The quote on screen at 34:45 is the wrong one. A ridiculous oversight on my part. What I'm saying in the voice over is what should be on screen. Apologies for this mistake! Another correction, at 16:06 I refer to an episode as "Endless Summer" when its proper title is "Endless Slumper". And for anyone wondering about a Frasier retrospective, that will not be the next sitcom I look at. I may do one in the future, but it'll take some time before I have the energy to tackle another 11 season series.
kelsey grammer is pro life and the cop worship in the show is unbearable. it is a conservative fantasy that celebrates the colonialism of gentrification and the clearances of the inner city by property developers like trump, mayors like guiliani . given the involvement of the police in this process it is conspicuous that this is never discussed by the father, a retired city police officer, but he is another fiction: an honorable and decent cop.
Wow... that conversation between Coach and his daughter really got to me in a way I never expected. Beauty standards and the fear of running out of time are a real bitch. Coach's adoration of his daughter and her mother was absolutely heartwarming 🥲
Having Ted Danson become a barman for a few minutes in The Good Place was one of my highlights in recent TV. And I was a very casual Cheers watcher, only seeing sporadic reruns here and there.
I’ve been really loving these introspectives. As a gen z kid I’ve never seen a majority of these shows but it’s always interesting to get a modern reading on these older sitcoms
As a millennial neither have I! I remember my mom watching this stuff occasionally, stuff like this and Frasier or some of the other things he's done. But it really puts it into perspective just how *important* it was at the time, what it meant to show characters like these on popular television. He does an amazing job cutting it down to understand
@@amandaheasley426 I binge watched pretty much all his sitcoms he reviewed by time I was 16 and I'm gen z, always interesting to see what others grew up with and didn't watch though. Edit: grammar not good tried to fix what I could :P
Cheers got me through Lockdown and then I moved on to Frasier. Once when I put the theme song on a junkbox in a pub, everyone started singing along with the chorus - proof this show is still strong to this day.
I was born in 86 but I’d always watch Cheers and Frasier growing up. Finally set down and watched all the episodes of each show. Literally my comfort shows now. I can just close the blinds and feel like I’m a kid again watching tv back in the 90s. No troubles no worries
The character of Woody feels like the proper tribute to Coach. They gave him a reasonable connection to Coach (he was his pen-pal) and he shares some of Coach’s good nature and personality but is distinctly a new character.
I was horrified to see how they’d fill the void without coach but I loved woody. The small town charm and theater ambitions made him just unique enough while still filling in as the well-meaning ditz with a heart of gold
@jackservans6906. I disagree. I always thought Woody was a much less interesting imitation of Coach with the same failure to comprehend but without the avuncular lovability to compensate. He was obviously intended to replace, but for me he was just a reminder of what we lost.
@@independentfilmchannel1476 I can see where you’re coming from. I really couldn’t see anybody disliking the coach, but I can see how some people might find woody kinda repetitive.
This retrospective was a PERFECT Christmas gift. I just lost my stepdad on December 23, a man who has been my Dad for nearly all my life--40 of my 43 years--and my family has been a wreck. One thing I remember from my childhood was watching Cheers with the family. My brother and I watched this together yesterday after a long day of mourning and trying to keep my Mom together. The video felt like coming home. Thank you so much for this.
Cheers was the programme my parents would send me to bed so they could watch. Every week I'd sneak back down to watch it through the bannisters. Mum and Dad knew I was there, but they generally let it slide. Cheers will always be a indelible stamp on my soul and will always remind me of them as a result.
My dad got sick and passes away not long after these memories of cheers and me having to go to bed happened.. so I hang on to them with all my heart. GOD BLESS. ❤️🙏
I’m 44 and have been a Cheers-a-holic my entire life because it was my mothers favorite show and that love passed on to me. I must tell you how well you did, you did them justice. You understood the show and it’s refreshing to see a well-composed tribute to an all time favorite. Good job.
@@CharlieHustle1687 Your mom and I will get on well in the next life. Hope there are Cheers reruns up there. Hope you can hear your mom's laughter as you watch the show. Thanks for responding.
I'm 40 and I remember watching this every Thursday. I think it was one of the first shows of NBC's "Must See TV".... The show was great with both Diane and Rebecca, which is not an easy feat to accomplish
@@laalaag2auntyayag776 Your last comment is very true. I preferred the "Diane Era" because I just love romantic comedies and the Sam/Diane interplay reminded me of all the wonderful mismatched couples from the Golden years of Hollywood-"It Happened One Night" comes to mind. I liked that Diane helped to make Sam a more three-dimensional character. But I do understand that Rebecca opened up other opportunities for the show. In "Cheers jargon," Diane was champagne and Rebecca was beer, both at times trying to be the other.
Man, that part about Coach with his daughter really hit me in the feels. Such a well written show that I've been lucky to have seen. Thanks Jose for this introspective.
My aunt and uncle are named Sam and Diane, and they got married at the height of the Cheers’ “Sam & Diane” years of the show. So they got a lot of jokes and they even got Cheers t-shirts at a shower.
Best set in sitcom history. It felt real and inhabited and three-dimensional. Even in the best sitcoms the sets never really felt lived in. I love the way the cast moves around and owns parts of these spaces.
What about Everybody Loves Raymond and Roseanne? Those have magnets all over the fridge and scrunched up pillows and trinkets & bobbled scattered about.
I’ve never watched a single episode of “cheers” But I found this just as fascinating as your other retrospectives. Actually a lot of the shows you’ve talked about I’ve only seen a few episodes because I’m a younger millennial. But I feel like I’m learning so much more about American culture by watching your work. Thank you so much for what you do.
I thought I would like this video, despite never having seen a single episode of the show. I was more or less familiar with all(?) the other shows covered on this channel. But then I wondered ... Would I like this video? Knowing nothing about the show. And then I saw your comment. I am still not quite 100% sure I'll watch this video at some point, but you just made it more likely.
@@dammagrilla Thanks for the additional recommendation. I sure will watch it at some point, my brain currently just isn't up to the task. (Too easily distracted and all.)
Give the show a shot. It is streaming on Hulu. This along with Cosby and Family Ties made Thursday T.V. time. Very solid show and still holds up today. Smart and witty with rock solid acting.
I used to have a sleep disorder in middle school and I would be up at 2am. When every channel did infomercials, one channel aired 2 hours of cheers every night. I remember quite distinctly not really liking the show because it was the middle of one of the last seasons and I had no idea what was happening, but then I got to start the show from the first episode and watch it to the end on the cycle. I remember crying at the end of the second season finale like a baby because I had lost my dad to alcoholism and the manner in which Sam relapsed was similar to how my dad relapse before his death. In addition, due to mu sleeping disorder, I had no friends at the time either, I was always passing out in class or at lunch, or in the nurses office because the teacher couldn't wake me. So in a time where I felt extremely isolated, cheers made me feel like I had a circle of friends that would accept me. Cheers always stuck out to me as a show that helped me understand alcoholism and community, and as I grew up and my hormones balanced and my sleeping disorder went away I still remember cheers, where everybody knows your name.
