it’s norm holding a lighter under the sleeve of one of coach’s daughter’s fiancé’s suits trying and failing to set it on fire, and it made lol irl― He is married to Brogmus, Linda. (bizarro gazzara)
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 20 April 2020 05:13 (four years ago) link
Been watching some s06 lately, the Sam and Rebecca stuff is more repellently "sexual harrassment in the workplace" than I remember but she's great from the off
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), 2020年4月18日 星期六 下午 11:55 (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah, we’re on s06 now, and rebecca (kudos to alley’s performance) only just saves it by putting up exactly the right level of blocking to cut off sam’s harassment without killing the comedy. there is no way a dynamic like this would fly now.
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 20 April 2020 10:09 (four years ago) link
just struck me that cheers episodes are half-hours that are 24 minutes long and new half-hours made today are at least a couple of minutes shorter thanks, capitalism
― He is married to Brogmus, Linda. (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 26 April 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
yeah on the Simpsons DVDs the writers talk about how it's actually a lot harder to write episodes now with fewer minutes to work with
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 26 April 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
On jeopardy the other night there was a question that was something like “the depth of this part of the Pacific Ocean is greater than any other place on earth” and one of the contestants non-jokingly answered “what is the deepest part?” Amazingly close to cliffs famous “who are three people who have never been in my kitchen” answer from the jeopardy episode, almost fell off the couch laughing
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Sunday, 26 April 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
Season 5 is a real imperial phase.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 26 April 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
yeah. the rebecca episodes are great, but i think season 5 is the peak. or maybe it just becomes a different show, as the romcom element fades away forever.
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Sunday, 26 April 2020 22:33 (four years ago) link
The episode where Sam and Diane go to Frasier and Lilith's for dinner is an absolute masterpiece, and the scene where Sam and Diane submit poems to the same magazine is probably the high point of their onscreen relationship.
― Matt DC, Monday, 27 April 2020 12:44 (four years ago) link
i really love the one where Sam borrows Diane's first edition of the Hemingway novel. Is that s05?
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Monday, 27 April 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
not a rejection note, a "soon and inevitably to be published" note
― mark s, Monday, 27 April 2020 13:29 (four years ago) link
thanks, capitalism
Tbf to capitalism, Cheers theme song intro and end credits over still image took up a good share of that time difference.
― punning display, Monday, 27 April 2020 18:52 (four years ago) link
you have cause and effect the wrong way around there
― donald failson (sic), Monday, 27 April 2020 18:55 (four years ago) link
Huh it's only the 6th episode into Rebecca Howe era where her mask falls, eg Norm sees her crying. In my memory that was kept up for a couple seasons.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, 27 April 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
weeks lasted longer when we were kids
― donald failson (sic), Monday, 27 April 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link
i blame capitalism
― mark s, Monday, 27 April 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
Thatcher surely?
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 27 April 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
roger rees also amazingly bad and annoying in law and order
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 16:06 (four years ago) link
he is not just an employee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― j., Wednesday, 6 May 2020 16:09 (four years ago) link
The first quarter or so of Season 6 is a real dip, you can feel them struggling to nail the new dynamic and Diane is a gigantic absence. Can't help but feel that if the internet was watching it in real time it would be declared over.
Once they realise that Rebecca is funny because she's dorky not because she's an impenetrable hard businesswoman it starts to work, but Frasier and Lilith are absolutely killing it this season.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
Also you can always tell who the writers are most interested in by who they allow the camera to follow out of the bar. They're going big on Cliff this season as well as Frasier.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
The episode where Cliff's house is about to be demolished is pretty strong. Also loved the one where Lilith buys Sam in the batchelor auction (the scary woman who purchases Woody resurfaces a few seasons later as a scary IRS official who blackmails Norm into an affair). But yeah, I feel Season Six is a fallow season - in fact, I don't really think the show hits true form again until the Sam/Rebecca/Robin Colcort triangle kicks in (sorry not sorry Mark S).
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
I disagree actually, I think it hits its stride straight after the episode with Cliff's house - from the charity auction onwards its really strong. Admittedly I'm only as far as the Christmas one but the sense of the tone being off has gone and the one-liners are still as sharp as ever.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
Vera appeared, except with her face covered in pie or something like that.
I woke up early the other day and turned on the TV and this episode was just finishing. They were having Thanksgiving's at Carla's(?) house and there's a massive food fight but then they're all friends again and Norm wants to introduce them to Vera but a giddy Diane says, "Who's for dessert?" and picks up a chocolate cake or something and throws it, hitting Vera full in the face just as she's walking through the door.
