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[b]Yep, half of it is pretty much copy&paste from Wikipedia. Live with it[/b]
Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC. The show is set in the Cheers bar (named for the toast "Cheers") in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, chat and have fun.
Nearly all of Cheers took place in the front room of the bar, but they often went into the rear pool room or the bar's office. Cheers did not show any action outside the bar until the first episode of the second season, which took place in Diane's apartment.
Cheers had several running gags, such as Norm arriving in the bar greeted by a loud "Norm!" Early episodes generally followed Sam's antics with his various women, following a variety of romantic comedy clichés to get out of whatever relationship troubles he was in during each episode. As the show progressed and Sam got into more serious relationships, the general tone switched to a comedic take on Sam settling into a monogamous lifestyle. Throughout the series, larger story arcs began to develop that spanned multiple episodes or seasons, interspersed with smaller themes and one-off episodes.
[b]Cast[/b]
[b]Sam Malone(Ted Danson)[/b]
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Sam was a relief pitcher in minor league baseball, eventually playing in Pawtucket, where he met friend and Cheers employee Coach Ernie Pantusso. He was eventually called up to the Major Leagues, where he spent his entire six-year career with the Boston Red Sox, and had been retired for five years when Cheers began.
He then bought Cheers 1977 and after he achieved sobriety he kept the bar for for sentimental reasons.
[b]Diane Chambers(Shelley Long)[/b]
Seasons 1-5
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In the early 1980s, Diane had an affair with Sumner Sloan, one of her literature professors—he was the cad who dumped her by leaving her at Cheers' the night they were supposed to fly to Barbados and get married. Stranded at the bar, and unwilling to return to the life of a perpetual grad student, Diane took a job as a waitress at Cheers after admitting that she had no marketable skills and was unqualified for any other sort of work but has an excellent memory for drink orders, although it is also strongly implied that she stayed at Cheers due [sp]to her sexual attraction to Cheers owner/bartender Sam Malone.[/sp]
[b]Rebecca Howe(Kirstie Alley)[/b]
Seasons 6-11
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Rebecca Howe enters Cheers as the manager assigned by the bar's new corporate owner. Rebecca is eager to please her bosses and move up the corporate ladder, although the atmosphere of the Cheers bar is like purgatory to her. She is initially presented as a tough, no-nonsense corporate type ("this one eats live sharks", Carla comments) but her façade soon drops, revealing her neurotic and clumsy tendencies. Over the course of the series, Rebecca becomes close friends with the Cheers gang.
[b]Ernie "Coach" Pantusso(Nicholas Colasanto)[/b]
Seasons 1-3
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Coach was slow and forgetful, but always genial, warm, and caring, a marked contrast to the tough, plain-talking Carla Tortelli. He got his nickname from his tenure as a baseball coach; he had coached Sam Malone with the Boston Red Sox before Sam bought Cheers. He once said he thought he got called coach because he always flew in the coach section of an airplane and never in first class.
Colasanto died in 1985, shortly after filming the season 3 episode "Cheerio, Cheers". This episode was the 59th to be produced, but was moved following Colasanto's death and shown as the 66th episode. Production was halted for three weeks. After his death, episodes were moved around - in particular the cold openings - so as to make Coach's absence less obvious. For the episodes where Coach did not appear, excuses were often made for his absence. In one instance it was explained he was visiting his sister. In another he re-took his driving test in Vermont.
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[b]Woody Boyd(Woody Harrelson)[/b]
Seasons 4-11
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Huckleberry Tiberius "Woody" Boyd is a lovable, albeit extremely naive and unsophisticated, guy.
Woody followed in Coach's footsteps in many ways, failing to understand the most obvious jokes, concepts, and situations. Woody was essentially a straight man for all of Cheers, though his humor stemmed from his misunderstandings. Woody once told Dr. Crane he was the smartest man he knew, apart from Cliff Clavin.
Woody seemed to have an off-center mentality, misunderstanding others' comments much as Coach had done. When Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers appears and starts singing "You've Lost That Loving Feeling", Woody asks him, "How come you changed your name from Righteous?"
[b]Norm Peterson(George Wendt)[/b]
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(To the right)
Prior to the show, Norm was born in Chicago, and moved to Boston to become an accountant, although he is a lifelong Boston Celtics fan who went to Boston Garden as a child.[4] Norm previously served in the United States Coast Guard. He [sp]loses his accounting job by defending Diane from his boss, and becomes a housepainter.[/sp] Norm was revealed to be an accomplished interior decorator and beer taster, capable of spotting a bad vat in a factory by drinking a single bottle.