When I was in middle school towards the looming end of the cable era, the classic channel had cheers on every night while I did homework. Still to this day I watch it when I need to be productive around the house, best comfort show
It is funny, i BINGE WATCHED this series on either Amazon Prime video, Paramount Plus, or Peacock. I watched, fell asleep, dreamed I was there, woke up, and sang the jingle, ‘ …. where everybody knows your name’. I can’t imagine life without watching this. c.peter morgan. only LOVE here!
José, these sitcom retrospectives are some of the best stuff on TH-cam. Your research is diligent, your pacing impeccable, and your insights fun and thoughtful. Thank you for all these great hours of content.
I just started fucking crying at that Coach scene with her daughter. Holy shit I gotta watch the show edit: after his passing, and the line on the stairs… man that hit too
The worst part is that Coach in real life had congestive heart failure after years of drinking. He quit in 1976 but the damage was done. He was going to retire until Cheers offered him the role. Maybe Coach in real life lives past 61 and has a few more years in retirement. Sadly that didn't happen and the show was slowly killing him. You want to know the real kicker. Woody in real life is 60 years old only a year behind Coach who died at 61.
I just realized 54 minutes in that the actor who plays Sam Malone also played Michael in The Good Place. The voice sounded so familiar the whole time, and I finally realized why
Ugh that part with Coach and his daughter absolutely guts me! So beautiful and sweet. I love that realization in her face that she deserves better - something like her mom had with her dad ❤
It’s always a treat to see a new sitcom retrospective by José in my notifications. The way this mysterious blue jay guy makes these videos that are sometimes nearly two hours fly by and be compelling from start to finish is really something.
It really doesn’t get much better than Cheers. I’m 37, born in 1985. I grew up watching Cheers, I didn’t get all of the humor, but I loved it! I’ve watched every episode at least once and many of them many, many more times. Such a great, classic show!
The beautiful thing about a José video is that even when it’s new, the tone is familiar enough as to to lull me in to a sense of familiarity. If my childhood cartoons were revived the mixture of familiarity and intrigue still wouldn’t compare
I started watching "Cheers the second episode into the series . I was 18 and living with my girlfriend and her family . My buddy was over as usual and it came on the tv . My buddy said "you got to watch it , I watched the first episode last week" . So we did and loved it . My buddy passed in June of last year ,but he loved it to the end . We still seen each other everyday . My girlfriend at the time (Oct.,1982) , married a good friend of mine and we are all still goodfriends . Memories , man ?
I look forward to Frasier. Love that show as it is my comfort show. Kelsey Grammer is Frasier I think that’s what makes Frasier so good. Kelsey is Frasier, in that he is completely self unaware. “Oh yeah, people love Frasier because they want him to find love.” No Kelsey. That’s why YOU love him. We love him because he always gets his comeuppance after acting selfishly and that’s funny. And because the down to Earth characters care about him.
It's Kelsey Grammer. It's weird that it throws you off like that, not spelled like how grammar would be. I used to always get it wrong but now I know and use the fact that I know it's spelt wrong to remind me. Kelsey is his middle name; his actual first name is Allen.
I avoided Frasier for several years because my dad called it insufferable. When I finally watched in, I was blown away by how wrong he was. It’s not a show about snobs being snobs, it’s a show about snobs being completely dysfunctional in the real world, which ironically makes it more blue collar than most sitcoms. And unlike other sitcoms, it actually made me laugh out loud. You can literally see how many hours went into making each script so memorable and witty. The point is, my dad was turned off because he didn’t own a thesaurus, and I imagine a lot of other people were, too. It’s totally their loss.
After discovering and watching through all of cheers about 3 or 4 years ago, it's held a very special place in my heart. Such an amazing show. Even season one, every episode is a banger with out ever even leaving the bar. The episode about Coach and his daughter, especially the clip shared in this video never fails to make me start crying. Such a special group of people.
It might not have the cultural impact of "Seinfeld" or other shows, but one thing about "Cheers" is that whenever it gets mentioned people get a smile on their face. No other show that I know of does that.
Not being American, I never watched Seinfeld, and I actually don't know anything else who did either. But Cheers is a show which run pretty regularly and a lot of people have seen at one point.
My favorite personal hot take is that Cheers is better than Seinfeld, honestly. I think Cheers has more genuinely laugh out loud moments than Seinfeld.
As a person who used to watch all the sitcoms in the 90s with my gramma I just want to thank you for your perceptive and sensitive take on this show and I literally watched this whole thing, often tearing up, time is a real b!tch
Cheers was must-see television, and we never missed it in my house. It's amazing what having 22-24 episodes a season, then re-runs in the summer time and during the mid season could really do for a show. Some of the most popular and enduring (and endearing) shows ever were "flops" that got discovered during the re-run season when people saw them for the first time. M*A*S*H, All In The Family, Cheers, and so many others I can't name off the top of my head...they all were series that the networks wanted to cancel that became cultural touchstones. *(Btw, I'm REALLY hoping you will do a M*A*S*H retrospective one day. I love how much thought and research you put into your vids.)* These days, if you don't make those numbers on the first viewing, forget it, you are out.
Fucking love Frasier, if only for the reason that they say my name a lot and I never get to hear it on TV lol. Would love for someone to do a retrospective on it
@@unstoppableExodia No they didn't but their friends didn't want them to name me Maris because of the character on Frasier. They said they didn't even think of it when they picked the name for me though because she's never seen.
I feel comfortable saying these retrospectives are the best bits of content on youtube, they are so interesting, thoughtful and somehow always make me a bit teary eyed, and this one's no exception!
I grew up witnessing mybfather watching Cheers. To this day it evokes nostalgia for me. Such so I went back and watched the entire series...and loved it!
I am 28 years old. Always been a bit of an "oddball" in that I haven't minded watching "adult" shows as a kid. So when shows as a kid. So when 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘴 was played in syndication during Nick @ Nite I happily watched it. I didn't always catch it, and didn't get the jokes, but the show had an earnest charm and community that I was drawn to as a kid. I may go back and rewatch the full series eventually. 🥰🍻
Norm inspired Morn in Star Trek DS9, an alien who despite many appearances in the show, never said a single line but is described in great detail by the other characters.
This was a shockingly well written 2 hour Cheers Bonanza. This has been my favorite show since the first day it aired and I have binge-watched this series multiple times over the years so I know this particular show well. You wrote something that wasn't too smarmy, not too specifically focused on any 1 thing. You really expressed respect for this show and it is clearly obvious. Nice job my friend.
Cheers is the greatest sitcom ever in my opinion. Watched it when it came out, 40 plus years later I'm still watching the re-run, still as good as 40 years ago. Really sorry to see it end. 😭😭😭😭
As someone who never watched much tv at all, and wasnt around when cheers was on aire, i often hear references to many sitcoms from the time and know nothing about them, its been really interesting getting to learn about these through your retrospectives. Thsnk you for the work you do! I hope everyone has a wonderful day.
It’s interesting how the original will they won’t they actually DIDN’T get together. It’s also interesting how Cheers ended in basically the exact same way Community ended. (Community was actually inspired by Cheers, so I guess it fits).
As someone who was born in 1981 and saw some of it in its first run (though of course I didn't understand parts of it), Cheers just has a glow of nostalgia around it for me.
