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03:09Les Charles was in Boston doing research, looking at different bars, and at the Ritz, the concierge said,
03:17there's a really great bar in Boston called Bull and Finch.
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04:38But the Charles Brothers and Burroughs really loved Ted Danson on Taxi.
04:43This young woman came to me this morning with a hairdo that her high school must have found boring, and I gave her this.
04:50Ted Danson was an absolute gift from the gods.
04:54Because it is so hard in Hollywood to find a leading man who is handsome and can do light comedy.
05:02But the interesting thing is that Ted Danson is so unlike that character.
05:10I never went to bars. I never picked up somebody.
05:14You know, if the woman was standing opposite me, buck naked, I'd go, oh, for me?
05:20But he was able to pull it off.
05:23And they had to rework that character because he doesn't really have the build of a football player.
05:27So they made him a relief pitcher for the Red Sox, which Ted Danson fits that build perfectly.
05:34The producers were considering Julia Duffy as his possible Diane.
05:39But we kept hearing from independent sources, you got to see this new lady in town, Shelley Long.
05:44She's perfect for your show.
05:45And when Shelley was paired with Ted, I think that they could really see the spark.
05:49Don't you ever hit me again!
05:51Like hell.
05:52They just enjoyed playing with each other.
05:56We really took off and we, the three of us huddled and said, there's no choice here.
06:01And now they had to find the other main cast members.
06:04Cheers assembled one of the all-time greatest ensemble casts in television history.
06:12And they got Nicholas Colasanto, who played Coach, a beloved character, a wonderful character, the bartender.
06:16Coach is this beacon of just earnest naivete that I think the bar really needed.
06:23And some of that innocence is explained by him having been hit in the head by some fastballs.
06:28Well, sometimes I took one right in the old melon.
06:30That's why he is that way.
06:32But you need to be really smart to play a dumb character.
06:36And that was Nick Colasano.
06:39And we wanted a volatile waitress.
06:43That's a contrast to Diane.
06:44Does not suffer fools gladly.
06:46And has had a very rough life.
06:48And a chip on her shoulder as well.
06:55Rhea is not very much like Carla.
06:59She's a little bit like Carla, but not very much.
07:01She's a very nice lady and a lovely actress.
07:05Rhea once said to us, Carla's not mean, she's just honest.
07:10Thank God I don't have an alcoholic personality.
07:13You don't have a personality.
07:14The character Cliff is so interesting because it didn't originally exist for the show in the original script.
07:20John Ratzenberger, he came in originally to audition for the role of Norm.
07:25And he left the audition, came back into the room, and said, have you thought about having a know-it-all?
07:36You know, a real Boston know-it-all.
07:38And he was just the man for that.
07:41If a pig had thumbs and a language, he could be trained to do simple manual labor.
07:45You mean they'd be part of the workforce?
07:46Yeah, yeah.
07:47They'd give you 20, 30 years of loyal service.
07:49Then at the retirement dinner, you could eat them.
07:51But the bar feels a little incomplete without Norm there.
07:54Les Charles once worked as a bartender, and the character of Norm is based on one of the regulars that he knew as a bartender.
08:00And he was always there at closing time, having just one more beer.
08:04And it was the same, very much like Norm, we would get every time the phone rings, if that's my wife, I just left.
08:09And then George Wendt was cast in that role.
08:12And what made Norm's character so special is he didn't look like a television star.
08:17He didn't sound like a television star.
08:19He looked like your neighbor.
08:21And he looked like a guy, ultimately, you want to have a beer with.
08:24And he has the fantastic entrances where everyone calls his name.
08:29Afternoon, everybody.
08:30Norm!
08:32Afternoon, everybody.
08:33Norm!
08:34Afternoon, everybody.
08:35Norm!
08:37That was it, Woody.
08:38Last chance, I'm out of here.
08:40That first season of Cheers, the staff was very, very small.
08:44It was Glenn and Les Charles, Jimmy Burroughs, and me and my partner, David Isaacs.
08:50And that was it.
08:50And we learned so much from the Charles brothers.
08:55The Charles brothers are the best writing team I have ever seen.
09:00And Jimmy knows how to deal with actors.
09:04I had the great pleasure and privilege of working with Jimmy Burroughs.
09:08So I understand firsthand what it's like to work with a director like that who knows how to take what a performer is doing and giving them just the right note to take that comedy or that beat to the next level.
09:25And he's a whiz with the cameras and the technical aspect of it.
09:31And he was able to really create a terrific-looking show.
09:36And the Cheers theme song, Where Everybody Knows Your Name, is one of the most classic openings to any TV show in history.
