![]() ![]() In the series' first episode Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), a pretentious, well-to-do graduate student, was abandoned at the bar by her fiancé en route to their wedding. To one woman she threatened, "You sound like a lady who's getting tired of her teeth." The bar's regulars were the pathetic Norm Peterson (George Wendt), a perpetually unemployed accountant trapped in a loveless marriage to the unseen Vera and the equally pathetic Cliff Clavin (John Ratzenberger), the resident trivia expert and career postal worker, who still lived with his domineering mother. Carla Tortelli ( Rhea Perlman) was the foul-mouthed waitress a single mother, she bore several children out of wedlock during the show's eleven-year run. He was replaced behind the bar by an ignorant Indiana farm boy, Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson). Tending bar was Sam's old Red Sox coach, the befuddled Ernie Pantuso (Nicholas Colasanto), a character obviously modeled on baseball great Yogi Berra. His alcoholism under control, he reveled in his semi-celebrity and status as a ladies' man. "Ĭheers was set at a Boston bar of the same name owned by Sam Malone (Ted Danson), a good-looking former relief pitcher for the woebegone Boston Red Sox whose career was cut short by a drinking problem. Every time anybody opens his or her mouth on that show, it's significant. The author of many comic fiction classics added, "I wish I'd written instead of everything I had written. ![]() By the end of the show's run, author Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., was moved to call Cheers the "one comic masterpiece" in TV history. Combining physical and verbal gags with equal dexterity, Cheers turned the denizens of a small Boston bar into full-fledged American archetypes. Cheers was the longest-running and most critically acclaimed situation comedy on 1980s television. ![]()
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