Fellow 1981 baby here! I can remember my mom and dad loving Cheers and when I was 10/11-ish it came on in syndication and I loved it. This has me itching to rewatch it in its entirety as an adult!
Having been raised on this show and its reruns in my earliest years, this introspection has been a fantastic conglomeration of old menory shards. And now, it all makes sense. Thank you.
This show meant a lot to my best friend. I haven't watched a lot, but it made me nostalgic to hear it looked over so carefully. I've missed them a lot the past year and a half and this helped me feel more connected to me. I know its odd, but thanks either way.
As a millennial I caught the very end of the series. When it went into syndication I was able to see early seasons. Anytime I’d see it on nick at night I’d try to watch it. Except for MASH this was one of my favorite pre 90s shows.
going to tear up listening to this. cheers is a show my dad showed me early early on. this has such a special spot in my heart. specially because its what gave birth to my favorite sitcom Frasier
Great youtube channel! I grew up watching these series. Mostly reruns for me! Born in 79! Watching tv in the 80s was great. Now I don't watch tv anymore! Thanks to youtube!
Thanks for the sum up. Cheers is my favourite series EVER. I love every single episode, it never got old. Be it the humour or the emotional parts, it was perfect. So much love was put in it. I felt like I was within a bunch of good friends when watching an episode. The only thing that disturbed me and I would love to unsee was Sam's hair piece 🫣
Man, I really hope you mention the episode where they go to the other bar and everyone knows Norm there as well and when Sam asks why Norm replies "you're closed on Christmas day" Stuck with me for how Goddamn bleak that line is.
Even though Noone asked😀, my favorite episode is " Pick a con, any con". Coach was getting picked clean by a card shark and Harry( another con man) stepped up to help. Excellent episode.
Cheers is a deeply important show to my childhood, last year in the depths of the pandemic it brought a lot of joy as i sat down and watched the whole series start to finish with my girlfriend who never saw the show before and this retrospective was a fun little extra finale after having just finished it last month. Cheers!
When I was a kid, I watched this on nick at night at my grandma's house. I watched the whole series recently, for the first time since I was eight or nine. It was like visiting extended family I haven't seen in years. People I barely remembered, but whose presence was comforting.
Jose, this was excellent. I started watching Cheers in the summer of 1983 when I was 13. I was completely enthralled by Sam and Diane, and remained so until Shelly Long left. I loved how smart the show was. In 1988, I went to Emerson College, which at the time was right next to the Bull and Finch on Beacon Street. Once a year, the cast would come and film exteriors, and that was always a treat. I still remember Kelsey Grammer standing on the ledge above the bar. And once, Kirstie Alley and Lillith were waiting to go on. They both looked so beautiful. I said to Bebe "Congratulations on you Emmy!" and she smiled at me. One year, they had a big Cheers parade. Thousands of people lined the streets, up Beacon Hill and down to Government Center, where they had a massive Cheers rally. I remember Carla yelling "I feel like the Beatles!" and Norm started a COACH chant, and said how he wished Nick could be there because he'd love it most of all. Anyway, Jose your analysis here made me cry. Beautifully said. I've always thought Sam and Diane belonged together. After all, Coach said they did! But, you make an excellent case. Sam winding up with the bar is beautifully bittersweet, and really the only way it should've ended. Thank you for putting that to rest for me. BTW I HATE how nasty Rhea Pearlman toward Shelly Long. It's like- it's over. You have your millions. Be gracious.
Agree completely and loved your stories, thank you for sharing them ...love that they still kept coach's memory alive...best tv show ever...best characters ever...( Well, mostly lol...never liked Rebecca...or women like her)
The scenes between Shelley Long and Kate Mulgrew are so hard to see. Not because they're bad but because I just keep seeing it as Troop Beverly Hills vs. Star Trek Voyager.
Ever since Kate Mulgrew did her one-woman show based on Katharine Hepburn, I can't stop seeing Voyager as "Katharine Hepburn's Journeys Through Space!". I think that means she did such a good job that she's become the "character" of Katharine Hepburn, even though I obviously know she was a real person. lol
I think my favorite cheers episode is still the one where Sam’s friend loses his bottlecap. The moment when he opens that beer looks like he’s about to drink but instead does his trick to show he’s got the strength to not go back to his old ways was pretty inspiring ngl.
Fraiser is one of my favorite shows of all time, so I've tried to go back and watch Cheers to see the character's genisis. Honestly, I have a hard time with it. Not that it isn't good, but it doesn't grab me in the same way. Maybe something about the single setting.
@@NounOzlos Same. Frasier oddly doesn't feel as dated as Cheers did to me when I started watching reruns of both. But I couldn't really relate to Cheers as a teen nor adult maybe cause of it's bar setting but a highly knowledgeable psychiatrist who can barely solve his own personal problems? Yeah I can relate to that big time as the "smart kid" of my family.
Cheers was arguably the smartest sitcom of the eighties that touted the anti-intellectualism of the Reagan era. All of the "smart" characters were disconnected from reality and needed to learn from the "dumb" people who had "real" heart.
I grew up with Cheers reruns being a regular TV staple. If you only watched the occasional episode here and there, you can easily miss how messed-up the lives of the bar's regulars truly are. It's some pretty hard-hitting social commentary if you actually take the time to look below the surface. For example, check out the video by Cracked about "ruining Cheers with math". Norm, for example drinks 2 beers at at least 2 bars after work almost every day for YEARS. He goes through a divorce, loses several jobs and tries (and fails) to successfully switch careers. Cheers is a show about people with serious mental and emotional problems working very, very hard to avoid any personal growth.
@@toslowlypoke Because most of the modern leftists in the first world are intellectual narcissists that over complicate trivia shit like sitcoms to arrogantly flaunt their capacity for complexity, especially when it’s not necessary. While it doesn’t make the left look stupid, it does makes the left seem shallow and superficial.
@@timcombs2730 fucking leftists. How dare they have the nerve to analyze art and entertainment. When they do it, all it does is remind me how absolutely fucking stupid people like myself and DeputyAndy1 are >:(
Absolutely love cheers. I used to watch it on German TV at 00.30 am after my mum and step father went to bed. After cheers was mad about you. I binged it a few years ago now I want to binge it again
@@anenemystand5582 Since he seems to like Jordan Peterson videos/playlists, I'm going to guess it's primarily political, though I could be wrong. (Also my experience is that only people who disagree politically, in particular, with a video or creator will generally phrase their compliments/constructive comments as "I may not always agree with you, but..." Otherwise, people usually just give their comment without that preface. Just a pattern I think I've noticed.)
Love these retrospectives. It’s even better when it’s a show I love. In Australia, they always play older shows on cable. So that’s why cheers got to me at the right time. Hopefully you’ll one day do a retrospective on MASH
Australia's most successful sitcoms were Kingswood Country, Hey Dad and Colin Carpenter. We can make incredible, killer movies, but our sitcoms are just embarassing.
How much I enjoyed watching 'Cheers' when I was 15, 16, 17 years old, and how lovely those characters were played. What a joy it was, and Wow! I love seeing them on TH-cam now! Thanks Cheers! (So well written.)
I've never watched Cheers and I don't really care about old sitcoms. So why I have watched all of these retrospectives? They are perfect background viewing while I work. I hope that doesn't sound like backhanded praise, it's because they're so well made- articulate, engaging, well structured. The hours just melt.