09:44It was written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart-Angelo.
09:48The producers asked Portnoy and Hart-Angelo to write the Cheers theme song.
09:52And they submitted three songs, and the third one they liked.
09:55So they revised some of the lyrics, and they settled on that, you know, catchy phrase of Where Everybody Knows Your Name.
10:00The first seven-note intro is instantly recognizable.
10:04Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
10:09The story kicks off with Diane Chambers walking in to the bar with her professor boyfriend.
10:14They're just stopping for a drink on their way to start their new life.
10:18Thunder, this is crazy.
10:20Diane, we're about to be married.
10:21Oh my God.
10:22Married! Congratulations!
10:24But he abandons and dumps her there.
10:26So she takes refuge in the bar, and Sam gives her a job.
10:29I do need a job. And I'll find one. And you can bet that it won't be waiting tables.
10:35What are you qualified to do?
10:37Nothing.
10:38Shelley Long is a fabulous actress, and there's really great chemistry between her and Ted Danson.
10:43Everyone knows that hate is not the opposite of love. Indifferences.
10:48Well, whatever you say. I really don't care.
10:50But they do also break from that for some really great moments.
10:54Cheers? Yeah, just a sec. Is there a Rudy Pantuso here?
11:00That's you, coach.
11:00Speaking.
11:01I saw the pilot of Cheers, and I thought it was very funny.
11:06But when Cheers premiered in September of 1982, it certainly was not the hit that we come to know it as.
11:12It was literally the least watched thing on all of television, according to the Nielsen ratings.
11:17It was a flop.
11:18When Cheers first went on the air, it failed spectacularly in the ratings.
11:31There were some weeks where it was literally the least watched thing on all of television.
11:35We were saying, what are we doing here? No one's watching this.
11:40As someone who had to make a lot of decisions about programs that didn't do very well in their initial runs,
11:48I don't know if a show like Cheers would succeed today if it had the ratings out of the gate in its first season that it did.
11:56But even though we were not getting great ratings, I just felt this was something special.
12:03It was a show that we were incredibly proud of.
12:06There was incredibly strong, smart writing.
12:10But also phenomenal characters that you grow to love.
12:13Ultimately, mine is Sam Malone, the driving force of the show.
12:16You know, I haven't seen Christy since Woodstock.
12:20You were at Woodstock?
12:21A friend of mine told me to go down there, so it was a great place to pick up chicks.
12:25You should have known you weren't there for the music.
12:28There was music at Woodstock.
12:29And Shelly Long is underrated for her physical comedy.
12:33There's one episode where she was on a motorcycle and she comes in with this windswept hair and she just owns that moment when she enters the bar.
12:40And Norm and Cliff are so funny.
12:42I mean, it doesn't exactly take a Phi Beta Kappa to stick a brush in a bucket and slap it on the wall, does it?
12:47I mean, any monkey can do that, huh?
12:49Oh, yeah.
12:50As opposed to the high level of skill and precision it takes to shove a postcard through a slot.
12:53I love the episode, The Boys in the Bar.
12:56Cliff hasn't had a date in quite some time.
13:00Where there are a couple of gay guys in the bar who make it known that they're there, but they don't say who they are.
13:04And it sparks paranoia among people like Norm and Cliff.
13:07Oh, yeah, Norm.
13:08Well, how come we've never seen this Vera you're allegedly married to, eh?
13:12Really smartly written.
13:13Yeah, the guys I was talking about are still here.
13:18Right, guys?
13:19Right.
13:20And Cheers would have people come in that weren't main characters of the show.
13:25They were just people who came into the bar.
13:27Paul Krapens was one of the bar flies at the stool and his one-liners became a fan favorite on the show.
13:33You did good, kid, but I still think I got a more reliable system.
13:37Yeah, I could really use one. What's yours?
13:39I just bet opposite whatever you pick.
13:41Norm and Cliff were friends.
13:43So I was sort of part of their little subset, and I did more than 50 episodes, ultimately.
13:51So even though our ratings were terrible the first year, at the time, the president of NBC was Grant Tinker, who was just a wonderful executive.
14:04And he felt, you know, unless we have something better, then let's stick with this.
14:10His feeling was, give them quality and they'll find it.
14:16Most good shows, in my opinion, take more time to find an audience than not-so-good shows.
14:23And also, Cheers was definitely championed by TV critics, and it won awards.
14:28Shelley Long for Cheers.
14:30And the winner is what's here.
14:34I think that alerted a lot of people to, wow, this is a show that won the Emmy, and I've never seen it.
14:43And so people, having heard word of mouth that the show was good, started tuning into Cheers and falling in love with it.
