History YMMV / CHEERS

* AcceptableProfessionalTargets: Mailmen, usually represented in the form of Clifford C. Clavin, delusional windbag and nutjob, who is actually pretty terrible at his job, and who even other mailmen think is an obnoxious weirdo, but there are occasional potshots at mailmen and the US post in general implying Cliff's not too different from the others.
-->'''Cliff:''' ''(as he's being frisked for threatening Boston's mayor)'' I-I'm not a fanatic, I'm a member of the US Postal Service!\\
'''Mayor:''' Yeah, he's the one alright.

-->'''Security guard:''' ''(having arrested Cliff and checked him in a database, with a resigned tone)'' And get this: He's a postal worker.

* {{Fanon}}: Quite a few LGBT Cheers fans like to headcanon Norm, at least in the later seasons, as a romantic asexual, mostly due to him not wanting to have sex but still loving his wife dearly. Even early on when there was a subplot about Vera wanting a child, Norm indicated that he didn't enjoy trying to get her pregnant and only did his part to make her happy.

* {{Fanon}}: Quite a few LGBT Cheers fans like to headcanon Norm, at least in the later seasons, as a romantic asexual, mostly due to him not wanting to have sex but still loving his wife dearly.

* {{Fanon}}: Quite a few LGBT Cheers fans like to headcanon Norm, at least in the later seasons, as a romantic asexual, mostly due to him now wanting to have sex but still loving his wife dearly.

* Fanon: Quite a few LGBT Cheers fans like to headcanon Norm, at least in the later seasons, as a romantic asexual, mostly due to him now wanting to have sex but still loving his wife dearly.

** Sam and Diane hitting each other in a scene that would be seen as domestic assault today? Not funny on paper. Sam and Diane hitting each other in a perfectly timed that it basically goes into slapstick territory and then pinching each other's noses? Absolute comedy gold.

