Cheers

1982 - 1993

Follows the day-to-day lives of the colorful staff and patrons of a bar in Boston run by former professional baseball player, Sam Malone.

Stars: Ted Danson, Rhea Perlman, George Wendt, John Ratzenberger, Kelsey Grammer, Woody Harrelson, Kirstie Alley, Shelley Long, Bebe Neuwirth, Nicholas Colasanto, Jay Thomas
Created by: Glen Charles, Les Charles, James Burrows
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Season 1

Sham Wedding: Episode 5, "Coach's Daughter" (1982). Coach's daughter, Lisa, introduces him to her fiance, Roy, who is an obnoxious, self-centered jerk. When Coach tells Lisa she can't marry Roy, she explains that she's marrying him because she wants to be married and have kids, and she doesn't think any other man will ever propose to her because she's not beautiful.
Pretend We're a Couple: Episode 6, "Any Friend of Diane's" (1982). Diane's old friend, Rebecca, is depressed after breaking up with her longtime boyfriend, and to cheer herself up, she wants to have a one-night stand with Sam, but Sam is turned off by her boring personality, which makes Rebecca even more depressed, so Diane explains why to Rebecca by claiming she and Sam are in a relationship, and Sam plays along.
Sugar Mama: Episode 13, "Now Pitching, Sam Malone" (1983). A beautiful woman agent offers to put Sam in commercials, but she also wants to put him in her bed, and Sam gets the feeling that if he stops sleeping with her, she'll stop getting him jobs. His fears are confirmed when he tells her he doesn't want to sleep with her anymore and she drops him as a client.
Little Black Book: Episode 15, "Father Knows Last" (1983). When Sam's date cancels because she "fell off her shoes," he cracks open his little black book to find the number of another woman, but to his surprise, he finds out she joined a convent.
You Are Not the Father: Episode 15, "Father Knows Last" (1983). Carla claims that Marshall, a nerdy cybernetics expert, is the father of her unborn child, and Marshall is ready to take responsibility, but Carla reveals to Diane that her ex-husband is really the father, and she seduced Marshall and lied to him so her child could have a better father.
Poker Night: Episode 19, "Pick a Con... Any Con" (1983). When a conman scams Coach out of $8,000, Sam works with Harry the Hat to try to scam the scammer with a high stakes poker game in the bar.
Sham Wedding: Episode 20, "Someone Single, Someone Blue" (1983). Diane's mother comes to Cheers and tells Diane that according to her father's will, Diane has to get married by tomorrow or her mother will lose her fortune, so Sam agrees to marry Diane for a few days and then get divorced, but they get into an argument at the altar over Sam staring at an attractive woman who walked in the bar, they both change their minds.
Weird Wedding Venue: Episode 20, "Someone Single, Someone Blue" (1983). Diane and Sam hold their quickie wedding so Diane's mom doesn't lose her money in the bar.

Season 2

I'm My Own Grandpa: Episode 2, "Little Sister, Don't Cha" (1983). Rhea Perlman plays both Carla and her sister, Annette.
Little Black Book: Episode 7, "Old Flames" (1983). Diane finds out that Sam still has his little black book even though he's in a relationship with her, and she wants him to get rid of it.
Coach from Hell: Episode 8, "Manager Coach" (1983). Coach volunteers to coach a little league baseball team, but his coaching technique is a way too aggressive for the little boys on the team.
Author, Author: Episode 9, "They Call Me Mayday" (1983). Dick Cavett offers to get Sam's autobiography published, so Sam asks Diane to help him write it. When Dick deems their first draft too tame, they get to work writing about Sam's steamy love affairs.
Dog from Hell: Episode 11, "Just Three Friends" (1983). Coach gets a vicious dog from a friend and puts it in Sam's office, hoping it'll be a good guard dog for the bar, but the dog is so vicious that it attacks anyone who comes near it, so no one can go into Sam's office.
Pretend We're a Couple: Episode 13, "Battle of the Exes" (1984). Sam pretends to be Carla's boyfriend to spite her ex-husband, Nick, at his wedding.
Bullies Don't Back Down: Episode 16, "Cliff's Rocky Moment" (1984). Another bar patron has been picking on Cliff, so Carla tells him to stand up to the guy and stare him down and he'll back off. So Cliff stands up to him, and the bully invites him outside, prompting Cliff to sneak out through the restaurant upstairs.
Centerfold: Episode 21, "I'll Be Seeing You: Part 1" (1984). Sam agrees to be interviewed for Boston Magazine's 20 Most Eligible Bachelors, despite being in a relationship with Diane.

