Harry Anderson was an original. He was always "on" as they say. I was fortunate enough to know him. He was an amazing guy that could always put a smile on my face. R.I.P. Harry "The Hat".
@@jasona9 That's the real trick here. I was given a real bait-an-switch when I realised the whole point was to get two free drinks. If it was obvious, go easy on me
@@stewmott3763 Possibly. I don't think the phrase was coined in the 80s, probably goes back farther. But Anderson definitely used it in his standup magic act.
@@hosswindu166 wow that would have been amazing, in a small club too! honestly, a swanky lounge, dimly lit, smelling of bourbon and cigarettes sounds so fitting though lol
@@robertpreston2220 redlettermedia used to always go on about night court some guy called Mr plinkett wants an old VCR machine fixing so he can rewatch every episode of night court he recorded. I've never seen an episode of it ever
The pilot episode is still taught in screenwriting grad school as the perfect pilot. No wonder the studio gave the show a shot. Then of course they cut Sam's balls off and changed everything up once everyone got a fat cut and didn't need to work for it any more.
@@haletosis1380 wow, what a line up!!! Unfortunately, those days of raunchy adult humour in NC and Cheers, are long gone thanks to the metoo/woke ninnies. Same with Seinfeld, which would get absolutely roasted by this small minority of Twidiots, who have a majority voice for some strange reason?
@@crazyralph6386 me too was a movement with people calling out people who sexually harassed or assaulted them. If you think that's "woke," you're fucked.
Met Harry several times in the early 90's. I was working in contractor sales at a hardware/lumber store in Issaquah, WA. He was building his craftsman home in a little nearby town of Fall City. He was extremely sweet, clever, playful, and intelligent. Rest in peace, Harry! ⚘
Its funny, you see it coming but still makes you laugh and smile. Harry Anderson was always great even in It. He always seems like he is having fun in anything he did
It's great because it's legit something you'd see at a bar. The laughing from the cast goes along with the audience like everyone is at the bar watching. Brilliant.
He probably was. Harry ~was~ a true magician. He probably just told the crew he was going to do a trick for a drink and didn't tell them what it was going to be.
@@mdemers767 I agree. Watch the people behind George. The extras are usually oblivious to the main action. But that couple looks like they were keeping an eye on things.
Remember that the cast on the Carol Burnette show had a standing bet that whoever cracked up during a skit was buying dinner that evening. That pretty much guaranteed Tim Conway & Harvey Kormann were going to be gunning for each other.
Harry also starred in Dave’s World, a sitcom loosely based on newspaper writer Dave Barry. I remember watching it but I didn’t realize it ran for 4 seasons.
@@innerDialectic I Love Lucy was the first to film in front of a live audience. Both Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball were used to working with live audiences, Desi as a nightclub bandleader and musician and Lucy as a stage actress and vaudeville performer. They decided to use the live audience because it gave them instant feedback on whether a joke or gag or performance was working. As they were filming instead of live broadcasting, it gave them the luxury to stop, make changes, and refilm a segment that the audience did not respond well to. At the same time, because they were filming in front of an audience, their performances had a similar energy to live theater. The show was a huge success and other shows quickly adapted the formula and it became the mainstream format for situation comedies for decades. Some situation comedies in the 60s didn't use a live audience, but they wanted to give the impression they did by using a laugh track, also known as canned laughter. This allowed the producers and editors to determine how funny they thought a joke was and give it the appropriate amount of laughter. Unfortunately, this often resulted in jokes that were not particularly funny getting large laughs, confusing the viewing audience making them believe or think they misunderstood the joke or just didn't get it at all.This was also used on shows that were funny, but studios didn't trust the audience to know when to laugh, so they forced canned laughter to tell us when to laugh. M*A*S*H was an example of this. The producer did not want a laugh track, but the studio insisted. That's why some sitcoms began announcing that their show was filmed in front of a live audience, then the home viewers wouldn't feel the show was trying to manipulate them into believing the jokes were funny when they weren't. Some shows took a different approach. They would film the show like a sitcom, but without an audience. Then the show would be played for an audience and the audience laughter would be recorded in synch with the show. So the show wasn't recorded in front of a studio audience, but the laughter was more or less legitimate. One noticable problem with this technique is that sometimes a joke will get a bigger laugh than expected and the actors will not leave a long enough pause for the laugh to play out before they say the next line. That causes the home viewer to not be able to hear what the actor is saying because the audience laughter is stepping on the actor's line. On the other hand, the opposite can happen as well, where the actor thinks the joke will get a bigger laugh than it does, so there is a bit of a dead air pause where there is little to no laughter and the actors are waiting for the laughter to die down before proceeding, but from the home viewers perspective, it's kind of cringey. Fortunately, these issues can and usually are fixed in post production before the show ever airs by editing out the dead air pause with a quick cut from another camera angle and then cut back to the point of the actor resuming the performance, or they simply pile on canned laughter to make it seem the joke was funnier than it was. Unfortunately, this all breaks the honesty of live audience response. The last season of All In The Family used this technique. Nowadays, some sitcoms still use a live studio audience, such as The Big Bang Theory, but more and more, sitcoms are shooting each episode just like a drama series or a movie, with a single camera, no studio audience, and no laugh track. Young Sheldon is an example of this, which oddly enough is a spinoff of The Big Bang Theory.
