
Laid-back Sam Malone, a former relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, owns and runs Cheers, a cozy bar in Boston. He hires smart, uptight -- and jilted -- Diane Chambers as a server, out of sympathy, but their attraction causes constant bickering. Wacky characters fill the bar: sarcastic waitress Carla, beer-loving accountant Norm, know-it-all postman Cliff. When Diane leaves Boston much later, Sam sells the bar, buys a boat and sails the world, but his boat sinks, so he returns. New, ambitious manager Rebecca Howe hires him back, but they love to hate each other too.

Cliff (John Ratzenberger) handcuffs himself to his mother's (Frances Sternhagen) house in an effort to save it from demolition.

Lilith wins a weekend with Sam at a Cheers-sponsored "hunk" auction.

Woody, dressed up as Mark Twain for a local theater production, walks into the bar and captures an older woman's heart.

Rebecca makes an embarrassing pass at Drake to make a point that she is heterosexual.