Season 3

Waldorf Hysteria: Episode 1, "Rebound: Part 1" (1984). After Sam and Diane finally break up, Diane has a nervous breakdown and ends up in a mental institution.
Pretend We're a Couple: Episode 6, "Sam Turns the Other Cheek" (1984). The husband of a woman Sam dated pulls a gun on him. To try to empathize with the gunman, Diane pretends she and Sam are still in a relationship, so she knows how he feels.
Weird Wedding Venue: Episode 7, "Coach in Love: Part 2" (1984). Coach plans his wedding at Cheers, but his fiance doesn't show up.
Stay Away from My Son: Episode 8, "Diane Meets Mom" (1984). Frasier introduces Diane to his mother, and whenever he leaves them alone together, his mother threatens to kill Diane if she doesn't leave her son alone. Dian convinces herself that Mrs. Crane is just kidding around, so she jokingly threatens her back.
Ah, the Dribble Glass: Episode 10, "Diane's Allergy" (1984). It's Carla's birthday, and everyone's been giving her gag gifts. When Diane and Frasier give her their gift, a set of beautiful crystal glasses, she thinks she finally got something real, then she takes a sip from one of the glasses, and it turns out to be what Frasier calls "fine dribble crystal."
Near Death Experience: Episode 11, "Peterson Crusoe" (1984). Norm gets a physical for his new job, and he's terrified when his chest X-ray has a spot, but it turns out to be a flaw in the X-ray, and Norm, relieved that he's not dying, has a new lease on life. He quits his job and tells everyone he's sailing off to Bora Bora, but he secretly changes his mind and hides out in Sam's office instead.
Obsession: Episode 12, "A Ditch in Time" (1984). Sam dates a woman who was in the same mental health facility as Diane, and she becomes so obsessed with him that she refuses to leave him alone.
How the Mighty Have Fallen: Episode 13, "Whodunit?" (1985). Frasier is disappointed that his mentor, Dr. Bennett Ludlow, doesn't seem to want to spend time with him, and he's appalled when he learns it's because Dr. Ludlow has been dating Carla.
Back to School: Episode 16, "Teacher's Pet" (1985). Sam tells everyone that he never graduated from high school because he got an offer to play baseball during his senior year, so he has decided to go to night school to get his diploma. When Coach hears about it, he reveals that he never finished high school either, and he decides to join Sam in school.
Plastic Fantastic: Episode 16, "Teacher's Pet" (1985). Cliff feels self-conscious about his ears and announces that he's getting them pinned back, but when he finds out his insurance won't cover it, he changes his mind.
Hot for Teacher: Episode 16, "Teacher's Pet" (1985). Sam starts dating his geography teacher and is surprised to fine that instead of grading his papers, she just automatically gives him perfect scores.
Sham Wedding: Episode 18, "Bar Bet" (1985). Sam's old friend, Eddie, appears to collect on a bet he made with Sam that Sam would marry Jaqueline Bisset or give Eddie his bar, so Sam finds another woman named Jaqueline Bisset who agrees to marry him, but Eddie changes his mind, so Sam and Jaqueline don't have to go through with it.

