History Series / Cheers

** One of the more famous episodes of the series is Season 5's "[[Recap/CheersS5E9 Thanksgiving Orphans]]", in which the gang has dinner at Carla's house. Eventually there's a food fight.

* VanityIsFeminine: For a professed feminist, Diane sure cares a great deal about her physical appearance. She complains in "[[Recap/CheersS2E12WhereTheresAWill Where There's A Will]]" that no one seemed to notice her new curly hairdo. In "[[Recap/CheersS5E9 Thanksgiving Orphans]]" she notes that, after finding out she was only invited to a class party to serve the other guests, "I...dropped the tray, burst into tears--took a moment to freshen up my mascara, and ''fled''!"

* FoodFight: "[[Recap/CheersS5E9 Thanksgiving Orphans]]", in which Thanksgiving dinner dissolves into chaos at Carla's house.

* SanityBall: Sam and Diane play it like volleyball. At times Diane is the OnlySaneWoman against Sam’s immaturity and over-the-top womanizing, while other times Sam is the StraightMan to Diane’s incessant pretentiousness. The latter is especially the case in Season 5, where Diane goes completely off the rails.

* CaninesGamblingInACardGame: Sam Malone loves the paintings (in particular one of ''Dogs Playing Blackjack'') while his more sophisticated lover, Diane Chambers, hates them. Sam says that he sees something new every time he looks at it.

* ExtraLongEpisode: It ended its hugely successful 11-year run with "[[Recap/CheersS11E25 One for the Road]]", a 73-minute episode. (98 minutes in 1993 with commercials.)

* GrandFinale: "[[Recap/CheersS11E25 One for the Road]]", a 98-minute episode involving Norm finally getting a job, Cliff getting a promotion, Rebecca getting married, and the [[BackForTheFinale return]] of Diane Chambers.

* WeaponForIntimidation: In "[[Recap/CheersS4E1 Birth, Death, Love and Rice]]", Frasier threatens Sam with a revolver. Sam tells him that he can't shoot him, making Frasier angrily mock that he's making that assumption on his belief Frasier doesn't have it in him and Sam doesn't view him as a threat. Sam replies that he can see the chambers of the revolver are empty.

* GuiltInducedNightmare: In [[{{Recap/CheersS3E21}} "The Executive's Executioner"]], Norm is tasked with being the one to fire accountants. He gets a CatapultNightmare from the stress. He describes a dream where he is pushing a line of accountants one at a time into an empty elevator shaft, but the last accountant is Norm himself.

** In [[Recap/CheersS3E20 the episode where Nick gets dumped by Loretta]] and wants Carla back, everyone else in the bar seems willing to forgive him for all his deplorable behavior just because he continues to talk about Carla, and has been working hard doing odd jobs in the bar for a while. Even Diane, who found Nick disgusting before then, seems to think he has legitimately changed (although [[WideEyedIdealist this wouldn't be the first time she's been willing to give someone a chance that maybe she shouldn't have, such as Andy-Andy]].) Every previous appearance of Nick's showed him flaunting his infidelity, selfishness and manipulations in full view of the others--even to the point of trying to take one of Carla's kids to ''give to his new wife'' in one of the episodes, and the major point of it was that Carla was able to overcome his influence in order to get her son back.

* GoingToTheStore: Nick, when he has broken up with Loretta and [[Recap/CheersS3E20 is trying to win Carla back]]. Carla tricks him into thinking Loretta wants him back to get him to reveal he hasn't changed.

* NamedLikeMyName: Sam discovers that, while drunk, he had bet a stranger that he could marry Jacqueline Bisset within a year. On learning that the other party plans to hold him to that bet (and has a binding contract), he reads over the terms of the bet and realises that it doesn't specify Jacqueline Bisset the actress. He immediately sets out to find another woman of the same name to marry him. ("[[Recap/CheersS3E18 Bar Bet]]")

* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: Carla fell preganant with her son Ludlow in "[[Recap/CheersS3E13 Whodunit?]]" halfway through the third series. In "[[Recap/CheersS7E14 I Kid You Not]]", halfway through the seventh series, he was already six.

* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: In "[[Recap/CheersS3E18 Bar Bet]]", Sam almost loses the bar when he falls off the wagon and makes a drunken bet to marry Creator/JacquelineBisset within one year. (The sleazy guy trying to take the bar from Sam is Creator/MichaelRichards). Diane brings up the fact it's not enforceable, but Sam wants to keep it quiet because he's ashamed of getting drunk again.

* AnachronismStew: [[ConversationalTroping Discussed]] in "[[Recap/CheersS5E4 Abnormal Psychology]]" after Norm and Cliff return from watching a gladiator movie.

* AtTheOperaTonight: "[[Recap/CheersS4E22 Diane Chambers Day]]". Even Diane falls asleep.

* BowlingForRatings: "[[Recap/CheersS4E9 From Beer to Eternity]]" involves the gang from Cheers having a bowling match against the gang from Gary's Olde Town Tavern.

** Between Lilith and Frasier's first wife (played by Creator/EmmaThompson) in "[[Recap/CheersS10E16 One Hugs, the Other Doesn't]]".

* CompensatingForSomething: During her [[GentlemanSnarker polite verbal smackdown]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech of Gary and company]], Diane throws in a speculation that this is the reason for Gary's chronic obsession with belittling Sam. ("[[Recap/CheersS4E9 From Beer to Eternity]]")

* LoveAtFirstSight: "Coach in Love (Part 1)", in which Coach instantly falls in love with a pretty older lady who enters the bar.

