Cheers to Cheers!

My favorite T. V show of all time is Cheers.  Cheers has been off the air for many years, in fact 1993 was when the last show televised.  Why do I know that?  I have the VHS tape at home.  That is right VHS, LOL.  Cheers ran for eleven seasons 1982-1993.  Every episode offered a different conflict for one of it's hilarious figures.  For those of you that are not familiar with the hit series Cheers, here is a little intro.

Cheers is a sitcom about a bar in Boston that is ran by an ex Boston Red Sox pitcher named Sam Malone. Sam is a former alcoholic and ladies man.  He has sex with hundreds of women, and uses whitty come on lines to get whatever he wants.  He ends up falling in love with a waitress that works at his bar and his eventual boss when he sells the bar.  Norm, an unemployed accountant, is the bar's most loyal patron that runs a bar tab that never gets paid.  Whenever he walks in the bar everyone yells "NORM" and then Norm answers with some creative phrase to order his first of many beers.  Cliff, a postman that lives with his mother,  is another favorite character.  Cliff knows everything, and I mean everything.  he is a walking wikipedia that never shuts up.  If you want useless information that no one could possibly think of or remember, Cliff is your man.  He becomes Norm's best friend and  figure on the show that just adds flavor.  You never know what is going to come out of Cliff's mouth, and it will usually make you grin.  The show also includes a bitchy, superstitious waitress named Carla that has many kids (not sure if the show ever reveals how many, but it is a lot).  Two bartenders named Coach and Woody that easily made fun of and gullible.  Two psychiatrists named Frazier and Lilith that become patrons and wedded, and so much more.

Some of my favorite episodes consist of the prank wars with a rival bar called Gary's Old Town Tavern and the minor scuffles with the restaurant located above the bar called Melville's. To me, every actor is a genius when portraying their character.  I can watch rerun after rerun, the show was brilliant.  Every show had a theme with a conflict, and the writers were so creative about creating a new conflict each week.

I have been to Boston twice and visited the original Cheers that is shown from the outside during episodes.  What a fun place to visit!  The show originally was rated something like 77 out of 80 shows when it first aired, but slowly climbed to the top within a short time.