Season 4

Little Black Book: Episode 4, "The Groom Wore Clearasil" (1985). Carla asks Sam to talk to her son, Anthony, who is preoccupied with his girlfriend. Same shows Anthony his little black book and calls a few women to show him what a great life he lives as a single man.
Lie for Me: Episode 5, "Diane Nightmare" (1985). In Diane's nightmare, Andy Andy gets out of jail and wants to introduce the gang at Cheers to his new fiance, but he has told her a few lies, and he wants everyone to go along with them.
Who Owes Who What?: Episode 6, "I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday" (1985). Diane borrows $500 from Sam to buy an Ernest Hemingway first edition with his autograph in it, and as Sam is waiting for Diane to pay him back, he notices she's been throwing money around more than usual.
Catfish: Episode 7, "2 Good 2 Be 4 Real" (1985). Carla places a personals ad and hasn't received a single reply, so Sam, Woody, Norm, and Cliff put their heads together to think of a way to cheer her up and they come up with the genius idea to write a fake reply from a fictional man, and they end up starting a long correspondence, but when a real guy answers Carla's ad, they have to find a way out of it.
Big Mouth: Episode 8, "Love Thy Neighbor" (1985). Sam is interviewed on the radio, and when asked about some of his girlfriends, he mentions a "little love bunny" who brought a book to a baseball game, and it's clear to everyone at Cheers that he's talking about Diane. Diane is so angry that she writes an apology for Sam to deliver on the air.
Not Since the Incident: Episode 9, "From Beer to Eternity" (1985). The gang at Cheers challenge Gary's Olde Town Tavern to a bowling competition, and it's looking dire. Carla learns that Woody used to be a great bowler, but he hasn't bowled since his ball struck a pit that hit an innocent bystander.
Long Lost Parent: Episode 10, "The Bar Stoolie" (1985). Cliff's father, who abandoned him and his mother when Cliff was a child, shows up at Cheers, and the two seem to be repairing their fractured relationship until Cliff's dad reveals that he's on the run from the law for real estate fraud.
Bad Bet: Episode 12, "Fools and Their Money" (1985). After hearing the gang talk about betting on football, Woody decides he wants to place a bet with a real bookie. He gives Sam his life savings, $1,000, to place a parlay bet, but Sam, thinking he was protecting Woody, didn't place the bet, so when Woody thinks he won $10,000, Sam struggles to figure out what to tell him.
Auction Mishap: Episode 13, "Take My Shirt... Please?" (1986). Sam donates his old Red Sox jersey to a public television auction, but nobody bids on it, so Diane buys it for $100, and when she tells Sam, he re-donates it, and when nobody bids on it again, he buys it himself for $200, then changes his mind and returns it. At the third auction, a man buys it for $300, and he confesses to Sam that he only bought it because he was tired of seeing it come back on the show.
The Old Bucket of Water on the Door Gag: Episode 14, "Suspicion" (1986). When Diane uses the gang at Cheers as subjects in a psychology experiment for one of her classes, they get back at her with a bucket of water over the door to Sam's office.
Painting Party: Episode 15, "The Triangle" (1986). Cliff tricks Norm into helping him paint his house under the guise of a "party" to which he claims he's invited all the guys, but Norm is the only one who shows up.
Weird Wedding Venue: Episode 17, "Second Time Around" (1986). Frasier goes off his rocker and decides to marry a woman he just met named Candi, and they hold the wedding at Cheers, but fortunately they change their minds.
Dance Contest: Episode 20, "Save the Last Dance for Me" (1986). The TV show, "Boston Boppers," is having a reunion with a dance contest, and Carla and Nick were two of their best dancers. Unfortunately, they can't get along long enough to enter the contest together, so Carla asks Sam to dance with her, and he turns out to be very good. Not to be outdone, Nick insists that Carla dance with him once; she does, and they win the contest.
Mounting the Hustings: Episode 24, "Strange Bedfellows: Part 1" (1986). When a smooth-talking city councilwoman comes to the bar, Diane decides to campaign for her opponent, and Frasier volunteers to help because he's still carrying a torch for Diane.
Strange Bedfellows: Episode 26, "Strange Bedfellows: Part 3" (1986). Sam dates a city councilwoman, and his refusal to make a commitment reflects poorly on her career, so she breaks up with him.