― Angry Question Time Man's Flute Club Band (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
coldcord is unwatchable which is a pity bcz the writing was good at this point and the idea of the triangle unimpeachable
sadly they hired the useless and terrible roger rees who punches unfunny holes in the otherwise good stuff
― mark s, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
I've reached S11 (that's the final season, iirc?). Carla deciding to leave Cheers for more money at the neon-laden chain bar was genuisly reversed by meeting her new trainee.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 7 May 2020 05:00 (four years ago) link
I love that episode so much. Mr Pubs!
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Thursday, 7 May 2020 06:57 (four years ago) link
cliff’s veggie garden gag making a glorious comeback in s07e19 via the beet-a-baga fajita-in-a-pita, “that little taste of cairo,” is supreme.
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 May 2020 08:21 (four years ago) link
I love the vegetables running gag so much.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 May 2020 08:46 (four years ago) link
series 11 is incredibly strong, with the ensemble really keeping the show fresh
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 May 2020 09:47 (four years ago) link
Zero vote for Eddie LeBec OTM by the way, just not very funny at all.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:42 (four years ago) link
yeah, huge misfire there
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 7 May 2020 10:46 (four years ago) link
eddie's got heart, i always like it when he shows up.
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 May 2020 11:19 (four years ago) link
Watching much slower than the rest of you, apparently, but the big revelation for me yesterday was that there used to be a different guy named "Paul" who sat in future Paul's spot
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 7 May 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
you're biased
― j., Thursday, 7 May 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
yes season 1 has a different Paul from the guy who eventually became Paul:The character was first called Paul in season four. In his first appearance, in season 1, Coach calls Paul's character "Glenn" (confusingly, the credits identify the character as "Gregg"), and in another early appearance, he is credited as "Tom", although this name is not spoken aloud in the episode. Towards the end of the series' run, a reference by Paul that he's been drinking at Cheers for 10 years makes it plausible that Coach had mistaken his name in his first appearance 10 years prior, and that "Glenn" and Paul are meant to be one and the same person.
― mizzell, Thursday, 7 May 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
amazing Halloween costume
https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/112/111698/full-700x764/5eaacd11/2013-10-Brett-Bumgarner-cheers-costume-21.jpeg
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 7 May 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
I remember Paul being a much more prominent character in later seasons, as it stands he's barely even a character and much less prominent than other rotating regulars like Al or the hopeless lawyer guy.
― Matt DC, Friday, 8 May 2020 10:48 (four years ago) link
civil servantsstamps from around the world mothers and sonsbeerbar triviacelibacy
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
lmao
"Seriously... Drink-driving. What's up with that?"
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
the spontaneous "we will rock you" moment that opens s08e18 is SO good
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
isn’t it great? it’s also the only time i can recall close-ups of anything at all in this show. they never go in tighter than a head-to-waist shot (unless it’s a one-shot of norm at the bar, in which case there are always people milling about behind him).
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 14 May 2020 08:00 (four years ago) link
How are you all blazing through so fast? OK, maybe stupid question, but I'm still on S2 despite sheltering in place. I find I can only binge 3-4 episodes at a time
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 14 May 2020 10:34 (four years ago) link
we’re smashing out 20–30 episodes a week (watching s09e09 right now)
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 14 May 2020 10:56 (four years ago) link
ooh, hill just introduced himself
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 14 May 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link
Finished season 6 last night and the closing run of episodes is so great. The whole season really works as an extended excercise in knocking Sam off his pedestal.
Rebecca is crucial in that, because Sam is an alpha male by the standards of the dudes in the bar, and also by the standards of the eggheads that Diane knows, but absolutely not by Rebecca's standards (the business elite of Boston).
Also Danson was clearly getting older and the scripts needed to reflect that.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 May 2020 11:10 (four years ago) link
took a break at the beginning of season 5 bc im not ready to say goodbye to Dianne. I’m definitely in the thick of when I started watching in real time though. It’s pretty wild in the way smells can trigger memories, apparently so can Sam’s blousy collarless um henleys?
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 14 May 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
close-ups of anything at all in this show
this caught my attention for sure. it was kinda cool to "experience" the bar in a more intimate way.
i also kept expecting somebody to burst in with a wisecrack. when nobody did and the credits just started to play it made it even funnier.
― budo jeru, Thursday, 14 May 2020 15:59 (four years ago) link
Another low-key running gag I love is Woody writing the Cheers Newsletter for no reason whatsoever.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 May 2020 16:12 (four years ago) link
cheers-era kirstie alley is my current crush btw
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 14 May 2020 22:34 (four years ago) link