Diane Gets Hired

[@Galilee1964]

"You like the people here, you think that they like you." I swear that is the best line of the whole series.

[@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied]

And the most heartbreaking.

[@Jeff_Pryce]

@@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdiedNot really seeing how it’s heartbreaking. It’s just funny because it’s true. Diane may mean well, but she’s a little too full of herself to the point where she sees things as she wants them to be, not as they are.

[@AlexSadof]

Diane's laugh was a character on it's own. I loved the deep laugh, like in this clip, but also the flippant laugh that she suggested on others when she thought herself amusing. The wispy, ha ha ha ha.. Shelly Long was truly a gem on this show.

[@halleck3]

"I'm probably going to regret this... but you could work here." Wow. Did the writers even know how magnificent that foreshadowing was at the time?

[@deanedgx]

Brilliant. Diane is my all-time favourite pompous snob. Plus she's hot and sweet like molten candy. Lilith comes a close second.

[@creamykev]

I quit watching cheers because of Diane, she might be the absolute most annoying character in any show i've watched.

[@bernieudo4399]

@@creamykev Cheers was not a bar full of All Americans.

[@hd-xc2lz]

@@creamykev Then... how did you ever start watching Cheers?

[@arthurcurry2003]

@@creamykev shut up! where do you get off coming here decades later to claim such hateful bullshit. “Oh look at me I quit watching Cheers!” She was a fictional character. You’re fkn real and your comment alone reeks of self pretentious crap.

[@creamykev]

@@arthurcurry2003 2 years ago???

[@roberthoffhines5419]

Diane was truly one of the greatest TV characters ever. You could both relate WITH her and laugh AT her several times in one scene. The fact that the series was still great after Long left is a credit to the writers, and the other amazing cast members: Harrelson, Grammer and later, Nuewirth.

[@lnl3237]

So agree, Robert. Watched Cheers sporadically after she left and and am appreciating Seasons 6-11 more now in reruns. I get such a kick out of the whole Diane vs. Rebecca rivalry. No one is wrong as they describe each characters' flaws. What the writers fleshed out so well with the Sam/Diane dynamic was each character's navigating of their id, ego and super ego. Sam, mostly "id"; Diane, mostly "super ego." Both with egos trying to mediate the two within themselves and with each other. Does that make sense? All I know is that the hilarity that ensued still enthralls me. Really remarkable how the trajectory of the show during the Diane Era was mapped out in this illuminating scene. Kudos also to the casting director(s) of Cheers who always found fantastic actors for great bits like the one in this video.

[@Galilee1964]

My favorite line is "You like the people here, and you think they like you."

[@njpubadjuster3710]

"Magnificent pagan beast" was good, too.

[@ripperduck]

Dayum, she was gorgeous...

[@otomicans6580]

She was laughing at the idea of working as a waitress in a bar. She was laughing about this right in front of Carla. 😱

[@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied]

Yes, on a scripted television show.

[@deantheodosiou2886]

Ms. Long, you're the best. Don't ever forget that.

[@neissansaber8423]

Oh Diane! I miss you so much. Of course you found the work you were really good at. It was Diane at Cheers!

[@morganleigh5142]

Back when she seemed prime to be a perfect waitress...then got every order wrong. Ha!

[@wjkathman]

It practically goes without saying that this show had a spark of brilliance from its very first episode. Aside from that . . . my goodness, Shelley Long was an absolute doll baby back then. Love her hair here, particularly in the second scene, where she pontificates to the foreign couple. Such an adorable gal.

[@G-Blockster]

This is the scene that made me fall in love with the series.

[@guillermo3564]

Shelley Long, such a beautiful woman.

[@blairbrown4812]

1:50-1:56 Even Carla knew Diane was perfect for the job at that exact moment.

[@fool4singing]

Kirstie Alley was fine as Rebecca the first season, but the first five years of Cheers was the finest.

[@digital_gravity]

Many credit Diane's character leaving with giving the show extra legs as it shook things up. I think they're correct. I look at TBBT and man, they should have pulled the plug after season 7...

[@trupti.marolia]

ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY!!

[@shanefolan]

@Michael Richmond Jr the didn't get rid of her, she quit and no i strongly disagree.

[@shanefolan]

@Michael Richmond Jr it actually didn't, the show went to number 1 but the ratings never increased if you check, it is just the year it went to number 1 it had less competition.

[@shanefolan]

@Michael Richmond Jr how is your comment ''Getting rid of diane was the best thing this show did'' anyway related to the movie industry?

[@lenonel3286]

the writing was effing brilliant these first seasons. the rebecca age is also funny but in a different way. I love diane with my heart

[@cityofchamps66]

THE best written sitcom TV show ever, bar none(pun intended)

[@JohnnyMotel99]

MWC notwithstanding

[@bernieudo4399]

Mary Tyler Moore really was the Gold Standard which production companies imitated. Key was hiring good actors & writers who grew the story line guided by solid directing. With a competent producer, a network would air years of success. Key was establishing a hub or straight man character. Cheers took the baton.

[@PSNragglefraggle1]

Nah, it was one of those old school droll American 'comedy's' with an overzealous laugh even if someone simply said 'hello. Got a bit more watchable when Diane left, but still not super funny.

[@randomobserver8168]

In love with Diane over 36 years now.

[@rosa3768]

So no one gonna talk about how fine ted danson is. He still looks good for age

[@karlreichert9051]

And you!

[@sophyedavey8573]

He had SUCH a nice side profile too...

[@hd-xc2lz]

What an amazing head of hair.

[@minaljhaveri2323]

Hes so handsome.

