1. Ted Danson
   Kelsey Grammar
2. Woody Harrelson
   George Wendt

During the show's 11-year run, Danson was nominated nine times for an Emmy Award as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and won twice, in 1990 and 1993.

1. Norma
   Florence
2. Vera
   Mary

While her voice is often heard at the other end of the phone, Vera's face is never seen by the audience, although she does make two appearances on the show: once her face is covered in a thrown pie, and the other time only her legs are visible.

1. John Ratzenberger
   Kelsey Grammar
2. Ted Danson
   James Burrows

Cliff wasn't in the original script. John Ratzenberger auditioned for the part of Norm and wasn't thought suitable. He then asked the writers if they had a "bar know-it-all" and quickly improvised a character. This impressed the producers to the point that they created the part of Cliff Clavin for him.

1. Ted Danson
   Rhea Perlman
2. George Wendt
   Kirstie Alley

Kirstie Alley won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series" in 1991 for her work as Rebecca Howe.

1. Joey
   Frasier
2. Taxi
   Mad About You

Between Cheers and the spin-off Frasier, Kelsey Grammer played the character of Frasier Crane for 20 consecutive years. Cheers spun off one other series, The Tortellis, in 1987. The series focused on Carla's ex-husband Nick, and aired for 13 episodes. While the sitcom Wings was created and produced by Cheers writers, and characters crossed over between the two shows, it is considered more of a companion show and in no way a spin-off of Cheers.

1. He worked at the psychiatric institute that Diane was admitted to after a bad breakup with Sam.
   Sam moonlighted as bartender at a private cocktail party hosted by a friend of Dr. Crane's.
2. Both Diane and Frasier were shopping for pajamas but Diane only needed a top and Frasier only needed a bottom.

After Diane returned to working at the bar, she dated Frasier for a while. In later episodes she admits that she strung him along.

1. Johnny Mercer
   Woody Harrelson
2. Gary Portnoy
   Stephen Sondheim

A 2011 Rolling Stone reader's poll ranked the song at number one on their list of Greatest TV Theme Songs Ever.

1. Brewmaster
   Relief baseball pitcher
2. Professional golfer
   Farm manager

Sam was a relief pitcher in minor league baseball, eventually playing in Pawtucket, where he met friend and Cheers employee "Coach" Ernie Pantusso. He was eventually called up to the Major Leagues, where he spent his entire six-year career with the Boston Red Sox, and had been retired for five years when Cheers began.

1. Rhea Perlman
   Kirstie Alley
2. Bebe Neuwirth
   Shelley Long

Shelley Long never intended to stay with the show beyond her initial contract. Long had only reluctantly agreed to co-star in the series as she was more interested in a career as a film actress rather than one for television.

1. Carla
   Norm
2. Cliff
   Diane

The question Cliff lost it all on was, "Who are three people who have never been in my kitchen?" Cliff was winning by enough that, had he made a small wager, he would have been guaranteed a win. Alex Trebek has jokingly referred to this situation (making a risky Final Jeopardy bet with a dominating lead) several times in the actual show as "pulling a Cliff Clavin."

1. She went to teach English in Africa.
   She had the opportunity to finish a book she had started years ago and have it published.
2. She accepted a teaching position at a New York college.
   She decided to go to law school.

While Diane promised to be back in six months to marry Sam, Sam knew she wouldn't return and told her, "Have a good life."

1. His hair
   His slender waist
2. His hands
   His eyes

Ted Danson wore a hairpiece to conceal his real-life baldness for the role of Sam Malone during filming of Cheers. In the 1993 episode "It's Lonely on the Top" Sam reveals his baldness to Carla.

1. 1982
   1979
2. 1985
   1989

After premiering on September 30, 1982, Cheers was nearly canceled. It ranked last in ratings for its premiere (77th out of 77 shows). Cheers, however, eventually became a highly rated television show in the United States, earning a top-ten rating during 8 of its 11 seasons, including one season at #1.

