The sketch featured Cheers co-star George Wendt, a Chicago native, as host of a radio talk-show ( similar in tone to WGN radio's " The Sportswriters "), with co-panelists Carl Wollarski ( Robert Smigel ), Pat Arnold ( Mike Myers ) and Todd O ' Connor ( Chris Farley ).

In 1986, he married Toni Hudson, an actress ( who had previously appeared in the fourth season A-Team episode " Blood, Sweat and Cheers " as Dana ), with whom he has two sons, George and Roland.

" The writers also patterned the character after Norm Peterson ( George Wendt ), a character from the sitcom Cheers.

*" Helena " ( song ), 2004 song by My Chemical Romance from the album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

On television, Richards also appeared in Miami Vice ( as an unscrupulous bookie ), Cheers ( as a character trying to collect on an old bet with Sam Malone ), and made several guest appearances with Jay Leno as an accident-prone fitness expert.

From 1905 to 1981 the town was home to Chorley Training College ( from the 1960s known as Chorley ' Day ' Training College ), designed by the Victorian and Edwardian architect Henry Cheers, and the town centre building now occupying this site is now Chorley Public Library.

* In an episode of the television series Cheers titled " Thanksgiving Orphans " ( this episode first aired in 1986 ), Styron is mentioned as an esteemed guest of a Thanksgiving party hosted by one of Diane Chambers ' literature professors.

Danson also appeared as Sam Malone in guest-starring roles on other sitcoms, such as Frasier ( a Cheers spin-off ), The Jim Henson Hour, and The Simpsons.

Danson went on to star in the successful CBS sitcom Becker ( produced by Paramount Television, which also produced Cheers ), which ran from 1998 – 2004.

Additional credits include Miami Vice, Murder, She Wrote, the Showtime television movie Common Ground ( which he also wrote ), and Cheers, which earned him an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

In addition to The Odd Couple, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Happy Days, other live sitcoms that were sweetened by Douglass were The Paul Lynde Show ( ABC, 1972 – 73 ), The Bob Newhart Show ( CBS, 1972 – 78 ), Maude ( CBS, 1972 – 78 ), Rhoda ( CBS, 1974 – 78 ), Laverne and Shirley ( ABC, 1976 – 83 ), Alice ( CBS, 1976 – 85 ), Soap ( ABC, 1977 – 81 ), Taxi ( ABC, 1978 – 82 ; NBC, 1982 – 83 ), Seinfeld ( NBC 1990-1998 ), Friends ( NBC 1994-2004 ), Cheers ( NBC, 1982 – 93 ) and its spinoff Frasier ( NBC, 1993 – 2004 ).

Norm appeared in all 275 episodes of Cheers between 1982 – 1993 ( the only patron to do so ), and was initially the only customer featured in the main cast ( to be later joined by Cliff Clavin, Frasier Crane, and Lilith Sternin ).

Norm's entrance into the bar is a running gag on Cheers, typically beginning with a welcome by the bar crowd yelling his name ( which later included the filming audience ), usually followed by a comment from Norm.

A running gag throughout the series are the numerous jokes made about the enormous size of Norm's tab at Cheers ( e. g., several large binders are shown as being just a portion of it – in the episode Home Malone ( season 9, episode 25 ), when Woody's rich, naive girlfriend Kelly waitresses at Cheers to gain " real-life experience ", Norm convinces her that the tab is a record of the beers for which he has already paid, and for each new beer a mark should be erased – and in the finale Sam has to have his total tab for the series calculated by NASA ).

In early episodes, she is shown as very sexually aggressive and promiscuous: in " Flaming Moe's ", she is shown with her arms around two sailors in the parody of the famous Cheers theme, and tries to pick up both Joey Kramer ( Aerosmith's drummer ) and Homer Simpson, even after learning he is married and Bart's father.

* Gary Portnoy, singer / songwriter, most notably the performer of the Cheers theme song.

Hay also sings " Where Everybody Knows Your Name ", the theme from Cheers, in the episode " My Life in Four Cameras " and the episode " My Philosophy " features Hay's song " Waiting For My Real Life To Begin ", sung by several members of the cast.

who had previously written the theme songs to Cheers and Punky Brewster.

Kelsey's has a licensing agreement through early 2011 with CBS Consumer Products for the rights to the theme song from the 1980s sitcom Cheers, which the chain says could lead to " other opportunities " in the future.

The episode also parodies the television series Cheers, including the theme song " Where Everybody Knows Your Name ", and a character named Collette is modeled after Shelley Long's character Diane Chambers.

The third act opens with a parody of " Where Everybody Knows Your Name ", the theme song from Cheers.