@@hueowen2786 nice very interesting, thanks! Personally I feel the best of the best comedies in the past few decades have never considered laugh tracks, fake or organic, and had faith in their content.
Bob Saget just passed away. There goes another icon of my child hood. Hopefully him, Harry and Robin Williams are still making people laugh wherever they go...
One of the very best shows EVER, and Harry the Hat one of the most colorful characters. Nothing like it or him on TV anymore. Seems like everything is a "reality" show with obvious scripts.
I used to watch night court and cheers..now I have no TV in the house..every comedy after everybody loves Ramon went the pits..always about George screwing frank...Helen screwing Hillary..wasn't funny anymore..threw dish network out along with the TV..
@@deplorableredneck4.02 I agree about regular network TV. Mostly reality shows that are obviously scripted. There are still a few good programs such as Smithsonian network. But I miss Cheers, Taxi And WKRP in Cincinnati.
@@christhornton1785 problem is to watch the Smithsonian network you buy Dish/cable and all those shows you don't like still get your money..I live in a cabin..when people come to visit we fish do a fire in the pit and they themselves can't watch TV while here..makes them take a break
Such a great show. I don’t know too much about it because I hadn’t watched it in years but the memories I have watching it were all great with my family. Even this scene and and the choreography and the acting and all the sound and stuff, really shows some great television work.
It’s fascinating watching 80s TV and movies because it really does mark the end of people dressing smartly in suits and hats. Watch any show that ran from early 80s to late 80s and by the end of the decade leisure casual had taken off. Track suits and caps, sneakers instead of loafers. I wish people still dressed like this. I noticed when I went to London people dressed sharp there still, but not in the US so much anymore.
Agree, though not sure I'd want to be stuck in a suit all the time at work but it is nice to bust out something dressy once in a while. I still do my suit and hat when I fly. :-)
You're comparing the city of London (population: 8 million) to the whole USA (population: 330 million)? Many Americans still dress up, particularly conservatives, because they are traditionalists.
I was not a Cheers fan but the scene was great. I can not stop laughing and keep playing over and over. Harry was the best. Great on Night Court and stole the show when he made guest appearances on other shows.
@@jenniffer9034 i do not want to get in a pitty pool. But my father was an abusive alcoholic when i was a kid. so i was to busy trying to stay alive and never watched tv or did anything normal kids did until i graduated and went into the air force.
@@dannycnoble About the same for me, except i just never found humor and alcohol mixed. Out of it though, you can discover that it's never too late to have a happy childhood! Immature is not bad, it just can't share the same time and space as responsible behavior.
I really love the sitcoms as a kid from the '80s...The Golden Girls, Cheers, Night Court, if a kid like me back then can get the joke, then it's worth it.
@@charlieyellowstone8248 Not really, when you do the currency conversion, $5 back then was the equivalent of about $15 today, and $7.50 for a straight shot is pretty typical.
There was a bar in North Chicago at the time charging a dollar for shots, according to the large chested young lady in the tv ads specifically targeting the Navy base
I was in my early twenties back then and worked night shift at a hotel in NYC - Thurs night was must see tv with Cosby, night court, cheers then hill street - then off to work I’d go - retiring next month but remember those days like it was yesterday!