14:48The moment I'm proudest of from season one is the last one.
14:55It's the very last moment.
14:57And that was when Sam and Diane finally kiss.
15:02You disgust me. I hate you.
15:05Are you as turned on as I am?
15:06More.
15:06That was just such a great moment, seeing Sam and Diane in mortal combat that ends in full-on mutual lust.
15:21And the audience went nuts.
15:26That moment is, I think, one of the great moments in the history of television.
15:33It was the first show that had an actual will-they-or-won't-they.
15:37The way Ted Danson and Shelley Long, the way their characters were written,
15:41and the way they slowly came together after squabbling, and it was perfect.
15:49It certainly influenced many programs that came after it.
15:54Sam and Diane, as a will-they-won't-they couple, has become, like, a generic element of the sitcom.
15:59Most TV shows before weren't terribly serialized.
16:01Every episode was self-contained, because you never know if people have been able to watch the previous show,
16:06and there's no means of ready access for them to go re-watch an episode that they missed.
16:11But in the 1980s, if that was, like, an act of trust in the American audience,
16:14they'd be able to follow this along.
16:16Cheers really was a master class of how to keep your characters changing and evolving
16:22in ways that were new and did keep the audience wanting to see more.
16:26And our ratings were vastly improved when The Cosby Show premiered.
16:32The Cosby Show was a phenomenon, and it brought lots of eyeballs to NBC on Thursday night.
16:38So The Cosby Show led into Family Ties, which led into Cheers, which led into Night Court,
16:43which led into Hill Street Blues.
16:44And so Cheers was critical to the success of must-see TV in the 80s on NBC.
16:52Hello, Sam.
16:53And then Kelsey Grammer brought another whole level to that show.
16:57I'm Dr. Fraser Crane. I'm sorry I startled you.
17:00Kelsey Grammer initially was only supposed to be in three episodes.
17:05I always thought of him as a, like, a male Diane, very pompous and overly erudite.
17:11And it was interesting that early on, the audiences did not like him,
17:14because he was coming between Sam and Diane.
17:16But we saw that we had lightning in a bottle with this guy,
17:21and just kept writing more and more.
17:25There was not a line you could throw at him that he wouldn't elevate.
17:31I am running with scissors!
17:33And eventually was brought on as a full cast member.
17:36Well, Sam, Diane and I really must be going.
17:38But it looks like we'll be seeing each other again.
17:41But during that period of time, Nick got sick.
17:46He had certain heart issues.
17:49And if you look at his last episodes, Nick does not look well at all.
17:56You could see his health kind of declining.
17:58He was getting skinnier.
17:59The cast was told he has heart disease, and it's, we don't know how long he'll have,
18:04but it's not looking good.
18:07And he died at the end of that season.
18:12It really felt like the first time you lose a family member.
18:17So, yeah, it was very sad.
18:26It hit the cast really hard.
18:28He was very beloved.
18:29They were very close.
18:31He was just a dear, dear man, and meant a lot to us, and especially to me.
18:36He was one of my closest friends on the set.
18:39Oh, Coach, I'm gonna miss you.
18:42How do you replace somebody like Coach?
18:46There are people who think that that was the end of Cheers.
18:48After Nicholas Colosanto passes away, the producers knew they would need a new regular that could work in the bar.
19:03There wasn't any discussion of replacing the actor and just keeping Coach as is and just putting someone else in,
19:08or replacing him with a similar-aged individual.
19:12When we lost Nick, we knew we wanted youth on the show.
19:16We wanted to go younger.
19:18The network thought that was a good idea.
19:20And they had created the idea of this character that they were gonna name Woody.
19:24He wasn't named after the actor.
19:26That was the name that they already had in place.
19:28Excuse me, my name's Woody Boyd.
19:29I mean, how many Woodys have you met in your day?
19:34Woody Harrelson came in, and there's just something special about him.
19:39He brought all of that genuine, honest-to-goodness Indiana energy.
19:47And we needed that energy, that innocence.
19:50He was amazing.
19:51I'm a friend of Coach's. Is he around?
19:53The producers chose not to do a specific episode about Coach's passing.
19:58When Woody Boyd is introduced, he comes to the bar to meet Coach, and Sam just says,
20:04I'm sorry, Woody, I guess you hadn't heard.
20:06No, uh, Coach passed away a couple months ago.
20:10Is Coach gone? I can't hardly believe it.
20:15There's a moment of somberness, but if they just treat Coach's passing,
20:17happened in that interim for the people in the bar and for the viewers.
20:20I don't remember him mentioning Woody.
