The Cheers Alphabet Game

[Inquisitionist]

Y is for Yelnick McWawa, Cliff's 1983 prediction for the next president.

Edited August 26, 2014 by Inquisitionist

[Jac]

Z is for zoo, where Sam took Laurie, the daughter of the mother and daughter pair he was flirting with/dating in Send in the Crane. Edited August 27, 2014 by JacquelineLHope

[Inquisitionist]

A is for Andy Andy. 

 

I saw you kissing, Sam!  I saw  you kissing, Sam! 

 

Mommy!  I'll clean up my room now, Mommy!

[Jac]

B is for Lilith's bun.

[Bort]

C is for the Comb marks in Lilith's hair.

[Inquisitionist]

D is for Derek Malone, Sam's brother with the eyes as blue as Windex and Derek McGrath, who played Andy Andy.

[cpcathy]

E is for Edward, which is Ted Danson's real name.

[rubaco]

F is for Frasier Crane, who didn't show up until season 3 but outlasted everyone (thanks to his spinoff).

[Inquisitionist]

G is for George Wendt.

[M. Darcy]

H is for Dan Hedaya who played Nick Tortelli.

[cpcathy]

I is for Indiana, where Woody is from.

[Inquisitionist]

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

[John Ramos]

K is for Kelly Kelly Kelly Kelly Kelly Kelly Kelly Kelly Kelly Kelly Kelly Kelly K-E-L-L-Y. Why? Because she's....

[Crs97]

L is for Sam's lucky bottle cap.

[Bort]

M is because it's a dog-eat-dog world and Norm is wearing Milkbone underwear.

[rubaco]

N is for "Nocturne," the name of the poem that Sam got published in that literary magazine (but it was actually Diane's poem).

 

"I fly through a puckish arena, where echoes dance, where echoes dance, where echoes dance..."

[M. Darcy]

O is for Tip O'Neill, former Speaker of the House, who came into Cheers to escape a woman who had been pestering him on the street.

[cpcathy]

P is for Phil Perlman, who is Rhea Perlman's father and played, strangely enough, "Phil" on the show.

[Inquisitionist]

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)

Edited August 29, 2014 by Inquisitionist

[rubaco]

R is for Rebecca, who was played by Julia Duffy in a guest spot. She was an old friend of Diane's who was heartsick after a breakup, and so of course Sam hit on her. 

[Jac]

S is for Serafina Tortelli, one of Carla's many, many children.

[cpcathy]

T is for A Tale of Two Cities, which Frasier hilariously reads to the gang at the bar.

[Inquisitionist]

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.

[rubaco]

W is for Woody (Boyd and Harrelson). 

[cpcathy]

X is for Ex boyfriends and girlfriends. Sam and Diane were exes in season three, Frasier was her ex in season four.

[Bort]

Y is for how it seems Carla will be pregnant for the rest of her life. Just like it said in her Yearbook.

[M. Darcy]

Z is for Plan Z - what Sam uses for the most drastic of measures.

[cpcathy]

A is for Anthony, Carla's oldest child.

[rubaco]

B is for Boston. 

[M. Darcy]

C is for Civil Servants and Celibacy - two of the categories when Cliff was on Jeopardy!

Edited September 2, 2014 by M. Darcy

[Inquisitionist]

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

[Jac]

E is for 'Where Everybody knows your name'.

[Inquisitionist]

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."

[Jac]

G is for Gaylord, revealed in the Frasier episode Star Mitzvah to be the middle name of one Frederick Crane.

[ShellSeeker]

H is for Hanover, Indiana, birthplace of Woody Boyd.

[M. Darcy]

I is for Italy where Diane was supposed to marry Frasier and Sam flew to stop the wedding.

[cpcathy]

J is for Jimmy Burrows, who directed nearly all of the episodes.

[rubaco]

K is for Kirstie Alley (I checked and we hadn't done her yet). 

 

Edited: Oh crap, we actually did use her already, for A (not for K). So, as a backup answer: K is for the karaoke machine that they had in the bar, in at least one episode. 

Edited September 2, 2014 by rubaco

[Jac]

L is for Les Charles, who co-created the wonderful Cheers universe.

[Bort]

M is for Manchild in Beantown, the movie Diane made to convince Woody's parents to let him stay in Boston.

"Hi, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd!"

Edited September 2, 2014 by kariyaki

[Jac]

N is for neurotic, a personality trait shared by more than a few bar regulars.

[Bort]

O is for Old dead skin. Apparently it sits on barstools and drinks beer all day. Edited September 3, 2014 by kariyaki

[M. Darcy]

P is for Gary Portnoy who sang and wrote "Where Everybody Knows Your Name".

[cleo]

Y is for the yellow closing credits.

[Inquisitionist]

How did we jump from P to Y?  :P

 

Q is for all the beer that Norm and Cliffie Quaffed over the years!

[M. Darcy]

R is for John Ratzenberger.

[Inquisitionist]

S is for the Sleazy Sumner Sloane.

[Bort]

Dang it, got beat to the S! I'll be back...

Edited September 4, 2014 by kariyaki

[Bort]

T is for Thanksgiving Orphans, the episode that contains my favorite ever TV food fight.

Norm: Everybody get enough to eat?

Frasier: You know, I never had a chance to try the potatoes.

Sam: [scooping mashed potatoes off the mantelpiece onto Frasier's plate] Oh, well here, let me...

[Inquisitionist]

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.

Edited September 4, 2014 by Inquisitionist