@@SpencerJ289 Night Court is on Amazon Prime. I actually like it better then Cheers but not by much. You can skip the 1st season and just go to the second when they had the cast that was there for about 9 seasons.
Rabid Salvation beat me to it, but yes, Harry Anderson was too talented to be a peripheral character for long. He was a sitcom star waiting to happen. It was just a question of which network signed him up first. He did appear once in a cold open gag during the run of Night Court, and then in the last season of Cheers, by which time Njght Court had ended.
I remember this teaser from Cheers quite well because we had several variations of "I bet you a dollar I can do X without doing Y", where X was worth more than a dollar. Some of them were quite inappropriate. Unfortunately, after this episode many people sussed the trick because Cheers was so popular and they'd all seen Harry do something similar.
Harry The Hat is the one that puts the final nail in the Gary’s Tavern vs a Cheers feud. Fact. It was the best farewell to the character. In fact watch the final season of Cheers and how they masterfully say goodbye to several classic characters from the early eras of Cheers.
Harry lived and died in Asheville NC,not far from where i live,he moved there later in his life,people who knew him said he was pretty down to earth,i really liked him in Night Court.
A lot of big stars got their beginnings on this show. This show made a lot of famous people. Except for coach God rest his soul I remember it was around the third season when he passed away. Then we got to meet Woody Harrison who went on to be a superstar who is even making blockbuster hits to this day. Look at Clifford he's in almost every animated movie buy Pixar. I could go on and on but if you're familiar with the show you know who became famous.
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Harry Anderson was an original. He was always "on" as they say. I was fortunate enough to know him. He was an amazing guy that could always put a smile on my face. R.I.P. Harry "The Hat".
Such a shame that he wasn't on the show more often.
@@fransbuijs808 he probably would have been on more if he wasn’t also doing Night Court at the time.
I Loved him and the cast of NightCourt
I never knew Harry Anderson was in Cheers!
I didn’t know him but I miss the hell out of him. We’ve lost way too many Night Court cast members lately.
The way Harry looks at Cliff. Like "here's a mark".
I bet he just sees a big pigeon sitting next to Norm.
One of the best bar tricks ever!
Love the “ that’s worth a dime!”
And the whole exchange after. 🤣🤣
For a dime, I would have just picked up the hat and drank the shot and paid him a dime. Then I'd ask him if he wanted to do it again.
“$5 bucks for the booze 🥃 Cliffo”. 😂🤣😁 great tagline by ‘Coach’.
@@jasona9 That's the real trick here. I was given a real bait-an-switch when I realised the whole point was to get two free drinks. If it was obvious, go easy on me
Don’t forget about cliffs reactions at 1:10 and 1:51
"A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place." - Harry the Hat
I thought that was Gordon Gekko?
@@stewmott3763 Possibly. I don't think the phrase was coined in the 80s, probably goes back farther. But Anderson definitely used it in his standup magic act.
@@theBaron0530 Fair enough. It did sound kind of proverbial even at the time. Thanks!
"A fool and his money are soon partying." --Steven Wright.
@@wildman2012 "That's the artificial horizon. It's much better than the real horizon."
A classic gag played magnificently. I wish that I could have praised all of them in person because that was truly a treat.
I used to love watching Night Court, Harry Anderson was truly great and what a unique character he was
He did a great live act. Saw it in a very small venue.
@@hosswindu166 wow that would have been amazing, in a small club too! honestly, a swanky lounge, dimly lit, smelling of bourbon and cigarettes sounds so fitting though lol
they are bringing night court back soon i keep reading
@@robertpreston2220 redlettermedia used to always go on about night court some guy called Mr plinkett wants an old VCR machine fixing so he can rewatch every episode of night court he recorded. I've never seen an episode of it ever
@@jplonsdale7242 Wow you never saw it at all!
This was on the first season. It was quality like this that convinced NBC to keep the show even though the ratings were slow that year. Good decision.
Cheers was one of the best shows ever on TV.
LOU GRANT and CHEERS were the first two (and, perhaps, only) television shows to have finished last and first in the weekly ratings.