Season 5

Boo! Haunted House: Episode 5, "House of Horrors with Formal Dining and Used Brick" (1986). Carla bought the perfect house for a steal. There's only one problem: it was built on top of an old prison graveyard, and Carla suspects it's haunted, so she decides that if she can spend the one night there, it's OK to move in.
Dance Lessons: Episode 5, "House of Horrors with Formal Dining and Used Brick" (1986). Cliff tells Carla that he always wanted to join in at school dances, but he never had anyone to practice with, so Carla teaches him how to dance.
The Old Pie in the Face Gag: Episode 9, "Thanksgiving Orphans" (1986). A potluck Thanksgiving dinner devolves into a food fight, and when Norm's wife, Vera, shows up at the door, she accidentally steps into the crossfire, and Diane throws a pie in her face.
Little Black Book: Episode 11, "The Book of Samuel" (1986). While Sam is on vacation, Woody's old girlfriend from Indiana stops by with her new fiance, and Woody doesn't want her to know that he's unattached, so Diane tells them that Woody has a girlfriend, and of course they want to meet her. To find someone to play his girlfriend, Woody looks through Sam's little black book and calls the number for "Desiree," who turns out to be Sam's housekeeper.
See You in Court: Episode 13, "Chambers vs. Malone" (1987). Diane presses charges against Sam when she turns down his third proposal and he chases her around the city, but the judge dismisses the case when Sam proposes again in court.
Hyp-NO-sis: Episode 15, "Spellbound" (1987). Carla's ex-husband, Nick, thinks Sam made a move on his new wife, Loretta, so to get back at him, he tries to steal Diane from Sam by hypnotizing her to follow him "to the ends of the earth" and "bring a six pack." The trick has no effect on Diane, but as Nick leaves, Woody follows him carrying a six pack.
Bachelor Party Gone Wrong: Episode 18, "One Last Fling" (1987). The guys at Cheers throw a bachelor party for Sam, and as a surprise, they ask Diane to jump out of a giant cake instead of a stripper; this proves to be a mistake.
Come Home, Pumpkin: Episode 24, "Cheers: The Motion Picture" (1985). Woody's parents think Boston is too dangerous and tell him he has to come home to Indiana.
When I'm 64: Episode 26, "I Do, Adieu" (1987). As Sam ponders whether he wants to marry Diane, he has a fantasy about the two of them as an old married couple many years in the future.
Weird Wedding Venue: Episode 26, "I Do, Adieu" (1987). Sam and Diane decide to hold their wedding in the bar, but they don't go through with it.

Season 6

What a Dummy: Episode 2, "'I' on Sports" (1987). Sam gets a job hosting a sports segment on a local news channel, but his commentary is a bit bland, so he tries to spice it up, first by rapping, then by introducing a ventriloquist dummy into the act.
Weird Wedding Venue: Episodes 3-4, "Little Carla, Happy at Last" (1987). Carla and Eddie plan to get married at Cheers (apparently they didn't see any of the previous doomed weddings that were planned there), but their wedding day is plagued with problems, and the end up squeezing into a crowded church and getting married there.
I Won't Go: Episode 7, "The Last Angry Mailman" (1987). Cliff's mom sells her house to a developer who wants to demolish it, and she plans to move to Florida, but Cliff doesn't want her to move away, so he handcuffs himself to a column in the house to save it from being destroyed.
Pre-nup: Episode 8, "Bidding on the Boys" (1987). Lilith is outraged when Frasier asks her to sign a pre-nup, so she gets back at him by winning Sam in the bachelor auction.
Bachelor Auction: Episode 8, "Bidding on the Boys" (1987). Rebecca hosts a bachelor auction at Cheers to raise money for charity, and Sam insists on auctioning himself off, convinced he'll bring in the most money. To everyone's surprise, Lilith, angry at Frasier for asking her to sign a pre-nup, wins a date with Sam for her bid of $2,000.
Auction Mishap: Episode 8, "Bidding on the Boys" (1987). At Rebecca's charity bachelor auction, Carla bids on Sam to help drive up the price, and Rebecca decides to join in, but she gets a little carried away and almost ends up forking over a pretty penny for a date with Sam.
Hiccups: Episode 10, "A Kiss is Still a Kiss" (1987). Frasier has the hiccups, and everyone at the bar has a suggestion for how to get rid of them.
Swinging Singles: Episode 11, "My Fair Clavin" (1987). When Cliff's mom moves to Florida, he buys a condo in a swinging singles building, where the party never stops everywhere but inside Cliff's condo.
Unnecessary Makeover: Episode 11, "My Fair Clavin" (1987). Cliff starts dating a woman named Sally from his building, but he's reluctant to be seen with her in public because of her plain looks, so he uses some fashion magazines to give Sally a makeover (which mostly just involves taking off her glasses and putting on a dress), but Sally's not happy with Cliff's attitude toward her new look.
Monkeying Around: Episode 13, "Woody for Hire Meets Norman of the Apes" (1988). Cliff is surprised when Norm tells him he expects to be paid for painting Cliff's condo because Cliff thinks painting is so easy a monkey could do it. To prove his point, he introduces the guys to an orangutan in overalls. Later, Norm brings that same orangutan to Cheers dressed as a mailman.
Bachelor Party Gone Wrong: Episode 17, "To All the Girls I've Loved Before" (1988). Sam throws Frasier a bachelor party complete with a stripper who turns out to be one of Frasier's patients.
Sneaking Around: Episode 18, "Let Sleeping Drakes Lie" (1988). Norm is painting Mr. Drake's house while he's in Europe, and he invites Rebecca to come with him. While Rebecca is checking out Mr. Drake's bedroom, he comes home unexpectedly, and Rebecca hides in his closet while Mr. Drake takes a nap and Norm tries to come up with a way to sneak her out.
Fear of Flying: Episode 19, "Airport V" (1988). Carla's husband, Eddie, who was recently cut from the Bruins, gets a job with a kids ice show and has to go on the road. He keeps inviting Carla to come join him, but she refuses without telling him why. When pressed, she confesses to the gang at Cheers that it's because she's afraid to fly.
Painful Promotion: Episode 20, "The Sam in the Grey Flannel Suit" (1988). Mr. Drake unexpectedly promotes Sam to Eastern Regional Sales Manager and gives him an office in the corporate building, but he doesn't seem to have anything to do except play on the company softball team. Eventually, Rebecca tells him that he was hired as a ringer to help the team win.
Ah, the Dribble Glass: Episode 23, "Bar Wars" (1988). Sam and Carla prank Gary's Olde Towne Tavern by pretending to bury the hatchet with a toast. When the bar staff and patrons raise their glasses, they realize they were all given dribble glasses.
Prank War: Episode 23, "Bar Wars" (1988). When Sam calls Gary of Gary's Olde Towne Tavern to gloat over the one-year anniversary of the Cheers bowling win, their trophy mysteriously disappears, and Sam finds it at Gary's in pieces, which triggers an escalating prank war between the two bars.
Hyp-NO-sis: Episode 24, "The Big Kiss-Off" (1988). Sam and Woody have a bet to see if one of them can get Rebecca to kiss him before midnight, so Woody tries to hypnotize her, but instead, he hypnotizes himself.

