Sorry.....Cheers Better

Got out my tape with the final Cheers on it. Having refreshed my memory, I have to say, the Cheers finale was better. Many many things were actually FUNNY.

That's true. The Cheers finale was very very good. But I remember a lot of people being disappointed with the finale for Cheers also....

On 23 May 1998 14:21:32 GMT, [email] (StnCldJR45) wrote:

Well, I can imagine people being disappointed that it was going off. But I think it was a very wise decision. People don't want to make a career out of doing one thing. Talk about a stale life.

Doesn't seem to bother Kelsey Grammer. He's been playing Frazier for, like, 15 years already.

Anyway, FWIW, my main recollection of the Cheers finale was how they all got shitfaced drunk on the Tonight Show later that night. That embarrasment overshadowed the finale content, so I don't really recall what the last Cheers was about. That's a shame. ------------------------------------------ [email] (Hammer nail here--> <-- for a new monitor.)

On Wed, 27 May 1998 10:09:18 -0400, Dave wrote:

Kelsey wasnt who decided Cheers was to end. And NBC was probably thrilled that they could extract a working series out of the remains.

SloGait wrote in article ...

Two things about the Cheers finale:

1. It didn't really bring the characters' lives to a grinding halt, forcing them in a new direction--except maybe for Rebecca getting married. Life went on, possibly the only way to really end the show and be true to it. The final scene showed us Sam's great love in his life would be the bar itself, ad the joy and atmosphere it brought everyone...

2. The Cheers finale had heart, because the show itself could be moving at times. This would've never worked on Seinfeld, it would've been untrue to the show.

On 23 May 98 16:37:29 GMT, "Dixon Hayes" wrote:

I should go back and write down all the lines that I laughed at. There were quite a few. Funny how the same old verbal gags worked over and over again.

i love cheers but i'm not sure if i saw the final or not. whats it about? ~~LiL Rotfi<------->Abby~~

In the last two episodes Diane comes back, and she and Sam consider getting married. Before they get back together, Sam convinces Rebecca to pretend that the two of them are engaged, after he found out that Diane was engaged. You should know that, at this point, Rebecca was engaged to a plumber, Tom Berenger, who she later married. While on a double date with Diane and her fiance, it is revealed that Sam and Rebecca aren't really engaged and that Diane's "fiance" is actually her homosexual assistant. So, the two of them almost get married, but of course they don't. The finale of Cheers had probably the best last scene that I've ever seen. The bar has closed and Sam is locking up for the night, when someone comes to the door and wants in, Sam tells him that they're closed, and then he walks over and straightens a picture of Geronimo that's hanging on the back wall. The reason that I think that this cool, is that Nick Callasanto [Coach] had had that picture in his dressing room for the four years that he was on the show. After he died, they hung the picture on the set, and I think that it's nice that they would pay tribute to him in the final episode, even if not alot of people noticed.

On 23 May 1998, LiL Rotfi wrote:

On 23 May 1998 13:57:48 GMT, [email] (LiL Rotfi) wrote:

Well, Diane comes back, but before she does, she and Sam both pretend they got married, rather than wait for each other. So, Diane cons a gay friend to come along and pretend to be her husband, and Sam rescues Rebecca from a deep funk she's in because she can't say "Yes" to a marriage proposal by this plumber she's been going out with. And they all troop up to Melville's for a lunch together. In which they make asses of themselves being competitive. But then the plumber shows up and says he can't give up, asks Rebecca to marry him again, and this time she says yes, leaving Diane a little stupefied. Sam then confesses that he didnt want Diane getting the idea that he was waiting for her. At which point the boyfriend of her gay friend shows up, busting her for a fake, too. Diane is then about to say goodbye when Sam says they serve a REALLY good dessert at Melville's but it comes in portions too big for one. He starts describing it, but it is obviously all euphemisms for sex. Anyway, when the story resumes after the commercials, Rebecca announces she and her fiance are getting married. Then Sam and Diane show up and announce THEY are getting married, which sets Carla off. But eventually Sam and Diane realize they can't do it, and Diane goes back to LA.

The end of the show is when Sam gets out a box of Cuban cigars that someone gave him. He starts offering them to the regulars who all say no they don't have time, they have lives to get to. But its all a joke because earlier when Sam said he was going to LA to marry Diane, he said Cheers wasnt anybody's HOME. When Sam is thinking he'll have to sit and smoke his cigar all alone, the regulars come trooping back in and admit they were pulling his leg. In the closing scene, they all sit around making humorous remarks while smoking their cigars. Norm is the last to leave and says he knew Sam would never leave because you can't leave your "one true love". Sam says who is that, Norm says "Think about it" and leaves. Sam then says to himself "I'm the luckiest SOB in the world" and the credits roll.

I thought it extremely well done.

SloGait wrote in article ...

Sure it was. but that doesn't mean that Cheers is all together better... Chugman!!!

On 23 May 1998 14:16:13 GMT, "chug" wrote:

No, I'd say the two series were about on a par. There was very good writing in both of them.