re: Anyone who says Cheers got worse once Diane left is an idiot

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Anyone who calls someone an idiot based on something objective is an idiot.

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You really covered your arse there.

I liked Diane better myself...

sidenote, why the hell did Danson ever fool with Whoopi. disgusting... dude could have gotten anyone anywhere.

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why the hell did Danson ever fool with Whoopi. disgusting... dude could have gotten anyone anywhere.

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If you look at his ex-wives, he's never really gone for the traditional hot Hollywood types. Steenburgen is the hottest woman that he's had a long term deal with.

By the way, how do you think his wife felt when she found out he was cheating on her with Whoopi?

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I rewatched Cheers a couple of years ago and really discovered how funny Ted Danson was on the show.

He's also great on Curb.

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He's just a tremendous comedic actor. He was great in "Bored to Death", this shaggy dog HBO show with Jason Schwartzman as a novelist turned unlicensed private investigator.
He's also really good in "The Good Place" that NBC show with Kristen Bell and this Indian woman who may be the most beautiful woman on earth.

I loved Cheers and I enjoyed Harry Anderson's street hustler character.

Harry was a SF street performer who was a friend of mine.

He performed magic on the street but he made his real money ripping tourists off by playing Three Card Monte with them.

One morning I was walking down Beach street and I saw Harry sitting on a low wall at a bus stop right across from the BV and I noticed he was drinking a big bottle of Jack Daniels.

I walked up to him and said, "Hi Harry, how's it going?"

He looked up and me and said, "Horrible. Last night I got the shite beat out of me by a guy who lost a bunch of money playing Three Card Monte."

Harry went on to say, "I'm leaving SF and going to Hollywood as soon as the next bus comes after I finish this bottle of JD."

I said to him, "Well, since that is the case then I'll help you finish the bottle so you can leave San Francisco on the next bus."

I sat down next to him and we passed the bottle of JD back and forth to each other until it was finished.

When the next bus came, Harry jumped up and we shook hands while I wished him good luck.

As the bus left, Harry gave me a final wave goodbye through the window and that was the last time I saw him until a few months later when I turned my TV on and the Merv Griffin show was on.

My jaw dropped when I noticed that Merv was talking to my friend, Harry Anderson.

The moral of this story is when you see a friend drinking a bottle of Jack Daniels then always do them a favor and help them finish it.

Acid's a hell of a drug.

not sure if I believe all that...

I'm of the opinion that the show got worse AND Diane needed to leave. They were running out of storylines for her and the Sam and Diane storyline had run its course. It was also well-known that Shelley Long was difficult to work with and the other cast members hated her. During her final season, it seemed like her only purpose was to be used as a punching bag for the other characters to make fun of. Cheers almost certainly would have ended earlier than it did if Long never left the show.

Season three, he died 3 months after he filmed his last episode.


I looked it up

The funny thing about Harry Anderson playing the role of a Three Card Monte street hustler was that he didn't have to act the part.

That's how Harry was in real life.

BTW, some of my favorite episodes of Cheers are when they competed against the other local bar but always lost.