Season 7

You Are Not the Father: Episode 2, "Swear to God" (1988). An old girlfriend named Denise calls Sam and tells him he might be the father of her baby, and Sam is so worried he swears to God that if he wasn't the father, he would never have sex again. Moments later, Denise calls and tells Sam that a blood test proved another man was the father.
Pretend We're a Couple: Episode 3, "Executive Sweet" (1988). The new, very young, president of the Lillian Corporation asks Rebecca out, and she turns him down, but she doesn't want to upset him, so she tells him it's because she's dating Sam, and she agrees to go on a date with Sam to convince the new boss.
Pretend We're a Couple: Episode 6, "Norm, is That You?" (1988). When Frasier and Lilith discover Norm's interior decorating skills, they introduce him to another couple who want him to decorate their home, but they don't want to hire a straight decorator, so he pretends to be gay, and when they want to introduce him to their gay friend, he tells them he's in a relationship with Sam. Sam plays along at first, but he can't keep it up and tells them he "loves babes."
Botched Suggestion Box: Episode 8, "Jumping Jerks" (1988). Rebecca sets up a suggestion box in the bar, and Sam uses it to "suggest" that she sleep with him.
Jump: Episode 8, "Jumping Jerks" (1988). Norm, Cliff, Woody, and Sam decide to go skydiving to prove they're "real men," but they all chicken out and just tell the gang at Cheers that they did it. Their lie backfires when Rebecca asks them to skydive with a big Cheers banner to advertise the bar. They're about to chicken out again when Woody declares that he can't live a lie anymore and jumps off the plane, and one-by-one, the others all follow him.
Replacement Pet: Episode 11, "Adventures in Housesitting" (1989). Mr. Sheridan, one of the vice presidents of the Lilian Corporation, asks Rebecca to take care of his dog Buster while he's away. Rebecca tells Sam that she's nervous staying in Mr. Sheridan's isolated mansion, so Sam shows up to keep her company and accidentally lets Buster out. The whole Cheers gang searches for Buster but can't find him, and Mr. Sheridan is on his way home, so Woody borrows a dog named Satan that looks a lot like Buster to buy them time.
Vacation All I Never Wanted: Episode 16, "The Cranemakers" (1989). Rebecca finds out that Woody has never taken a vacation, so she tells him he has to take one. Woody doesn't want to take a vacation because he's happy going to work, but Rebecca plans a trip to Italy for him and makes him go.
Cherish the Cabin: Episode 16, "The Cranemakers" (1989). Thrilled with their ability to create life (i.e. have a baby), the Cranes decide to go off the grid and live off the fat of land. Sam thinks they're making a mistake and suggests they try staying in a cabin a friend of his owns for a week first; they don't last a day.
Seen the Doctor: Episode 18, "What's Up, Doc?" (1989). A beautiful psychiatrist friend of Frasier and Lilith visits the bar, and Sam is immediately smitten with her, but she won't give him the time of day, so he makes an appointment with her and pretends he's impotent.

