The essential episodes of Cheers
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Cheers — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Stuffy & sophisticated Diane Chambers is dumped by her fiance in a blue collar Boston bar where she meets baseball star-turned-bar owner Sam Malone.
- 02
Diane becomes upset when Sam hits on an old friend of hers who's on the rebound from an unhappy love affair.
- 03
Sam enters Diane in the annual Miss Boston Barmaid contest.
- 04
An old friend of Coach has died and Coach decides to hold a memorial to him in the bar, inviting all their old friends. But then Coach discovers his late friend made a pass at his late wife.
- 05
Cliff meets a woman during a costume party at Cheers that he likes very much, but he's afraid to see her again as himself.
- 06
After the sad passing away of Coach, Sam hires a new bartender in Woody Boyd, Coach's pen pal who has moved to Boston. Frasier arrives back from Europe with the news that Diane left him at the altar for six months of decadent living across Europe and is now seeking renewal in a Boston monastery.
- 07
Frasier and Lilith invite Sam and Diane over for dinner to celebrate their first week of cohabitation. But things start going wrong when Lilith finds out Frasier and Diane were engaged, and she locks herself in the bathroom. Then Sam and Diane have an argument as well. Meanwhile Cliff agrees to babysit Carla's kids.
- 08
Diane badgers a noted British marriage counselor into seeing her and Sam for a pre-nuptial session, then refuses to heed his advice.
- 09
Sam and Woody are up for bids at a charity auction but less than thrilled at their new "owners."
- 10
The gang decides to take up sky diving as a diversion.
- 11
Woody has trouble with the love scenes for his first starring role and the guys have a beard-growing competition.
- 12
Sam initiates a feud with the new owner of Melville's, the restaurant upstairs when snobbish restaurateur John Hill buys the building.
- 13
Cliff's girlfriend and mother take an instant liking to each other while Rebecca tries to entice Sam into some frozen fertility underwear.
- 14
Frasier decides to conduct an experiment in voter psychology by getting Woody on the ballot for city council and is shocked by the results.
- 15
Sam and Diane are plagued with doubts about getting back together.
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