At a younger age I had though that all sit-com theme songs were sung by the cast members. I was really off as a kid.
― henry s, Friday, September 15, 2023 7:05 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't know if I though this about all sitcoms, but I definitely thought it was Woody singing the Cheers theme song.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 15 September 2023 17:34 (nine months ago) link
I also get Coach's Albania song in my head all the time.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 15 September 2023 17:35 (nine months ago) link
I thought Nicholas Lyndhurst sang the Fools and Horses theme, and he should certainly sing the new Frasier one.
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 15 September 2023 19:23 (nine months ago) link
John Sullivan sang the OFAH theme song (see also Ian La Frenais singing the main song in the Porridge movie - a co-write with Ray Russell!)
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 15 September 2023 19:45 (nine months ago) link
I REALLY thought the "Three's Company" theme was sung by John Ritter, then I saw that it was performed by Ray Charles, which REALLY blew my mind. (Turned out to be a different Ray Charles.)
― henry s, Friday, 15 September 2023 19:57 (nine months ago) link
The Nightingales theme for the end credits was sang by Robert Lindsay, though it doesn't sound much like him. It's beautiful and one of my fave sitcom theme tunes
― Ste, Friday, 15 September 2023 21:03 (nine months ago) link
For some reason I thought at the time that Gilbert O'Sullivan was the singer-songwriter behind the Cheers theme.
"Alone again, at the place where everybody knows your name"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 15 September 2023 21:43 (nine months ago) link
Onto Season 4 with Paramount and on a new TV but the quality is markedly poorer compared to how previous seasons looked on both Prime and Channel 4 though. Anyone else find this?
― nashwan, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 23:51 (six months ago) link
nicholas colasanto was born 100 years ago today
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 January 2024 22:47 (five months ago) link
rip Coach, gone way too soon
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 19 January 2024 22:56 (five months ago) link
Luv ya Coachy.Only the season 4 opener looked awful on Paramount weirdly, rest is fine.
― nashwan, Friday, 19 January 2024 22:57 (five months ago) link
I just learned the same songwriter-singer behind the Cheers theme also did the (even better) theme song for “Punky Brewster”― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.)
― 50 Best Fellas (Eric H.)
wow, was the punky brewster theme song randomly transphobic too
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:47 (five months ago) link
Coach was the best. IMO the show ran for eight more brilliant seasons but a part of its heart broke when he passed.
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:49 (five months ago) link
please explain
― Ste, Saturday, 20 January 2024 17:55 (five months ago) link
Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee's dead;The morning's looking bright;And your shrink ran off to Europe,And didn't even write;And your husband wants to be a girl;
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 20 January 2024 17:57 (five months ago) link
I don't recall that from the Cheers theme?
― Ste, Saturday, 20 January 2024 18:04 (five months ago) link
Have i misunderstood something here
― Ste, Saturday, 20 January 2024 18:06 (five months ago) link
The Lyrics To The Full "Cheers" Theme Are Completely Insane
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 20 January 2024 18:12 (five months ago) link
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Saturday, 20 January 2024 18:58 (five months ago) link
I don’t think it ever ran in the show otherwise
― impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Saturday, 20 January 2024 18:59 (five months ago) link
Yeah it made #58 on the UK chart in '84. I only heard the song in full a few years ago.
― nashwan, Saturday, 20 January 2024 19:17 (five months ago) link
Yuck, hadn’t ever heard of that verse til now
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Saturday, 20 January 2024 20:32 (five months ago) link
omg
― Ste, Saturday, 20 January 2024 22:17 (five months ago) link
it's pretty wild looking back and realizing that trans jokes were about as acceptable back in the day as, i don't know, hitler jokes. like it's so ubiquitous that a lot of it i forgot about and had to be reminded of. i did know about cheers because... i think when i was a kid and was learning the piano i had a book of sheet music to tv themes and it had the complete lyrics in there. then i forgot about it until i was talking with this zoomer i know who's obsessed with '70s and '80s sitcoms and idolizes vicki lawrence in "mama's family" and she mentioned it and i was just like oh shit, i forgot about that bit.
the thing is that kind of thing was just so _routine_ and _unexceptional_. it's really bizarre looking back on it, because this shit was just, like, normal when i was growing up. i definitely feel that "between two worlds" thing sometimes. maybe it's that way for a lot of trans people of whatever generation... i don't know!
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 21 January 2024 02:34 (five months ago) link
Yeah, it seems nearly impossible to dip into just about any '80s entertainment and not risk getting blindsided by a (as it turns out not so) random joke at trans people's expense. There's even a nasty little moment at the end of a S7 Golden Girls episode that feels like a total sop to the shittiness of that era.
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Sunday, 21 January 2024 02:42 (five months ago) link
Yeah, it seems nearly impossible to dip into just about any '80s entertainment and not risk getting blindsided by a (as it turns out not so) random joke at trans people's expense. There's even a nasty little moment at the end of a S7 Golden Girls episode that feels like a total sop to the shittiness of that era.― badpee pooper (Eric H.)
