I wonder how many other shows had that kind of effect. Every single video of the title sequence, literally every one, is filled with these comments, and it’s exactly the same reason I adore this show.
A show about strangers getting away from the troubles of everyday life where they would gather and be friends. Now, we can’t really escape in the sports world. This was such a great series with a perfect intro. R.I.P. Kirstie , those were better times I think.
One of the most iconic TV shows of all time one of the best theme songs of all time to a TV show every portrait of every person that shows looks exactly like the characters in the show.
I liked the show and then when I moved to Boston and started going to school in 89 I started to love it.. Something about watching this show with the window open and being able to see and hear the sounds of the city right outside my 3rd floor dorm room window made this show very near and dear to my heart.. It's been over 30 yrs now and it all seems like it was a lifetime ago but every time I hear those opening chords it brings me right back to those cold fall nights living in Boston.
This is the one show whose intro I never skip. This is the greatest bar song that's never played at a bar. This show applies so much to my life. I have turned into Norm Peterson. And you know what, I accept that. Life has treated me as if I slept with its wife and ran over its dog. And I like to get away and go where everybody knows my name and is always glad I came to forget about life for a while getting away from everything. And those short moments at the bar that I spend getting away from life to forget about it are some of the happiest moments I have. And the sad thing is, I'm only 25 right now. I shouldn't understand this song, but sadly, I do.
Hey man, I think I get how you're feeling. Feels like I was given a bad deck. Some things that help me is something called mental subtraction - where you think of good things your life and imagine how things would be without those good things. It's helped me have gratitude for the good things I do have. There's also some course from berkeley about the science of happiness. I think it's free. Not trying to sound like a bot lmao but I'd give it a peek if you feel kinda lost Hoping this comment lifted someone up, you're not alone. Cheers 🍻
@@skullkid5623 Thanks. Since I posted this comment, I have been improving on my drinking. I don't drink every day anymore nor often anymore. I still drink occasionally but I'm doing much better now.
I watched this show when I was a kid and I miss these good times, man. Besides, this was on TV till 2012 in the Netherlands and I watched it on a channel named Nederland 2.
The greatest t.v. theme songs were from the early 70's to the mid 80's. But this one really hits home. Such an inviting song to welcome you from a long day of work. To pull you in with these great characters. Not everyone could hang out at a bar after work but Cheers gave you that opportunity.
Anyone else want to go to where everybody knows your name? Probably sit with Norm and Cliff, get insults from Carla, talk sports with Sam and Coach? A dream come true.
Iconic theme song as well as an iconic cast and characters that became household names. My favorite era was seasons 6-11 but the first five were still good. Cheers was the kind of universal super hit that we never see nowadays on any network or streaming service. This was back when everybody stayed home from every demographic there was and sat down to watch this show that was like visiting family every Thursday night at 9.
The most successful retooling of a show while in progress ever! Season 6 brought us not only a fresh character in Rebecca, but also transformed the show from the Sam & Diane love story to even more of an ensemble piece, with episodes aplenty for all!
@@jasontasch8568 True dat. A risky move generally. Taking out a main character usually signals the end of a series (James exits from Good Times; Chrissy written off from Three's Company), unless the show can justify it & move on. Audiences are asked to "buy the pipes," but then are expected to accept something else. The key here is Cheers was moving forward & the public was asked to accept it. It didn't just dump Dianne; she grew & left. The audience expected it.
@@bernieudo4399 Also they found the perfect replacement for Long with Kirstie. It was smart that they decided to not only make Rebecca nothing like Diane at all but to also make Sam and Rebecca's relationship nothing like the Sam and Diane relationship. Had they tried to imitate that then it might not have worked.
When my dad passed away in 2019, we had a celebration of life at Everybody's, a sports bar up in my area. It was his, and my, favorite restaurant. I should've ended the celebration with this song. I think all of us there would've had a breakdown. I still do even after listening to this intro. Update: I found out my best friend Ken, co-owner of Everybody's, had passed away earlier this year.
Hallmark channel NEVER airs the ENTIRE intro theme, after it shows the bar it automatically jumps to the chorus: "🎶 Sometimes U Want to go Where Everybody Knows Your Name 🎶"
This is gonna sound weird but as someone who is Gen Z i resonate with with this not from the show Cheers but from Adventure Time as a good man goes mad trying to protect the last person he cares about
Same! I found out about this show from the new spinoff series of Adventure Time and it hits different with the context of Simon trying to remain sane by singing it
@intelligentaspie6158 Thank you i was wondering why this sounded so familiar from not only adventure time but originally lil me watching it on nickelodeon thanks for unlocking a core memory ❤
Thank You, Applebees, For Introducing The Cheers Sitcom, And It's Theme Song, To A Whole New Generation. I'm Sure That The Sales Of The Cheers Complete Series DVD Sets Are Going To Surge, For A While.
