4 Notes

Sam: You wanna know the truth? It wasn’t four women— it was four hundred women, easy!
Diane: They’d have to be.
Sam: (as door slams in his face) Damn.
Cheers, Power Play

2 Notes

Twenty years ago this morning, the hungover population of Boston increased by at least six.

The cast celebrates the finale at the Bull & Finch Pub live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Here is Ken Levine’s take on the evening.

12 Notes

“Sorry, we’re closed.”

20 years ago tonight, One for the Road, Parts 1-3 aired, marking Cheers’ last call.  ”End of an era” is about right, though I still wanna go where everybody knows my name.

This is part of a Bob Costas special that preceded the finale that evening.

12 Notes

“How To Make An Exit” by Diane Chambers.

4 Notes

Glen Charles and Les Charles on casting Cheers.

“Oh, definite chemistry…”

7 Notes

Cheers, Coach’s Daughter

8 Notes

Sam at Eleven publicity shot.

Sam at Eleven publicity shot.

5 Notes

Happy Mother’s Day!

4 Notes

Diane: I’m glad we had a chance to end it this way. Cleanly, spiritually… free of rancor and sexural tens— tenss— tension.

Sam: Whatever…

Cheers, Birth, Death, Love and Rice

15 Notes

Publicity still from One for the Road, Part 2.

Publicity still from One for the Road, Part 2.

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Coach: This guy’s terrific.  I mean, really, he’s a great storyteller, and he really knows what he’s doing. I mean, really, we should have an older guy behind the bar. The customers’d like it!
Sam: What about you, Coach?
Coach: Oh, I’d like it too.

— Cheers, Where There’s A Will

Coach: This guy’s terrific.  I mean, really, he’s a great storyteller, and he really knows what he’s doing. I mean, really, we should have an older guy behind the bar. The customers’d like it!

Sam: What about you, Coach?

Coach: Oh, I’d like it too.

Cheers, Where There’s A Will

6 Notes

— Excerpt from “In Her Own Words… Diane Says Goodbye to Cheers— As Only She Can”, as written by Cheri Eichen and Bill Steinkellner for the May 2-8, 1987 TV Guide. 
In which Diane writes in her diary about leaving Cheers to marry Sam.

— Excerpt from “In Her Own Words… Diane Says Goodbye to Cheers— As Only She Can”, as written by Cheri Eichen and Bill Steinkellner for the May 2-8, 1987 TV Guide. 

In which Diane writes in her diary about leaving Cheers to marry Sam.

4 Notes

Best Hug Ever.
— Cheers, Cheerio, Cheers

Best Hug Ever.

Cheers, Cheerio, Cheers

3 Notes

“Sam?  Sam… Take me… now.  I want you.”

— Diane Chambers, Cheers, Diane’s Nightmare

11 Notes

Ted and Shelley at the 1983 Golden Globe Awards.

Ted and Shelley at the 1983 Golden Globe Awards.