WWTBAM Bored

It has been decades since I watched much Cheers, other than the kids showing me a few clips.

It started when I was a 10th Grader and, as I really didn't watch much TV then-I only saw the early episodes in syndication and reruns such.

But with George Wendt passing-I started watch from Season 1.

Noticed a couple of fun things.

1) Starting in Episode 2-Diane was already using her trademark "Norman" greeting after everybody did the "Norm" thing.

2) It seemed like Cliff was more of a random bar patron early-but they seemed early on-to realize that there was gold in them thar hills.

3) Knowing that John Ratzenberger (Cliff) had been at Woodstock in real life-not as a hippy-but as a carpenter-I got a kick out of the fact that he was in the background of a shot when Sam was saying that he had gone to Woodstock to pick up chicks.

4) I appreciated Coach's WW2 era joke when he liked a girl and Diane asked him what was the last line he had used -it was "Would you like some nylons, Fraulein?" I think that was the hardest I had laughed yet.

5) Then there was the poignant "Last man surviving" WW1 unit reunion-with only one guy showing up-he was 85-then which would have been just the right age to have been a WW1 vet in the early 1980's.

That was a great, well-written series. You have probably not gotten to the episode in which Cliff was a contestant on Jeopardy, but that was a good one.

elwoodblues wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 09, 2025 1:26 pm

That was a great, well-written series. You have probably not gotten to the episode in which Cliff was a contestant on Jeopardy, but that was a good one.

One of my favorite episodes.

Every Time Norm Peterson Enters the Bar

tlynn78 wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 10, 2025 12:29 pm

elwoodblues wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 09, 2025 1:26 pm

That was a great, well-written series. You have probably not gotten to the episode in which Cliff was a contestant on Jeopardy, but that was a good one.

One of my favorite episodes.

Yep-I am also partial to the skydiving and the cross-country trip episodes. It is fun to watch from the beginning to see how things developed.

Re-trivia contests and such

I think most people here would appreciate the George MacDonald Fraser short story "General Knowledge, Private Information" based on a trivia contest between 2 battalions when he was in the army. This was probably the only trivia contest in history that required the military police (the redcaps) to be called prior to the contest.

It just struck me that maybe when I have time (this winter?) I will post a long thread copy and pasting the story-if you want to read it you can-if you don't-then don't.

And if anybody is interested the Private McAuslan short stories are completely clean versus the risqueness of his Flashman stories.