I am loving these retrospectives! To me, Cheers will forever be the show I made my dad miss by making my mom go into labor. I couldn't have just waited for the show to be over, no, I had to go and kick things into gear, only not to be born till after 3am. LOL
I think the reason there were so many Disney specials on NBC at the time was because Disney was partnered with them at the time. It was where Wonderful World of Disney (or whatever name it was under) was, BECAUSE Disney hadn't bought ABC yet and wouldn't for 10-13 years
Yeah... not a fan of Disney, speaking of soulless corporate monsters. The constant forcing of Disney products into the scripts of multiple ABC shows was always creepy. Seemed like every other episode of Full House was a shameless 30 min long commercial.
I've only ever seen Frasier, watched this because I saw your video on that show, and enjoyed this way more than I was expecting! Great work, and thank you!
@@heathercontois4501 She was hilarious and a brilliant actress. I can't think of many shows where a female lead actress has been so incredibly funny. They gifted her with amazing dialogue and sharp one-liners....and she delivered so well. She and Ted Danson were cast together - over more famous people who auditioned - because of the chemistry the two of them displayed together on screen.
@@heathercontois4501 I think if I watched the show in the early 80s from a baby boomer's perspective I might have found her a bit annoying, I used to talk to my boomer parents about how good Cheers is and they actually see Diane's feminism and intellectualism annoying, even my mom, maybe it's a generational thing. Anyway it's 40 years later and seeing someone as being a feminist and well-read as annoying makes no sense to me, honestly the way my parents view it is just straight up reactionary, I just have no interest.
As an autistic individual, who simply does not have much energy every day so I don't spend any of it keeping up with TV, I LOVE these retrospective deep dives. I never got to watch this stuff, which people have been referencing in conversation my entire life. This is like being taught how to speak a whole new language, and I love it.
Great video. Very well in depth on a classic! Cheers is one of the most smart and extremely well written shows ever along with The Wonder Years, Mary Tyler Moore and Taxi IMO. I can come back to it time and time again. As a later GenXer, my hope is the younger generations check these shows out.
The quote on screen at 34:45 is the wrong one. A ridiculous oversight on my part. What I'm saying in the voice over is what should be on screen. Apologies for this mistake!
Another correction, at 16:06 I refer to an episode as "Endless Summer" when its proper title is "Endless Slumper".
And for anyone wondering about a Frasier retrospective, that will not be the next sitcom I look at. I may do one in the future, but it'll take some time before I have the energy to tackle another 11 season series.
Can't wait, that's for another fun retrospective. It was pretty nostalgic
Please do Fraiser😳 Lol
kelsey grammer is pro life and the cop worship in the show is unbearable. it is a conservative fantasy that celebrates the colonialism of gentrification and the clearances of the inner city by property developers like trump, mayors like guiliani . given the involvement of the police in this process it is conspicuous that this is never discussed by the father, a retired city police officer, but he is another fiction: an honorable and decent cop.
Frasier aged much worse
@@sloaneglover1026 Wow... It's so funny you say that... I have always thought Cheers aged so much in comparison to a lot of other shows of the era.
Wow... that conversation between Coach and his daughter really got to me in a way I never expected. Beauty standards and the fear of running out of time are a real bitch. Coach's adoration of his daughter and her mother was absolutely heartwarming 🥲
Made it all the more brutal when Coach died.
I was tearing up too. Expressions of fatherly love always gets to me.
That was a truly excellent scene, I really felt that
Coach's acting really took it to another level, IMO
Knocked me for six when I saw the episode, and when I saw it just now in this video.
I actually started crying too (!)
Having Ted Danson become a barman for a few minutes in The Good Place was one of my highlights in recent TV. And I was a very casual Cheers watcher, only seeing sporadic reruns here and there.
I loved seeing that too!
By that point he was so "Michael" to me that I didnt make the connection. I had long stopped seeing Sam Malone since like episode 2 or 3.
I wasn't into Cheers but I love The Good Place and his characterization of Michael was a treasure.
...OH GOOD GRACIOUS, THAT _IS_ HIM! Knew this era of him felt familiar, but dang the two visuals feel distinct in my unexposed mind's eye.
I’ve been really loving these introspectives. As a gen z kid I’ve never seen a majority of these shows but it’s always interesting to get a modern reading on these older sitcoms
The world is going to be fine with a generation like this.
Agreed!
As a millennial neither have I! I remember my mom watching this stuff occasionally, stuff like this and Frasier or some of the other things he's done. But it really puts it into perspective just how *important* it was at the time, what it meant to show characters like these on popular television. He does an amazing job cutting it down to understand
@@amandaheasley426 I binge watched pretty much all his sitcoms he reviewed by time I was 16 and I'm gen z, always interesting to see what others grew up with and didn't watch though.
Edit: grammar not good tried to fix what I could :P
God. I'm gen z and I've seen so many of these shows. I can't even explain why
Cheers got me through Lockdown and then I moved on to Frasier. Once when I put the theme song on a junkbox in a pub, everyone started singing along with the chorus - proof this show is still strong to this day.
Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got...🎶🎵
My parents got me into Cheers a few months before COVID started. Cheers and Frasier also helped me get through lockdown
@@RedTheBowTieGuyFrasier is obviously better, Kelsey Grammer is hilarious in kind of a classy way
Wow good thing you had something to "get you through" sitting inside for a bit
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Not sure José's videos are the place for your classic TH-cam commenting. Better luck elsewhere.
I was born in 86 but I’d always watch Cheers and Frasier growing up. Finally set down and watched all the episodes of each show. Literally my comfort shows now. I can just close the blinds and feel like I’m a kid again watching tv back in the 90s. No troubles no worries
👍👍👍👍
The character of Woody feels like the proper tribute to Coach. They gave him a reasonable connection to Coach (he was his pen-pal) and he shares some of Coach’s good nature and personality but is distinctly a new character.
I was horrified to see how they’d fill the void without coach but I loved woody. The small town charm and theater ambitions made him just unique enough while still filling in as the well-meaning ditz with a heart of gold
@jackservans6906. I disagree. I always thought Woody was a much less interesting imitation of Coach with the same failure to comprehend but without the avuncular lovability to compensate. He was obviously intended to replace, but for me he was just a reminder of what we lost.
@@independentfilmchannel1476 I can see where you’re coming from. I really couldn’t see anybody disliking the coach, but I can see how some people might find woody kinda repetitive.
This is fantastic! Absolutely love the line "Robin is everything Rebecca wants in a man.... rich..... ". Brilliant.
got a guffaw out of me, that's for sure :)
👍😂
That was worth the entire video.
That episode with Coach and his daughter was heartbreaking. If that moment wouldn’t make you love Coach, nothing would.
This retrospective was a PERFECT Christmas gift. I just lost my stepdad on December 23, a man who has been my Dad for nearly all my life--40 of my 43 years--and my family has been a wreck. One thing I remember from my childhood was watching Cheers with the family. My brother and I watched this together yesterday after a long day of mourning and trying to keep my Mom together. The video felt like coming home. Thank you so much for this.
I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. That my video could be of any comfort at all is truly touching.