The pilot episode is still taught in screenwriting grad school as the perfect pilot. No wonder the studio gave the show a shot.
Then of course they cut Sam's balls off and changed everything up once everyone got a fat cut and didn't need to work for it any more.
It was a great show for nine seasons. The final was one of the best of all time. I will never forget it
80’s sitcom was the golden age of tv programming for this kid. Cheers and Night Court were the kings for a good 5 years.
Right there with ya, man!
Oh yeah. I remember Thursday night NBC. Cosby Show, Family Ties, Cheers, and Night Court.
@@haletosis1380 wow, what a line up!!! Unfortunately, those days of raunchy adult humour in NC and Cheers, are long gone thanks to the metoo/woke ninnies.
Same with Seinfeld, which would get absolutely roasted by this small minority of Twidiots, who have a majority voice for some strange reason?
Night Court?
@@crazyralph6386 me too was a movement with people calling out people who sexually harassed or assaulted them. If you think that's "woke," you're fucked.
That scene was genuinely a gem and brought me far much more joy than I expected.
Nicholas Colasanto and Harry Anderson, both great actors sadly missed
The look on Cliff's face after the second drink..
@@democracylives8448 Yeah, the whole cast was great. One of the best shows.
The look on Norm’s face after the first one was priceless.
I got the feeling George Wendt was just genuinely enjoying working with Harry Anderson.
I think the actor was supposed to act disapointed for his friend but his reaction made more sense for the scne and they kept it.
RIP Harry Anderson. A true talent.
The face Cliff makes after Harry lifts the hat always gets me!
Especially the eye twitch^^
You do know Cliff only did that once, right? I mean, it's a video. Cliff's "face" will always be like that . . . forever. lol
@Ll L LOL
Met Harry several times in the early 90's. I was working in contractor sales at a hardware/lumber store in Issaquah, WA. He was building his craftsman home in a little nearby town of Fall City. He was extremely sweet, clever, playful, and intelligent.
Rest in peace, Harry! ⚘
Everytime i saw him show up in cheers, i imagined that it really was harry stone from night court trolling the nearby bar.
Same name or not, this guy is Harry Stone, and Night Court was a spinoff.
That delivery on 'Condos on Venus' is so amazing.
Yep. The actor's comedic timing is gold.
Its funny, you see it coming but still makes you laugh and smile. Harry Anderson was always great even in It. He always seems like he is having fun in anything he did
Cheers is still, to this day, my favorite TV show.
SAME
You guys are old as dirt f*ckin fossils
Mine too!
@@peted2952 there are new generations that are watching it troll!
@@peted2952 and you're a self-righteous bigoted jerk
Norm just gave him his money as he walked in Harry he knew better lol
The cast always seem to enjoy being on set with Harry
It's great because it's legit something you'd see at a bar. The laughing from the cast goes along with the audience like everyone is at the bar watching. Brilliant.
George seemed like he was laughing fir real. Makes it seem so much more organic.
He probably was. Harry ~was~ a true magician. He probably just told the crew he was going to do a trick for a drink and didn't tell them what it was going to be.
@@mdemers767 I agree. Watch the people behind George. The extras are usually oblivious to the main action. But that couple looks like they were keeping an eye on things.
Remember that the cast on the Carol Burnette show had a standing bet that whoever cracked up during a skit was buying dinner that evening.
That pretty much guaranteed Tim Conway & Harvey Kormann were going to be gunning for each other.
@@doughesson I love Harry Anderson, but Tim and Harvey were two of the funniest ppl Ever!
@@61rampy65 Harry Anderson would have fit right in with the Carol Burnette show.
Harry Anderson made Night Court one of the funniest shows on tv I never missed a episode
Harry Anderson had natural star quality without buying into the Hollywood lifestyle. He was truly unique talent and is dearly missed. R.I.P. Harry.
I really miss that show. I was a regular bar patron at the time it was on, so it hit home on many levels.
Sometimes you wanna go…
@@acerpro101 where everybody knows your name
@@davidshaba5079 And they're always glad you came...
I miss Night Court and Cheers. RIP Harry Anderson, the dude was just funny.
Harry also starred in Dave’s World, a sitcom loosely based on newspaper writer Dave Barry. I remember watching it but I didn’t realize it ran for 4 seasons.