I finished the last episode last sunday. I enjoyed it so much. Every day I got off work, I watched cheers while drinking beer. When I finally finished it during the last episode, I literally cried because I didn't want it to end. I wanted it to go on forever. I wish Ted Danson hadn't wanted to start something new in his life but I can understand why didn't want to return to cheers after 11 years and there can't be cheers without Ted Danson, even though my favorite character was Norm. I wish I could erase every memory I have of cheers and rewatch it again for the first time. Now I am watching Frasier. I am now on season 4 of frasier, and even though I am enjoying Frasier, I like the Frasier Crane from cheers much better because in cheers, even though Frasier was a nerd, he was one of the guys, he was blue collar, (well a little bit) he drank beer in almost every episode and drank scotch when he was depressed. Even though he was a shrink, he hung out with average joes and even drank with them and acted like one. I loved that about him in cheers. Now in Frasier, he hates beer, hates blue collar things, he's arrogant, selfish, greedy, he only drinks wine, only goes to expensive restaruants where you need a reservation to go to, and thinks very lowly of average joes like me. I wish the Frasier from cheers would come back into the Frasier in Frasier.
@@Johnmhatheist But that wouldn't have worked. Frasier had to change a little in order for him to be the lead. He couldn't be the same guy he was in Cheers because the shows are mostly separate and the only reason he was the way he was in Cheers is because Frasier is someone who adapts to his environment. After he broke up with Diane he started hanging out at Cheers all the time and wanted to fit in but that wasn't his actual personality, or at least not as a whole. Remember when he was first introduced he was very much erudite and pretentious. The Frasier in Frasier is like a mix of the Frasier in Cheers and in Frasier. I love Frasier in both Cheers and Frasier but Kelsey Grammar was better than ever as Frasier in his own show than he was in Cheers which is why he recieved four Emmys during that show's eleven year run. I also wouldn't say he looks down on regular joes. He's pretty close with his dad, Daphne and Roz and also treats his more average joe types at KACL like family.
Oh man! You're missing something. Go watch it if you haven't by now. It's as good as it's theme, if not better...and matches it perfectly. Lots of TV shows don't really match up well with their theme song, but Cheers and its song are perfectly suited for each other.
I had this anticipatory nostalgia thing as a child and I remember being about 8 or 9 and hearing this theme playing on the TV in my parents room and feeling sad. It's almost like I knew I'd grow up someday and miss that safe feeling of knowing my parents were both there, in their room across the hall, watching Cheers together.
My last ever meeting at work that i hosted i played this song to signify how I felt. I really used to walk in every morning and everyone was pleased to me
I remember seeing Kirstie Alley’s first appearance on Cheers and thinking how truly beautiful she was. The show was epic and introduced my favorite Frazier Crane.
A great show that brings back so many memories, everybody would want to go where everybody knows your name if it was like Cheers!! Man i miss this kind of TV, but sadly those days are long gone and never to return.
Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got Taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot Wouldn’t you like to get away Sometimes you wanna go Where everybody knows your name And they’re always glad you came You wanna be where you can see That troubles are all the same You wanna be where everybody knows your name You wanna go where people know People are all the same You wanna go where everybody knows your name
About ten years ago, some college kid dressed up as him for Halloween: pbs.twimg.com/media/EVDIazdU8AAWjfu.jpg It made the rounds on social media at the time.
The intro to this song marked my bed time. Wasn't the clock although it came on at a certain time. If this show was pushed back to 1 am that woulda been my new bed time. But no, this song was my alarm clock for bed. Pop would be like welp time for bed lol.
Frasier was more in my time so I liked that show better, but I can remember even at 2 years old in the 80s watching that intro. Never forgot that music or those title cards.
My great grandfather owned a bar in Edwardsville PA, called Farmer Mikes..and at one time, he and his buddies, they used to bootleg for Al Capone in Chicago, and he was running from the coppers as he used to call them, and he ran into a waggon full of hay and chickens..from then on, he was Farmer Mike..so, he called his bar Farmer Mikes, and him and my great grandmother, my grandmother and her brothers and sisters lived above the bar..and my grandfather, my grandmother's husband, his father and mother, and my grandfather's brothers and sisters lived in like a side room connected to the bar..this was in Edwardsville PA..northeastern Pennsylvania industrial coal mining community, where there was like 20 bars and Catholic Churches on every street..all the houses were small houses close together with no yard, only sidewalk..I'm just trying to set the scene of the kind of community this was..very much Eastern European, polish, lithuanian, russian immigrant community..pierogies a'plenty..the point is when cheers came out, that's what they said it was exactly like..and they had a person that corresponded to each character on cheers..my grandmothers mother, was the waitress and was a wise-ass..there was the lithuanian lawyer (he was a mail-man) like cliff, why they called him lithuanian lawyer I don't know, since he was a mail-man..my grandfather was like norm..my great grandfather was Sam, etc.. and they have pictures I've seen and stories they used to tell when they used to get back together and drink when i was growing up..I have such good memories of that..then when they moved, they put a bar in the basement, old fashioned and fully stocked, and that life style to an extent continued while I was growing up in Georgia..they moved to georgia and my grandfather tried to go to bars down here in the south and he said he never felt welcome and the experience wasn't the same as the bars up north..so they put a bar into the basement and brought cheers into their home in Georgia..God bless cheers!!!
Guest Stars: Alex Trebek (1940-2020) Christopher Lloyd (Dr. Emmett Brown) Carol Kane Corey Feldman Emma Thompson Ernie Sabella Frances Sternhagen (1930-2023) Glynis Johns (1923-2024) Lisa Kudrow Thomas Haden Church
