The Heart of Cheers

 "If ignorance is bliss, this place is Eden." - Diane Chambers                                    Home of a lot of posts related to Cheers, Sam and Diane,                             and last but not least Shelley Long 

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Pouring one out for ol' Normie.

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pinnacle of romance

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stop tagging this with ur RANDOM fictional character names. WHO IS CHARLEY AND LEONARD . who is “kar x lord reggington ii” that is SAM AND DIANE from NBC’s CHEERS (1982-1993)!!!!!!! that is the ORIGINAL enemies to bar co-workers to lovers to EXTREMELY ENEMIES to lovers again. that’s not “otp : love in a boysmells candle | ~ *-* ~ | 🤭” that’s two people who invented and perfected something and that thing was called being insane on the American multicamera sitcom. SHOW SOME RESPECT. IT HAS 27 EMMYS. IT’S ON HULU

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A team

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Distance

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Cute!

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Notice how his hand goes to touch the area around his eyes whenever he’s in distress, frustrated, sad or down-right scared he did Diane wrong

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You know…Looking back at this, I sort of want to add this:

It is as if it’s a physical way of keeping the mask on for Sam. In these situations, Sam is literally on the edge, filled with emotion ready to show, and in response, he masks his eyes. The key to seeing those emotions. Not only is he keeping others from seeing his raw emotions, but himself as well, making it all become dark and closed off (literally). If not for covering up his eyes, both mentally and physically covering his emotions, I believe these situations to be the ones we would have seen Sam Malone at his truest - letting people know, he wasn’t okay.

I don’t want to dig into this being a trauma response from his childhood when he probably wasn’t allowed to show raw emotion, but…you know

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RIP Kirstie Alley

January 12th 1951 - December 5th 2022

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Mention your favorite Cheers episode and why

@bawnjourno​​: “Dinner at Eight-ish because of the sheer chaos AND getting to see Diane and Lilith together.”

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iMPortant qUestion

what is your fave episode of Cheers and why? Leave a comment :))

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Sam and Diane + Relationship Tropes Part 1 Inspired by this

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Sam and Diane + Relationship Tropes Part 5

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CHEERS 5.20, Dinner at Eightish

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Cheers being a fucking mood

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Opposites attract, what the hell is that?

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very happy i found your blog because hoo boy has it been hard to watch Cheers knowing that S and D don't end up together while having the opinion that the writers aren't doing the best at writing a coherent relationship between the two... like I wish they would just give those two the time and patience to just TALK about their feelings without it ending up in an argument or s*xual advances (looking at you Sam)... there are SO many moments that get swept under the rug that it's just infuriating and I'm making my own hcs to placate myself... awaiting your Cheers overanalysis and more SxD posts :)

Thanks for sharing your feelings here with me.

I always appreciate reading people’s thought on this odd couple.

I went through the same struggle when I first watched this, knowing all too well Diane would leave at some point. I was quite young back then and had no clue about the surrounding matters concerning her upcoming absence. Finding out, I found it troublesome too. I found it unfair to everyone: Shelley as a person, Diane as a developed, beloved character and us as viewers and fans.

I believe their relationship (Sam and Diane’s) in season 5 very much represents the uncertainty of the staff. Not knowing whether Shelley would stay made the writing seem incoherent and at times immature. I think it was their ‘golden middle’ going either way with these two depending on Shelley’s decision - even though they probably knew, she would choose to leave. They gave Shelley a taste of the frustration with all the turmoil in the relationship between Sam and Diane in this season as well a taste of what a happy life for Sam and Diane together could be (the positive moments). As we know, she wished Sam and Diane together, so this must have been tougher than tough.

I can’t speak facts about this, but I do believe Cheers was a revolutionary comedy in many ways back then, handling deeper conflicts than expected. But in the end, it was a comedy - and only a handful of the moments can be emotional and deep. Not that I disagree with you, that a lot of of SxD moments were swept under the rug, but regarding this season, it would only have done the show harm and the eventual break with Diane harder. And even though they did Diane dirty in this season at times, pushing her over the edge as a character, they did still acknowledge her importance to Sam. We saw that in the finale episode of s5, but analyzing that will only make me cry sooo….enough for now :’)