Season 8

Insomnia: Episode 1, "The Improbable Dream: Part 1" (1989). Rebecca can't sleep because she keeps having sex dreams about Sam.
Plastic Fantastic: Episode 4, "How to Marry a Mailman" (1989). Rebecca gets into a fender bender with a plastic surgeon, who offers her a free procedure of her choice if she doesn't report the accident to his insurance company, but she can't decide what she wants done. After her appointment, she reveals that she decided to have a tattoo removed instead.
Historical Whorehouse: Episode 6, "The Stork Brings a Crane" (1989). When Rebecca discovers that Cheers was built 100 years ago, she decides to hold a centennial celebration, and she sends Woody to the library to research the history of the building. To Rebecca's surprise, Woody discovers that it was originally a whorehouse called Mom's.
Stalker: Episode 11, "Feeble Attraction" (1989). Norm has to lay off his secretary, and to make up for it, he writes her a letter of recommendation, but she misinterprets his gesture and becomes obsessed with him.
How the Mighty Have Fallen: Episode 13, "Sammy and the Professor" (1990). Rebecca's favorite college professor comes to visit, and Sam wants to consult her for advice on how he can buy back Cheers, but they end up sleeping together, making Rebecca lose respect for former mentor.
Tax Audit: Episode 13, "Sammy and the Professor" (1990). Carla is getting audited by the IRS, and Norm agrees to help her scam the system.
Little Black Book: Episode 14, "What is... Cliff Clavin?" (1990). Sam's little black book is missing, and women keep calling him complaining that he stood them up.
Game Show: Episode 14, "What is... Cliff Clavin?" (1990). Cliff is a contestant on Jeopardy, and he starts out with a big lead, but he blows all his money with an incorrect answer to the Double Jeopardy question.
SÃ©ance: Episode 23, "The Ghost and Mrs. LeBec" (1990). Carla keeps seeing her late husband, Eddie, everywhere, and she thinks he's trying to tell her something, so she calls her psychic to Cheers to hold a sÃ©ance and ask Eddie what his message is.

Season 9

Magic Fingers: Episode 12, "Woody Interruptus" (1990). Woody and Kelly decide to make love together for the first time, so they get a motel room complete with a bed that offers massages for 25 cents.
Walt Disney: Episode 12, "Woody Interruptus" (1990). Cliff tells the gang at Cheers that he plans to have his head frozen when he dies. When the gang expresses cynicism, he and Frasier play a prank on them by bringing in a "scientist" who claims he's carrying a frozen head in a box.
Disarmed: Episode 14, "Achilles Hill" (1991). When Woody finds a foosball table in the back room, Carla warns him that it's cursed. Frasier, in an attempt to prove there's no such thing as a curse, puts his hand inside the goal and pretends it's eating him. When he tries to take his hand out, he realizes it's stuck.
Homemade Wedding Vows: Episode 16, "Wedding Bell Blues" (1991). At Rebecca and Robin's ill-fated wedding, Robin tells the Justice of the Peace that they composed their own vows, and proceeds to recite one of Shakespeare's sonnets word-for-word, then Rebecca says, "I only loved you for your money" and runs away.
Pretend We're a Couple: Episode 17, "I'm Getting My Act Together and Sticking It in Your Face" (1991). When Sam thinks Rebecca wants to marry him, he decides to execute "plan Z," which involves his friend Leon coming into the bar and pretending that he and Sam are a couple. Rebecca doesn't believe him, so she tells Sam to kiss Leon or admit that he's a coward. Sam kisses Leon, and Leon subsequently punches him in the face.
Boudoir Photo Shoot: Episode 20, "It's a Wonderful Wife" (1991). For Frasier's birthday, Lilith wants to do something exciting, so she asks Henri to take some sexy photos of her.
Cooking Catastrophe: Episode 21, "Cheers Has Chili" (1991). In an effort to steal the back room from Sam, Rebecca decides to create a "tea room" and serve tea and pastries, but no one shows up, so when she hears how much everyone loves Woody's famous chili, she steals his pressure cooker and sets it up in her tea room. Sam decides to concede and buy a bowl of Chili, but when he tries to heat up the pressure cooker, it explodes, splattering the room with chili.
Dog Gone Blues: Episode 23, "Pitch It Again, Sam" (1991). A dalmatian puppy follows Cliff home, so he brings it to Cheers, where Woody becomes very attached to "Spotty." When a group of firemen come into the bar complaining that they lost their dog, Woody reluctantly hands over his beloved Spotty, but the firemen see how upset Woody is and give him the dog back.
And Baby Makes Two: Episode 26, "Uncle Sam Wants You" (1991). After spending a lot of time with Freddy Crane, Sam decides he wants to be a father, but he has to convince a woman to have the baby for him.

