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TheCheersbar has become an American sitcom staple — but you may not want what they’re serving on tap.
“It was Near Beer, and it was non-alcoholic beer, and they wanted it to be draft,” recalledGeorge Wendt, who played Norm Peterson. “So it was warm and flat, and the prop man put salt into it. So it was warm, flat, salty, non-alcoholic beer."
During the panel, the cast also revealed they scrambled to find a last minute welcome gift forKirstie Alleywhen she joined the show. The warm welcome was left to Wendt, 74, andJohn Ratzenberger— and it’s fair to say that job didn’t fall in their hands again.
The costars bought Alley a shotgun as a welcome to the set. “Going past all these places and we go past Big 5 Sporting Goods, and John goes, ‘You wanna buy her a shotgun?'" said Wendt, prompting laughter from the audience.
“And, like you, I laughed for about five minutes,” he continued. “And then immediately pulled into the parking lot, and we bought her a freakin’ shotgun.”
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Cheersaired for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993, and it’s spinoffFrasier— centering on the popularCheerscharacter Dr. Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) — was also a hit, running from 1993 until ended in 2004.Cheershas not been rebooted yet, though aFrasierreturn is on the way.
source: people.com