** In "[[Recap/CheersS3E7 Coach in Love Part 2]]", after Irene calls off her wedding to Coach and shortly thereafter gets engaged to another (richer) man, Coach remains in denial until their wedding day. When the phone rings, he interrupts the speaker to give [[IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy his blessings]] before hanging up, not ''actually'' hearing her voice. When the phone rings again, Sam goes to pick it up, but Diane stops him before we (or any of ''them'') can find out who really ''[[AmbiguousSituation was]]'' on the other end.

* UnreliableVoiceover: In "[[Recap/CheersS3E2 Rebound, Part 2]]", Diane tells the story of how she and Frasier met while she was voluntarily committed. She claims that they met while she was playing croquet one morning against a very skilled opponent; Frasier stopped by to correct a flaw in her technique, and stayed on to watch. In a flashback, we see Diane catch her opponent cheating, sparking an argument that quickly degenerates into a physical fight. Frasier intervenes to stop Diane from hitting the other player with her mallet, and gets an elbow to the stomach for his trouble; eventually, he restrains Diane while her opponent is subdued by two orderlies.

* VanityIsFeminine: For a professed feminist, Diane sure cares a great deal about her physical appearance. She complains in "[[Recap/CheersS2E12WhereTheresAWill When There's A Will]]" that no one seemed to notice her new curly hairdo. In "[[Recap/CheersS5E9 Thanksgiving Orphans]]" she notes that, after finding out she was only invited to a class party to serve the other guests, "I...dropped the tray, burst into tears--took a moment to freshen up my mascara, and ''fled''!"

* ThatsWhatSheSaid: Invoked by Sam in Season Two's "Where There's A Will," when Diane tells the rich man who wrote a napkin-will pledging money to the ''Cheers'' gang (that is declared by Tom the law student to be legally invalid) that the gang want him to repeat his wonderful gesture. "She", of course, is Diane.

* VanityIsFeminine: For a professed feminist, Diane sure cares a great deal about her physical appearance. She complains in "[[Recap/CheersS2E12 When There's A Will]]" that no one seemed to notice her new curly hairdo. In "[[Recap/CheersS5E9 Thanksgiving Orphans]]" she notes that, after finding out she was only invited to a class party to serve the other guests, "I...dropped the tray, burst into tears--took a moment to freshen up my mascara, and ''fled''!"

* AllPartOfTheShow: In "[[Recap/CheersS2E4 Homicidal Ham]]" Diane and crazy Andy are performing Theatre/{{Othello}}'s murder of Desdemona. Andy really begins to strangle Diane. She struggles, causing the present acting scout to exclaim, "[[AlternateCharacterInterpretation I love it! A Desdemona who fights back!]]" Sam still briefly checks with the acting coach to make sure "Help me! This psycho's trying to kill me!" isn't part of the original text of the play. Coach exclaims, "That's the only line of Shakespeare I ever understood!" [[invoked]]

** In "[[Recap/CheersS2E4 Homicidal Ham]]," Diane turns off the bar TV so she and Andy-Andy can rehearse ''Othello''--even though the patrons were watching a game. Norm whines to Sam, "I hope she's showing you one hell of a good time." Sam answers with a ''big'' grin.

** Still another subversion in "[[Recap/CheersS1E20 Someone Single, Someone Blue]]" when a clause in Diane's father's will requires Diane to get married so Diane's mother can keep the family fortune. After Sam and Diane's sniping blows up into an argument during the ceremony, they give up.

* WhamLine: In "[[Recap/CheersS1E17 Diane's Perfect Date]]", Sam was supposed to get a blind date for Diane, but didn't. Left desperate after Diane delivers a blind date for him, Sam plucks some random nebbishy guy named Andy from the pool room and presents him as Diane's blind date. They have to decide where to eat.

* WhereEverybodyKnowsYourFlame: "[[Recap/CheersS1E16 The Boys in the Bar]]" features many of the regulars fearing that the bar will become a stereotypical gay bar once it starts accepting gay clientele; the episode ends with Diane revealing that the men they've been worrying about are actually straight, and two of the regulars are gay.

* YouAreNotAlone: In "[[Recap/CheersS1E15 Father Knows Best]]". When Carla gets a little desperate when she discovers she's pregnant--again--Diane organizes a bar-wide fundraiser for her... and leads everyone in a rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone."

* TheOner: The last shot of "[[Recap/CheersS1E4 Sam at Eleven]]", the series' fourth episode.

* FiveManBand: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with,]] as the types are sometimes split/shared/paired-up, and the roles change with the cast lineup. Basically, it runs like this:
** TheHero: Sam, throughout.
** TheLancer: Split between Diane and Carla in Seasons 1-5; Carla remains this for the rest of the show. They both keep everyone else "honest"--albeit in much different ways.
** TheBigGuy: Norm, throughout. He is capable of pulling someone away from a fight by himself and subdues Andy-Andy by sitting on him--and "They Call Me Mayday" establishes he has a past as a wrestler.
** TheSmartGuy: Cliff and Frasier share this--again, in much different ways from each other.
** TheHeart: Coach until his passing; Woody replaces him in Season 4.
*** Diane shares this role with both--clearly making her TheChick.
** TheSixthRanger: Diane in Seasons 1-2; Frasier in Season 3; Woody in Seasons 4-5; Rebecca in Season 6 on.

** Subverted in "I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday"; needing a loan from Sam, Diane more or less tries [[ExploitedTrope to ensure]] success [[SexyWalk by giving a sensual "air" to her posture]] as she "builds up" to the subject in his office. Beforehand, she even [[LampshadedTrope lampshades]] the trope to Carla. But Sam surprisingly doesn't seem to take much notice.

** Sam and Rebecca eventually realize they are this, in Season 10's "Go Make." The episodes following still jokingly have some romantic banter between the two, but otherwise they just to act like friends.

** Sam and Rebecca eventually realize they are this, in Season 10's "Go Make."