I'm so very sorry for your loss. I am 50 and used to watch the entire Thursday lineup with my 3 brothers. I hope your heart heals ❤️
Bless u Billie...and ur Daddy...hold onto those memories tight, love...
Cheers was the programme my parents would send me to bed so they could watch. Every week I'd sneak back down to watch it through the bannisters. Mum and Dad knew I was there, but they generally let it slide. Cheers will always be a indelible stamp on my soul and will always remind me of them as a result.
That's a great memory to have my friend...pretty beautiful, really..
Beautiful memory...
Same here !
My dad got sick and passes away not long after these memories of cheers and me having to go to bed happened.. so I hang on to them with all my heart. GOD BLESS. ❤️🙏
I’m 44 and have been a Cheers-a-holic my entire life because it was my mothers favorite show and that love passed on to me. I must tell you how well you did, you did them justice. You understood the show and it’s refreshing to see a well-composed tribute to an all time favorite. Good job.
Curious, Andrew? How did you and your mom feel about Diane?
@@lnl3237 that’s who my mother identified with. Funny similarities
@@CharlieHustle1687 Your mom and I will get on well in the next life. Hope there are Cheers reruns up there. Hope you can hear your mom's laughter as you watch the show. Thanks for responding.
I'm 40 and I remember watching this every Thursday. I think it was one of the first shows of NBC's "Must See TV".... The show was great with both Diane and Rebecca, which is not an easy feat to accomplish
@@laalaag2auntyayag776 Your last comment is very true. I preferred the "Diane Era" because I just love romantic comedies and the Sam/Diane interplay reminded me of all the wonderful mismatched couples from the Golden years of Hollywood-"It Happened One Night" comes to mind. I liked that Diane helped to make Sam a more three-dimensional character. But I do understand that Rebecca opened up other opportunities for the show. In "Cheers jargon," Diane was champagne and Rebecca was beer, both at times trying to be the other.
Man, that part about Coach with his daughter really hit me in the feels. Such a well written show that I've been lucky to have seen. Thanks Jose for this introspective.
My aunt and uncle are named Sam and Diane, and they got married at the height of the Cheers’ “Sam & Diane” years of the show. So they got a lot of jokes and they even got Cheers t-shirts at a shower.
Best set in sitcom history. It felt real and inhabited and three-dimensional. Even in the best sitcoms the sets never really felt lived in. I love the way the cast moves around and owns parts of these spaces.
What about Everybody Loves Raymond and Roseanne? Those have magnets all over the fridge and scrunched up pillows and trinkets & bobbled scattered about.
Frazier.
A spinoff of Cheers that was Hugely successful.
I’ve never watched a single episode of “cheers” But I found this just as fascinating as your other retrospectives. Actually a lot of the shows you’ve talked about I’ve only seen a few episodes because I’m a younger millennial. But I feel like I’m learning so much more about American culture by watching your work. Thank you so much for what you do.
I thought I would like this video, despite never having seen a single episode of the show. I was more or less familiar with all(?) the other shows covered on this channel. But then I wondered ... Would I like this video? Knowing nothing about the show. And then I saw your comment. I am still not quite 100% sure I'll watch this video at some point, but you just made it more likely.
@@camelopardalis84 I would highly recommend it, as someone who's watched these videos before but never watched Cheers.
@@dammagrilla Thanks for the additional recommendation. I sure will watch it at some point, my brain currently just isn't up to the task. (Too easily distracted and all.)
Give the show a shot. It is streaming on Hulu. This along with Cosby and Family Ties made Thursday T.V. time. Very solid show and still holds up today. Smart and witty with rock solid acting.
It's a great show. Highly recommend!
I watch the entire series every year. I’m 35. I was a child for most of its run but I will forever love the show. It’s nostalgic.
Thanks for this insightful program. As the saying goes “You know art when you see it “, but you helped us know why Cheers was a little masterpiece.
I used to have a sleep disorder in middle school and I would be up at 2am. When every channel did infomercials, one channel aired 2 hours of cheers every night.
I remember quite distinctly not really liking the show because it was the middle of one of the last seasons and I had no idea what was happening, but then I got to start the show from the first episode and watch it to the end on the cycle. I remember crying at the end of the second season finale like a baby because I had lost my dad to alcoholism and the manner in which Sam relapsed was similar to how my dad relapse before his death.
In addition, due to mu sleeping disorder, I had no friends at the time either, I was always passing out in class or at lunch, or in the nurses office because the teacher couldn't wake me. So in a time where I felt extremely isolated, cheers made me feel like I had a circle of friends that would accept me.
Cheers always stuck out to me as a show that helped me understand alcoholism and community, and as I grew up and my hormones balanced and my sleeping disorder went away I still remember cheers, where everybody knows your name.
When I was in middle school towards the looming end of the cable era, the classic channel had cheers on every night while I did homework. Still to this day I watch it when I need to be productive around the house, best comfort show
It is funny, i BINGE WATCHED this series on either Amazon Prime video, Paramount Plus, or Peacock. I watched, fell asleep, dreamed I was there, woke up, and sang the jingle, ‘ …. where everybody knows your name’. I can’t imagine life without watching this. c.peter morgan. only LOVE here!
José, these sitcom retrospectives are some of the best stuff on TH-cam. Your research is diligent, your pacing impeccable, and your insights fun and thoughtful. Thank you for all these great hours of content.
I just started fucking crying at that Coach scene with her daughter. Holy shit I gotta watch the show
edit: after his passing, and the line on the stairs… man that hit too
The worst part is that Coach in real life had congestive heart failure after years of drinking. He quit in 1976 but the damage was done. He was going to retire until Cheers offered him the role. Maybe Coach in real life lives past 61 and has a few more years in retirement. Sadly that didn't happen and the show was slowly killing him. You want to know the real kicker. Woody in real life is 60 years old only a year behind Coach who died at 61.
@@redmustangredmustang Woah. That IS CRAZY. Woody doesn't seem anywhere near the age Coach was when he died... Shows how differently ppl age I guess
Always looking forward to these old sitcom retrospective. Appreciate ya bud
No way, RTR watches and is a fan of Josés sitcom retrospectives.
That’s so cool
You and Preston should do a video about how Norm is what Robert Baratheon wanted to be, just a guy with a beer in his hand surrounded by friends
Agreed
I grew up watching Cheers. And as I approach 50 I still am looking for the place that everyone knows my name. ❤
I feel you fellow Joe ❤
I just realized 54 minutes in that the actor who plays Sam Malone also played Michael in The Good Place. The voice sounded so familiar the whole time, and I finally realized why
Hes always on TV. He Had Cheers, Becker, The good Place, CSI, Damages
And he was so sexy! He's actually still very good-looking. Now you can catch him on Curb Your Enthusiasm
Yes, he's a silver fox now.
@IntrepidTit
Is it a rug? Huh🤔
And Three Men and a Baby - somewhat forgotten but enjoyable film.
I fell in love with this tv program as soon as it hit our screens. And Shelly Long's Diane was my hero of the time 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Brilliant retrospective of one of the best comedies in television history.
This is still not only one of the greatest sitcoms ever, but one of the greatest TV shows to ever be produced, great show,
This is not the first time that I cried when Coach talked about his wife.