This was the days of writting and acting for a live audience. The next best thing to theater, only everyone at home got to share in the hilarity.
Finally understand why the whole live audience thing existed for TV. Never realised to was to replicate theatre.
@@innerDialectic I Love Lucy was the first to film in front of a live audience. Both Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball were used to working with live audiences, Desi as a nightclub bandleader and musician and Lucy as a stage actress and vaudeville performer. They decided to use the live audience because it gave them instant feedback on whether a joke or gag or performance was working. As they were filming instead of live broadcasting, it gave them the luxury to stop, make changes, and refilm a segment that the audience did not respond well to. At the same time, because they were filming in front of an audience, their performances had a similar energy to live theater.
The show was a huge success and other shows quickly adapted the formula and it became the mainstream format for situation comedies for decades.
Some situation comedies in the 60s didn't use a live audience, but they wanted to give the impression they did by using a laugh track, also known as canned laughter. This allowed the producers and editors to determine how funny they thought a joke was and give it the appropriate amount of laughter. Unfortunately, this often resulted in jokes that were not particularly funny getting large laughs, confusing the viewing audience making them believe or think they misunderstood the joke or just didn't get it at all.This was also used on shows that were funny, but studios didn't trust the audience to know when to laugh, so they forced canned laughter to tell us when to laugh. M*A*S*H was an example of this. The producer did not want a laugh track, but the studio insisted. That's why some sitcoms began announcing that their show was filmed in front of a live audience, then the home viewers wouldn't feel the show was trying to manipulate them into believing the jokes were funny when they weren't.
Some shows took a different approach. They would film the show like a sitcom, but without an audience. Then the show would be played for an audience and the audience laughter would be recorded in synch with the show. So the show wasn't recorded in front of a studio audience, but the laughter was more or less legitimate. One noticable problem with this technique is that sometimes a joke will get a bigger laugh than expected and the actors will not leave a long enough pause for the laugh to play out before they say the next line. That causes the home viewer to not be able to hear what the actor is saying because the audience laughter is stepping on the actor's line. On the other hand, the opposite can happen as well, where the actor thinks the joke will get a bigger laugh than it does, so there is a bit of a dead air pause where there is little to no laughter and the actors are waiting for the laughter to die down before proceeding, but from the home viewers perspective, it's kind of cringey. Fortunately, these issues can and usually are fixed in post production before the show ever airs by editing out the dead air pause with a quick cut from another camera angle and then cut back to the point of the actor resuming the performance, or they simply pile on canned laughter to make it seem the joke was funnier than it was. Unfortunately, this all breaks the honesty of live audience response. The last season of All In The Family used this technique.
Nowadays, some sitcoms still use a live studio audience, such as The Big Bang Theory, but more and more, sitcoms are shooting each episode just like a drama series or a movie, with a single camera, no studio audience, and no laugh track. Young Sheldon is an example of this, which oddly enough is a spinoff of The Big Bang Theory.
@@hueowen2786 nice very interesting, thanks! Personally I feel the best of the best comedies in the past few decades have never considered laugh tracks, fake or organic, and had faith in their content.
Bob Saget just passed away. There goes another icon of my child hood. Hopefully him, Harry and Robin Williams are still making people laugh wherever they go...
Man I hope so
Harry Anderson and Robin Williams both used to be street performers in San Francisco at the same time in the 1970s, sometimes on the same street.
One of the truly great TV shows of all time...
One of the very best shows EVER, and Harry the Hat one of the most colorful characters. Nothing like it or him on TV anymore. Seems like everything is a "reality" show with obvious scripts.
I used to watch night court and cheers..now I have no TV in the house..every comedy after everybody loves Ramon went the pits..always about George screwing frank...Helen screwing Hillary..wasn't funny anymore..threw dish network out along with the TV..
@@deplorableredneck4.02 I agree about regular network TV. Mostly reality shows that are obviously scripted. There are still a few good programs such as Smithsonian network. But I miss Cheers, Taxi And WKRP in Cincinnati.
@@christhornton1785 problem is to watch the Smithsonian network you buy Dish/cable and all those shows you don't like still get your money..I live in a cabin..when people come to visit we fish do a fire in the pit and they themselves can't watch TV while here..makes them take a break
@@deplorableredneck4.02 Good point.
