I hadn't seen the earlier episodes of Cheers in quite awhile when I recently watched this 6th episode of the 1st season of Cheers. To be honest,I really didn't like it. Why not? The Diane Chambers character. Now I do like Shelly Long,she is a fine and talented actress. I sure didn't remember her Diane character being SO obnoxiously annoying ! I found her to be so absolutely insufferable in this episode that I almost quit watching it. Diane isn't funny in this episode,she is annoying. Very annoying. The writers really did over-do her Diane part in too-many of the episodes,this here is just one example. The writers could have toned-down Diane's snobbish and neurotic edge and made her character a lot-less obnoxious,it surely would have been much better. I also think it is impossible to believe that the Sam character would employ this pretentious, snobbish and phony Diane in his bar to begin with. He may have possibly hired her,but she couldn't have lasted longer than a day or two at Cheers,regardless of how well she can remember the orders of the customers. To then ask the viewer to also believe that Sam is romantically interested in this woman is absolutely ridiculous. The plot of this episode is pretty bland and the whole episode is below average. Watch it if you must,perhaps you will like it but I sure didn't. 5/10.
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