Sometimes you want to go where your child isn’t torturing animals.
From 1982 to 1993, Cheers was America's television equivalent of the corner bar where everybody knows your name.
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Walk into any bar in America — or workplace, or grocery store — and start singing the Cheers theme song. Everyone will know all the words, right?
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Probably not — the full version of the theme song was rarely played on TV. It did however appear in this montage commemorating the 200th episode.
Let's take a closer look at those lyrics, courtesy of co-writers Gary Portnoy & Judy Hart Angelo:
Making your way in the world today
Takes everything you've got;
Taking a break from all your worries
Sure would help a lot.
Wouldn't you like to get away?
All those nights when you've got no lights,
The check is in the mail;
And your little angel
Hung the cat up by it's tail;
And your third fiance didn't show;
Sometimes you want to go
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
You want to be where you can see,
Our troubles are all the same;
You want to be where everybody knows your name.
Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee's dead;
The morning's looking bright;
And your shrink ran off to Europe,
And didn't even write;
And your husband wants to be a girl;
Be glad there's one place in the world
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
You want to go where people know,
People are all the same;
You want to go where everybody knows your name.
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came;
Where everybody knows your name,
And they're always glad you came...
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