Collette the waitress is a parody of Cheers character Diane Chambers, and the " theme sequence " for Flaming Moe's, is a direct parody of the famous Cheers theme.

[...] highlights include a performance by Aerosmith ( in a guest-starring role ), Bart actually apologizing to Moe for one of his infamous prank calls, and a memorable spoof of Cheers ' theme song.

* Though its usage here is not a parody, in an episode of Cheers, Cliff aborts his plans to emigrate to Canada with his love interest when Sam, Woody, and Frasier appeal to his patriotic side by singing this song.

In 1955 Leiber and Stoller produced a recording of their song " Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots " with a white vocal group, the Cheers.

* " Fire ", a song by Sleeping With Sirens on the album Let's Cheers To This

* A song by My Chemical Romance on their album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

The song is sampled on the track " Cheers ( Drink to That )", which was released as a single from Rihanna's fifth studio album, Loud.

She landed her first major breakthrough as a songwriter, co-writing Rihanna's song " Cheers " featured on " Loud " which is the fifth studio album by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna, released November 12, 2010 on Def Jam Recordings.

Rihanna's song " Cheers " features a vocal hook performed by L. P. ( taken from Avril Lavigne's " I'm With You ").

* In the season nine episode of Cheers entitled " Days of Wine and Neuroses ", Frasier performs the song on the bar's new karaoke machine.

" Helena " is a song by American rock band My Chemical Romance, and is the third single from their second studio album, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.

In the season 6 " Cheers " episode " Slumber Party Massacred "; Sam, Norm, Cliff and Frasier perform a rendition of the beginning of the song to cheer Carla up during a depressive spell.

The song " Flaming Moe's ", which parodies " Where Everybody Knows Your Name " from Cheers, was well received.

This is a play on words to the actress and dancer, Bebe Neuwirth, who was in the cast of Cheers and appeared on Broadway in Chicago in which she sang the hit song " All That Jazz.

The cover of the single was seen in the " old school " music video for the song " I'm Not Okay ( I Promise )", featured on the album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.

Cheers is an American television sitcom television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993.

Some of the most popular TV series which premiered during the 1980s or carried over from the 1970s include: Alf, Airwolf, The A-Team, Dynasty, Dallas, Knight Rider, MacGyver, Magnum, P. I., Miami Vice, Diff ' rent Strokes, The Jeffersons, The Facts of Life, The Cosby Show, Murder, She Wrote, 21 Jump Street, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Night Court, Who's the Boss ?, Family Matters, Quantum Leap, Saved by the Bell, Roseanne, Full House, The Golden Girls, Cheers, Growing Pains, Family Ties, Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Married ... with Children.

Figures from the Singapore Department of Statistics showed that there are 338 7-Eleven stores and 91 Cheers outlets in 2004.

* Uruguayan — Falta y Resto: " Brindis por Pierrot " (" Cheers for Pierrot "), from Amor Rioplatense ( 2007 ); Jaime Roos: Brindis por Pierrot ( 1985 ).

Sideshow Bob shares some personality traits of Grammer's character Frasier Crane from the sitcoms Cheers and Frasier, and has been described as " Frasier pickled in arsenic ".

Actress Kirstie Alley is known for her role in the TV show Cheers, in which she played Rebecca Howe from 1987 – 1993, winning an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1991.

Diane, from the TV comedy Cheers.

The master of ceremonies for the Columbia Gorge event was the TV star, John Ratzenberger, from " Cheers ", and the headlining musician was the " Father of Rock and Roll ," Chuck Berry.

The only other times she is seen, viewers can see only her legs and at one time her waving from a car which drives past Cheers on her and Norm's 15th wedding anniversary.

The European royalties from another Cheers record, " Bazoom ( I Need Your Lovin ')", funded a 1956 trip to Europe for Stoller and his first wife, Meryl, on which they met Piaf.

Characters from Cheers occasionally made special guest appearances on Wings.

On television, from 1986 to 1993 Neuwirth played Dr. Lilith Sternin, who married Dr. Frasier Crane on the hit comedy series Cheers.

Ohlmeyer returned to NBC in 1993 to become president of its West Coast division at a time when the network was in third place in the ratings, following the departure of Cheers and The Cosby Show from its lineup.

More precisely, according to Jymn Magon ( co-creator of the series ), the two characters were fashioned after Sam Malone and Rebecca Howe from the then-popular sitcom Cheers.

Unlike Frasier, part of whose background comes from Cheers, Niles ' background is established over the course of Frasier.

* " Cheerzen / Cheers ' en " ( Somerset, Bristol ) Thank you ( from " Cheers, then ")

* Bebe Neuwirth ( Lilith from Cheers )-Julia Manchevering