Ugh that part with Coach and his daughter absolutely guts me! So beautiful and sweet. I love that realization in her face that she deserves better - something like her mom had with her dad ❤
It’s always a treat to see a new sitcom retrospective by José in my notifications. The way this mysterious blue jay guy makes these videos that are sometimes nearly two hours fly by and be compelling from start to finish is really something.
It really doesn’t get much better than Cheers. I’m 37, born in 1985. I grew up watching Cheers, I didn’t get all of the humor, but I loved it! I’ve watched every episode at least once and many of them many, many more times. Such a great, classic show!
The beautiful thing about a José video is that even when it’s new, the tone is familiar enough as to to lull me in to a sense of familiarity. If my childhood cartoons were revived the mixture of familiarity and intrigue still wouldn’t compare
I started watching "Cheers the second episode into the series . I was 18 and living with my girlfriend and her family . My buddy was over as usual and it came on the tv . My buddy said "you got to watch it , I watched the first episode last week" . So we did and loved it . My buddy passed in June of last year ,but he loved it to the end . We still seen each other everyday . My girlfriend at the time (Oct.,1982) , married a good friend of mine and we are all still goodfriends . Memories , man ?
It's funny& beautiful how our memories get so entwined with tv...sorry about ur friend...be well...
I look forward to Frasier. Love that show as it is my comfort show.
Kelsey Grammer is Frasier I think that’s what makes Frasier so good.
Kelsey is Frasier, in that he is completely self unaware.
“Oh yeah, people love Frasier because they want him to find love.” No Kelsey. That’s why YOU love him. We love him because he always gets his comeuppance after acting selfishly and that’s funny. And because the down to Earth characters care about him.
It's Kelsey Grammer. It's weird that it throws you off like that, not spelled like how grammar would be. I used to always get it wrong but now I know and use the fact that I know it's spelt wrong to remind me. Kelsey is his middle name; his actual first name is Allen.
@@riinak7212 Must’ve been auto correct. If not, my mistake.
Yeah, I never cared about Frasier finding love on that show.
I always loved Lilith.
I avoided Frasier for several years because my dad called it insufferable. When I finally watched in, I was blown away by how wrong he was. It’s not a show about snobs being snobs, it’s a show about snobs being completely dysfunctional in the real world, which ironically makes it more blue collar than most sitcoms. And unlike other sitcoms, it actually made me laugh out loud. You can literally see how many hours went into making each script so memorable and witty. The point is, my dad was turned off because he didn’t own a thesaurus, and I imagine a lot of other people were, too. It’s totally their loss.
I love frasiers dad
it's really difficult for me to watch any of this without being completely overwhelmed by how beautiful they are
After discovering and watching through all of cheers about 3 or 4 years ago, it's held a very special place in my heart. Such an amazing show. Even season one, every episode is a banger with out ever even leaving the bar.
The episode about Coach and his daughter, especially the clip shared in this video never fails to make me start crying. Such a special group of people.
That episode & "have a good life..." Tears, every time...
R.I.P. Nicholas & Kirstie. You are forever loved.
Didn’t know Kirstie Allen passed away or maybe just forgot.
It might not have the cultural impact of "Seinfeld" or other shows, but one thing about "Cheers" is that whenever it gets mentioned people get a smile on their face. No other show that I know of does that.
Not being American, I never watched Seinfeld, and I actually don't know anything else who did either. But Cheers is a show which run pretty regularly and a lot of people have seen at one point.
My favorite personal hot take is that Cheers is better than Seinfeld, honestly. I think Cheers has more genuinely laugh out loud moments than Seinfeld.
@@Phished123 I'd agree with you. I actually think Seinfeld is "smarter" in terms of writing, but cheers is in my opinion funnier and better observed.
@@medes5597 The characters in Seinfeld are much more 'one-dimensional' than the characters of 'Cheers'. And more tiresome after a while.
Cheers had just the same if not far more cultural impact in its time...hence the final episode being in the top 3 of all time.
As a person who used to watch all the sitcoms in the 90s with my gramma I just want to thank you for your perceptive and sensitive take on this show and I literally watched this whole thing, often tearing up, time is a real b!tch
Cheers was must-see television, and we never missed it in my house. It's amazing what having 22-24 episodes a season, then re-runs in the summer time and during the mid season could really do for a show. Some of the most popular and enduring (and endearing) shows ever were "flops" that got discovered during the re-run season when people saw them for the first time. M*A*S*H, All In The Family, Cheers, and so many others I can't name off the top of my head...they all were series that the networks wanted to cancel that became cultural touchstones.
*(Btw, I'm REALLY hoping you will do a M*A*S*H retrospective one day. I love how much thought and research you put into your vids.)*
These days, if you don't make those numbers on the first viewing, forget it, you are out.
Stellar analysis! Now I absolutely _need_ to see the spin-off “Frasier” be given the José treatment!
Fucking love Frasier, if only for the reason that they say my name a lot and I never get to hear it on TV lol. Would love for someone to do a retrospective on it
@@maristiller4033 did your parents by chance get your name from frasier?
Assuming you were born in the nineties of course.
My sentiments exactly!
Fraiser is one of my favorite shows. Even more so than Cheers.
@@unstoppableExodia No they didn't but their friends didn't want them to name me Maris because of the character on Frasier. They said they didn't even think of it when they picked the name for me though because she's never seen.
I am obsessed with everything Diane wears in this show.
Awesome video!
I feel comfortable saying these retrospectives are the best bits of content on youtube, they are so interesting, thoughtful and somehow always make me a bit teary eyed, and this one's no exception!
Great program.
Cheers Was part my youth.
Those were good old days.
Aw man i needed this. Btw couch talking to his daughter about being beautiful moved me to tears...
I grew up witnessing mybfather watching Cheers. To this day it evokes nostalgia for me. Such so I went back and watched the entire series...and loved it!
That scene with Coach and Lisa. Straight in my feels.
Every. Single. Time.😭😭😭
I am 28 years old. Always been a bit of an "oddball" in that I haven't minded watching "adult" shows as a kid. So when shows as a kid. So when 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘴 was played in syndication during Nick @ Nite I happily watched it. I didn't always catch it, and didn't get the jokes, but the show had an earnest charm and community that I was drawn to as a kid. I may go back and rewatch the full series eventually. 🥰🍻
Norm inspired Morn in Star Trek DS9, an alien who despite many appearances in the show, never said a single line but is described in great detail by the other characters.
lol I wondered about that, since both their names are so similar and they're both bar regulars on their shows.
I wondered about that when the show was airing and saw it confirmed later on.
haha AND Janeway's on this show!
Well, many Cheers actors did work on various Star Trek projects.
This was a shockingly well written 2 hour Cheers Bonanza.
This has been my favorite show since the first day it aired and I have binge-watched
this series multiple times over the years so I know this particular show well.
You wrote something that wasn't too smarmy, not too specifically focused on any 1
thing. You really expressed respect for this show and it is clearly obvious.
Nice job my friend.
Dang, that "have a good life" really hit me in the guts.
Gets me every single time...a real heartbreaker...
