Inquisitionist

At 58, Hanks would be among the youngest honorees, I think -- at least among recent honorees. Steve Wonder was 49 when he was honored in 1999.

Well, she did know an authentic Arapaho ceremonial tunic when she saw one!

U is for all of Carla's Unplanned pregnancies (which I think would be all 7 or 8 of them... I lost count) Her life has been the wrong guy at the wrong time with the wrong birth control device.

Taking a stab here: literature, women's studies, sociology, psychology, history?

I love both of those, too, cpcathy. But also: The Coach's Daughter; Pick a Con, Any Con; Truce or Consequences; One for the Book... I could go on and on!

Quite the line-up of honorees this year: Tom Hanks, Lily Tomlin, Al Green, Sting, and Patricia McBride. The program will be taped in early December, and broadcast on CBS on December 30, 2014. I need to mark it on my calendar, as I always forget things around the holidaze!

It is fitting that Glen Charles and Les Charles won an Emmy for writing the Cheers pilot. Two other episodes were nominated in the writing category that year: The Boys in the Bar and Diane's Perfect Date. I love both of those, too.

S is for the Sleazy Sumner Sloane.

How did we jump from P to Y? :P Q is for all the beer that Norm and Cliffie Quaffed over the years!

Leslie: Look, I’m really sorry. I put a new romance in front of an old friendship. Tom: Okay. Leslie: I put a beautiful man in front of an adorable man-child. Tom: You’re ruining it. Leslie: I put a big white stallion in front of a little brown pony. Tom: Totally uncalled for.

Which opera did the boys take Diane to see in S4's Diane Chambers Day?

Would that be Candi with an "i" -- like Ghandi?

I don't recall whether Sam said anything, but Coach told Diane in Showdown (the S1 two-part finale) that he'd been with Sam through all the difficult times including his boozing, the end of his career, his divorce. So I assumed the divorce was tough on him.

But Boggs did turn up again early in season 3, when he brought Diane home from Goldenbrook. Good point about Sam's ex-wife, although I did find it odd that the two of them were portrayed as being on such good terms in Ep. 1-2. Later episodes suggested that their divorce was messy. We also never again saw Sam's brother Derek.

Indeed, it's a gem. I think the only episode I find weak is Father Knows Last. I did not find the idea of Carla trying to foist Nick's child onto Marshall Lipton at all funny, and the ending with You'll Never Walk Alone did not work for me. In general, I find the Carla-centric episodes less interesting, but they're usually still funny. For me, this one was mostly not.

Just rewatched Someone Single, Someone Blue. Loved Glynis Johns as Diane's mother, Helen Chambers. Johns will turn 91 next month!

F is for Dr. Simon Finch-Royce, who counseled Sam and Diane not to marry. "Well now, uh, where to begin? Well usually at this point, you would tell me what a loathsome contemptible swine he is, and you would describe in some detail, what a wanton libidinous trollop she is. But as you're only engaged, we'll just have to look forward to that."

Did you find that to be the case from the very beginning? I've just rewatched most of S1, and thought Diane tried to fit in (to some extent) in the early days.

D is for Dr. Frasier Crane and Dr. Lilith Sternin.

U is for Robert Urich, who played himself in an episode of Cheers. And while we're at it... V is for Vera, Norm's never seen (at least not her face) but occasionally heard wife.

Q is tough, but can we make it for POSSLQ (Persons of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters), which Frasier and Lilith became in one of my favorite episodes, Dinner at Eight-ish? After all, the Q is pronounced. ;-) (possl-Q)

Probably about half the time, but that in itself is important, IMO. Certain actors are more likely to sign on for a 13-episode production schedule that allows them more time and flexibility for other projects. I think the main issue with 22 episodes is that someone has to WRITE them, and sustaining good writing over 22 episodes compared to 10 or 13 has to be a more daunting task.

J is for Jacqueline Bisset, whom Sam had to marry to keep the bar.

Considering that Diane was going to marry him, she seemed to bounce back from getting dumped pretty quickly, once she started working at Cheers.

G is for George Wendt.