Norm's best friend is postman and fellow barfly Cliff Clavin, who calls him "Normy".
[b]Cliff Clavin(John Ratzenberger)[/b]
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Cliff was a postal worker and Norm Peterson's best friend. He lived with his mother, Esther Clavin (Frances Sternhagen) in a two-story house, where Cliff spent his childhood. It was bulldozed after Esther sold her property and moved with her newfound nest egg to Florida. Cliff then moved into a small apartment of his own, in which the couch doubled as a bed.
A chatter-box by nature, Cliff was well known as a storehouse of useless trivia, often of dubious veracity and bearing little relation to the conversation going on at the bar. Carla did not like Cliff and often insulted him or his opinions. (Carla's hatred ran so deep that in the Frasier episode "Cheerful Goodbyes" Carla has to be dragged out of Cliff's retirement party after she finds out he isn't leaving - a decision he made after misinterpreting a vicious tirade as a show of affection - and has to have a diver's spear gun wrestled from her hands.) Cliff took great pride in his job as a postal worker and often became agitated when people (often barfly Paul) insulted his job or the U.S. Postal Service. He sometimes talked about his job as if he were in the police force. Cliff's father made a brief appearance on Cheers before fleeing the country to Australia to avoid prison for fraud.
Socially awkward and generally ignored by women, Cliff didn't have any real relationship (or, for that matter, any sexual experience) until meeting fellow oddball postal worker Margaret O'Keefe (Annie Golden) in the seventh season. After using a postal vehicle to drive to a tryst with Cliff and then falsely reporting it stolen to cover up the deed, Margaret was fired from the postal service. Feeling compelled to remain a postal worker, she left Boston and moved to Canada to work for Canada Post. Cliff briefly considered going with her, but ultimately his patriotism would not let him leave the United States.
[b]Frasier Crane(Kelsey Grammer[/b]
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Crane is well-to-do, with upper class and intellectual tastes and a "lovably pompous", fairly uptight demeanor. He is something of an epicure, and enjoys the finer things in life, such as wine, good food, and expensive tailoring. He is very well versed in the realm of literature, frequently alluding to literary legends such as Shakespeare, Edmund Burke, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, O Henry, and Lord Tennyson, among others. He is also an aficionado of the arts, including opera, classical music, theatre, and antiquities, and possesses some esoteric and obscure interests, such as Mongolian throat singing and African artifacts.
Soon after Frasier debuts on Cheers, he dates Diane Chambers (Shelley Long). They get engaged, but the relationship ends when Diane abandons him at the altar. Frasier nevertheless visits the bar often.
[b]Carla Tortelli(Rhea Perlman)[/b]
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Carla grew up in the Federal Hill section of Providence, RI. Her father's name was "Benito" and her mother's maiden name was "Mussolini". According to her mother, Carla was named after her grandmother's mule. Carla has a younger sister, Annette (also played by Perlman). She also has another sister named Angeline and at least two brothers including one named Sal. She also has a nephew named Frankie whom Lilith and Rebecca were attracted to when he worked at the bar. When the show began she had four children, and when the show ended, she was the mother of eight children: Anthony (Timothy Williams), Serafina (Leah Remini), Gino (Josh Lozoff), Anne Marie (Risa Littman) , Lucinda (Sabrina Wiener) (all fathered by Nick Tortelli), Ludlow (Jarrett Lennon) [fathered by Frasier's mentor Dr. Bennett Ludlow], and twins Elvis (Danny Kramer) and Jesse (Thomas Tulak) {fathered by Eddie Lebec}. A devoted and often-disappointed Boston Red Sox fan, she became friends with Sam during his baseball days, at least five years before the show's start, and came to work for him at Cheers when he began working there after his retirement.
Carla was both feisty and highly superstitious. She expressed a particular dislike for Diane Chambers, often referring to her by derogatory nicknames such as: The Stick, Whitey, Pencil-Neck, Fish-face, and Gozzel-head. She also had a long-standing dislike of Cliff Clavin. The only regulars she seemed to be friendly with were Norm Peterson and Coach, who were still not totally immune to her scathing wit.
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This show is a classic. I watch the re-runs when they come on and it's pretty funny.
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