Season 10

Limp Willy: Episode 1, "Baby Balk" (1991). Sam and Rebecca are trying to have a baby together, and Sam is surprised to find that he can't perform. Frasier explains that it's due to the pressure of having sex for the sole purpose of having a baby instead of just having it for fun like he usually does.
Suddenly Psychic: Episode 3, "Madame LaCarla" (1991). Carla's psychic is retiring, and she has decided to make Carla her successor. Carla starts to think she can read the minds of the people in the bar, but her former psychic reveals to her that it's all BS.
Green Card: Episode 10, "A Fine French Whine" (1991). Henri announces he's being deported back to France, but he wants to stay in the US, so he manipulates Kelly into agreeing to marry him. Kelly claims it means nothing and is just so he can stay in the country, but Henri has other ideas. Woody rushes out to stop the wedding and discovers that Henri made the whole thing up just to get Kelly to marry him.
Moonlighting: Episode 14, "No Rest for Woody" (1991). To afford an engagement ring for Kelly, Woody gets a night job at a graveyard, and the lack of sleep makes him pass out at Cheers and even hallucinate.
Going My Way: Episode 15, "My Son, the Father" (1992). Carla's son, Gino, announces that he wants to become a priest, and Carla believes this means she can be as nasty as she wants and still go to heaven, but Gino comes back later and announces he now wants to be a model.
No Joke: Episode 15, "My Son, the Father" (1992). Cliff has been writing jokes for the Post Office newsletter, and the only one who finds them funny is Lilith. Nevertheless, Cliff decides he wants to become a standup comedian and performs at an open mic night at a local night club.
The Shrine: Episode 17, "A Diminished Rebecca with a Suspended Cliff" (1992). Woody's cousin, Russel, visits and falls for Rebecca so hard he won't leave her alone. When she visits his hotel room to tell him she's not interested, she discovers he has painted a half-naked portrait of her above his bed.
Poker Night: Episode 18, "License to Hill" (1992). The guys hold a poker game in the back room, leaving Rebecca to run the bar by herself, and it goes about as well as expected. Meanwhile, Woody hustles the other poker players with his naive farmboy routine, and Cliff thinks he's getting drunk on non-alcoholic beer.
Man-child Metamorphosis: Episode 19, "Rich Man, Wood Man" (1992). Woody takes a trip to England with Kelly and comes back acting like a total douche to everyone. It takes Sam and Norm both slapping him around to realize what a jerk he's being and make him return to normal.
The Old Bucket of Water on the Door Gag: Episode 19, "Rich Man, Wood Man" (1992). Carla nails Rebecca with a bucket of water over the door of her office by convincing her she wants to hang out with her so that she'll attempt to retrieve her coat.
Will You Marry Me Again?: Episode 20, "Smotherly Love" (1992). Lilith's mother is upset about not having been at her and Frasier's wedding, so she insists that they renew their vows for their fifth anniversary.
Replacement Pet: Episode 21, "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" (1992). While Lilith is away visiting family, she leaves Frasier in charge of one of her laboratory rats, Whiskers. Frasier, of course, takes Whiskers to Cheers, and he gets out of his cage and runs away, so Frasier buys a rat at the pet store and attempts to pass it off as Whiskers.
The Hollywood Story: Episode 24, "Heeeeeere's... Cliffy!" (1992). Cliff submits a joke to The Tonight Show

