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The concept for Cheers was the end result of a long consideration process. The original idea was a group of workers who interacted like a family, hoping to be similar to The Mary Tyler Moore Show. They considered making an American version of the British Fawlty Towers centered around a hotel or an inn. When the creators settled on a bar as their setting the show began to resemble the radio show Duffy's Tavern. They liked the idea of a tavern as it provided a continuous stream of new people arriving, giving them a constant supply of characters.[3]
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Aside from the storylines that spanned across the series, Cheers had several themes that followed no storylines but that recurred throughout the series. There was a heated rivalry between Cheers and the rival bar, Gary's Olde Towne Tavern. One episode of every season depicted some wager between Sam and Gary, which resulted in either a sports competition or a battle of wits that devolved into complex practical jokes. Aside from the very first and very last "Bar Wars" episodes, the Cheers gang almost always lost to Gary's superior ingenuity, though they managed to trick him into missing the annual Bloody Mary contest in one episode. Another episode had Sam collaborating with Gary's to get revenge on his co-workers on a prior practical joke. Sam ... had a long-running feud with the management of the upscale restaurant situated directly above the bar, Melville's.
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Cheers, NBC's longest running comedy series, aired from 1982-1993, at 9:00 P.M. Thursdays. The show narrowly escaped cancellation during its first season and took several years to develop a strong following. By 1985... Cheers was one of television's most popular shows. It garnered top ten ratings for seven of its eleven seasons and often earned the number one ranking in the weekly Nielsens. The final episode, aired 20 May 1993, received the second-best Nielsen ratings of all-time for an episodic program. Numerous awards complemented Cheers' commercial success and the show boosted the careers of all its stars.
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* Cheers to the first Youth Summit held Saturday in Binghamton. The sometimes-raucous event gave students in grades six through 12 some positive messages about self-esteem, respecting other, steering clear of gangs and staying off drugs. The speakers included a New York state trooper, a pastor, a hip hop DJ and an author who shared experiences of growing up amid the New York City crack epidemic in the late 1980s. Let's hope the kids walked away learning some lessons.
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Foot stomping cheers begin with lines spoken by the entire group {or everybody in the group except for a designated soloist}. The spoken words of the cheer then alternate between a designated soloist and the rest of the group. That rendition of the cheer "ends" with either the soloist's lines or with lines spoken by the soloist and the rest of the group. However, the cheer immediately starts again with the next designated soloist.
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