Cheers (TV Series) Rebound: Part 1 (1984) User Reviews

Frasier Sets Sail

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 14 August 2019]

Sam is off the wagon big time. He is drinking and carousing and leaving the bar to the fates. Diane has returned to her apartment after being in a sanitarium for a few months. The Coach is watching all this and is heartbroken. He goes to Diane and talks her into coming to Cheers. What transpires is touching and gut wrenching. We are also introduced to the man who will become a regular her and then on his own show, Frazier Crane.

Rebound: Part 1 (#3.1)

[ComedyFan2010 · 8/10 · 9 May 2014]

After several months after their break up Sam is getting drunk and partying again. Coach wants to help him and goes to Diane. She has been to a mental facility for several months and is now recovered. Agreeing with Coach to help Sam she bring a psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane to talk with Sam. He is also her new boyfriend.

A very promising season start. First if all it is interesting to see Sam being a drunk, we heard about it but now we see him do it, good job by Ted Danson.

And there is a new cast member that I am excited about. Kelsey Grammar as Dr. Frasier Crane. Watching the show now in 2014 I already know about this character and am looking forward to see more of him on this show.

"Why don't you say hello to him, right now?"

[pedroedro · 8/10 · 8 October 2019]

Cheers is back! The beggining of the third season is a very good way to start the year off, and also the introduction of a brand new character, what one might predict temporarily, but seeing this many years later, we already know it will be a main deal later. We are now a few months after the sudden break up of Sam and Diane at the end of last season, and he now turns to drinking, this was a very good idea in my opinion, it doesn't feel forced, for the first two seasons we have known Sam's problem with alcohol and we even got a few episodes about it, but we have never actually saw him in the state of drinking. Coach (which is hilarious with his tie, "MYTIE"!) sees Diane as his only solution as he points out "Diane, you're my last chance" to save Sam, of course. The side stories of Cliff going on a vacation that no one cares about, Carla not allowing Diane's name on the bar, and Norm trying to have a baby with Vera, are all very entertaining and solidified the episode as a whole (Norm : "The doctor says we might have to turn to drastic measures!.." Cliff "You mean..." Norm"Sleeping together") . This episodes ends although in a promising way, Diane talks Sam (with the help of the gang) to turn to a shrink, and Sam is mesmerized to see the shrink was always there, listening to his rebutals of why he didn't wanted a shrink (pretty clever idea). Here is where we are introduced to Frasier Kane, a doctor who is also revealed at the end to be Diane's new boyfriend. He seemed firm and astute, but let's see, he doesn't have more than a couple of lines in this one. I won't lie, if I didn't already know that his character would become a main regular character of the show until the end and even have a spin off series of great sucess, I probably woudn't have given this appearance a second thought, but hey, I can't unknow what I know, right? :D 8/10 ******** Peter Shelby

An Emotional Rollercoaster

[dgplatt-60121 · 10/10 · 10 March 2024]

By Season Three Cheers was on its way from being a critical favourite to a Nielsen ratings powerhouse. This season opener was a big chance to make an impact, and man, does it deliver.

Unlike the Season Two opener, we begin a few months after the events of the last episode. Sam has fallen off the wagon, hard, and it's not a pretty sight. Drunk Sam is convinced he's the life of the party, but nobody else is celebrating.

Meanwhile, Diane has just returned from a nervous "vacation" at a mental hospital. Coach persuades Diane to come back to Cheers, if only to help Sam. Sam is defiant about his drunkenness being "happy" drinking, and then two words change everything: "Hello, Sam."

Everyone from the showrunners to Kelsey Grammer himself swear that Frasier Crane was intended to appear in only a few episodes. Instead, he became one the shows's most durable creations, a testament to both the writers and Grammer.

For anyone who knows Frasier from his own show, it's startling to see him in his first appearance. Clean cut, soft spoken, calm - you would forgive a fan who says "my God, it's Niles!" He's also oddly intimidating to Sam, all the more so because (as we find out in the last scene) he's dating Diane. At first viewers didn't take to Frasier; Grammer was even threatened by strangers who hated him for "coming between Sam and Diane." But he's a crucial member of the "Ménage A Boobs," as Frasier himself will describe the love triangle in a future episode.

Of course it's all very funny. There's a great bit of business when both Carla react to the news that Diane is coming back by grabbing Coach's clip-on tie and throwing it on the ground. There's great dialogue ("your brain could find shelter in the shade of a snow pea.") There's not a lot going on other than the big drama - they establish Norm and Vera's season long quest to have a baby and Cliff's Florida obsession - but the show is still at the height of its powers.