Cheers is the greatest sitcom ever in my opinion. Watched it when it came out, 40 plus years later I'm still watching the re-run, still as good as 40 years ago. Really sorry to see it end. 😭😭😭😭
As someone who never watched much tv at all, and wasnt around when cheers was on aire, i often hear references to many sitcoms from the time and know nothing about them, its been really interesting getting to learn about these through your retrospectives. Thsnk you for the work you do!
I hope everyone has a wonderful day.
You too...if u get the chance, watch this one. Stop when Diane leaves lol
It’s interesting how the original will they won’t they actually DIDN’T get together.
It’s also interesting how Cheers ended in basically the exact same way Community ended. (Community was actually inspired by Cheers, so I guess it fits).
As someone who was born in 1981 and saw some of it in its first run (though of course I didn't understand parts of it), Cheers just has a glow of nostalgia around it for me.
Fellow 1981 baby here! I can remember my mom and dad loving Cheers and when I was 10/11-ish it came on in syndication and I loved it. This has me itching to rewatch it in its entirety as an adult!
Having been raised on this show and its reruns in my earliest years, this introspection has been a fantastic conglomeration of old menory shards. And now, it all makes sense. Thank you.
wow seeing that was like returning home for the holidays and seeing old friends , remembering what we all shared ❤
Love this sentiment
Didn’t know the significance of the Geronimo portrait. Makes me love that final shot even more.
It's impossible not to love Coach...few shows wouldve been so classy as to acknowledge someone who had passed so long ago...best show of all time...
There's a picture of Phil Hartman on Dave's desk during "Newsradio Season 5", which evokes that sentiment.
This show meant a lot to my best friend. I haven't watched a lot, but it made me nostalgic to hear it looked over so carefully. I've missed them a lot the past year and a half and this helped me feel more connected to me. I know its odd, but thanks either way.
I am sorry for your loss.
It's not odd...it's beautiful. The power of tv, and how it helps heal us...rewatch the series if u can..I think it will help..
As a millennial I caught the very end of the series. When it went into syndication I was able to see early seasons. Anytime I’d see it on nick at night I’d try to watch it. Except for MASH this was one of my favorite pre 90s shows.
going to tear up listening to this. cheers is a show my dad showed me early early on. this has such a special spot in my heart. specially because its what gave birth to my favorite sitcom Frasier
Beautiful memories you've got there, nice. :D
If Shelley Long *hadn't* left "Cheers", we may never have been blessed with "Troop Beverly Hills." It all worked out in the end.
I wore out my VHS of that movie….. “Beverly Hills! What a thrill!” 😂
@@ashleyhumbyrd7274 That movie was a tv regular. Watched it everytime.
She was really funny in "Outrageous Fortune", opposite Bette Midler.
Let's not forget The Money Pit
@@robertpalin2161 That's a cute one!
Still the BEST SHOW ON TV! Only a few others compared. I miss it! ❤
As a Gen Z kid I love older shows with genius writing and humor like M*A*S*H, Get smart, Cheers, Murphy Brown , Designing women and Fraiser. 😎
Great youtube channel! I grew up watching these series. Mostly reruns for me! Born in 79! Watching tv in the 80s was great. Now I don't watch tv anymore! Thanks to youtube!
Thanks for the sum up. Cheers is my favourite series EVER. I love every single episode, it never got old. Be it the humour or the emotional parts, it was perfect. So much love was put in it. I felt like I was within a bunch of good friends when watching an episode. The only thing that disturbed me and I would love to unsee was Sam's hair piece 🫣
I watched cheers on TV as it aired 😆, time flies kids, make the most of it. Tomorrow is never promised!
I loved this show. Born and raised in Detroit in the 70's. I watched PBS, and the like. thanks for the memories
Man, I really hope you mention the episode where they go to the other bar and everyone knows Norm there as well and when Sam asks why Norm replies "you're closed on Christmas day"
Stuck with me for how Goddamn bleak that line is.
It's one of the vs episodes with Gary's old Town Tavern isn't it?
@@Eightsixseven23224 I think so, it's years since I've seen it but that rings a bell.
@@medes5597 I still like it but I was REALLY into it in High School. It's still a comfort show for me
@@Eightsixseven23224 same here. I really should watch it again, I remember finding certain episodes laugh out loud funny
Even though Noone asked😀, my favorite episode is " Pick a con, any con". Coach was getting picked clean by a card shark and Harry( another con man) stepped up to help. Excellent episode.
Cheers is a deeply important show to my childhood, last year in the depths of the pandemic it brought a lot of joy as i sat down and watched the whole series start to finish with my girlfriend who never saw the show before and this retrospective was a fun little extra finale after having just finished it last month. Cheers!
When I was a kid, I watched this on nick at night at my grandma's house. I watched the whole series recently, for the first time since I was eight or nine. It was like visiting extended family I haven't seen in years. People I barely remembered, but whose presence was comforting.
The power of great tv💕
Jose, this was excellent. I started watching Cheers in the summer of 1983 when I was 13. I was completely enthralled by Sam and Diane, and remained so until Shelly Long left. I loved how smart the show was. In 1988, I went to Emerson College, which at the time was right next to the Bull and Finch on Beacon Street. Once a year, the cast would come and film exteriors, and that was always a treat. I still remember Kelsey Grammer standing on the ledge above the bar. And once, Kirstie Alley and Lillith were waiting to go on. They both looked so beautiful. I said to Bebe "Congratulations on you Emmy!" and she smiled at me. One year, they had a big Cheers parade. Thousands of people lined the streets, up Beacon Hill and down to Government Center, where they had a massive Cheers rally. I remember Carla yelling "I feel like the Beatles!" and Norm started a COACH chant, and said how he wished Nick could be there because he'd love it most of all. Anyway, Jose your analysis here made me cry. Beautifully said. I've always thought Sam and Diane belonged together. After all, Coach said they did! But, you make an excellent case. Sam winding up with the bar is beautifully bittersweet, and really the only way it should've ended. Thank you for putting that to rest for me. BTW I HATE how nasty Rhea Pearlman toward Shelly Long. It's like- it's over. You have your millions. Be gracious.
Agree completely and loved your stories, thank you for sharing them ...love that they still kept coach's memory alive...best tv show ever...best characters ever...( Well, mostly lol...never liked Rebecca...or women like her)
This was really enlightning. I'd also love to see an analysis of The Golden Girls.
GOLDEN GIRLS NEXT!!!
Yes Golden Girls! So much that could be talked about.
This is now even more poignant
Or Fraiser
@@thelonewolf2476 oh fuck ya i’d love to see a frasier one
Cheers is really the first modern sitcom. Nothing like it 30 years later. Nothing.
The scenes between Shelley Long and Kate Mulgrew are so hard to see. Not because they're bad but because I just keep seeing it as Troop Beverly Hills vs. Star Trek Voyager.
I would say it is more the The Money Pit vs. Orange is The New Black :) :)
LOL!
Ever since Kate Mulgrew did her one-woman show based on Katharine Hepburn, I can't stop seeing Voyager as "Katharine Hepburn's Journeys Through Space!". I think that means she did such a good job that she's become the "character" of Katharine Hepburn, even though I obviously know she was a real person. lol
😂😂😂
I think my favorite cheers episode is still the one where Sam’s friend loses his bottlecap. The moment when he opens that beer looks like he’s about to drink but instead does his trick to show he’s got the strength to not go back to his old ways was pretty inspiring ngl.
