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 ).

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.

Vera is the brunt of many of Norm's jokes, but on many occasions, Norm has professed secretly an undying love for his wife, or defended her honor.

In the Cheers episode It's a Wonderful Wife ( season 9, episode 20 ) Vera tells Rebecca off-camera that Norm's real first name is Hillary.

", which satirizes Norm's entrance When a bartender similar to Woody Boyd asks him how he is doing, Barney burps in response.

( TV Guide implied that Cheers, the bar, is Sam's true love, but Norm's comments are, otherwise, suggested as leaving viewers wonder what he meant.

* The Norm was drawn by Bill Holbrook ( On the Fastrack ): Wendy is at Norm's workplace.

According to The Hsu and Chan Story from Norm's old ( now-defunct ) site, which was written as if by the character Chan Tanaka, Chan is 6 ' 2 " and was born in October 1973 and Hsu was born in September 1974.

Norm's naturally wordy dialogue is slightly toned down for the EGM strip, a necessary compromise given the single page nature of the strip.

The station is well known for its Saturday Morning Flashback program, hosted by Wendy Rice ( Norm's wife ), and its Breakfast with the Beatles ( a show that originated at WCKG in 1985 ) program on Sunday mornings, hosted by Terri Hemmert.

Second City was also where he met his future wife, Bernadette Birkett, who played Cliff's Halloween date in the third season of Cheers and later in the series played the voice of Norm's never-seen wife, Vera.

A sympathetic friend made poultices of raw potato parings, which she said was the best and quickest way to draw out the `` heat ''.

Then he called in his friend Walton and turned over the problem to him, with instructions to work out what was best -- provided it didn't pile unnecessary burdens on the President.

I don't know if I can manage it tonight or tomorrow, but I'll try my best, my friend.

`` I do my best '', said Mr. Skyros earnestly, `` just for you, my friend.

`` Black is Gilborn's best friend ''.

Poirot was buried at Styles, and his funeral was arranged by his best friend Hastings and Hastings ' daughter Judith.

While Poirot's actual death and funeral occurred in " Curtain ", years after his retirement from active investigation, it was not the first time Hastings attended the funeral of his best friend.

The sixty-odd club members were the leading business tycoons of Western Pennsylvania and included among their number Frick's best friend, Andrew Mellon, his attorneys Philander Knox and James Hay Reed, as well as Frick's business partner, Carnegie.

Franz Kemmerich had enlisted in the army for World War I along with his best friend and classmate, Bäumer.

Andersson currently performs with his own band of 16 musicians, BAO ; " Benny Anderssons Orkester " (" Benny Andersson's orchestra "), utilising the vocal talents of fellow Swedes Helen Sjöholm ( from Kristina from Duvemåla ) and Tommy Körberg ( of Chess fame ), with lyrics to new material sometimes written by his song-writing partner and best friend of 40 years, Björn Ulvaeus.

According to a 2010 interview on Blog Talk Radios, Lessons Learned, Rick Tocquigny, when asked if Mumy was a Jonathan Harris fan, before Mumy's first meeting with Harris on Lost in Space, he said at age 5, he was too young to watch his mentor's show The Third Man which was probably late at night, but was old enough to watch The Bill Dana Show ( which also starred Harris's real-life best friend Don Adams ).

Ten the hard way is " a hard ten " or " a woman's best friend ".

He married again, to Johanna's best friend named Friederica Wilhelmine Waldeck but commonly known as Minna.

2010 saw the show's first lesbian storyline as Sophie Webster develops an attraction towards her best friend Sian Powers.

He was the best drummer I had ever played with and for many years, my closest friend.

In her sophomore year at Rutgers, Flockhart met aspiring actress Jane Krakowski, the best friend of her roommate.

* Dogwatching ( 1986 ) — an in-depth study of " man's best friend ".

Sadly, Minkowski — Hilbert's " best and truest friend " — died prematurely of a ruptured appendix in 1909.

He was content to live the quiet life of a country vicar in Dymchurch-under-the-Wall under the patronage of Sir Charles Cobtree, the father of his best friend Anthony Cobtree, until his beautiful young Spanish wife Imogene was seduced by and eloped with Nicholas Tappitt, whom Dr. Syn had considered a close friend.

They stated that while dogs are man's best friend, that if the dog from Duck Hunt is man's best friend, they'd hate to meet their enemy.

Not long after his mother's death, Danny and his best friend ran away to Florida.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

This is puzzling to an outsider conscious of the classic tradition of liberalism, because it is clear that these Democrats who are left-of-center are at opposite poles from the liberal Jefferson, who held that the best government was the least government.

Most of them sincerely believe that the Anglo-Saxon is the best race in the world and that it should remain pure.

The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.

And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

All we want from Dr. Huxley's statement is the feeling that this is an open world, in the view of the best scientific opinion, with practically no directional commitments as to what may happen next, and no important confinements with respect to what may be possible.

Here, on a desk, is a stack of pamphlets representing the efforts of some of the best men of the day to penetrate these questions.

She was exposing herself to temptation which it is best to avoid where it can consistently be done.

Hammarskjold's supposed desire to seek outside legal advice in the guise of Ernest Gross is illusion, at best.

Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

A truism is that the time to prepare for the worst is when times are best.

If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.

Of the three volumes, Blenheim is easily the best.

Next best to destroying an army is to deprive it of its freedom of action.

His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

We saw Giuseppe Berto at a party once in a while, tall, lean, nervous and handsome, and, in our opinion, the best novelist of them all except Pavese, and Pavese is dead.

Considering what is being done compared to what needs to be done, it behooves the hospital management to do some mighty careful planning toward making the best possible use of the increase granted.

Probably the best answer to this kind of entering wedge is congressional action requiring the Federal Communications Commission to ban such advertising through its licensing power.