“It’s hard for me to say, ‘This is the best,’ but I’ll say it, ‘OK?’ ‘Cheers’ was the best show ever,” Rhea Perlman, who played salty waitress Carla Tortelli, said while laughing in a phone interview with TODAY.
There was a time, long before “streaming” was a word in our collective lexicon, when viewers hustled to their TV sets on Thursday nights, hunkering down for an evening of immense laughter on NBC when sitcom after sitcom brought joy to millions of viewers. One of the programs at the center of this long-running phenomenon was “Cheers,” a series so good that it would be an injustice to simply say it was fantastic.
Aside from memorable performances, “Cheers” left its imprint with a combination of strong characters, fantastic chemistry and superior writing. “I never looked at the script until I was sitting at the table with the rest of the cast because every time I turned the page, it was like Christmas.”Buoyed by a supporting cast second to none, “Cheers” was funny from day one and had the benefit of NBC executives exercising patience to let the show find its footing when it struggled out of the gate in the ratings.
It was the pinnacle of a time when you had to tune in to watch a show when it aired. Unless you taped the episode on a VCR, you were plum out of luck. Will we ever see a kind of lineup where viewers have to get to their TVs again at a specific time to watch these type of shows the way we did with “Cheers” and that Thursday night lineup?
“Cheers” conveyed a sense of warmth and being in a bar with people who understand you. It was escapism for people who longed for acceptance after a rough day. Long left the show after the fifth season and was replaced by Alley, who played Rebecca, representing a new character who seemed strong, but whose insecurities and failures to advance in the business world were bilked for laughs. Those changes propelled the series in new directions. Perhaps if Long stayed, there could’ve been episodes about Diane’s marriage to Sam and their family.
“Cheers” carried on in syndication and today can be streamed on Peacock. Perlman says it’s a throwback to a different time that strikes a chord with viewers, particularly those watching it for the first time.
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