Norm! A Cheers Podcast

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We have reached the end of our Cheers journey. In our final episode of "Norm!," we rank the seasons of Cheers in our preferred orders and discuss what makes Cheers timeless and so worth watching again and again. We thank all of you for listening along with us and wish you many more years of happy Cheers viewings. Have a good life!-Marlene and AndyPlease follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." As we prepare for our final (for now) podcast episode, let's take a trip down memory lane to our humble beginning with the Cheers pilot, "Give Me a Ring Sometime." Please excuse the audio quality, which I hope has improved ever so slightly over these years, and the meowing cat, who still participates in the podcast. Enjoy!Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We reflect on the work and legacy of Cheers co-creator and director James Burrows, who passed away on June 19th, 2026, as we near the final episode of our podcast. We recommend reading the book James Burrows wrote about his career, Directed by James Burrows and listening to the podcast episode of "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" in which Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson host James Burrows as their guest. See links below.Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!Directed by James Burrows: https://www.amazon.com/Directed-James-Burrows-Legendary-Director/dp/B09HN1VFGG/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3FQ3JHVAWCY0F&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.mrrgGTDHlYUHxz9xXy1jpR8IKfvaGgdGIKsd6wSAIYCJc58lirw6s-MJNyiOa6vIoNj-96-IoyQJ3ay3heDOLQ.xwKAdVog_V5DX1iKGdRJj7QC-T0zITZRyEW4GmoTAPY&dib_tag=se&keywords=directed+by+james+burrows&qid=1782946188&sprefix=directed+by+%2Caps%2C172&sr=8-1"Where Everybody Knows Your Name" YouTube: https://youtu.be/a3ZWzWUzHsI?si=euDsBjO7N0uBOd97"Where Everybody Knows Your Name" Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/where-everybody-knows-your-name-with-ted-danson-and/id1745204141?i=1000701839096

