Cheers

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Cheers is the name of a long-running situation comedy produced by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC. The show premiered on September 30, 1982 and had its widely-watched series finale on May 20, 1993, followed by a long and ongoing run in syndication. During its eleven seasons, 273 Cheers episodes were made.

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The show was set in a Boston bar, where a colorful group of locals would come to sit, drink, state daft facts, complain, and play elaborate practical jokes on the devotees and owner of a rival bar in town. The show also spawned the character Frasier Crane, who went on to a TV show of his own (Frasier) after Cheers ended. The show's tagline and theme song refrain is "where everybody knows your name..."

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The show's main theme in its early seasons was the stormy romance between upper-class, over-educated server Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) and earthy ex-baseball pitcher and bar owner Sam Malone (Ted Danson). Long's departure from the show in 1987 shifted the emphasis to Sam's relationship with a new character, neurotic corporate executive Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley).

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Social class was a strong subtext of the show. Upper-class characters like Diane, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer), Rebecca and Lilith Sternin (Bebe Neuwirth) rubbed shoulders with working-class characters like Sam, Norm Peterson (George Wendt), and Clifford Clavin (John Ratzenberger). Strong comedic support came from the bar staff, including sassy waitress Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman) and sometimes-befuddled assistant bartender Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso (Nicholas Colasanto). Following Colasanto's death in 1985, the assistant bartender role was filled by an even more na?ve character, Woodrow 'Woody' Boyd (Woody Harrelson).

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The producers, not wanting the show to be construed as promoting drinking, had Sam's character written as a recovering alcoholic.

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Situation comedy: A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. Sitcoms usually consist of recurring characters in a format in which there are one or more humorous story lines centred on a common environment, such as a family home o...

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