Best CHEERS character

Aww. First Clint @ RNC and now this.

Ratzenberger has been a loud and public cranky conservative r-winger for decades

Dude worked for Darth Vader. What do you expect?

IMDb says he was one of the Rebels..?

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absurd

ditto

Just discovered this. Would have voted Norm.

Would also have strongly suggested that this poll have included Gary (of Gary's Olde Towne Tavern).

lol @ votes for Paul and Al

voted coach as i assumed norm would win.

Dunno if it was mentioned here or not but John Ratzenberger was in the big 70s BBC show Secret Army http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Army (the show that 'Allo 'Allo was a parody of)

Was watching it on UK Gold a few years back and he appears in one of the late episodes where the Allies have arrived. I nearly fell off my chair in shock when I saw him.

It made me see Allo Allo in a new light. I got all the in-jokes like the women upstairs etc.
Even funnier is the colonel from Allo Allo is in it as a nazi colonel.

wowww, never thought cliff would take it. i was honestly never a huge cliff fan. nothing against him, he has some great moments, but not a favorite

Would also have strongly suggested that this poll have included Gary (of Gary's Olde Towne Tavern).

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iirc gary was played by multiple actors, i just wasn't comfortable with that

glad paul, al and nick got votes

cliff kind of makes my skin crawl

i get what you mean. i guess hes meant to be a lovable loser but it never really played for me.

nah he's meant to be at least on the edge of creepy imo

yeah i always thought the show intended him to make your skin crawl? feel like as the seasons go on carla is particularly vocal about how repulsive she finds him and as a kid i tended to adopt carla's views on everything.

maybe people voted for him as best character in that british way where they don't find him likable but *provocative* or whatever

anyway norm was robbed

Cliff was a really well played character that was responsible for a ton of huge laughs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gku_xU2BXBs

i love cliff but him getting 5X the votes frasier got is kinda insane

cliff's funniest when hes owning carla, imo

balls otm

diane was robbed

i mean, frasier's just hilarious. his funny peaks are way way funnier than cliff's, in this poster's opinion.

originally this poll was gonna be cliff vs norm but then i thought i'd do the whole cast. and i assumed norm would run away with it, heh.

i voted for diane, but i didnt expect her to win

hated diane when i was a kid, watched a shit ton of episodes over the past year and was blown away by shelly long. i love norm but i think i love diane saying 'norman' when the rest of the bar goes 'NORM!' even more.

haha yeah diane was a total wet blanket to kid-me.

i love cliff but him getting 5X the votes frasier got is kinda insane

i wonder if Frasier's poor showing here has something to do with "Frasier"

More to do with Lilith it appears.

i kind of look at this thread as a celebration of the ensemble where the results don't really matter and could never really be 'correct' tbh

Someone do TAXI now!

louie would steal it wouldnt he

It would be Louie versus Jim.

these results are messed!

i love cliff but him getting 5X the votes frasier got is kinda insane

yeah i think this is because frasier the show quickly became a corny, prissy french farce, and because kelsey grammer is a motherfucker with some dark secrets...

kinda most surprised by how few votes Woody got

Lilith came second?

i voted woody

How did anyone end up with less votes than Diane?!?! SMH

Thing I like most about this board is how after every poll, my immediate reaction is "fuckin' ILX…"

Let's do a Night Court poll and see how many votes Mac gets for first place.

I would totally campaign for Mac

Had you down for either Roz or Selma, tbh.

oh shit Roz

sorry Mac, Marsha Warfield is my long time boo

I was first in line: Best TAXI Character

Let's do a Judge Judy poll, see who wins!

woody harrelson is a motherfucker with some dark secrets

i always liked woody more than coach tbh