Cheers Trivia

c5: Nancy Marchand, though other actresses have played the role in flashback episodes of Frasier.

dm1: In addition to Robin’s place, she and Sam were trapped at Cliff’s place (where they could listen all night to him making up words that you could sort-of find in “Cliff Clavin”, like “anvil”). This was after he locked himself out of the bar and she locked herself out of her apartment.

dm6: You’re not thinking of Fred Dryer, are you? I think he played football.

5tc1: Cool Hand Luke

5tc3: Jacqueline Bisset. The man with whom he’d made the wager was a pre-Seinfeld (as well as pre-racism rant) Michael Richards.

5tc5: “Guy” (rhymes with she), but everybody called him Eddie.

c4: I can only remember 7 of Carla’s eight children. Anthony, Serafina, Anne-Marie and Gino which I think are the four she had when the show started. Then comes the one whose name I don’t remember, but I think it was a girl, sired by her ex-husband Nick in a moment of weakness. She tried to trick a nerdy guy named Marshall into thinking that he was the father. Then Ludlow, fathered by Frasier’s mentor Dr. Ludlow, and finally the twins Jesse & Elvis by Eddie LeBeck.

inverse question…

answer…would you like that cucumber bruised or not?

what is that question?

I don’t think c3 has been answered yet.

c3. Coach had another nickname. What was it, and why did he have it?

I believe (and I’m not sure) that it was Red because he had red hair before he went grey.

dm10. When Sam speaks to Woody’s mother on the phone, what word does he say to her that she thinks is profanity?

I love that episode. Woody explained to his mother that the love letters from Robin Colcorde to his mistress that were published in the paper were fakes, because Robin didn’t have that font. She assumed “font” was a bad word and made him wash his mouth out with soap.

5tc 2 What NBA star played for Sam’s basketball team?

Kevin McHale if I recall correctly.

5tc 4 Carla was always messing with Cliff’s head, what song did she claim would melt Diane’s heart?

“Look at me, I’m as helpless as a kitten in a tree?”

Do you know how to make a Screaming Viking?

Those are lyrics. The song is “Misty”, sung by Johnny Mathis.

“No, it’s because I read a book once.”

dm6. The ballplayer is Al Rosen, who played for the Cleveland Indians for ten seasons after World War II. He later became a general manager for at least one American League team. (His name regularly appears in the cast credits.)
dm9. The words are, “Sometimes you want to go…”
Here’s another series of questions about characters’ kinfiolk.
What connection did these characters have with the story line:
dm11. Norm’s wife?
dm12. Cliff’s father?
dm13. Rebecca’s sister?
dm14. Frasier’s mother?
dm15. Carla’s eldest son?
dm16. Woody’s father?
and a few assorted trivia questions:
dm17. True or false: Norm, Cliff, and Sam did parachute out of the airplane.
dm18. In the episode where Frederick–Frasier and Lilith’s baby son–has his “bris”–whom or what does Frasier carry out of the poolroom?
dm19. In the episode where Lilith gives birth (on the same day of the Cheers centennial), Sam is irritated by a barbershop quarter singing “Wait 'Til the Sun Shines Nellie.” What happens to them at the end?
dm20. In an opening shot. Frasier keeps resetting the motion alarm on his car before crossing the street to Cheers. Why does the alarm keep going off?

I believe Frasier was carrying out Lilith, who was weeping uncontrollably (either that or squicked out by the process.)

i1) What did Lilith do to make Frasier announce to all and sundry that he was going to kiss her, and kiss her but good?

No, I’m pretty sure that’s the begining of the chorus. The song begins with:

Making your way in the world today
Takes everything you got.
Taking a break from all your worries
Sure would help a lot.

Aside from being the source of endless jokes, she worked briefly for Melville’s, the restaurant above Cheers.

Showed up once, dispelling Cliff’s long-held romantic ideas that his absent father was an international spy or something, was on the run from the law for real estate fraud.

Former Miss San Diego and aspiring actress. Participated in an elaborate practical joke aimed at Sam.

Didn’t like Diane, threatened to whack her if she didn’t break off the engagement to Frasier.

Knocked up Annie good.

True, though the pilot had to fake engine trouble to “encourage” Cliff.

It’s not made clear; they’re practicing in the pool room, Sam heads back there, the scene goes to blackout and the song is interrupted by a startled whoop of some kind.

Norm, hiding of the far side of the car, keeps pulling the driver’s door latch, while Cliff looks on in amusement.

She took her hair down.

Re C9: Who did Sam briefly sell his Corvette to? Wasn’t it Woody?

W1: In that episode, what kind of car did Sam buy? And what was the color (according to him)?

W2: When Sam admitted to Woody that he was an alcoholic who “Drank myself out of baseball and a marriage”, why was Woody so incredulous?

W2: How did Sam get the Cuban cigars in the last episode? And what was Carla’s comment?

W3: Also final episode–fill in the blanks:
Rebecca: "I went for (blank) and ended up with (blank).

W4: What imitation meat did Norm try at The Hungry Heifer? And what imitation seafood did he say you should never try?

W5: On the first Lilith episode, something happened to Frazier during his TV appearance with Lilith. According to Sam, what was it (more or less exact quote, please)?

W6: Who played Cliff’s postal worker girlfriend? And what did she do after they were caught violating Postal Service rules?

Donald Trump, Ed Norton

DING! and DING!

I think all my original questions were answered. Here’s some more:

  • Coach’s daughter was played by an actress better known for another TV role. Who was she?

  • What was unusual about the actor playing Gary of “Gary’s Old Towne Tavern”?

  • How did the Cheers gang finally get one over on Gary?

  • What was the name of the film shot by Sam & the gang, and ‘re-edited’ by Diane that was meant to convince Woody’s father to let him stay in Boston?

  • What was (according to Woody) the elder Mr. Boyd’s reaction to the film?

I don’t know the actress’ name, but she played the secretary on Moonlighting with Cybil Shephard and Bruce Willis.

I think these haven’t been answered yet:

c1. What is Sam’s brother named, and what is his profession?

Derek, attorney?

W4: What imitation meat did Norm try at The Hungry Heifer? And what imitation seafood did he say you should never try?

Beff. (Not ‘beef’, ‘beff’.) Stay away from the loobster.

What was the name of the film shot by Sam & the gang, and ‘re-edited’ by Diane that was meant to convince Woody’s father to let him stay in Boston?

Manchild in Beantown. (Following Diane’s edits. I can’t remember the name before she got her hands on it.)

What was (according to Woody) the elder Mr. Boyd’s reaction to the film?

He thought it was derivative of Godard.

Coach’s daughter was played by an actress better known for another TV role. Who was she?

Allyce Beasley. (**ivylass ** is correct re: her work on Moonlighting.)

- What was unusual about the actor playing Gary of “Gary’s Old Towne Tavern”?

Was it that he was played by at least two different actors at one time or another?

And does anyone have a clue on this one?

c7. According to Rebecca, the highlight of her young life was when she was 16 and did what?

I’m drawing a blank. Was it something to do with food?

I thought the Hungry Heifer’s specialty with the synthetic “baff” and, when Cliff started to walk away in disgust, Norm yelled “Hey, you hear me complaining about the loobster?” He wasn’t warning people away from it, he was actually implying it was acceptable.

Or so I recall.

And a few of my own:

slack1: To prove how hot Robin Colcorde’s new French girlfriend was, who did Norm show her picture to, and what was his response?

slack2: Norm came into a lot of money in one episode. How did it happen, and what did he spend it on?

slack3: What was the name of the jingle writer that Rebecca hired, and what did he come up with?