Coming from someone who's seen every episode of Frasier but only scattered episodes of Cheers, this puts a lot into perspective.
Same. Cheers was kinda before my time
Fraiser is one of my favorite shows of all time, so I've tried to go back and watch Cheers to see the character's genisis. Honestly, I have a hard time with it. Not that it isn't good, but it doesn't grab me in the same way. Maybe something about the single setting.
@@NounOzlos Same. Frasier oddly doesn't feel as dated as Cheers did to me when I started watching reruns of both. But I couldn't really relate to Cheers as a teen nor adult maybe cause of it's bar setting but a highly knowledgeable psychiatrist who can barely solve his own personal problems? Yeah I can relate to that big time as the "smart kid" of my family.
Shame the scene where Frasier tries to shoot Sam for ruining his relationship with Diane didn't get mentioned then :)
@@DrewDesign HE WHAT
The days of cheers, friends, and MASH were some of the best time of my life. They were the best days to have lived through.
This video was very well put together.
Cheers was arguably the smartest sitcom of the eighties that touted the anti-intellectualism of the Reagan era. All of the "smart" characters were disconnected from reality and needed to learn from the "dumb" people who had "real" heart.
I grew up with Cheers reruns being a regular TV staple. If you only watched the occasional episode here and there, you can easily miss how messed-up the lives of the bar's regulars truly are. It's some pretty hard-hitting social commentary if you actually take the time to look below the surface.
For example, check out the video by Cracked about "ruining Cheers with math". Norm, for example drinks 2 beers at at least 2 bars after work almost every day for YEARS. He goes through a divorce, loses several jobs and tries (and fails) to successfully switch careers.
Cheers is a show about people with serious mental and emotional problems working very, very hard to avoid any personal growth.
Much like the leftists who make posturing over analyzations of sitcoms that were used to fill time in between toothpaste commercials
@@timcombs2730 yeah, why is it always the leftists who seem to be thinking about things?
@@toslowlypoke Because most of the modern leftists in the first world are intellectual narcissists that over complicate trivia shit like sitcoms to arrogantly flaunt their capacity for complexity, especially when it’s not necessary. While it doesn’t make the left look stupid, it does makes the left seem shallow and superficial.
@@timcombs2730 fucking leftists. How dare they have the nerve to analyze art and entertainment. When they do it, all it does is remind me how absolutely fucking stupid people like myself and DeputyAndy1 are >:(
As a 58 Yr old I look back on this show with love..I swear apart from mash it's the only time I've ever cried when a programme ended
Impressed that it seems the show never jumped the shark and ended the only way it could
In my mind, Diane gets off the plane & knocks on the door next...
Absolutely love cheers. I used to watch it on German TV at 00.30 am after my mum and step father went to bed. After cheers was mad about you. I binged it a few years ago now I want to binge it again
I may not always agree with you, but I still look forward to these retrospectives. Thanks for all your hard work.
I'm confused at what you might not agree with him on in reference to this?
@@Kyarrix Yeah, there's not a lot of judgement passed in this video.
@@NounOzlos which should tell you that maybe I wasn't referring to this video lol. He did a great job here.
Like political disagreements or artistic disagreements
@@anenemystand5582 Since he seems to like Jordan Peterson videos/playlists, I'm going to guess it's primarily political, though I could be wrong.
(Also my experience is that only people who disagree politically, in particular, with a video or creator will generally phrase their compliments/constructive comments as "I may not always agree with you, but..." Otherwise, people usually just give their comment without that preface. Just a pattern I think I've noticed.)
This show will always have one of the all time great theme songs.
Love these retrospectives. It’s even better when it’s a show I love. In Australia, they always play older shows on cable. So that’s why cheers got to me at the right time. Hopefully you’ll one day do a retrospective on MASH
Australia's most successful sitcoms were Kingswood Country, Hey Dad and Colin Carpenter. We can make incredible, killer movies, but our sitcoms are just embarassing.
@@darrenrobinson9041 The Sullivans 296 dvd box set available now 😭
How much I enjoyed watching 'Cheers' when I was 15, 16, 17 years old, and how lovely those characters were played. What a joy it was, and Wow! I love seeing them on TH-cam now! Thanks Cheers! (So well written.)
It’s a Christmas Miracle!! Thank you José ❤️❤️
I've never watched Cheers and I don't really care about old sitcoms. So why I have watched all of these retrospectives? They are perfect background viewing while I work. I hope that doesn't sound like backhanded praise, it's because they're so well made- articulate, engaging, well structured. The hours just melt.
Cheers is well worth watching. It's absolutely one of the funniest comedies ever made.
How annoying...pathetically
Wonderfully done. You really hit all the important points with this.
It should havd more views
I am loving these retrospectives! To me, Cheers will forever be the show I made my dad miss by making my mom go into labor. I couldn't have just waited for the show to be over, no, I had to go and kick things into gear, only not to be born till after 3am. LOL
I think the reason there were so many Disney specials on NBC at the time was because Disney was partnered with them at the time. It was where Wonderful World of Disney (or whatever name it was under) was, BECAUSE Disney hadn't bought ABC yet and wouldn't for 10-13 years
Now they own everything...
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I remember when that started. Even taped a few.
Yeah... not a fan of Disney, speaking of soulless corporate monsters. The constant forcing of Disney products into the scripts of multiple ABC shows was always creepy. Seemed like every other episode of Full House was a shameless 30 min long commercial.
I've only ever seen Frasier, watched this because I saw your video on that show, and enjoyed this way more than I was expecting! Great work, and thank you!
I watch the first 2 seasons every couple years and I fall in love with Diane every single time
But.....she was so annoying.
I fall in love with them both...Sam and Diane were both so beautiful...so great together...wish they'd of ended up together...
@@heathercontois4501 She was hilarious and a brilliant actress. I can't think of many shows where a female lead actress has been so incredibly funny. They gifted her with amazing dialogue and sharp one-liners....and she delivered so well.
She and Ted Danson were cast together - over more famous people who auditioned - because of the chemistry the two of them displayed together on screen.
@@heathercontois4501 I think if I watched the show in the early 80s from a baby boomer's perspective I might have found her a bit annoying, I used to talk to my boomer parents about how good Cheers is and they actually see Diane's feminism and intellectualism annoying, even my mom, maybe it's a generational thing. Anyway it's 40 years later and seeing someone as being a feminist and well-read as annoying makes no sense to me, honestly the way my parents view it is just straight up reactionary, I just have no interest.
I hope this is the prequel for an upcoming Frasier retrospective! 😜
Great video, as always ❤️
As an autistic individual, who simply does not have much energy every day so I don't spend any of it keeping up with TV, I LOVE these retrospective deep dives. I never got to watch this stuff, which people have been referencing in conversation my entire life. This is like being taught how to speak a whole new language, and I love it.
Just glad someone is appreciating one of my favorite shows as a kid.
These sitcom retrospectives are so good!
Great video. Very well in depth on a classic! Cheers is one of the most smart and extremely well written shows ever along with The Wonder Years, Mary Tyler Moore and Taxi IMO. I can come back to it time and time again. As a later GenXer, my hope is the younger generations check these shows out.