Cheers (TV Series) Any Friend of Diane's (1982) User Reviews

Any Friend of Diane's (#1.6)

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 2 April 2014]

Diane's friend comes by the bar. She is very sad and wants to get a man for some passion and targets Sam for it, Diane asks him to tell her no, but even after saying no he goes with her. Yet he changes his mind and it makes her even more depressed, so Diane gets Sam to come up with some excuses to make her friend feel better.

This was a pretty good episode. I wish the friend could have gotten her passionate sex adventure and enjoyed it like most women would, but it was filmed in the 80's and they also did a great job to make me believe that Diane mainly wants Sam to refuse because she wants him herself and not out of worry for her friend. Lots of great moments and funny ones too.

Sam & Diane Year Zero?

[dgplatt-60121 · 8/10 · 13 January 2024]

In Sam At Eleven we met Dave Richards played by Fred Dryer, who was a runner-up for the role of Sam. Here we meet Rebecca Prout played by Julia Duffy, who was a runner-up for Diane. Rebecca's botched date with Sam is a preview of what's to come for Sam and Diane.

Just as Dave was an extreme version of Sam, Rebecca is Diane with the volume turned up - snobbish, pretentious, and spouting poetry (in this case Russian). Rebecca has been dumped by her brainy fiancé, and decides to slum it with Sam. Diane is aghast, ostensibly because she fears Sam will love and leave Rebecca, but there's just a twinge of jealousy involved.

This episode is the first of many written by the team of Ken Levine and David Isaacs, who contributed to all but one season of the show. The writers solved a problem inherent in the first season: a staple of sitcoms is the mixup, and how do you do this with such a small set? Solution: send a character offstage to Melville's for change or to deliver drinks to the pool room.

Coach has a great little Abbott-and-Costello bit with Rebecca, and Sam's boredom with "Mother Russia" is funny. However, what makes this episode notable is the foreshadowing of the Sam and Diane relationship. It's only a matter of time...

Hilarious

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 5 August 2019]

The great Julia Duffy, who later starred in the "Newhart" show, plays Diane's boring academic friend She is beautiful, even with the glasses and the conservative clothes. She has been dumped by her also boring boyfriend and is looking for a caveman type. Enter Sam. This leads to a series of amazing events, the last of which is gut busting. This is what the show was all about.

Oh if Diane had connected lol

[scoonman · 26 August 2018]

When Rebecca left the office and Diane swung at Sam, if the timing had been off, Ted Danson would have been knocked out lol...

Any Friend of Diane's.

[bombersflyup · 3/10 · 3 January 2022]

Norm's side plot's funny for about 2 seconds, the time it takes him to finish his beer. Not buying this main plot, it's believable that Rebecca thinks that the two of them are together, because they essentially are, but not believable that Sam would leave. Things had already been stated out loud, now if he changed his mind because of Diane then that's another thing, but that's not what's being told here. The scenes in the office are okay and Sam yelling out no amusing as well.

Annoying episode

[ronnybee2112 · 5/10 · 23 December 2023]

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.