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast!" In part two of our conversation about the characters of Cheers across 11 years, we discuss Coach, Woody, Frasier, Lilith, and Rebecca. Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast!" We're reminiscing on the characters of Cheers as they developed across 11 years. In part one of two, we discuss Sam, Carla, Cliff, Norm, and Diane. Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We're finishing what we anticipate to be our final two episodes of "Norm!" and in the meantime look back at a classic favorite, season six's "The Big Kiss-Off."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast!" We're quoting what we've realized is a very small sample of the deserving bits of Cheers dialogue that we've enjoyed over the years. These are a few of our favorites from all of the characters across 11 seasons. Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." As we record our final few episodes and decide in which direction to take our podcast, we offer an encore presentation (a rerun) of one of our very favorite discussions of one of our very favorite Cheers episodes, "Cheers: The Motion Picture." Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast!" We discuss a selection of scenes we enjoy but don't often discuss (and a few we do often discuss). These scenes may not be in a top episodes list, but they show the heart and humor of these characters that we've grown to know and love over 11 seasons. Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast!" To keep the party going, we bring you our discussion of one of the great events of the year 2020, the warm, oddball, eclectic, and exuberant reunion of the Cheers cast and creators on a Zoom call as the grand finale of the charity event "Ted Danson and his Friends from Work." For anyone that did not get to watch this event (the Cheers portion) but would like to do so, we provide an option at the end of the episode. Enjoy!Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast!" Join us for the continuation and, for now, conclusion of our Cheers Trivia Extravaganza, interspersed with thoughtful feedback from our listeners. Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast!" We embark on our Cheers Trivia Challenge and present listener feedback in the first of at least two trivia episodes (I got carried away with trivia questions.). Join us and play along! Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast!" We count down the bottom half of our top twenty favorite Cheers episodes and invite you, our listeners, to share your favorite episodes with us! We'll wrap up our top ten favorite Cheers episodes of all time in next week's show. Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast!" As a brief refresher before we delve into our Cheers: All Eleven Years discussions, we re-present Cheers: The First Five Years. Please enjoy, and please join us next week for our Top 20 countdown of our favorite Cheers episodes of all time. We've received wonderful listener comments, which we'll include in upcoming episodes, and we'd love to receive more from anyone that hasn't had a chance to contribute but would like to do so.Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast!" Join us as we reminisce, pontificate, analyze, and appreciate the second six seasons of Cheers in part two of our discussion.Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast!" Join us as we reminisce, pontificate, analyze, and appreciate the second six seasons of Cheers in part one of our discussion.Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast!" Join our final season's end superlatives podcast as we discuss Cheers Season 11 favorites, least favorites, teasers, memorable scenes, guest stars, and thoughts on the final season of Cheers. Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We reach the end of our regular-episode discussion of Cheers Season 11 with the second episode of our two-part discussion of "One for the Road." Please tune in next week for our Season 11 Superlatives!Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We reach the end of our regular-episode discussion of Cheers Season 11 with the first episode of our two-part discussion of "One for the Road."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We near the end of our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with "The Guy Can't Help It."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with a memorable musicale for Rebecca, a "mother' mystery for Cliff, and a hidden Raymond Burr connection (think Rear Window) in "Rebecca Gaines, Rebecca Loses."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with a night and day after Carla's potent bartending in "It's Lonely on the Top."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with Woody's Being-There-like foray into electoral politics in "Woody Gets an Election."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with Sam's overnight pilgrimage through the lives of his Cheers friends in "Look Before You Sleep."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with a congenial visit from Harry the Hat in "Bar Wars VII: The Naked Prey."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with a trip down nostalgia lane in "The Last Picture Show."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with the rather bonkers but imminently rewatchable "The Bar Manager, the Shrink, His Wife, and Her Lover."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with singular disdain on one of our parts for the unfortunately-titled "Is There a Doctor in the Howe?."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with one more round of the Tortelli clan in "Loathe and Marriage."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with the surreal and crazy caper "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Bar."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with a bit of a life audit for Norm in "Norm's Big Audit.."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." Break out the Yahtzee and champagne as we continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with "Sunday Dinner."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with "Love Me, Love My Car."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with the psychological twists and turns of "Daddy's Little Middle-Aged Girl."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with "Feelings...Whoa, Whoa, Whoa."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with the less messy second Thanksgiving episode of Cheers, with its recycled Halloween decor and lower-middle class Boston activities, "Ill-Gotten Gaines."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with "The Girl in the Plastic Bubble."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with "Teaching with the Enemy.."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with "Do Not Forsake Me, O' My Postman.."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with a a referendum on France as Sam and Henri compete for the honor of their nations in "The Magnificent Six."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 11 with a look at luck and Norm's dream job in "The King of Beers."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of the 11th and final season of Cheers with "The Beer is Always Greener," complete with a reminiscence from a childhood encounter with an old-fashioned organ grinder and his little pet monkey. Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We begin our discussion of the 11th and final season of Cheers with "The Little Match Girl."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast!" Join our discussion of Cheers Season 10 favorites, least favorites, memorable scenes, guest stars, and thoughts on the season with our season 10 review and superlatives podcast.Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 10 and explore the frontiers of farce with the Cheers characters, a snooty French chef, an angry German soldier, his temptress wife, and a dead minister as Woody and Kelly get married in "An Old-Fashioned Wedding."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We intended to continue our discussion of Cheers Season 10 with "An Old-Fashioned Wedding." However, a technical problem has forestalled that episode for a week. Therefore, we bring you a rerun, or rather an anticipatory encore presentation, of "Golden Boyd" to remind us of Woody meeting Kelly and first seeing the Gaines mansion. Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 10 with "Heeeeeere's...Cliffy!."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 10 with "Bar Wars VI: This Time, It's for Real."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 10 and the singular performance of Harvey Fierstein (and Kirstie Alley) with "Rebecca's Lover...Not."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!

Welcome to "Norm! A Cheers Podcast." We continue our discussion of Cheers Season 10 with "Take Me Out of the Ballgame."Please follow us on Twitter (@cheers_norm), like our page on Facebook (@normcheerspodcast), and email us at [email protected] for listening!