The one’s with their contests with “The Olde Towne Taverne” were classics. I liked the one when they were bowling and Norm went into the bar at the alley and the patrons there yelled out, “Norm”, and Cliff said, “He’s got a life, you know.”
(Quoted from memory, no doubt completely inaccurate.)
Opening gag. A guy walks into Cheers and orders a beer. He tells Sam he’s been in Alaska for twenty years.
Guy: It’s strange to see how this bar’s changed.
Sam: Really? How?
Guy: Well, there used to be another door in the wall, right over there behind Norm.
Screaming Viking!
My favorite wasn’t as funny, but it was when Sam upset Diane by saying another woman’s name while in an embrace and he couldn’t see how it would bother her so much. Finally, Diane acts like she forgives him, and they embrace and she says another mans’ name and Sam gets it.
The show where Norm & Cliff hired themselves out as videographers to record a family reunion & wedding anniversary of the grandmother & grandfather and they forgot to charge the camera battery. They keep pretending to film the party so the people who hired them don’t go berserk and hoping it will be a mundane event so that the lack of video won’t matter as much. Long lost or missing family members keep coming though the door and joining the party to the amazement and delirious joy of the family members as the party progresses, all with no video being captured.
Finally after a solider (family member) comes back from the war, and everyone is gasping and hugging him Cliff says “Well the only thing that’s going to top this is if Sasquatch comes through that door and starts singing the Anniversary Waltz.”
Beer and Peanuts,
That’s our game,
C - H - E - R - S !
Had it been anyone else other than John Cleese, I don’t think that scene would have been as memorable
Andy Andy. Just the thought of Diane’s hair after riding behind him on his motorcycle makes me smile.
I really liked the episodes dealing with Carla’s extended family. The one where they videotaped the bedlam in her hospital room was a classic. Anything invovling her ex husband Nick just floored me. But I think my favorite is the one where she is buying a house and thinks it may be haunted, only to find out it was a bargain because it is close to the landing strip of the airport.
"Well ya see, Norm, it’s like this: A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And, when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first.
"This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
"In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first.
In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.
“That’s why you always feel smarter after a few beers.”
~Cliff Clavin*
Norm: “Women, you can’t live with them, pass the beer nuts.”
I don’t recall the episode, but the scene where Woody was trying to fix the TV reception and he disappeared behind the set to adjust the wires. A huge “ZAP” is heard and Woody emerges and then coughes up a mouthful of smoke.
Such a simple gag, but so well executed.
Norm comes into the bar to his usual greeting, and Diane comes in right after him with no response. Diane has a small fit about how nobody ever greets her, then says she’s going to walk out and come back in, and everyone had better greet her as enthusiastically. So, she leaves, comes back in, and the entire bar yells “Norm!!!”
I don’t know why that has always made me laugh so hard.
Vera: “Last one out the door’s a Claven!”
Diane: “Oh, I’m always the Claven.”
That shoulde be Carla, of course. Vera just gets hit in the face with the pie at dinner.
That reminded me of one during the time Diane and Frasier were dating, it looked like Diane was “allergic” to Frasier. She sneezed while the kissed, and Fraisier’s cheeks puff out. A silly physical bit, but really cracked me up.
(I may have listed this one before.)
It’s after Sam and Diane’s first big break-up, Sam has fallen off the wagon, and Coach is at Diane’s door in the hopes of bringing her to see Sam. Diane asks who it is at the door, and you hear Coach’s voice: “Ernie Pantusso.” So Diane goes into one of her grand, long-winded explanations of how much she’d love to see him, but she’s closed that particular chapter of her life and blah blah blah, on and on. Finally she concludes with, “I just hope you can understand this, Coach.”
Pause.
“Coach?”
Another pause. Then: “Western Union. . .”
And after she finally opens the door and they hug, Coach says, “I’m sorry I had to fool you like that, hon.”
Rebecca has been careening from one disaster to another for days–her boyfriend gets caught stealing from the company that owns the bar and goes to prison, she loses her job and has to become a waitress at the bar, etc. etc. She’s sitting at a table at Cheers, her face buried in her hands, sobbing almost hysterically. Sam and the others are standing behind the bar watching.
Someone asks, “How long has she been there doing that?”
Sam says, “Two days.”
And Rebecca, barely able to talk because of her weeping, says, “Sam? Can I have another glass of water? I’m dehydrated again,” and bursts into even heavier sobbing.
Wonderfully done scene. Kirstie Alley was both sexy and funny, a marvelous combination.
Here’s some more…
Rebecca finally decides to have sex with Sam after she got drunk. She sings “We Got Tonight” to him. The part when she puts her leg on the wall to trap him and holds that note really long always cracks me up.
Rebecca got invited by Mr. Gaines to his house for what she thinks is a date. Turns out he wants her to work at the party. She got upset and got drunk, but then Mr. Gaines invited her to be his guest and listen to the opera man sing. She keeps singing along.
Finally, I just saw this the other day and about died. Carla got a cat on her way into the bar and discovered it had had kittens that day. She needs to get rid of them because she can’t care for all them. Later in the episode Woody says, “Boy Carla, that was a great idea to give a beer away for each kitten they’ll take.” Out walks Norm from the pool room with about 7 kittens climbing all over him. I understand that kittens aren’t that big the day they’re born, but the joke still was pretty funny.
For me, my favorite was a very subtle opening. Someone (Norm?) is tapping his finger on the bar, and by the end, everyone is doing the Clap Clap Stomp of Queen’s We Will Rock You, complete with Rebecca banging on a makeshift tamborine.
There was the one with Coach’s daughter, who felt she was ugly. Coach very sweetly said she was beautiful, that she looked just like her mother. His daughter begins to angrily snap back at him, until she sees the look on his face. She ends with, “Mom was not…aware of her beauty.”
Sniff.