20:22Well, we never met. We were kind of like pen pals.
20:26You exchanged letters?
20:27No, pens.
20:28And he just revitalized the whole show.
20:31Not to mention, which he's just fall-down funny.
20:34You got a spot right there.
20:36Yeah, yeah, right. You're not going to make me look like a dope.
20:39Woody really scratched a lot of the same itch that Coach did, though,
20:42in terms of the naivete to the point of stupidity.
20:45But every once in a while, I had something really sharp to say.
20:48You know, when I left home, my father gave me some very sound advice.
20:51Never trust a man who can't look you in the eye.
20:55Never talk when you can listen.
20:57And never spend venture capital on a limited partnership
21:00without a detailed analytical fiduciary perspective.
21:04It just adds to the comedy,
21:05because we're not used to that coming from Woody.
21:08And Lilith is a brilliant character.
21:11We wrote an episode for Kelsey,
21:13and to start off that episode,
21:14we were going to see him on a bad date.
21:17And that bad date was just going to be a one-and-done appearance.
21:21by B.B. Neuwirth.
21:22I thought that we might have a drink or two,
21:24thereby lowering our inhibitions a bit
21:26and enabling us to go back to your place
21:28and have a physical encounter of some sort.
21:31Well, we won't.
21:32And there was that magic, there was that chemistry,
21:35there was something we had never seen on the show before.
21:38And so we thought, let's bring her back.
21:41She just owns the screen when she is on there as Lilith.
21:44Her line readings are so funny.
21:47The way that she can imbue such kind of sardonic disdain.
21:51into simple words.
21:53If you ever open that gateway to hell,
21:55you call a mouth in my direction again,
21:57I'll snap off your extremities like dead branches
22:00and feed them to you at gunpoint.
22:02There's a whole lineup of iconic Cheers episodes.
22:04I do love Thanksgiving Orphans.
22:06That is a good one.
22:06It's Thanksgiving, Carla.
22:08That was a favorite.
22:09We still get a lot of love for that.
22:11Every November that rolls around.
22:14It's a really funny episode.
22:15Thank you, Carla.
22:19Hello, everyone.
22:20And the food fight is obviously iconic.
22:24Kiss your butt.
22:25Good boy!
22:26Surprise!
22:29And it does have the only appearance of Vera, sort of.
22:33Norm's wife Vera is one of the most famous,
22:35never seen characters on television
22:37where there'll be references to what this character is doing.
22:41Norm's on the phone with Vera very often,
22:43but they never cast a Vera.
22:44And then you hear Norm welcoming Vera from off screen
22:48and Shelley Long throws a pie at Ted Danson
22:50and he dodges it.
22:53And then an actress walks in with pie all over her face.
22:56Everybody, this is Vera.
22:58So we do kind of have Vera on screen
23:01for one brief moment there,
23:03but we never see her face in the series.
23:06Eventually, Cheers became one of the biggest shows on television.
23:09And the show that everybody was talking about.
23:13But Shelley Long decided to leave the show.
23:17I was surprised because it was doing so well.
23:21She was doing so well.
23:22The show was obviously a hit.
23:25She was very, very popular.
23:26She had done five years as Diane Chambers,
23:29over 100 episodes.
23:31And Shelley Long had a movie career.
23:33And it was about to take off big time.
23:37And also, she did feel like the Sam and Diane relationship,
23:40we've done everything we can do.
23:42They fought and then they got together.
23:44And then they were together and then they broke up.
23:45I mean, there's only so many ways you can do that.
23:49But there was a lot of concern
23:51that the show would go in the tank without Shelley.
23:56I mean, it's half of the core of the show
23:57is going to be walking off.
23:59So, yeah, of course it would be so scary to say what's next.
24:03None of us knew what was going to happen.
24:06The producers were hoping that Shelley Long,
24:09right until the last minute, might have a change of heart.
24:11So when they shot the fifth season finale of Cheers,
24:15they also shot a different ending to the scene
24:17where Sam and Diane get married
24:18in case Shelley changed her mind.
24:21You say to me that you want to marry me?
24:23I do. Are you saying you want to marry me?
24:25I do.
24:25And I'll pronounce you man and what?
24:28It was a way to keep spoilers from being revealed.
24:31Had the word gotten out that it's definite
24:33that Sam and Diane break up,
24:35it might have leaked out before the episode aired.
24:39So after the in-studio audience left,
24:41they continued filming a scene
24:43in which Sam and Diane essentially just break up
24:47and Diane goes to fulfill her dream of writing a book.
24:50And that was what aired.
24:53Have a good life.
24:55Ted Danson's delivery of that line is so fantastic.
