Diane or Rebecca?

[pokerfan]

Poll question: Diane or Rebecca?

[edbermac]

1. You forgot Carla!

[pokerfan]

2. Carla was never replaced

Like the other poll, this is just about the characters who were replaced mid way through the series.

Carla, like Cliff and Norm, was there from start to finish.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Diane came dangerously close to wearing out her welcome...

...and, for some fans, she probably DID wear it out.

The "Sam & Diane" story line was put out of its misery, and rightly so. It got old, it got stale.

I've always thought that Season 4...the one that introduced Woody...was their strongest, overall. Kirstie Alley's "Rebecca makes a fool over herself for a different CEO every season" thing, on the other hand, was more annoying than Sam & Diane...just plain stupid at times.



:toast:

[CreekDog]

6. That may be true but Kirstie Alley really made that character fun to watch

she had this split personality thing that was really funny to watch. she'd be alternately tough and firm and then when she when she got emotionally attached to something she just fell apart with obsession. she carried it off really well.

i don't handle change to well, so i don't generally like it when characters are replaced --but this one made the show better.

oh, another reason she made the show better:

she wasn't always the foil (Diane pretty much always was) because she could act goofier and more out of control than any of them, although Frasier showed he could do that as well.

so i guess she was a more interesting character than Diane, but the show just plain got better after she joined anyway. kind of like Newhart after a couple years --they loosened up (not as much as Newhart) and let stuff happen. was fun.

great show. :D

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. It was never a matter of her character, specifically...

...it was the "supporting characters" like Robin Colcord, Martin Teal, etc that they sometimes unsuccessfully paired her up with. Especially Martin Teal. His oily little "You know, I always get what I want, and I want you" mantra wasn't so much funny as it was...oily. Smarmy. Creepy. Maybe that's how it was intended, and humor was supposed to be a by-product of that. It just didn't make me laugh.

Although the casting of Tom Berenger in the final season and her realization that "I...married...a...PLUMBER" was pretty damned funny.

:toast:

[pokerfan]

15. Did you ever hear the resolution of that story

as told by Sam on Frasier a few years later?

Frasier: So, uh, how's everybody at Cheers?

Sam: Oh, wow. Uh, well, let's see... you know that Rebecca finally
married that plumber?

Frasier: Yes, yes... it's ironic, isn't it? You know, she spends all
her energy trying to land some rich guy and she ends up with
an ordinary plumber.

Sam: Well, that ordinary plumber struck gold. He's got a patent
on some low-flow toilet thing. I mean, he's rich beyond her
wildest dreams.

Frasier: Well, heck, I'm happy for her.

Sam: Well, don't be - he dumped her. She's back at the bar.

Frasier: Working at Cheers again?

Sam: No, she's just back at the bar.

:rofl:

[Bucky]

4. Interestingly, the Sam character got a lot more likable after Diane left

[pokerfan]

5. So did Frasier

Diane was like a cancer, sucking the life out of everything.

[CreekDog]

7. Frasier got more human

his early character was intrinsically stiff and formal...later it was clear that was mostly an act and that he was always riding an emotional rollercoaster.

[Drunken Irishman]

13. Shoulda had him kill her.

[fishwax]

9. Rebecca

There were some annoying aspects to her character, but on the whole the show was better for her presence.

[lucas_g20]

10. rebecca

[Biker13]

11. Kirstie Alley!

I don't know why, but I LOVE her!

Looking forward to her new show on A&E!

Biker's Old Lady

[NoPasaran]

12. I couldn't stand Rebecca

The show was dead to me without Diane

[Drunken Irishman]

14. I wanted Diane to get hit by a bus. Too bad she never did. :(

[tango-tee]

16. Who are Diane and Rebecca?

No kidding. Europe here - never heard of them.

[pokerfan]

17. A classic sitcom from the eighties

that was extremely well written.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheers

[joeybee12]

18. I stopped watching when Kirstie Alley came, pathetic, no-talent Scientology

whack-job.