* SeasonalRot: At the very least Season 11, the show's final year, is widely seen as sub-par, with the writers often falling back on storylines that had been done earlier in the show, just a lot more mean-spirited. Some fans feel that the rot started even earlier, around Season 8, with some even going so far as to consider the entire "Rebecca era" starting in Season 6 as one long DorkAge for the show.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: In a season 5 episode, Frasier cheerfully mentions to Lilith that his mother's been dead for years. However, Frasier's mother Hester had been seen alive and well only two seasons previously, and showed no signs of being ill. The writers covered up this ContinuitySnarl by subsequently establishing that Hester had died suddenly from an aggressive form of cancer, and that Frasier had never properly dealt with her death, something which would later become an important part of his (and his father's and brother's) character in ''Series/{{Frasier}}''.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: In Australia, ''Cheers'' has an extra piece of notoriety due to its role in the infamous cancellation of the Nine Network program ''Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos'' during its first and only broadcast in September 1992.[[note]]A spin off of ''Australia's Funniest Home Video Show'' that was dedicated to airing all of the submissions that were previously cut because they were deemed inappropriate for the show's family-friendly tone. Kerry Packer, the network's owner, caught a glimpse of the program while having dinner with friends and was so offended by its content that he phoned the network's flagship station in Perth and angrily screamed at the studio operator, "Get that shit off the air!" Within minutes, the series was pulled.[[/note]]. Viewers in memorably saw the network [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkoP4sJDSnI&ab_channel=KylieandKieran abruptly cut to the beginning of a Cheers rerun halfway into the broadcast]], which filled up the remaining airtime. [[note]]In Perth, the network simply aired two reruns of ''Cheers'' in place of the program, which hadn't yet begun airing due to time differences.[[/note]] When program was reaired in its entirety in 2008, it abruptly cut away to the opening of ''Cheers'' midway through in a recreation of the incident before resuming the second half of the program that didn't get aired.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: In Australia, ''Cheers'' has an extra piece of notoriety due to its role in the infamous cancellation of the Nine Network program ''Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos'' during its first and only broadcast in September 1992.[[note]]A spin off of ''Australia's Funniest Home Video Show'' that was dedicated to airing all of the submissions that were previously cut because they were deemed inappropriate for the show's family-friendly tone. Kerry Packer, the network's owner, caught a glimpse of the program while having dinner with friends and was so offended by its content that he phoned the network's flagship station in Perth and angrily screamed at the studio operator, "Get that shit off the air!" Within minutes, the series was pulled.[[/note]]. Viewers in Eastern Australia memorably saw the network [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkoP4sJDSnI&ab_channel=KylieandKieran abruptly cut to the beginning of a Cheers rerun halfway into the broadcast]], which filled up the remaining airtime. The Nine Network affiliates in Western Australia simply aired two reruns of ''Cheers'' in place of the program, which hadn't yet begun airing due to time differences. When program was reaired in its entirety in 2008, it abruptly cut away to the opening of ''Cheers'' midway through in a recreation of the incident before resuming the second half of the program that didn't get aired.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: In Australia, ''Cheers'' has an extra piece of notoriety due to its role in the infamous cancellation of the Nine Network program ''Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos'' during its first and only broadcast in September 1992.[[note]]A spin off of ''Australia's Funniest Home Video Show'' that was dedicated to airing all of the submissions that were previously cut because they were deemed inappropriate for the show's family-friendly tone. Kerry Packer, the network's owner, caught a glimpse of the program while having dinner with friends and was so offended by its content that he phoned the network's flagship station in Perth and angrily screamed at the studio operator, "Get that shit off the air!" Within minutes, the series was pulled.[[/note]]. Viewers in Eastern Australia memorably saw the network [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkoP4sJDSnI&ab_channel=KylieandKieran abruptly cut to the beginning of a ''Cheers'' rerun halfway into the broadcast]], which filled up the remaining airtime. The Nine Network affiliates in Western Australia simply aired two reruns of ''Cheers'' in place of the program, which hadn't yet begun airing due to time differences. When program was reaired in its entirety in 2008, it abruptly cut away to the opening of ''Cheers'' midway through in a recreation of the incident before resuming the second half of the program that didn't get aired.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: In Australia, ''Cheers'' has an extra piece of notoriety due to its role in the infamous cancellation of the Nine Network program ''Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos'' during its first and only broadcast in September 1992.[[note]]A spin off of ''Australia's Funniest Home Video Show'' that was dedicated to airing all of the submissions that were previously cut because they were deemed inappropriate for the show's family-friendly tone. Kerry Packer, the network's owner, caught a glimpse of the program while having dinner with friends and was so offended by its content that he phoned the network's flagship station in Perth and angrily screamed at the studio operator, "Get that shit off the air!" Within minutes, the series was pulled.[[/note]]. Viewers in Eastern Australia memorably saw the network abruptly cut to the beginning of a ''Cheers'' rerun halfway into the broadcast, which filled up the remaining airtime. The Nine Network affiliates in Western Australia simply aired two reruns of ''Cheers'' in place of the program, which hadn't yet begun airing due to time differences. When program was reaired in its entirety in 2008, it abruptly cut away to the opening of ''Cheers'' midway through in a recreation of the incident before resuming the second half of the program that didn't get aired.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: In Australia, ''Cheers'' has an extra piece of notoriety due to its role in the infamous cancellation of the Nine Network program ''Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos'' during its first and only broadcast in September 1992.[[Note]]A spin off of ''Australia's Funniest Home Video Show'' that was dedicated to airing all of the submissions that were previously cut because they were deemed inappropriate for the show's family-friendly tone. Kerry Packer, the network's owner, caught a glimpse of the program while having dinner with friends and was so offended by its content that he phoned the network's flagship station in Perth and angrily screamed at the studio operator, "Get that shit off the air!" Within minutes, the series was pulled.[[/note]]. Viewers in Eastern Australia memorably saw the network abruptly cut to the beginning of a ''Cheers'' rerun halfway into the broadcast, which filled up the remaining airtime. The Nine Network affiliates in Western Australia simply aired two reruns of ''Cheers'' in place of the program, which hadn't yet begun airing due to time differences. When program was reaired in its entirety in 2008, it abruptly cut away to the opening of ''Cheers'' midway through in a recreation of the incident before resuming the second half of the program that didn't get aired.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: While ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' is still beloved in television circles, one of its main calling cards in the first five season has fallen into this, with Sam and Diane being the TropeCodifier of BelligerentSexualTension and WillTheyOrWontThey of American sitcoms, long before ''Series/{{Friends}}'' took the baton in the 1990s. That a sitcom could write an ever-evolving arc between two love interests full of tension, putting them together, breaking them up, and then teasing a reconciliation captivated audiences beyond the show's strong ensemble and writing, a dynamic that's ever-present in many a sitcom today. In fact, the series was ''too'' effective with this; one of the factors in Shelly Long walking away from the show was over her frustration with the writers' reluctance to fully commit to Sam and Diane's endgame of whether they'd get together for good or not.

* ValuesResonance: Lillian's daughter is openly romantic, but doesn't want sex, which would be the definition of asexual relationships.

** One episode saw Sam give a radio interview in which he makes disparaging comments of Diane. She gets mad. He gets apologetic. Years later, recurring cast member Jay Thomas gave a radio interview in which he made some disparaging comments about Rhea Perlman. She got mad. He got fired.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:

* HarsherInHindsight:

** Shortly before Robin walks into her life, Rebecca bemoans to Sam that the rich, ambitious, upwardly mobile men she deserves to be courted by aren't exactly beating down a door and queuing up to go out with her. She specifically mentions UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump as an example of the sort of man who is exactly right for her. Even more hilarious when you realize that Creator/KirstieAlley, who played Rebecca, voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 (this could also be considered a FunnyAneurysmMoment, depending on your political views).

* CriticalResearchFailure: There is absolutely ''no way'' a sports bar in Boston wouldn't know the nickname of the [=UConn=] sports teams, the Huskies, especially since they're traditional rivals with Boston U in NCAA basketball.

** This is quite a hard one, as the theme tune "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" isn't played in full with the show, but one of the lines of the full song is "and your husband wants to be a girl." While this is still sometimes said about trans women, it's a far less acceptable attitude towards them these days. It’s worse in context because it’s listed as one of the reasons you would be world-weary and want to go to a bar.