Cheers
Cheers
TV-PG | 30 September 1982 (USA)
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  • Reviews
    Evengyny

    Thanks for the memories!

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    MoPoshy

    Absolutely brilliant

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    Kaydan Christian

    A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

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    Dana

    An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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    raizelslash

    its fun to watch. but it has some flaws..i was so bored before season 6....as i heard after season 6 the show get high ratings..only after season 6 the real shows starts...I can only watched in one. As i watch many series like frasier,two and a half men,himym,seinfeld,etc.I have watched this series many times but cheers only once..and i cannot watch it twice..its got some humour but it is missing something that i cannot say.....the fun starts when the character "woody" is introduced.i don't like the character "diane",she is the second most hated character in a sitcom.its enjoyable to watch..try it

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    Junior Bronson

    Cheers is a pitch perfect sitcom that is the one I best remember from the 1980s, and stands up in my opinion as one of the greatest comedy television series of all time. It really is hard to believe in retrospect that it finished dead last in the ratings in its first season before being given a death row reprieve by some network execs who must have had great vision and enormous faith in this series, and becoming the perpetual juggernaut it was.The casting is amazing, which is evidenced by the fact that a record number of stars and guests received Emmy nominations (17) for this series, until ER eventually broke the record 20 years later. I know I still fondly think of the great characters on this show. Norm, Cliff, Sam, Rebecca, Woody, the lovably dopey Coach, Fraser, Diane, Lilith, Carla. Even the great guest stars who came and went. I loved all of them. Even the hated Gary from their rival tavern was perfectly cast. This show holds up well because of these great characters, who I still quote.I also still quote it because of the writing, which holds up to this day. It's a 1980s style sitcom (very much setting up a joke, telling the punchline, over and over again) but the writing and acting are just stupendous.Check it out if you haven't.

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    Simon Rodgers

    There really is not a great deal that can be said about this show that hasn't been said already, it is a true classic.So many sitcoms come and go and there is always a fan-base of them regardless of what it was about or how popular it was in general. However with Cheers you have to admit that it was popular in general and so many people like watching it.It has wit and style, not to mention clean humour. Okay there may be one or two bits that do dabble in unclean humour or innuendo but not very often.This programme has to be seen to be believed. All over the world, I'm sure there are many reruns and I really hope they do in the UK very soon.Some people say that this was the best sitcom of the eighties, but this isn't true. This must be the best sitcom EVER.

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    Littlelep

    This show had a unique format for the time and, having little or no competition, viewers began to watch out of sheer curiosity. Shelly Long was the only true actor among the troupe and it was primarily her captivatingly good looks and her character that kept the show afloat for the first couple of years. The character of Sam Malone was written for an exceptionally good-looking and athletic actor, but they cast Ted Danson anyway.The characters of Coach, Carla, Norm, and Cliff were so one-dimensional that when the writers ran short of story-lines for Diane and Sam and they tried to expand the face-time of the minor characters, such episodes fell short even on first-viewing; and now, decades later, such episodes just seem inane and we wonder why we ever watched them in the first place.The so-called comedy of the show revolved around the sex-life of Sam Malone. Ted Danson became a household name and a television icon because he was a dirty, horny retired baseball pitcher. A true Actor would be embarrassed to be known for playing such a character for so long and truly award-winning Writers would not stoop to such easy scripts.With the departure of Shelly and the introduction of Kirstie Alley, one would have thought that the writers could have turned a corner and would have made the show less about the lechery of Sam and more about pure comedy. Didn't happen. Kirstie's character did give the audience some relief in its tragic obsessions, but the show did not fully pursue the possibly limitless scope of Rebecca Howe's personality. Although Woody Harrelson, in the role of Woody Boyd, was endearing for a while, the show just outlived the ideal comedic lifetime of the character. He became a caricature of a Midwestern hick and completely unbelievable or entertaining.The only character worth watching even occasionally after the first several years was that of Dr. Frasier Crane, which truth was borne out by the later success of the actor Kelsey Grammar. The paucity of the writing of "Cheers" is most notable by comparing Frasier's two shows. Although it seems to be written in stone that both were "comedic classics," only "Frasier" had the characters, the actors, and the writing to be called "classic." Sadly, the purity of the comedy in "Frasier" didn't survive until the end of the series, because, due to the length of the series, the writers were forced to create awkward situations that utterly failed; but when compared with "Cheers," there is a tremendous gap in quality in each category. In generations to come, those who watch episodes of both "Cheers" and "Frasier" will wonder why anyone was ever drawn to the obviously boring, insipid, easy humor of "Cheers"; but those viewers will be grateful to the creators of "Cheers," because it was on that series that the truly classic character of Frasier found its origins.There were moments of poignancy for each of the characters in "Cheers," and after so many years, the audience naturally came to feel they knew them intimately. Emotional threads regarding each fortunately emerged: Sam, the recovering drunk who was forced to leave baseball, his tight relationship with Coach, and the love he had for his bar, that became a symbol of his manhood and character. There was the friendship between Norm and Cliff that seemed so unusual, but that stood the test of time and circumstance. Norm's fidelity to his wife was perhaps the jewel of the series and it was a shame that it was so carefully hidden by the writers (if you blink, you miss it). Carla was a good-hearted perennial loser, whose surface amorality was belied by her staunch loyalty to her birth family and to family traditions; and Coach was a character that could be one of the most beloved in television history, even given the linear modality of his exposition. The bar itself has a depth of symbolism -- probably more than has any of the characters -- and is a study in psychology. It is like a comforting womb where all of the characters seek succor and comfort, but from which one must ultimately break away to find life on the outside. Some never make that painful break and those who do find themselves emotionally looking back on the time spent there.The time spent watching "Cheers" thus does have some merit, but ironically it is not in the comedy of the show, but in its drama.

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