Editing Cheers (section)

==Cultural references==
In [[Australia]], ''Cheers'' is remembered for its role in [[Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos#Cancellation|the infamous cancellation]] of the 1992 [[Nine Network]] special ''[[Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos]]''. Due to the then-owner of Nine Network [[Kerry Packer]]'s objections to its content, ''Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos'' was pulled off the air during its first and only broadcast; viewers saw the network abruptly begin airing a rerun of ''Cheers'' midway through the special, either after a scheduled commercial break or a Nine Network [[Bumper (broadcasting)|bumper]] claiming a technical problem. Nine Network's affiliate in [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] did not air the special at all and filled its timeslot with two episodes of ''Cheers''. When the program was re-aired in its entirety in 2008, it abruptly cut away to the opening of ''Cheers'' midway through in a reenactment of the incident before resuming the second half that was not broadcast.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

In the Cheers episode "Woody For Hire, Norman Meets the Apes", Woody shows and tells everyone how he was an extra on Boston-based drama ''[[Spenser: For Hire]]''. In the season 4 episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' titled "[[The Pitch (Seinfeld)|The Pitch]]", Jerry and George are presenting their idea for a sitcom to NBC executives. George is unhappy with their offer and feels that he deserves the same salary as Ted Danson which he claims was $800,000 per episode, being that ''Cheers'' is also an NBC show. Danson's reported salary was actually $250,000 per episode. At this point Cheers was in its 10th season and Ted Danson had won an Emmy and a Golden Globe the year before.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2008-07-07 |title=Danson, Duchovny share thoughts on TV business |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-emmys-actors-idUSN0739842020080707 |access-date=2022-08-12 |archive-date=August 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812094311/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-emmys-actors-idUSN0739842020080707 |url-status=live }}</ref> In another Seinfeld episode, [[The Trip (Seinfeld)|The Trip]], George runs into George Wendt (portraying himself) while backstage on the set of [[The Tonight Show]] and annoys him by suggesting that the series change its setting from a bar to a rec room or community center.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRaz4nBYS9U&t=154s&ab_channel=Seinfeld | title=George's Ideas Get Torn Apart on Television &#124; the Trip &#124; Seinfeld | website=[[YouTube]] | date=December 26, 2022 }}</ref>

In the seventh episode of the second season of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', a coffee shop barista mistakenly hears Barney's name as "Swarley" and writes it on his cup. This leads to a running gag in which everyone mercilessly refers to Barney as "Swarley" despite his protests, which culminates in everyone in McClaren's bar shouting "Swarley" when he enters and playing the Cheers theme song. The credits are then shown in the "Cheers" style.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Eames |first=Tom |date=2014-03-24 |title=How I Met Your Mother: 10 best episodes |url=http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a559862/how-i-met-your-mother-the-10-best-episodes-from-cbs-comedy/ |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=Digital Spy |language=en-GB |archive-date=April 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401180439/https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a559862/how-i-met-your-mother-the-10-best-episodes-from-cbs-comedy/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In the season seven episode, In Tailgate, Ted and Barney are outraged with the price to get into MacLaren's on New Year's Eve, so they offer for everyone to come upstairs. In the apartment, there is a puzzles sign that is designed to parody Cheers. Ted and Barney employ Kevin as their bartender, and they invent a theme song which also parodies the Cheers theme song.<ref>{{Cite web |title=How I Met Your Mother: "Tailgate" |url=https://www.avclub.com/how-i-met-your-mother-tailgate-1798170968 |access-date=2022-04-01 |website=The A.V. Club |date=January 3, 2012 |language=en-us |archive-date=April 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401180435/https://www.avclub.com/how-i-met-your-mother-tailgate-1798170968 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the 2015 video game ''[[Fallout 4]]'', which is set in Boston, there is a bar named Prost Bar near Boston Common that, when entered, is an almost exact replica of the bar featured on the series. It includes two dead bodies sitting at the end of the bar, with one of them wearing a mail carrier's uniform, a direct reference to regular barfly [[Cliff Clavin]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://kotaku.com/theres-a-pretty-great-cheers-easter-egg-in-fallout-4-1741952100| title = There's a Pretty Great Cheers Easter Egg in Fallout 4| date = November 11, 2015| access-date = May 22, 2017| archive-date = November 26, 2020| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201126155805/https://kotaku.com/theres-a-pretty-great-cheers-easter-egg-in-fallout-4-1741952100| url-status = live}}</ref>

In the [[The Good Place season 2|season 2 finale]] of the NBC sitcom ''[[The Good Place]]'', Ted Danson's character Michael appears as a bartender while wearing a blue plaid button-down, in a clear homage to Danson's character in ''Cheers''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.vulture.com/2018/02/the-good-place-season-2-finale-ted-danson-cheers.html|title=The Good Place Finally Gave Ted Danson His Cheers Moment|last=Ivie|first=Devon|work=Vulture|access-date=February 2, 2018|language=en|archive-date=April 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415031645/https://www.vulture.com/2018/02/the-good-place-season-2-finale-ted-danson-cheers.html|url-status=live}}</ref>