1. A con artist that occasionally frequents the Cheers bar.
   A hat model that Sam dated briefly
2. The head of an ad agency that Sam and Rebecca hire to help publicize the bar.
   A homeless man that often sets up camp on the same street as Cheers is located.

Better known as Harry The Hat for his signature fedora, Harry Gittes is a con artist and frequent jailbird. He often tries to swindle Cheers's customers and employees with various cons. Harry will also help out the gang at Cheers on occasion—partly out of sentiment, and partly to protect the Cheers gang from operators even more unscrupulous than himself. As Harry said, "I don't like the idea of someone else plucking my pigeons."

1. Kelly
   Deborah
2. Diane
   Monica

Woody meets Kelly while he and Sam are bartending at a private party celebrating Kelly’s return from Europe. Kelly is a rich and sheltered girl, but Woody is able to open her eyes to new experiences, the first being a monster truck pull.

1. Norm
   Cliff
2. Sam
   Carla

In this episode, Cliff drastically alters his personality after no one from the bar comes to visit him during his hospital stay with appendicitis, and Sam gives maniac-behind-the-wheel Lilith driving lessons.

1. 8
   11
2. 14

Cheers ran for 11 seasons between 1982 and 1993. The show was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles.

1. Her hands
   Her hair
2. Her figure

As a ploy, Diane asks Lilith for a hairpin as she claims the fridge door is stuck. Frasier knows it's a ploy and refuses to react "like Pavlov's dog" but when Lilith's hair is down, he can't control himself and says, " "I'm going to kiss you. I'm going to kiss you hard, and I'm going to kiss you long, but make no mistake about it, I am going to kiss you. In fact, I'm going to kiss you like you've never-" yet his lengthy verbal foreplay is soon interrupted by Lilith. On impulse, she launches herself at him and the two psychiatrists share their first longing, impassioned, albeit short kiss.

1. Rebecca
   Diane
2. Carla
   Lilth

Carla is portrayed as a devout and practicing Roman Catholic who had four children when the series started and eight children when it ended.

1. Robert De Niro
   Jack Lemmon
2. John Lithgow
   Nick Nolte

Lithgow refused the role due to the fact that he wanted to concentrate on his film career.

1. 112½ Beacon Street
   11 Wall Street
2. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

If that fractional address were real, it would be in the middle of a row of brownstone townhouses. Beacon Street itself runs from the center of Boston some ten miles to I-95 at Newton Lower Falls.

1. Ted Danson had decided to leave the show.
   The ratings were getting lower and lower.
2. NBC wanted to make room for new programming.

It's said that after Ted Danson announced that he was leaving the series, NBC wanted to continue the series by having Woody take over the bar but Woody Harrelson refused to continue the series without Danson.

1. Norm recommends Woody for an open bartender position.
   He showed up at the bar, expecting to meet Coach.
2. He accidentally crashes the taxi he was driving into the Cheers front wall.

Woody arrived at Cheers expecting to meet his "penpal" Coach (with whom he exchanged pens, instead of letters). Upon learning of his death, he filled the open bartender position and was quickly accepted by the staff and regulars, developing a "big brother/little brother" relationship with Sam.

1. Dada
   Mama
2. Norm

Frederick's first word was "Norm", which he says just as Norm Peterson enters the bar (which is what all the bar patrons say when he enters the bar).

1. Norm has a near-death experience when a faulty X-ray shows a spot on his chest, so he announces that he is going to Bora Bora.
   The guys play a prank on Frasier during a fishing trip after Diane convinces them to let him come along.
2. Cliff, dressed as Ponce de Leon, meets his female counterpart during a costume party at Cheers.

When Frasier is bored with his work, Diane encourages the guys (including Sam) to invite him to their "guys only" weekend. Because he is dull they abandon him, leaving him snipe hunting alone. He returns, apparently happy to be part of the gang (which worries Diane). However, he tells her he knew the game was fabricated and plans to retaliate.