― badpee pooper (Eric H.)
like i was watching... one of the weird things i do is watch tapes of old HBO between-movie interstitials from back in the day from, like, maybe 1984, and there's a promo for the news parody show they had, if you remember, it was called "not necessarily the news", and they had a joke to the effect that boy george was starting a finishing school for BOYS who wanted to be GIRLS! comedy gold i'm sure
i mean boy george isn't even a woman, just a guy who presents more on the femme side of things. god forbid anybody would be able to tell the difference between gender identity and presentation in those days, tho, lol just like. everything was so fucked up and i had no idea.
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 21 January 2024 03:17 (five months ago) link
you have your work cut out for you
― mookieproof, Sunday, 21 January 2024 05:46 (five months ago) link
"Excuse me... where is your bathroom?""Right next ti my bedroom...!?!"
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Sunday, 28 April 2024 04:54 (two months ago) link
Apologies for the typo (my phone is a potato)
I was in desperate need of comfort viewing after watching a particularly effective horror movie the other night and I decided to start watching Cheers from the start. A show I haven't really thought about since I was a kid watching with my parents on Friday nights So glad to delve back in. It's sumptuous to watch this as an adult. To appreciate the scripting, the acting, just how tight and charming it is. A few beats are dated, sure, but I'll forgive it for now
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Sunday, 28 April 2024 05:00 (two months ago) link
Right now Cliff is only a walk on guy. Diane is fantastic any minute she's on camera. Right now I'd vote for her, Coach or Carla
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Sunday, 28 April 2024 05:04 (two months ago) link
There's just something about how the characters react quietly to things happening around them that works. You're in their minds as soon as the joke lands. I don't know how to describe it better
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Sunday, 28 April 2024 05:05 (two months ago) link
And the end of that early episode w/ his daughter is genuinely an amazing bit of acting - never fail to tear up when his daughter (Ms Dipesto off Moonlighting!!) says she's ugly, Coach says she looks like her mum, she falters as she tries to say "And mum was not beautiful", and Coach says "Your mother grew more beautiful every day I knew her"... ack, am choking up a bit as I type. And the words themselves aren't even a very strong denouement, but the way Colasanto delivers them is truly remarkable.
Got to this bit the other day during my rewatch of S1. Devastating.
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 3 May 2024 09:58 (one month ago) link
yeah great scene
― Ste, Friday, 3 May 2024 10:39 (one month ago) link
Saw the first Lilith (instantly great) episode recently having not been aware it's a while before she reappears.
― nashwan, Friday, 3 May 2024 11:10 (one month ago) link
Been watching through Cheers recently. It's such a perfect show. The only character I don't really like is Diane so looking forward to her leaving
― a3poify, Friday, 3 May 2024 11:14 (one month ago) link
Ah, but Shelly's performance is so strong those first few seasons - I really felt on my last rewatch that she is the centre of the show at first.
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 3 May 2024 11:28 (one month ago) link
Love Diane.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Friday, 3 May 2024 11:34 (one month ago) link
It's a great performance I just don't enjoy the character unfortunately
― a3poify, Friday, 3 May 2024 11:42 (one month ago) link
I only remember the later seasons from the first run/syndication, jarring to see the first couple of seasons with a completely different Cliff and things 30% less wacky in general.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 3 May 2024 11:58 (one month ago) link
Oh I really like Diane. I love it when Shelley Long and Ted Danson almost break character just a tiny bit after a laugh to show they're kind-of in on the joke. Yeah Diane is quality
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 3 May 2024 14:00 (one month ago) link
does Cliff change a lot in later seasons? it really is strange coming back to these as an adult, when last time i watched it i must have been about 12 or 13
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 3 May 2024 14:02 (one month ago) link
I don’t think Cliff changes too much - a little more depth to his shallowness perhaps but you’d expect that over eleven seasons
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 3 May 2024 15:28 (one month ago) link
Slightly mindblowing watching today to realise that Cliff and Norm are in their mid-30s when Cheers starts.
― Maggy Scraggle, Friday, 3 May 2024 15:33 (one month ago) link
Early thirties I think! It is one of those WTF feelings knowing that the entire main cast (not including Coach) were around that age
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Friday, 3 May 2024 15:35 (one month ago) link
Yeah Coach was a bit older - early 40s I think
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 3 May 2024 15:50 (one month ago) link
Older surely?
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Friday, 3 May 2024 15:56 (one month ago) link
Played an old mob boss in Raging Bull--two years before Cheers goes on the air.
― clemenza, Friday, 3 May 2024 16:01 (one month ago) link
Nick Colasanto was 59 when the show began
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 3 May 2024 16:14 (one month ago) link
Sorry, failed joke attempt
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 3 May 2024 18:11 (one month ago) link