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<blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 424459" data-attributes="member: 7">CHEERS is a show that I used to try and make myself really like, and I honestly don&#039;t know why. Overall, I find the show only moderately funny, but there are some episodes (i.e. &quot;Cliffie&#039;s Big Score&quot; and &quot;Thanksgiving Orphans&quot;) that are an absolute scream. They never fail to make me laugh. I really like Coach on the show. He&#039;s poignant and funny, and just the right mix of goofiness to boot. When Woody came aboard, I liked him as well, but I still miss Coach. They sometimes leaned heavy into the country bumpkin dumbness of Woody a wee too much. I&#039;ll second what others have said about Carla: I&#039;m not the biggest fan at all. She isn&#039;t funny to me, only mean. There&#039;s a fine line between sarcasm and rudeness, and Carla falls consistently in the latter. I don&#039;t like Rhea Pearlman as an actress anyway. I can&#039;t really decide whether I like the show better with Shelley Long or Kirstie Alley. It was probably better written, or at least better constructed, when Shelley was the female lead, but I feel like there was more air in the show once Kirstie came aboard, especially when they stopped pushing her and Sam as the new power-couple. There was a time I owned the complete series of CHEERS on DVD (Amazon had it marked way down at one time), but I got rid of it some two years ago. I might skim an episode if I see it streaming anywhere, but it&#039;s not high on my to-do list.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ClassyCo, post: 424459, member: 7"] CHEERS is a show that I used to try and make myself really like, and I honestly don't know why. Overall, I find the show only moderately funny, but there are some episodes (i.e. "Cliffie's Big Score" and "Thanksgiving Orphans") that are an absolute scream. They never fail to make me laugh. I really like Coach on the show. He's poignant and funny, and just the right mix of goofiness to boot. When Woody came aboard, I liked him as well, but I still miss Coach. They sometimes leaned heavy into the country bumpkin dumbness of Woody a wee too much. I'll second what others have said about Carla: I'm not the biggest fan at all. She isn't funny to me, only mean. There's a fine line between sarcasm and rudeness, and Carla falls consistently in the latter. I don't like Rhea Pearlman as an actress anyway. I can't really decide whether I like the show better with Shelley Long or Kirstie Alley. It was probably better written, or at least better constructed, when Shelley was the female lead, but I feel like there was more air in the show once Kirstie came aboard, especially when they stopped pushing her and Sam as the new power-couple. There was a time I owned the complete series of CHEERS on DVD (Amazon had it marked way down at one time), but I got rid of it some two years ago. I might skim an episode if I see it streaming anywhere, but it's not high on my to-do list. [/QUOTE]

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