24:58It's like I'm getting choked up just thinking about it.
25:01Like he knows that she's gone.
25:04And I felt that too.
25:07I felt that too.
25:09Yeah.
25:11I've actually never said this even out loud,
25:15certainly not on camera,
25:16but I'm really sad they didn't get together in the end.
25:20Everyone at Cheers was very worried when Shelly left.
25:25She was so integral to the show for so many years
25:30that to lose Shelly,
25:34we didn't know whether the show could survive that.
25:38It was controversial when Shelly Long chose to leave Cheers.
25:48It was truly, I think, one of the hardest decisions of my life.
25:52There were a couple of TV critics who said,
25:53that's it, that's the end of Cheers,
25:55when Shelly walked out the door.
25:56Because everyone believed that Cheers was Sam and Diane.
26:00It was the Sam and Diane show.
26:01Sam and Diane.
26:02How do you do a show with just Sam and no Diane?
26:04They didn't try to recast Diane,
26:07and I think that was a good idea.
26:08We wanted her to be a very different character.
26:11We didn't want her to be just Diane Chambers 2.0.
26:15How do you do?
26:17Um, ooh.
26:19And Kirstie Alley was just a breath of fresh air.
26:23Get over here.
26:24She's supposed to be with me.
26:26Kirstie Alley, everybody.
26:29Kirstie's first day on the set.
26:30Well, I thought it would be awkward for everybody,
26:32so I dressed like Shelly.
26:34She was wearing a blonde wig like Shelly.
26:40And we just knew, like, okay, okay, she's gonna be fun.
26:44But it took us a while to really find how to write that character.
26:50She's introduced this very serious, confident woman
26:53that was really gonna put Sam in his place.
26:55You know, Mr. Malone, we've known each other only seconds,
26:59and I'm already tired of you.
27:00We just couldn't figure out
27:02what the magic was and what the funny was.
27:06And then one day,
27:08Kirstie Alley showed us that she could swallow a cigarette
27:11and then push it back out of her mouth fully lit.
27:17Hey, uh, where's the pool table?
27:19Wrong room.
27:20And we went, oh, we can use that.
27:27And more important than that,
27:29she showed us that she could cry.
27:31Maybe you could send me a postcard from the Caribbean
27:34and address it to me at, oh, I don't know,
27:38YWCA Skid Row.
27:41And not since, I think, Lucille Ball.
27:46Man, what a great cry.
27:47Has there been a more wonderful
27:49and varied set of cries?
27:54I am too stupid to live!
27:56When the writers saw how well she could fake cry
27:59and how she could be really good at playing a mess,
28:02they realized that's who she is.
28:04We all just said, that's it.
28:06Have this beautiful, seemingly together woman
28:11be a complete and utter mess.
28:15And she was really, really funny.
28:18So Cheers was not slowed down
28:19by the loss of its leading lady.
28:21And in fact, people amazingly gave Rebecca Howe a chance.
28:25Talk about a stroke of luck.
28:27But there is a group of people
28:30who feel, ah, after Diane, the show is terrible.
28:35And then there's other people
28:36who came upon Cheers
28:38in the fifth, sixth, seventh season with Rebecca.
28:42It just jump-started the series in a way.
28:46It became less of a romantic comedy
28:49and we leaned more into the bar
28:53and all of the characters
28:56and their relationship.
28:59Like Norm gets more of a soul episode.
29:02Enough foreplay.
29:03Let's be sheep meat.
29:05I tell you that I was married.
29:07Congratulations.
29:08Let's celebrate with a roll in the hay.
29:10And then Fraser and Lilith take off
29:11as like the main romantic couple.
29:14Which is just comedic gold.
29:16You know, I'm beginning to wonder
29:17if you're fit to carry my seed.
29:19I'm beginning to wish you kept it.
29:21My favorite episode that I wrote
29:23was Frasier's bachelor party.
29:25And something really cool in that episode,
29:29Frasier comes into the bar
29:32and he has a speech.
29:34I was listening to a rock and roll station
29:36on my way over here
29:37and there was a passage
29:38in one of those tribal songs
29:40that I feel, ah,
29:42well, is the keynote for this evening.
29:45Everybody have fun tonight.
29:49Everybody wang chung tonight.
29:51And it, it, it got a really big laugh.
29:56And my partner, David, and I
29:58loved writing Carla episodes.
30:01Tell me the truth.
30:03Well, my curse on you is gonna be
30:06your tongue is gonna swell up so big
30:09you're gonna have to buy a seat
30:11on the plane for it.
30:13How gullible does he think I am?