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That was a really good show, one hell of a cast.
Absolutely funny, especially if you’ve watched the series, pure clean comedy.
That was one of my favorite scenes. I love the idea of a guy who can beg drinks with clever tricks instead of trying to whine till he gets some wine.
Such a great show. I don’t know too much about it because I hadn’t watched it in years but the memories I have watching it were all great with my family. Even this scene and and the choreography and the acting and all the sound and stuff, really shows some great television work.
It’s fascinating watching 80s TV and movies because it really does mark the end of people dressing smartly in suits and hats. Watch any show that ran from early 80s to late 80s and by the end of the decade leisure casual had taken off. Track suits and caps, sneakers instead of loafers. I wish people still dressed like this. I noticed when I went to London people dressed sharp there still, but not in the US so much anymore.
Agree, though not sure I'd want to be stuck in a suit all the time at work but it is nice to bust out something dressy once in a while. I still do my suit and hat when I fly. :-)
You're comparing the city of London (population: 8 million) to the whole USA (population: 330 million)? Many Americans still dress up, particularly conservatives, because they are traditionalists.
I was not a Cheers fan but the scene was great. I can not stop laughing and keep playing over and over. Harry was the best. Great on Night Court and stole the show when he made guest appearances on other shows.
How were you not a Cheers fan!?
@@jenniffer9034 i do not want to get in a pitty pool. But my father was an abusive alcoholic when i was a kid. so i was to busy trying to stay alive and never watched tv or did anything normal kids did until i graduated and went into the air force.
@@dannycnoble About the same for me, except i just never found humor and alcohol mixed. Out of it though, you can discover that it's never too late to have a happy childhood! Immature is not bad, it just can't share the same time and space as responsible behavior.
I really love the sitcoms as a kid from the '80s...The Golden Girls, Cheers, Night Court, if a kid like me back then can get the joke, then it's worth it.
$5 for 2 shots. Glory days
Try going down to your local American Legion if they let the public in, drinks are still that cheap!
I miss being a kid watching this show
Yep I 15 in 82 when this show was on.. We had it so good in the 80s.. Rip Harry.. Rip coach. Rip 80s.. Gone forever
It's on Hulu
This was the defining scene of Cheers from my youth!
Love this guy from the Pixar movies! 🤣👍
I used to love when they had Harry on the show! Always a barrel of laughs!!
Great show, great characters
this show never gets old to bad we get old
Night Court was such a perfect role for Harrys skill and personality.
I might try this. Where I go, I don't think they either know or remember this.
Night Court was this every second of the show.
Love this bit!
I swear to God, my dad and John Ratzenberger have the same facial structures 😂. It’s like I’m watching my father on tv 😢
Harry the Hat was one of my favorite Cheers characters, always .
I purchased a lot of magic secrets from Harry. Wonderful guy, amazing magician.
I loved Cheers and Night Court.
Best sitcom there ever was.
Loved Harry Anderson, in this role and in "Night Court". He died way too young.
I loved Cheers growing up, and Night Court.
Harry the Hat is such an awesome character.
"Condos on Venus" Needs to be a new-new-wave band like now.
Just remember if you want to re-enact this make sure your friends are drunk first and you're sober😂
When he gets them coming AND going is epic!
Ah the days when you actually could get 2 shots for $5...
Yeah, but Harry got them for free.
Except Coach asks Cliff for $10.
You know if you think about it, 40 years ago, 2 shots for $5 sounds kind of expensive.
@@charlieyellowstone8248 Not really, when you do the currency conversion, $5 back then was the equivalent of about $15 today, and $7.50 for a straight shot is pretty typical.
There was a bar in North Chicago at the time charging a dollar for shots, according to the large chested young lady in the tv ads specifically targeting the Navy base
Luv that era of tv entertainment, never be the same!!!
We miss you Harry and Markie 😢
Used to watch Night Court all the time Harry never fails to make me laugh. And well Markie post yeah. Lol
Markie's dead too? Jesus christ😟
Richard Moll aka Bull’s also gone too.
I think of Cheers as comfort food in TV form.
I think this may be the first time that joke was so widely told, today, it's all over TikTok as if it's new.