and receives a rejection letter, but Norm alters the letter to make it look like the joke was accepted, and Cliff is so excited that he buys tickets for him, his mother, and Norm to fly to Hollywood to watch the show.
Some Days You Just Can't Get Rid of a Body: Episode 25, "An Old-fashioned Wedding" (1992). At Woody and Kelly's wedding, Kelly's uncle, who's supposed to officiate, suddenly dies. The gang doesn't want to ruin Woody's big day, so they have to find somewhere to hide the body, which proves to be more difficult than they thought.

Season 11

You are Not the Father: Episode 5, "Do Not Forsake Me, O' My Postman" (1992). Cliff's estranged girlfriend, Maggie, comes back from Canada pregnant and claims Cliff's the father, but Cliff confesses to Sam that he and Maggie never had sex, so the baby can't be his.

Jumper: Episode 7, "The Girl in the Plastic Bubble" (1992). Lilith tells Frasier she's leaving him for her research partner; Frasier responds by climbing out on a ledge and threatening to jump.

Come Home, Pumpkin: Episode 10, "Daddy's Middle-aged Little Girl" (1992). Rebecca's father visits from San Diego, assesses what a mess her life is, and tells her she has to come home.

ToupÃ©e or Not ToupÃ©e: Episode 12, "Sunday Dinner" (1993). Frasier is dating his young secretary, and he tries out a toupÃ©e to make himself look younger.

Tax Audit: Episode 13, "Norm's Big Audit" (1993). Former accountant, Norm, is getting audited, and he's rushing to dummy up fake receipts to fool the IRS. When Carla hears that his auditor is a woman, she urges Norm to flirt with her show she'll go easy on him.

Treasure Hunt: Episode 14, "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Bar" (1993). Robin returns and casually mentions that he used to hide his money in pairs, and since he only took one money belt from Cheers, Sam, Carla, Norm, Cliff, and Frasier assume there must be another one hidden somewhere, and they start ripping apart the bar to find it.

Prank War: Episode 19, "Bar Wars VII: Naked Prey" (1993). It's St. Patrick's Day, and as usual, Cheers and Gary's are in competition to sell the most beer, and it leads to the prank war to end all prank wars.

Election: Episode 21, "Woody Gets an Election" (1993). To make a point about how ignorant the general public is about politics, Frasier bets Sam that he can put Woody on the ballot and win 10% of the vote. Woody is against, but Kelly insists, so he agrees.

Pretend We're a Couple: Episode 25, "One for the Road" (1993). When Diane calls the bar and tells Sam she has a husband and children, he lies and says he does too, so when Diane shows up at Cheers with her alleged husband, Sam asks Rebecca to pretend to be his wife. Rebecca, who has nothing to lose, agrees. Eventually Sam discovers that Diane was lying about having a husband and children too.

Character Tropes

Fish Out of Water: Diane Chambers - Played by Shelley Long.

Mama's Boy: Cliff Clavin - Played by John Ratzenberger.

Mild Mannered Man-child: Woody Boyd - Played by Woody Harrelson.

Idiot Savant: Woody Boyd - Played by Woody Harrelson.

Unseen Character: Vera Peterson - Sometimes played by Bernadette Birkett.

Perennial Prankster: Gary - Played by Joel Polis & Robert Desiderio.

Smother: Ethel Clavin - Played by Frances Sternhagen.

Gold Digger: Rebecca Howe - Played by Kirstie Alley.

Whiz Kid: Ludlow - Played by Jarrett Lennon.

The Gaucho: Henri - Played by Anthony Cistaro.

The Magnificent Bickersons: Carla Tortelli & John Allen Hill - Played by Rhea Perlman & Keene Curtis.

Unseen Character: Derek Malone - Played by George Ball in season 1, episode 21, Show Down: Part 1" (1983).

Golden Boy: Derek Malone - Played by George Ball in season 1, episode 21, Show Down: Part 1" (1983).

Mommie Dearest: Betty Sternin - Played by Marilyn Cooper in season 10, episode 20, "Smotherly Love" (1992).