Cheers: The Complete Second Season
by James Burrows
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Actor: John Ratzenberger, Nicholas Colasanto, Rhea Perlman, Shelley Long, Ted DansonDirector: James Burrows
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Writer: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
Writer: David Lloyd
Writer: Earl Pomerantz
Writer: Glen Charles
Writer: Heide Perlman
Writer: Ken Estin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Unknown; English (Original Language), Unknown
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 539 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Cheers: The Complete Second Season
Movie Review: IT'S A LITTLE KNOWN FACT .......
Summary: 5 Stars
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
Summary of Cheers: The Complete Second Season
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/10/2007 Rating: NrSimilar DVD Movies
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