All these modern day ‘content creators’ couldn’t come up with a single original idea of their lives depended on it!
There's only one Harry Stone. Grew up watching night court. Sad how they all about gone now!!
Loved him when he occasionally appeared on SNL in the late 1970s too. That's where we all met him: th-cam.com/video/PdTPe59ttlg/w-d-xo.html
I sure do miss those 2 shows. 😢
I've never seen this scene the expression on Cliffs face was priceless
I love the way he delivers the joke. RIP
That is a great show. Along with Night Court.
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I was in my early twenties back then and worked night shift at a hotel in NYC - Thurs night was must see tv with Cosby, night court, cheers then hill street - then off to work I’d go - retiring next month but remember those days like it was yesterday!
still one of the best shows on tv
He was great in Night Court (Harry) = RIP Bud, you were awesome.
Fun classic. I've been to the actual Cheers in Boston. Great time.
Great stuff! I miss Harry!
Harry was a criminally underused side character. By far my favorite side character on the show.
He got his own show one year later so it was for the best. Thursdays in the 80s on NBC were awesome.
@@rabidsalvation9021 oh awesome I did not know this. I’ll have to look it up and give it a watch.
@@SpencerJ289 Night Court is on Amazon Prime. I actually like it better then Cheers but not by much. You can skip the 1st season and just go to the second when they had the cast that was there for about 9 seasons.
Rabid Salvation beat me to it, but yes, Harry Anderson was too talented to be a peripheral character for long. He was a sitcom star waiting to happen. It was just a question of which network signed him up first. He did appear once in a cold open gag during the run of Night Court, and then in the last season of Cheers, by which time Njght Court had ended.
That actually made me chuckle. Too much fast talking "smart" humor on TV today
Not too much smart humour nowadays - makes people feel dumb and hurts their' feelings
They talk so fast to hide the fact that what they're saying isn't smart nor funny.
I remember this teaser from Cheers quite well because we had several variations of "I bet you a dollar I can do X without doing Y", where X was worth more than a dollar. Some of them were quite inappropriate. Unfortunately, after this episode many people sussed the trick because Cheers was so popular and they'd all seen Harry do something similar.
Harry The Hat is the one that puts the final nail in the Gary’s Tavern vs a Cheers feud. Fact. It was the best farewell to the character.
In fact watch the final season of Cheers and how they masterfully say goodbye to several classic characters from the early eras of Cheers.
Better yet, put a guy like that in charge of the space program, and we would have a colony the size of Texas on Mars!
This is how Harry made it through Law School to eventually become a judge!
I love the crossover vis. Night Court- i think it's implied
lol I used to watch this and Night Court as a kid. Times were tough for a kid, before the internet.
Harry lived and died in Asheville NC,not far from where i live,he moved there later in his life,people who knew him said he was pretty down to earth,i really liked him in Night Court.
Lobe it. An Abbott and Costello routine with a twist.
Besides this bit, I loved it on the final season of #Cheers, in #BarWarsVIITheNakedPrey, where #HarryTheHat buys a beer with Cliff’s money! LOL! 😆😂
I loved my parents and I use to watch it on Sundays after the news im on season 7 on Hulu
That's hilarious, whoever wrote that in has a good sense of humor.
The Harry the Hat bits were brought in by Harry Anderson.
R.I.P. Harry Anderson (1952-2018).
He was excellent as Beep Beep Ritchie in Stephen Kings IT
Harry was great on Cheers and Night Court.
I knew the first bit of the gag but hadn't seen the follow up before :)
A lot of big stars got their beginnings on this show. This show made a lot of famous people. Except for coach God rest his soul I remember it was around the third season when he passed away. Then we got to meet Woody Harrison who went on to be a superstar who is even making blockbuster hits to this day. Look at Clifford he's in almost every animated movie buy Pixar. I could go on and on but if you're familiar with the show you know who became famous.
Would have loved to see Harry reprised thr roll of Judge Stone (as a dramatic roll) on "Law and Order". Maybe just a line or two.
This is so great.
Who can forget “Night Court” after Cheers ??? I can’t !!! TurboJimbo
That's "Night COURT".
Such a great talent
My favorite judge.
That was awesome! R.I.P. to Harry