# Cheers holds up. Still a great show. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 21, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-holds-up-still-a-great-show/812878 "2018-04-21T22:59:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-holds-up-still-a-great-show/812878/1 "2018-04-21T22:59:51Z")
It’s all on Netflix in what appears to be HD. Show looks as good as I remember it, if not better. A few shots once in a blue moon look rough, like they lost the clean version and had to use a grainy old shot, but the show is mainly crystal clear and beautiful. It’s still really funny and fun to watch. I don’t watch any sitcoms with laugh-tracks/studio-audiences. Cheers does NOT sound like many other cheaper shows, ones where the actors stop for the laughs. I hardly notice the laughter of the audience. [I decided to watch all the Bar Wars series](http://cheers.wikia.com/wiki/Bar_Wars_series) and if you haven’t seen those or the even the show, what a great slice across the entire series. Some things age badly. Cheers appears to be surviving well. It’s fun, funny, a great cast, and it still looks like a place I’d like to visit. Anyone else watch Cheers on Netflix sometimes? I’m glad they added it. Now, we just need all 11 seasons of Mash. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-holds-up-still-a-great-show/812878/2 "2018-04-22T01:34:40Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Some things age badly. Cheers appears to be surviving well. It’s fun, funny, a great cast, and it still looks like a place I’d like to visit. I hate to go there, cause everybody knows my name. Hard to be anonymous. Ever see the one where pregnant Diane is looking up from the floor’s ventilation shaft? Sitcom silicon, you bet! Who needs deely-bobbers or Wilburrrr? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-holds-up-still-a-great-show/812878/3 "2018-04-22T03:08:31Z")
My wife and I recently watched the Rebecca seasons, and you’re right it does hold up. Many laugh-out-loud moments. The one that always stands out to me is when Rebecca has a dirty dream about Sam. In the dream, they’re about ready to get it on, but he can’t get his belt off, so he grabs a fireplace poker to pry it open. I’m laughing just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-holds-up-still-a-great-show/812878/4 "2018-04-22T03:11:34Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > My wife and I recently watched the Rebecca seasons, and you’re right it does hold up. Many laugh-out-loud moments. The one that always stands out to me is when Rebecca has a dirty dream about Sam. In the dream, they’re about ready to get it on, but he can’t get his belt off, so he grabs a fireplace poker to pry it open. I’m laughing just thinking about it. I’ve had a few moments to make me laugh. Carla: “What are you wimps doing just sitting there doing nothing?” Norm: “That’s what wimps do!” and Everyone chanting: “We’re not Frasier Crane! We’re not Frasier Crane!” ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-holds-up-still-a-great-show/812878/5 "2018-04-22T12:32:59Z")
We watched all the Diane episodes several months ago. I was amazed at the subtle stuff that Ted Danson did during the pilot. But then they went for the cheap stuff all too often and he just glided thru a lot of them. Still overall a good show, for the Diane era. We watched the ending episodes when Diane shows back up and Kirstie Alley was just awful in them. She’s a good actress (cf. _Nevada_ and _Drop Dead Gorgeous_), but when she’s “trying” it doesn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-holds-up-still-a-great-show/812878/6 "2018-04-22T13:58:37Z")
Norm jokes, of course. Harry the Hat The sweatiest movie of all time Don’t say Cochise to this dog ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-holds-up-still-a-great-show/812878/7 "2018-04-22T16:53:35Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > Don’t say Cochise to this dog Geronimo!!! ---
**Author:** ![Batano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@Batano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batano)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-holds-up-still-a-great-show/812878/8 "2018-04-23T15:57:43Z")
Do I remember correctly that Cliff started out as a guy who was a know-it-all but actually did know things, and then later became a buffoon? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-holds-up-still-a-great-show/812878/9 "2018-04-23T20:13:37Z")
> [@Batano](#): > > Do I remember correctly that Cliff started out as a guy who was a know-it-all but actually did know things, and then later became a buffoon? John Ratzenberger _pitched_ the Cliff character as a guy who actually knew things, but considering the very first bit we see him in (in the pilot episode) is arguing about “the sweatiest movie of all time” I don’t think the producers ever considered actual knowledge to be all that important. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-holds-up-still-a-great-show/812878/10 "2018-04-24T00:47:37Z")
Cliff: “I gotta use the sandbox.” Frasier: “Why a grown man feels the need to euphemise is beyond me.” Woody: “Well, he did drink that beer awful fast, Dr. Crane”. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-holds-up-still-a-great-show/812878/11 "2018-04-24T01:38:03Z")
Diana: “Methinks the lady doth protest too much.” Woody: “Excuse me, Miss Chambers, shouldn’t it be _I_ thinks?” Diana: “Not in your case, Woody.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cheers-holds-up-still-a-great-show/812878/12 "2018-04-25T00:31:18Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > John Ratzenberger _pitched_ the Cliff character as a guy who actually knew things, but considering the very first bit we see him in (in the pilot episode) is arguing about “the sweatiest movie of all time” I don’t think the producers ever considered actual knowledge to be all that important. The first time I saw him, he was talking about how long a whale’s intestines are. All I could think was “Jeez, what lame writing!” Obviously, I didn’t get the joke. Cliffie had such an incredible store of semi-digested knowledge because he read all of the magazines and other crap he carried in his mailbag.