[@scotty6858]

Love how Diane's face slowly falls as she recites Carla's order verbatim..like "oh, no...". I didn't like Diane at times, but I would agree Long had excellent comedic timing, and you can see everything working from the 1st episode...imagine that this almost got cancelled after the first season...that still blows my mind...

[@sonyab1974]

Yeah I'm glad the show was not cancelled after the first season!!! :) It was a brilliant and funny show!!! :)

[@kaczynskis5721]

She must have a good memory - she recited a lengthy drink order for someone else perfectly.

[@thenostalgiakid1]

And yet somehow later on she repeatedly gets drink orders wrong 😂

[@Celticfc60523]

Where is police we have lost luggage!! 🤣

[@dmdm528]

Psychologists may say that the place they conduct their sessions with their patients is a safe space and some of them- the good ones- may mean it too, but for me that bar was a safe space . Aside from the phenomenal romance Diane and Sam shared and I do not care that James Barrows describes their relationship as dysfanctional aside from the fact that Long wanted out after 5 years- this bar was the safest place I have seen. You were accepted there. And that feeling was something even more than the feeling you get from your family.

[@josephraguso2838]

I forgot how good this show is been a long time. Enjoy watching the Clips.

[@SamiLo2]

JOSEPH RAGUSO all the seasons are on Netflix

[@josephraguso2838]

I'm a dinosaur I taped the last show on my VCR

[@bernieudo4399]

@@josephraguso2838 No doubt VHS.

[@timidtornado2869]

LOL - what are you qualified to do - NOTHING - so refreshing

[@ShadowMan66]

Always had a thing for Diane, man she burst my boiler back then! 😘

[@bidders77]

Such a well written show

[@CogensFamilyTV]

Shelly Long was so cute..Though I thought she looked her cutest when her hair was in a bun (in the convent when she tells sam she is sorry about Coach's death). And even in the hair towel and face cream when Sam proposes over the phone. Cheers lost its heart with the death of Nick Colasanto. It lost its Bostonian persona and chemistry when Shelly left. Somewhere along the way, each character became meaner and more of a doofus. Just look at Cliff's arc over the seasons. I always like to think at the final episode, when Sam says the "Bar is closed", they should have had it be known during the outside shot by an obvious silhouette, that it was Diane coming back.

[@mindlink1811]

Top 10 series of all time. It was groundbreaking and much funnier than Seinfeld or Curb, your enthusiasm.

[@daboys1215]

The pilot episode. "Give Me a Ring Sometime" Originally aired September 30, 1982.

[@SaraHouck461]

I first saw this episode 20 years ago, when it was added to Nick-at-Nite’s lineup.

[@daboys1215]

@@SaraHouck461 I first saw this episode 39 years ago. Damn.

[@harsesishoktar9386]

He desperately regretted that.

[@marisalombardi385]

Carla's abusing behaviour was the only thing I detested in this show...

[@abacab87]

Sam and Diane were a toxic couple, seems kind of absurd now that I look back. Sam could do better.

[@suestowers7732]

WOW! funny!

[@Dane_Youssef]

The biggest mistake of Malone's life, right after picking up that first beer when things were going so well...

[@shanefolan]

defo not a mistake, he had very good times with her

[@lnl3237]

@@shanefolan I stopped watching Cheers religiously after Shelley Long left. Did Sam ever seriously fall in love with anyone else over the next 6 seasons? In the end, I know the writers determined the bar was the true love of Sam's life, but was Diane the only one who nudged him beyond lust?

[@shanefolan]

@@lnl3237 Pretty much yes, I too did not watch religiously after long left but yes after season six they never took Sam's character in that deep direction again where he was so committed to a woman as they didn't want to just repeat the format and wanted to take the show in a new direction. So yes Diane was the love of his life when it comes to all his women. From season six Sam was rejuvenated again so that he was more about bouncing from one women to the next and he had something with Rebecca but it was far from the level it was with Diane. The writers had pretty much ran out of ideas for him by the end though and wanted to keep him as a lady's man but danson said in interviews this was one of the major reasons why he left as by the end danson and Sam was in his mid 40s and he thought it was sad and cringy for Sam to be still acting like a young sports jock lothario in middle age and chasing women now young enough to be his daughter. The plan for season 12 was for him to become like he was in season one again but danson refused as he said that at Sam's age such behaviour was more pathetic, sad and creepy rather than being cool and admirable.

[@raybon7939]

the Gilded age.

[@deannatwedt7774]

"Nothing!"

[@CCoburn3]

I always liked Diane better than Rebecca. (I actually had to go luck up her name. I was going to just call her the chick with the dark hair.)

[@shanefolan]

what is quite interesting i think here is how much better shelley long gets as the show progresses than here in her early days- much more glamorous, groomed and generally hotter looking. I always wondered was it because of her fame and wealth from the show's success which means she had more stylists/cash etc at her side or was it because she was supposed to be the femme fatale pretty girl in the show that we had from season 2 onwards.She evolved from pretty average looking to pretty hot.

[@creoleladee]

Didn't see this show in it's entirety. For what reason was Diane going away for six months?

[@edsonpacheco294]

To become a successful writer

[@fransbuijs808]

@@edsonpacheco294 Which didn't work out. Until her editor suggested she'd skip a few thousand pages.

[@loveldlu426]

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[@incrediblehulk5269]

Hello,Everyone.

[@jaxcaulfield7071]

When bar's were good value! Don't you remember that Incredible Hulk?

[@schechter01]

Did you smash some puny human?

[@ebrahimrafatjah9815]

NORM

[@fransbuijs808]

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