Diane Chambers

Diane Chambers (played by actress Shelley Long) was the demure, rather snobbish, academically oriented barmaid from the sitcom Cheers (1982?1993).

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Shelley Long - Sitcom - Cheers - 1982 - 1993

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The character kept audiences enthralled over the course of a lengthy plot arc: the will-they/won't-they romantic tribulations between Diane and Sam Malone (Ted Danson).

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Sam Malone - Ted Danson

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Attractive in a non-threatening way, Long was ideally cast. Frequently left looking on at Sam's bustier and scantily attired conquests, Long's contrast was compelling.

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Diane found Sam's rugged and rather obvious charms, by turns, repulsive and magnetic. Sam was driven by his insatiable lust (as always) and was both maddened and drawn by Diane's ambivalence toward him.

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Diane was also a persistent thorn in the side of her feisty barmaid peer Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman) who had little time for Diane's myriad pretensions, spending much of her shift bursting Diane's pomposity with rapier wit.

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Carla Tortelli - Rhea Perlman

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In comparison to the bar's general clientele, Diane Chambers seemed amusingly out of place, until she introduced intellectual psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane (played by Kelsey Grammer) into the mix. Diane and Frasier had a romance (ended when Diane left Frasier at the altar) that was sandwiched between Diane's romances with Sam.

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Dr. Frasier Crane - Kelsey Grammer

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Long left the series in 1987 but reprised the character in a special appearance in the Cheers series finale in 1993.

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1987 - Series finale - 1993

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Long also reprised the Chambers character in subsequent guest appearances on the Cheers spin-off series, Frasier. In "The Episode Where Diane Comes Back" she and Kelsey Grammer reconciled on and off the screen. On the screen, Frasier and Diane reconciled over the time she jilted him at the altar. Off screen, they reconciled over the fact that she wanted him written off "Cheers."

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Spin-off - Frasier

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