1. Friends, Romans, Accountants
   Truce or Consequences
2. Give Me a Ring Sometime
   The Spy Who Came In for a Cold One

Diane is left behind in the Cheers bar by her fiance, and then owner/bartender Sam offers Diane a job as a waitress, which she initially refuses, but reluctantly accepts when she finds she can repeat verbatim a lengthy order from one table.

1. Sam's apartment
   Carla's house
2. The restaurant at the Harborside Inn in Boston

Though Cheers was always an ensemble sitcom, in season 5 it became extremely involved in the Sam-and-Diane romance. In this episode each character got their chance in the spotlight, as well as a chance to play up some screwball comedy in the climactic food fight.

1. Coach
   Bubba
2. Forty
   Buddy

He claimed his other nickname was "Red", not because he had red hair, but because he had read a book. Quotes like this were characteristic of our dear Coach.

1. Lilith entertains the guests with a vaudeville act.
   Woody gets drunk.
2. Carla gets trapped in the dumbwaiter.
   The gang has to hide a dead body.

Carla predicts that Woody and Kelly's wedding will be a mess, and she is proven correct in spades. This episode really puts the cast's physical comedy chops to work.

1. Sam rinses with mouthwash in preparation.
   They gaze intently into each other's eyes for a long moment.
2. The insult each other.
   They are sharing a plate of spaghetti.

Diane has been dating Sam's brother, Derek, and driving Sam crazy with jealousy. She confesses to Coach that she is torn between her ideal mate Derek, who is committed to her, and her "bubblegum" Sam. They finally argue, admit their feelings for each other, and kiss!

1. Eric
   Brian
2. Andy
   Kyle

Derek McGrath plays Andy Schroeder, who returns to Cheers intending to commit an armed robbery. Sam grabs Andy's unloaded gun, and Carla restrains him. Diane convinces her colleagues not to turn Andy in to the police, and decides to try to reform him. Andy becomes infatuated with Diane and becomes jealous when he sees her kissing Sam. During a live performance of Othello, Andy wrings Diane's neck. Sam thinks that this is part of the play until Andy explains that he saw Sam and Diane kissing. Sam rescues Diane while Norm and Cliff restrain Andy, who yells out "Mommy!"

1. Loretta
   Anna
2. Rachelle
   Marie

Loretta's dream, before she married Nick, was to become a singer; she once described herself as a "taller, blonder, less Mormon Marie Osmond." Diane convinced Sam to let Loretta sing at Cheers, to which Sam responded after the first night, "Never again does that woman sing in my bar." Loretta, appreciative of Diane's kindness, told Nick, "I really like that Debbie."

1. Hillary
   Clancy
2. Guthrie
   Kermit

In the episode "It's a Wonderful Wife," Vera tells Rebecca off-camera that Norm's real first name is Hillary. He explains that he was named after his grandfather who "once killed a man for laughing at him". Cliff asks if his grandfather really killed a man for laughing at his first name and Norm replies, "Not exactly. He was a surgeon and he sort of botched an operation."

1. Home is the Sailor
   The Crane Mutiny
2. The Last Angry Mailman
   Christmas Cheers

After Sam and Diane break up, Sam sells Cheers to the Lillian Corporation and leaves Boston on his new yacht. Six months later, the yacht sinks and he returns to Cheers where he finds changes; employees must wear uniforms, Carla is pregnant with Eddie's child, the bartender is Wayne, and Rebecca Howe is the bar owner and manager.

1. Sam and Woody
   Norm and Cliff
2. Rebecca and DIane
   Carla and Diane

Sam warns Carla and Diane about losing their jobs and orders them to patch things up. After Sam leaves the bar, Carla confesses to Diane that Gino, one of her children, is Sam's child, and commands Diane to keep this a secret. The next day, Diane inadvertently reveals Carla's secret to Coach. When Coach tells her that Sam and Carla have only known each other for five years and Gino is seven and a half, Carla's confession is shown to be a lie. When another conflict between the two waitresses ensues, Sam drags them into the office to settle the matter. When they tell Sam the whole situation, and Carla shows a picture of Gino, they all burst into laughter. Carla and Diane make up with a handshake.