Best CHEERS character

Cliff: Check out this headline "SUICIDAL TWIN KILLS BROTHER BY MISTAKE"

Pretty sure I missed this poll, but I’d have voted for Shelley Long.

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Definitely should have been more love for Diane. Certainly above Carla

Classic cold open where Frasier attempts to discuss Ingmar Bergman with the gang at Cheers. pic.twitter.com/ufUQ72nYcf

— Adam Rackoff (@AdamRackoff) September 20, 2022

example of the good frasier material

"To the layman"--someone should have decked him!

they’re used to it by that point - it’ll take more than that - “to the layman” merely the foothills of frasier’s mountainous condescension

example of the good frasier material

The turn to Abbot & Costello/Martin & Lewis at the end is the mark of genius.

I think one of my favourite Cheers runs is the episode where Frasier is reading Dickens, and starts to read some to the bar, but when they get restless he adulterates it with some horror/action movie schtik to keep them interested. By the end, he's reading lines like, "It's a far, far better butt-kicking I give today..."

seriously how is Cliff only mid-30s when this show started..

Reaganomics

Watching this again from s01e01 with my partner, who only watched scattered episodes back in the day. It's my nth run-through, but it's still so hilarious. Really struck this time by how Shelly Long is the MVP in every episode - scripts are all unimpeachable, every actor is perfect, but she is just bringing this extra energy to every line, is entirely dialled-in to her oddball character and owns every scene she appears in.

100%

and so much of it is danson just reacting genuinely in the moment to how incredible she is

Me and my partner have been doing a similar thing (she is a scriptwriter and worships the show as the summit of all human achievement). Had completely forgotten S01 E16 The Boys in the Bar episode - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_in_the_Bar- which seems even more relevant today.

I’m always surprised by how consistently funny it is - there are plenty of old sitcoms that I love that are like warm blankets, comfort watches with the occasional chuckle, but Cheers is properly laugh-out-loud several times an episode. And Coach’s timing is incredible.

Coach is another MVP. My heart keeps breaking as we watch along to know he only had a couple of years left (but what a last hurrah for Colasanto). Got a bit choked the other evening telling my partner how as Colasanto's heart disease progressed and his memory faltered, he wrote his lines on parts of the set in case he forgot them, and in subsequent years the cast campaigned for them not to be painted over, and how the show's penultimate shot is basically Sam dusting off the framed portrait of Geronimo they kept on the wall in tribute to Colasanto.

And the end of that early episode w/ his daughter is genuinely an amazing bit of acting - never fail to tear up when his daughter (Ms Dipesto off Moonlighting!!) says she's ugly, Coach says she looks like her mum, she falters as she tries to say "And mum was not beautiful", and Coach says "Your mother grew more beautiful every day I knew her"... ack, am choking up a bit as I type. And the words themselves aren't even a very strong denouement, but the way Colasanto delivers them is truly remarkable.

Matt Baume, whose work I really enjoy, did a couple of good clips on Cheers and on that Boys In The Bar episode in particular
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iIsPz0KBB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTieRMQ2_H0

Also love the fact that Colasanto directed the Johnny Cash Columbo episode.

Indeed. He directed a few iirc.

... actually two, the murderer in the other one was John Cassevetes!

One of the best ones!

woah, i did not realise that!

And the end of that early episode w/ his daughter is genuinely an amazing bit of acting - never fail to tear up when his daughter (Ms Dipesto off Moonlighting!!) says she's ugly, Coach says she looks like her mum, she falters as she tries to say "And mum was not beautiful", and Coach says "Your mother grew more beautiful every day I knew her"... ack, am choking up a bit as I type. And the words themselves aren't even a very strong denouement, but the way Colasanto delivers them is truly remarkable.

oh God yes, I haven't thought of that scene in decades but I'm totally welling up now.

Coach is another MVP

Coach's little song from when he was trying to learn world geography is still in my head nearly 40 years later. "Albania, Albania, you border on the Adriatic." I don't think he ever got any further.

there's a whole verse! "your chief export is chrome!"

We also get a line or two from one of his other songs, when he's triumphantly returning to the bar following their exam.

That song is also forever replaying in my head.

I just learned the same songwriter-singer behind the Cheers theme also did the (even better) theme song for “Punky Brewster”

For some reason I thought at the time that Gilbert O'Sullivan was the singer-songwriter behind the Cheers theme.

At a younger age I had though that all sit-com theme songs were sung by the cast members. I was really off as a kid.

(Trying hard not to mention Dennis Waterman here)

dennis waterman sang and will continue (via the posthumous magic of AI) to sing all sit-com themetunes at all times

this is the mark s guarantee

At a younger age I had though that all sit-com theme songs were sung by the cast members. I was really off as a kid.

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I don't know if I though this about all sitcoms, but I definitely thought it was Woody singing the Cheers theme song.

I also get Coach's Albania song in my head all the time.

I thought Nicholas Lyndhurst sang the Fools and Horses theme, and he should certainly sing the new Frasier one.

John Sullivan sang the OFAH theme song (see also Ian La Frenais singing the main song in the Porridge movie - a co-write with Ray Russell!)

I REALLY thought the "Three's Company" theme was sung by John Ritter, then I saw that it was performed by Ray Charles, which REALLY blew my mind. (Turned out to be a different Ray Charles.)

The Nightingales theme for the end credits was sang by Robert Lindsay, though it doesn't sound much like him. It's beautiful and one of my fave sitcom theme tunes

For some reason I thought at the time that Gilbert O'Sullivan was the singer-songwriter behind the Cheers theme.

"Alone again, at the place where everybody knows your name"

Onto Season 4 with Paramount and on a new TV but the quality is markedly poorer compared to how previous seasons looked on both Prime and Channel 4 though. Anyone else find this?

nicholas colasanto was born 100 years ago today

rip Coach, gone way too soon

Luv ya Coachy.

Only the season 4 opener looked awful on Paramount weirdly, rest is fine.

I just learned the same songwriter-singer behind the Cheers theme also did the (even better) theme song for “Punky Brewster”

― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.)

wow, was the punky brewster theme song randomly transphobic too

Coach was the best. IMO the show ran for eight more brilliant seasons but a part of its heart broke when he passed.

wow, was the punky brewster theme song randomly transphobic too

please explain

Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee's dead;
The morning's looking bright;
And your shrink ran off to Europe,
And didn't even write;
And your husband wants to be a girl;

I don't recall that from the Cheers theme?