Best CHEERS character

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

Coach was great as a befuddled old man, Woody was a masterpiece of naivete and comic misinterpretation. Woody Harrelson is a charismatic motherfucker, too

oh man, Reelz is running the first Lilith episode! she dumps Fraser in the first act and then Sam sets him up with Jennifer Tilly, never saw this before

It is really hard to settle on a favorite character aside from Diane (who could be far too grating which I realize was part of the character, but still).

this was the right result

Cheers writer Ken Levine disagrees with this graph from the internet:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HyxKHsCu5sI/UFnzNPQ2imI/AAAAAAAAM-8/yzkiDrw4tyM/s1600/cheers-20110908-090007.jpg

As someone who wrote these characters for nine years, this would be my order:

Lilith
Frasier
Diane
(now comes a big drop)
Sam
Rebecca
Carla
Norm
Cliff

Coach
Woody

Sam was dumbed down over the years but at least during the first few seasons he was very smart and savvy. So if you average his IQ over the seasons he still comes out way ahead, certainly better than Cliff.

I can't believe they put Cliff anywhere near the top.

Why Coach over Woody? They were both pretty addled. But you figure that before he was hit in the head by too many fastballs, the Coach was probably smarter. Although, now that I think about it, how intelligent do you have to be to just get out of the way?

ken levine otm, internet image macro infographic off the money

cliff that high is just bonkers

the placement of cliff that high makes me question the intelligence of the infographic creator. i imagine a cliff-like being putting together this sequence, rationalizing it in a way that sounds decent if you're not really paying attention, but if you are, you just shake your head in wonder at the ability of humanity to justify its stupidity

i imagine a cliff-like being putting together this sequence,

yes otm

Yeah, what's up with that?

lol i love the idea of some credulous viewer thinking that Cliff is the wise sage who has so much knowledge

The main hook to Cliff's character was that he never had a clue what he was talking about; that chart is hilarious.

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Cliff being smarter than Carla would invalidate every single interaction they ever had!

they did sort of play him that way in the earliest eps, but they quickly realized it was funnier to undercut his knowitall interjections

re: being a wise sage

Cliff on Jeopardy is one of TV's all time classic episodes.

Norm's ability to effortlessly zing people is all-time, the writers obviously valued that.`

Cliff as standup is one of my favourite episodes ever (My Son The Father, I believe)

I voted Cliff but immediately wished I'd actually voted Rebecca.

Team Carla, obv.

haha i just watched an episode that ends with Woody outsmarting Sam (after Sam promises him a raise of $100 a month, Woody says "that's too steep, I'll settle for $30 a week" and Sam acts like he was a master negotiator)