Best CHEERS character

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)

that's quintessential cheers for me - everyone thinks they have one up on somebody, and they're rarely right (including frasier, often)

didn't woody end up being mayor of boston or something?

oh god yes. another of frasier's plans gone wrong.

city councilman

frasier was such a great character on cheers, but i really tired of his sitcom very quickly. like the hunting of the snipe episode, or the one where he's getting the bar interested in charles dickens by adding grisly horror and action movie details to the stories. "it's a far far better butt-kicking i give today, than i have ever butt-kicked before." genius.

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also
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i'm really impressed by how they were able to find old timey photographs of barhounds in the opening credits that were analogs to the characters. the ones for frazier and rebecca are especially good.

and i saw this place in portugal last week
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they did their research, i'll give them that
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awesome

every once in a while i think about the (last) wwi vet who streaked out of the back room yelling 'lafayette we are here!'

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stevie's 2nd pic, daaaamn

Hahaha, I've been looking FOR YEARS for photos of those things.

Animatronic Claven kinda looks like George W. Bush.

i'm really impressed by how they were able to find old timey photographs of barhounds in the opening credits that were analogs to the characters. the ones for frazier and rebecca are especially good.

Are those real photos though? I've always thought they were made up, because they show scenes from the late 19th/early 20th century of fancily dressed white guys drinking alongside black guys and women, which I assume wasn't how bars for upper/middle class white men were back then.

Or maybe the photos are real and the drawn pictures in the beginning of the credits aren't?

pretty sure all the stuff is real and old tbh but i don't know for sure

they were all real

Is there any info available where/when the pics are from?

They had something up on the official website about it when the series first ran, but they took the site down after the last episode aired in 1993.

Cheers had an official website back then?! Must've been one of the first TV series to have one.

Anyway, I'm not saying the drawn pics are fake, but some of them look a bit dubious to me, especially the one seen here at 0:17, where you can see a black guy drinking with middle-class white guys, in a setting that appears to be a late 19th century bar. Weren't bars like this segregated in the US back then?

Not all of them and not everywhere. I grew up in a very old harbor town; bars weren't really segregated until the 20th Century. Working class sailor bars were mixed; fancy establishments were de facto segregated, but that was more a question of class.

The bad thing about this thread is I want to take a couple of days off of work to watch Cheers.

I can't see anything bad about that at all.

They had something up on the official website about it when the series first ran, but they took the site down after the last episode aired in 1993.

― Trad., Arrrgh (stevie), Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:29 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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why thank you

do we have "Night Court" to blame for "Dave's World"?

no more than American Top 40 with Shadoe Stevens

From Cheers writer Ken Levine's blog

Weird question I've always wondered- where exactly did those paintings from the opening credits of CHEERS come from?

The opening credits were created by Castle-Bryant. They found old pictures of folks in bars and built that montage. I understand though one or two photos are actually people in a barbershop.

http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2008/10/barbershop-where-everyone-knows-your.html

omigod I forgot "Shadoe" was in "Dave's World."

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201210/cheers-oral-history-extended?printable=true&mobify=0

oh wow what totally excellent timing -- and it's raftery!

Long: Before the audition, I grabbed the dress I'd been planning to wear, only to realize that the waistband had been stretched to double it's normal size. But I didn't have an alternative and I was running late, so I just put a belt on and hoped it would be okay. When I met Ted, I realized too late that it was so blousy that I was giving him quite the view. I think it got us off to a really great start.

Danson: I was too terrified to notice she had breasts. I do remember that I was eating a sandwich.

damn that's a good history – and I think I've seen four episodes in my life.

Alley: One time, I brought Prince to the set. He's a friend of mine, and he asked to come. There were VIP rooms behind the audience, where a lot of the execs would sit, so I had Prince sitting up there. Everyone wanted to meet him, but he's a little shy. I think Woody went in and shook hands with him, and came down and said, "He isn't even talking to me!" But Jackie Swanson—she had a relationship with Prince, too.

Swanson: I've known Prince for many years—I worked on the "Raspberry Beret" video—and Kirstie and I used to fight about him. He once sent a card [saying] he had penned a song about me, called "Palomino Pleasure Ride." I remember bringing this card to work one time and showing Kirstie and saying: "See? Now who's the better friend?" It was so ridiculous. But Prince thought the writing on Cheers was smart. And he loved Kelly's headbands.

wow, william devane was a finalist for sam! this is awesome

Love this:

I did a horrible job. As I was leaving, the casting director says, "Thank you, John," and my eight-by-ten was already in a wastebasket. But the writer part of me turned around and said, "Do you have a bar know-it-all?" Because in the bars in my neighborhood where my father hung out, there was always a bar know-it-all. Glen said, "What are you talking about?" I just launched into an improvisation of what [became Cliff].