The essential episodes of Cheers
Watch these 25 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 gets a phone call from an old baseball friend, Rick Walker, who has been having a lousy season. He wonders what he should do, and Sam tries to help but can't think of what to do. He suggests getting a lucky charm, and Coach says that Sam used to have one. It turns out Sam still does - a bottle cap, which he says he found. Sam lends Rick the cap and Rick's performance improves greatly - whilst Sam goes through a period of very bad luck. When Sam find out that Rick lost the bottle cap, he gets depressed, as Diane finds out that it was in fact the cap off the last bottle of beer Sam ever drank.
- 04
Diane looks to her friends for comfort when her cat dies, but finds everyone too enthralled by a Celtics game to notice.
- 05
Sam enters Diane in the annual Miss Boston Barmaid contest.
- 06
Diane's fascination with Sam's older brother brings their long simmering relationship to a boil when the sibling asks Diane to go to Paris with him..
- 07
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.
- 08
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.
- 09
Norm is promoted to company hatchet man because of his unique style for letting people go.
- 10
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.
- 11
The gang gathers at Carla's house for a Thanksgiving dinner of frozen turkey and overdone peas.
- 12
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.
- 13
Diane badgers a noted British marriage counselor into seeing her and Sam for a pre-nuptial session, then refuses to heed his advice.
- 14
Sam and Woody are up for bids at a charity auction but less than thrilled at their new "owners."
- 15
Rebecca asks an eager Sam to escort her to a company function to correct a false impression held by her boss.
- 16
Christmas Eve is depressing at Cheers as Sam rushes to find Rebecca a gift, Rebecca makes everyone work late, and Norm's Santa Claus buddies gather to celebrate the end of the season.
- 17
Woody takes responsibility for a vase broken by Rebecca at a company party, and winds up pals with the big boss.
- 18
The gang decides to take up sky diving as a diversion.
- 19
Woody has trouble with the love scenes for his first starring role and the guys have a beard-growing competition.
- 20
Sam initiates a feud with the new owner of Melville's, the restaurant upstairs when snobbish restaurateur John Hill buys the building.
- 21
Carla faces the hardest task of her life when she tries to be nice to Cliff after learning he's one of the judges for the Miss Boston Barmaid competition.
- 22
Cliff's girlfriend and mother take an instant liking to each other while Rebecca tries to entice Sam into some frozen fertility underwear.
- 23
Frasier decides to conduct an experiment in voter psychology by getting Woody on the ballot for city council and is shocked by the results.
- 24
The gang finally finds out what has happened to Diane Chambers when they see her winning an award on television. Sam calls Diane to congratulate her and ends up inviting her back to Boston where they reunite one last time. Meanwhile, Don the plumber pops the question to Rebecca and gets an unexpected answer.
- 25
Sam and Diane are plagued with doubts about getting back together.
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