
  Perhaps most touching was the show's genuine fondness for and remembrance of Nicholas Colasanto (Coach). In (at least) two episodes, he is memorialized by name and specific reference (the first show of the season after his death and the memorable Thanksgiving episode) and, in perhaps the most touching coda of any TV series, Sam's last act in the last episode is to straighten the picture of Geronimo that came from Colasanto's house and became a permanent part of the set after his death.
  
  It is in my all-time top five with Seinfeld, Scrubs, I Love Lucy, and (especially the early years') Cosby.

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  lazarus629 Added Dec 10, 2008 All my reviews
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  9.5 Superb

  Classic! hide show

  Cheers is one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. The best part about it is that it is still in re-runs and the show is still as funny and relevant (almost) as it was at the time. Sometimes there are guests or jokes that I don't get cause they are obviously topical from the 1980s when the show first aired but all in all this show is still great today. All of the characters were awesome. The show was still good when characters left it and were replaced because even the replacement characters were good (Rebecca Howe, Woody, etc). Frasier was a spin-off of this and even that was good because even though he was a bit part on Cheers the character was awesome. Cliff, Norm, Carla, etc, all of the characters were great and funny!

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  lare84 Added Sep 26, 2008 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  The story is about these friends who go to the bar, and is owned by Sam, who was a former baseball player for the Boston Red Sox. hide show

  This show is one of America's greatest sitcoms of the 1980's and the 1990's. It makes me feel like I want to "Go where everybody knows your name". The show just makes me feel great, and I like the character Diane. She was smart, but I don't see her in a lot of episodes. Even though all the episodes I have seen involved her, I found out that she was only in 123 episodes, while everybody was in a ton of more episodes. Anyways, it is just that sort of show that nakes you feel good, and makes you want to tune in for another episode, even though the shows are just coming in re-runs.

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  Bartman1195 Added Mar 15, 2008 All my reviews