Cheers - The Complete Second Season | 
| Director: James Burrows
Actors: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Kirstie Alley, George Wendt, Nicholas Colasanto
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 4951
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 539 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.9
MPN: 097360569346
ISBN: 0792195604
UPC: 097360569346
EAN: 9780792195603
ASIN: B0000E32X2
Theatrical Release Date: September 30, 1982
Release Date: January 6, 2004
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Product Description
The adventures of the owners, operators and patrons of the cozy Boston bar called Cheers.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 20-MAR-2007
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com
It looks great: season two of the situation comedy many consider the best ever produced on American television has a superb presentation on this DVD collection. The colors are rich, the images sharp--a vast improvement over those murky reruns in perpetual TV syndication. Then, of course, there are the consistently brilliant episodes from Cheers' sophomore year. Despite its low-rated debut in 1982, the ensemble farce set in a Boston bar confidently returned with several strong story arcs, including the turbulent, screwball romance between intellectual poseur Diane Chambers (Shelley Long) and affable primitive Sam Malone (Ted Danson), romantic conflicts for the sexually voracious and deeply cynical barmaid Carla (Rhea Perlman), and marital separation for beloved barfly Norm (George Wendt). With John Ratzenberger signing on as a full-time cast member (playing pompous jive-slinger and postman Cliff Claven), and those opaque one-liners by the clueless Coach (Nicholas Colasanto), Cheers was firing on all cylinders. Episode highlights include "They Call Me Mayday," in which talk-show personality Dick Cavett, playing himself, convinces Sam the public would be interested in the former major league pitcher's autobiography--a notion that throws the unpublished, would-be novelist Diane into disbelief. Also wonderful is "Where There's a Will," guest-starring George Gaynes as a rich, dying man who leaves the gang $100,000 on a paper napkin will. "No Help Wanted" finds Sam's friendship with down-on-his-luck accountant Norm strained when the latter has a go at the bar's books, while the great "Coach Buries a Grudge" features the addled, elder statesman of Cheers delivering a memorable eulogy for a friend after discovering the dead man had an affair with his wife. Opinions vary about the worthiness of Cheers' latter years (the show ended in 1993), but no one disputes the merit of its groundbreaking start. --Tom Keogh
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 One of the best, sit-coms ... June 23, 2009
John H. Borders (Louisville, KY United States)
.. is any year of the Cheers' series. One can argue-about the virtues/flaws of different seasons, of the show .. but Cheers is a perennial of great comic-type writing, direction, acting and enduring enjoyment .. IMHO.
cheers- the complete second season May 5, 2009
Marie K. Vannoy
I received my dvd very promptly and was in excellent condition. I would purchase from you all the time. Thank you for being a great company to order from.
Great transaction July 10, 2008
Debbie (Coos Bay, OR)
I again was very pleased at the promptness to get this shipped. It was to be a fathers day gift at the last minute and was thrilled it was available and it got to me so quick.
 A season worth owning November 6, 2006
Quality Quest
In season two the Cheers characters really gain traction as they continue to define and expand their individual characters. This season offers sharp writing and a very funny look at the doomed Sam/Diane mismatch romance. Coach (soon to be sorely missed following his death and replacement by Woody) is wonderfully confused in these episodes. Watching now, one realizes again what a quality cast was assembled for this show.
IT'S A LITTLE KNOWN FACT ....... September 18, 2006
Tara Plumeri (East Hampton, CT)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
During an interview found in the extras section of the DVD set, George Wendt explains that Cheers owes its life to a network executive who decided that they would show quality TV until the audience found it. Which is a good policy, given that most shows don't find their footing until their second season. Not to mention that in today's market, the show's first season, which topped out at number 13, would have likely seen them canned before a second season could begin.
By season two, Cheers knows exactly what it is. The characters have had their final tweaks, the relationships all laid out, and while the focus is on the love-hate relationship between Sam and Diane, the entire cast gets to shine, repeatedly. Stand outs include Rhea Perlman playing Carla's sex-fiend sister and Cliff standing up to a bar bully by displaying kung-fu skills he doesn't actually have. Round it out with a freaky fortune telling carnival scale and the appearances of Christopher Lloyd as a super-pretentious artist and Dan Hedaya as Carl's super-sleaze of an ex-husband, and this is the season where Cheers really takes off.
If only you could own a copy of it for yourself. Oh wait, you can :)
EXTRA FEATURES =
Strictly Top-Shelf: The Guys Behind the Bar (9:30 min.)
Largely culled from old Entertainment Tonight interview footage (from 1983!), the feature has Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Les Charles, Glen Charles, and James Burrow, talking specifically about the second season. To fill that out, contemporary footage with Ted Danson, George Wendt, and Rhea Perlman provides an interesting retrospective contrast. While mostly of interest to the big fans, the fact that Paramount went to the trouble to dig up twenty-year-old ET footage should be applauded.
That, and George Wendt explaining how several years of over-the-shoulder shots past him at Ted Danson has made it so that even today fans can recognize him from behind, is hilarious.
Cliff's Notes: The Wisdom of Cliff Clavin (4:00 min)
Similar to the compilation of Cliff-isms in the first season set, this one is peppered with some interview footage of George Wendt talking about working with John Ratzenberger. Not as much as one might like, but a nice garnish just the same.
Carla The Comeback Queen: Insults for Every Occasion (3:30)
Here it is a wacky compilation of Carla-isms. Which is good, as season two was a stellar season for Carla. Again, the recent interview footage found in the first featurette, in this case Ted Danson, is put in to add a little commentary to the collection of verbal hate!
Di Another Day: Diane Chambers from A-Z (3:35)
Ted Danson returns to kick off the last character scene compilation.
Gag Reel: Bloopers From Season 2 (4:24)
Oh, if only they'd done one for Season One. But I'm not picky. I'll take what I can get. In this case, you get almost five minutes of a fuzzy old video blooper collection. Every TV show has them, they just have to be found. Given that sometimes they are lost in a closet somewhere, it's always a treasure when a disc producer finds them and digs them out for the rest of us to see.
Of particular merit is getting to see Nicholas Colasanto (Coach) goofing around as himself, not as the character we most identify him
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