30:15Ken and David wrote the most episodes
30:19and they have really owned
30:21the whole Gary's bar rivalry.
30:25There are sheep in my office.
30:29Ah, cheers.
30:31Where good times go to die.
30:33We wrote all of the bar wars episodes.
30:36What are you trying to say?
30:37Oh, rip off the day!
30:39Those are where cheers goes to war
30:44with Gary's Old Town Tavern.
30:47And, uh, hilarity, of course, ensues
30:49as things get more and more ridiculous
30:51in the battle between the two.
30:53We just shut down Gary's Old Town Tavern
30:54on one of the busiest bar nights
30:56of the year.
30:57At a certain point,
30:59we were reaching
31:0034 million people
31:03every Thursday.
31:05Stunning.
31:06The year we were number one
31:07was the year that Roseanne
31:10goofed up the Star Spangled Banner
31:12in San Diego.
31:13For the land of the rain!
31:19And it cost her just enough points
31:21in the ratings
31:22so that we were able to be number one.
31:24But once we got it,
31:25we didn't let go.
31:26But there were
31:28all kinds of problems going on
31:30behind the scenes
31:31with Kelsey Grammer.
31:33Kelsey is a very sweet man,
31:35but he was troubled.
31:36He was using drugs and stuff.
31:38And that occasionally impacted his work.
31:42And it did come to a head
31:43a couple of times
31:44where producers were really concerned
31:46that he may either lose his life
31:48or be incapable
31:50of continuing to work on the show.
31:56Kelsey Grammer was fantastic as Frasier,
32:02but his substance abuse issues
32:04and some of his other personal demons
32:06became ongoing issues on Shears.
32:09But he also had a very tough life.
32:12His father was murdered,
32:14his sister was murdered,
32:15his stepbrothers died in an accident.
32:17And it seems like
32:19in trying to cope
32:20with some of this tragedy,
32:21he had some unhealthy coping mechanisms
32:23as he tried to navigate that.
32:25It's remarkable I survived some of that.
32:27I might be asleep
32:28on one of the benches
32:29in the Shears set,
32:30and then when it was my turn,
32:31I'd just stand up and go do it.
32:33The cast was very supportive
32:34and loved him
32:36and took that to heart.
32:38And they respected
32:38his comedy acting ability.
32:41I mean, I don't know
32:41if anybody was funnier
32:42on the show than Kelsey.
32:45It just shows what a family
32:46they all were together
32:47on and off the show.
32:49He's such an endearing person
32:51and so incredibly talented
32:52that they were willing
32:53to deal with that.
32:55And from then on,
32:56he really got it together.
32:58He came to work
33:00to thick or thin
33:01and was always great.
33:03And the last three years
33:05of the show,
33:06it was quite an experience.
33:07The characters are all
33:08given their time to shine.
33:09I'm gonna buy you a beer.
33:10There.
33:12The character work
33:14that was done
33:15on that show
33:16is unparalleled.
33:18That's what made the show.
33:20You wanted to see
33:20what was gonna happen
33:21to each of them.
33:22You have activated
33:23the internal laser beam
33:24motion detector.
33:26Send me.
33:29Come over for a little action.
33:31I'm stuck in the middle
33:32of Star Wars.
33:33Lilith is pregnant
33:34is one of the standout episodes.
33:37I am mother.
33:38My man's seed
33:39is nourished within me.
33:43Touch my breasts,
33:44my friend.
33:44I am lactating.
33:46It's so different
33:46than what we'd seen before
33:47from Lilith.
33:48and you get Woody Boyd
33:49entering into a relationship
33:51with Kelly.
33:51Will you go out
33:52with me again?
33:53Well, sure.
33:54Probably my favorite
33:55Woody scene
33:56was singing
33:57Kelly, Kelly, Kelly.
33:58Kelly, Kelly, Kelly.
33:59Why?
34:02Because you're
34:03Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly.
34:06Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, Kelly.
34:09Kelly, Kelly of mine.
34:13Mine, mine, mine.
34:14And my character
34:15became more integral
34:16to the show
34:17because they figured out
34:19what to do with him.
34:20Ever since my wife left me,
34:22I've been sort of desperate
34:23for female companionship,
34:24you know?
34:25So there were storylines
34:26created around me.
34:29The episode in which
34:30there was a party
34:31at Cheers.
34:32Carla made one of her
34:33specialty drinks last night.
34:35Things got out of hand.
34:36And everybody got so drunk
34:38they forgot what happened.
34:39Carla knew
34:40that she'd had sex
34:41with somebody,
34:42but she couldn't remember
34:43who it was.
