33 Years After Cheers, Sitcoms Are Still Learning The Wrong Lesson From Sam & Diane

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Cheers established multiple sitcom benchmarks that television has spent decades trying to recreate: the perfect place to hang out, an ensemble that feels like family, and perhaps most influentially, the will-they, won't-they romance. Cheers famously struggled in the ratings during its first season and finished near the bottom, but NBC renewed it due to critical acclaim.

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