Best CHEERS character

(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.

― henry s, Friday, September 15, 2023 7:05 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

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?

Have i misunderstood something here

The Lyrics To The Full "Cheers" Theme Are Completely Insane

I don't recall that from the Cheers theme?

I don’t think it ever ran in the show otherwise

Yeah it made #58 on the UK chart in '84. I only heard the song in full a few years ago.

Yuck, hadn’t ever heard of that verse til now

Yuck, hadn’t ever heard of that verse til now

omg

it's pretty wild looking back and realizing that trans jokes were about as acceptable back in the day as, i don't know, hitler jokes. like it's so ubiquitous that a lot of it i forgot about and had to be reminded of. i did know about cheers because... i think when i was a kid and was learning the piano i had a book of sheet music to tv themes and it had the complete lyrics in there. then i forgot about it until i was talking with this zoomer i know who's obsessed with '70s and '80s sitcoms and idolizes vicki lawrence in "mama's family" and she mentioned it and i was just like oh shit, i forgot about that bit.

the thing is that kind of thing was just so _routine_ and _unexceptional_. it's really bizarre looking back on it, because this shit was just, like, normal when i was growing up. i definitely feel that "between two worlds" thing sometimes. maybe it's that way for a lot of trans people of whatever generation... i don't know!

Yeah, it seems nearly impossible to dip into just about any '80s entertainment and not risk getting blindsided by a (as it turns out not so) random joke at trans people's expense. There's even a nasty little moment at the end of a S7 Golden Girls episode that feels like a total sop to the shittiness of that era.

Yeah, it seems nearly impossible to dip into just about any '80s entertainment and not risk getting blindsided by a (as it turns out not so) random joke at trans people's expense. There's even a nasty little moment at the end of a S7 Golden Girls episode that feels like a total sop to the shittiness of that era.

― badpee pooper (Eric H.)

like i was watching... one of the weird things i do is watch tapes of old HBO between-movie interstitials from back in the day from, like, maybe 1984, and there's a promo for the news parody show they had, if you remember, it was called "not necessarily the news", and they had a joke to the effect that boy george was starting a finishing school for BOYS who wanted to be GIRLS! comedy gold i'm sure

i mean boy george isn't even a woman, just a guy who presents more on the femme side of things. god forbid anybody would be able to tell the difference between gender identity and presentation in those days, tho, lol just like. everything was so fucked up and i had no idea.

you have your work cut out for you