34:44Oh, Sammy, Sammy,
34:45please, please
34:47tell me it was you.
34:48And then
34:49I come into the bar.
34:54Hey, sexy.
34:57That was very funny.
34:58Come on, Lisa, man.
35:00It was a glimpse
35:04into my character
35:05that perhaps
35:06could have been enlarged
35:07the next season,
35:08but we didn't go
35:09to the next season
35:10because Ted wanted
35:11to move on.
35:13Ted felt
35:15that that was enough.
35:17And it's hard
35:20to say that he was wrong.
35:22We did, like,
35:23250 episodes
35:26of Cheers.
35:27So Ted Danson
35:28was having this kind of
35:29come-to-Jesus moment.
35:30How much longer
35:31do you want to play
35:32this character?
35:33How many more stories
35:34do you think the show
35:34has in it
35:35before it becomes repetitive?
35:37And he was going through
35:38some personal turmoil
35:39at the time.
35:40He had infamously
35:40had an affair
35:41with Whoopi Goldberg.
35:42It ended his marriage.
35:43And I think that
35:44just a combination
35:45of doing the same
35:46old thing at work
35:47and having the rug
35:48pulled out
35:48from your personal life
35:49was the impetus,
35:50finally,
35:51to end the show.
35:53And I know
35:54they really,
35:55really, really
35:56tried to keep him.
35:58They apparently
35:59offered him
35:59plenty of money
36:01if he was willing
36:01to come back.
36:02But he kind of said,
36:03I've done 11 years
36:04and this is probably
36:05the right moment
36:06for me to step off here.
36:08They knew they couldn't
36:08continue the show
36:09without Sam Malone.
36:10It's,
36:11it wouldn't never
36:11be the same.
36:13America's favorite
36:14bartender confesses
36:15the decision to stop
36:16starring in Cheers
36:16was agonizing.
36:18Danson says he's,
36:19quote,
36:19not leaving Cheers
36:20as a career move.
36:21That'd be a stupid
36:22career move.
36:23End quote.
36:23I think everybody,
36:25all the writers,
36:26Jimmy and Glenn
36:26and Les,
36:27were concerned
36:29because they knew
36:30how important it was
36:31to get that finale right.
36:34The fans were
36:36just sort of skeptical
36:38and waiting to see
36:40what we would do.
36:42And luckily,
36:43they had a chance
36:44to really go out
36:45in style
36:46with the big return
36:47of Shelley Long
36:48as Diane.
36:49The producers
36:50knew they wanted
36:51Shelley Long
36:51for the series finale
36:52and it makes
36:54all the sense
36:55in the world
36:55for her to be
36:56back in the finale.
37:03I was so happy
37:05to see Diane come back
37:06in the series finale
37:07of Cheers.
37:08It's funny.
37:09It's a little strange.
37:11It's different
37:11than it was before,
37:12but it feels very familiar.
37:14There had been
37:14a lot of loose ends
37:15when she departed.
37:17It was left
37:18on such a tenuous note
37:20with her saying to Sam,
37:22I'll be back
37:22in six months
37:23and him saying,
37:24have a nice life.
37:25So it was
37:27a must-see event
37:28for everyone.
37:29And the ratings
37:30for the finale
37:30were massive.
37:32Over 80 million people
37:34tuned in to watch
37:35the ending of Cheers.
37:36And it's such a nice plot line.
37:39Can it be?
37:39Is it really her?
37:41Diane Chambers
37:41has won an award
37:42and is in the news
37:43and is back
37:44on the radar
37:45of the Cheers gang.
37:47Terpsichore,
37:48Goliath,
37:49and Urania
37:50are too soft
37:51to be heard.
37:53Forgive me, gals,
37:54if I forgot someone.
37:56God is in her.
37:57It was great
37:57to see Shelley Long
37:58come back in the bar
37:59looking wonderful.
38:00Hello, everyone.
38:03The night
38:04that the show
38:05aired,
38:07all of us
38:07were in Boston
38:08and we were
38:09at that Cheers bar.
38:11Hey, there's Woody,
38:12the absent-minded
38:13bartender
38:14walking the crowd.
38:15and outside
38:17they had set up
38:18a large jumbotron
38:20and there were
38:21like 20,000 people.
38:23You would hear a joke
38:24and 20,000 people
38:26laughing.
38:28Can you do me
38:28one little favor, please?
38:30This isn't what you
38:31used to mean
38:32by favor, is it?
38:33And ultimately,
38:35Sam and Diane
38:35get back together.
38:36Sam is going to
38:37leave with her
38:38to go to California
38:39and sell the bar
38:41and be done
38:41with the bar
38:42and leave
38:43all his friends
38:44and while
38:45on the plane
38:45with Diane
38:46both realize
38:47this isn't right,
38:48this isn't going
38:49to work
38:49and has to apologize
38:51to all his friends.
38:53I'm sorry
38:53about blowing up
38:54like that.
38:54I hope you understand
38:56where that was coming from.
38:57Yeah, it's all right,
38:58Sammy, we understand.
39:00I mean, here you are
39:01washed up ball player,
39:03alcohol problem,
39:04sex problem.
39:06Lost your one true love.
39:07Twice.
39:08No apology necessary.
39:09And it's just
39:10a beautiful moment
39:11when he turns
39:12the lights out
39:13and pulls the blinds down
39:15and tells that last
39:16set of feet
39:17coming down the stairs
39:18into the bar.
39:19Sorry, we're closed.
39:21It's poetic.
39:22It was like,
39:25wow,
39:2711 years
39:28and it's over.
39:31It's a lot of
39:32hugging
39:33and crying
39:35and we realized
39:36it's our last
39:37exchange together
39:38on Cheers
39:39and we were sad,
39:41you know,
39:41it was heavy
39:42and I cried
39:43and I cried that day.
39:45Haven't even yet
39:46got to
39:46what happens
39:48after the show
39:49is over.
39:50Live from
39:50the Bull and Pinch
39:51The Cheers Bar
39:52in Boston,
39:54The Tonight Show
39:55with Jay Leno.
39:56All the cast
39:57of Cheers
39:58were at the Bull and Finch
39:59Bar in Boston
40:00watching the final screening
40:01and then the cast
40:02had to go do
40:03The Tonight Show
40:03live.
40:04Unfortunately,
40:06the cast
40:06showed up early
40:07for that taping
40:08and just started drinking
40:10and when you watch
40:11the footage
40:12of That Tonight Show
40:12they are hammered.
40:14Kurt, Presti,
40:15you know,
40:16you are my best friend
40:17but we all need
40:18to say this to you.
40:19Yes.
40:20You're stupid!
40:21Jay Leno
40:23is trying
40:24to wrangle
40:24this cast
40:25into something
40:25that could possibly
40:26make the air.
40:27What's magic?
40:28Talk about it.
40:28All right,
40:29damn this.
40:29Talk about it.
40:31Can I get you
40:32all another drink?
40:33It was like,
40:33oh my God,
40:35this is such a train wreck.
40:37You can feel
40:38the tension
40:39from Jay Leno
40:39as he's trying
40:40to corral these people
40:41who are celebrating
40:43this decade plus
40:44long accomplishment
40:45of being on
40:46one of the most
40:47popular shows
40:47in television history.
40:49Chelsea,
40:49you got a show
40:50coming up, right?
40:50Yeah,
40:51I have a show
40:51coming.
40:52At the end
40:53of Cheers,
40:54they decided
40:54to do Frasier
40:56as a spinoff,
40:57which was really
40:57a popular show
40:58and ran for 11 seasons.
40:59You expect me
41:00to give up my study,
41:01the place where I read,
41:01where I do
41:02my most profound thinking?
41:03I use the can
41:04like the rest
41:05of the world.
41:06And there's
41:07a very long
41:07tale of influence
41:08that Cheers
41:09has had
41:09on so many shows
41:10that have come after.
41:12Any show
41:12that came after
41:13that took place
41:14a lot in a bar,
41:15Cheers gets credit
41:16for how we met
41:17your mother.
41:17It's a perfect example.
41:19Swat!
41:20And Cheers
41:20still gets referenced
41:21in media
41:22that's being produced
41:23today.
41:24Cheers,
41:25Sam and Diane,
41:27guy and a girl
41:28on a TV show,
41:29dig each other,
41:29but never say it
41:30because if I do
41:31the ratings,
41:31we'll go down.
41:32We now return
41:33to Cheers.
41:34Norm!
41:35And Peter,
41:36yay!
41:37How's life
41:38in the fast lane,
41:39Mr. Peterson?
41:39Ruffin.
41:40I can't find
41:40the on-ramp, Woody.
41:41He was talking
41:42to me, Norm.
41:43Quit stealing
41:43my punchlines,
41:44you fat drunk.
41:45So, Cheers
41:46is a show
41:46that continues
41:47to be discovered
41:48even by younger
41:49generations.
41:50It's the pinnacle
41:51of how great
41:53the sitcom can be
41:54and one of the
41:55greatest shows
41:55of all time.
42:15is a show
42:26of all time.
42:27Before we do,
42:27I have one of the
42:28any...
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