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The Best Episodes of Cheers

Every episode of Cheers ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Cheers!

The Best Episodes of Cheers

The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.
  1. Background image for Dinner at Eight-ish
    9.1/10(8 votes)

    #1 - Dinner at Eight-ish

    S5:E20

    Frasier and Lilith invite Sam and Diane over for dinner to celebrate their first week of cohabitation. But things start going wrong when Lilith finds out Frasier and Diane were engaged, and she locks herself in the bathroom. Then Sam and Diane have an argument as well. Meanwhile Cliff agrees to babysit Carla's kids.

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  2. Background image for Abnormal Psychology
    9.0/10(6 votes)

    #2 - Abnormal Psychology

    S5:E4

    Diane tries to help Lilith, the lady psychologist attracted to Frasier, to soften her appearance and surprise Frasier during their television debate.

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    Director:James Burrows
  3. Background image for The Heart is a Lonely Snipe Hunter
    8.7/10(6 votes)

    #3 - The Heart is a Lonely Snipe Hunter

    S3:E14

    The guys take Frasier on a ""snipe"" hunt in the woods after Diane asks them to include the psychologist in their masculine pursuits.

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    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Norm, is That You?
    8.6/10(8 votes)

    #4 - Norm, is That You?

    S7:E6

    Norm tries to hide the fact that he's become an interior decorator.

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  5. Background image for One for the Road
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #5 - One for the Road

    S11:E25

    Whilst watching the National Cable Ace Awards, the gang sees ex-waitress Diane Chambers winning the award for best writing in a mini-series. This leads to Sam calling Diane to congratulate her, and to find out that she is married and has children. Sam tells her Diane that he too has a wife and kids, and invites Diane and her husband to visit them. Sam strongly believes Diane is lying and becomes really shocked when she walks into Cheers the following day to meet Mrs Malone. Meanwhile Rebecca's boyfriend Don proposes to her and she accidently says no, ends up heartbroken and agrees to play Sam's wife to fool Diane. Sam and Rebecca have dinner with Diane and her husband, Reed Manchester. During the dinner Don arrives and proposes to her again, and this time she manages to say yes! They leave the dinner, and Sam thinks he must look like a fool. Then Diane's husband turns out to be a fake when *his* husband Kevin appears!

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  6. Background image for Pick a Con... Any Con
    8.5/10(1.1k votes)

    #6 - Pick a Con... Any Con

    S1:E19

    Sam enlists Harry the conman to help fleece a card shark who cheated Coach out of a lot of money.

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  8. Background image for Young Dr. Weinstein
    8.5/10(6 votes)

    #7 - Young Dr. Weinstein

    S5:E7

    Stung by Diane's attitude, Sam tries to impress her by getting reservations at the most exclusive restaurant in Boston.

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  9. Background image for Thanksgiving Orphans
    8.5/10(6 votes)

    #8 - Thanksgiving Orphans

    S5:E9

    The gang gathers at Carla's house for a Thanksgiving dinner of frozen turkey and overdone peas.

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  10. Background image for Everyone Imitates Art
    8.5/10(6 votes)

    #9 - Everyone Imitates Art

    S5:E10

    Diane becomes obsessed with tracking down a poem she's sure Sam plagiarized and had published in a literary magazine that has repeatedly turned her work down.

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    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for An Old-Fashioned Wedding
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #10 - An Old-Fashioned Wedding

    S10:E25

    Woody and Kelly's wedding faces some funny obstacles, before and during the ceremony, including Sam's flirtation with a German guest who turns out to be married, the priest dying and Kelly's Uncle Roger having to perform the ceremony - but only if he is drunk, Rebecca having to ice the cake after insulting the kitchen staff, and Lilith having to sing to the guests in order to stop them, and Woody and Kelly, from finding out the disasters going on behind the scenes.

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    Director:James Burrows
  12. Background image for I Call Your Name
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #11 - I Call Your Name

    S3:E3

    Frasier asks Sam for some advice about his more intimate relationship with Diane and Cliff hides out from a vengeful fellow postal employee.

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  13. Background image for The Cape Cad
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #12 - The Cape Cad

    S5:E2

    Diane follows Sam to Cape Cod in an effort to ruin his weekend with another woman.

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    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Andy Cowan
  14. Background image for The Proposal
    8.3/10(6 votes)

    #13 - The Proposal

    S5:E1

    We finally found out who Sam's telephone proposal at the end of the last episode was to - Diane! But Diane fears that Sam is meerely on the rebound after breaking up with Janet, so asks him to repeat the proposal in a more romantic occasion, but when he does (on a boat), she refuses, causing Sam to make her walk the plank. Later Diane says she does want to get married, but Sam has now retracted the proposal.

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  15. Background image for Bidding on the Boys
    8.3/10(578 votes)

    #14 - Bidding on the Boys

    S6:E8

    Sam and Woody are up for bids at a charity auction but less than thrilled at their new ""owners.""

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    Director:Unknown
  16. Background image for Bar Wars VII: The Naked Prey
    8.3/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Bar Wars VII: The Naked Prey

    S11:E19

    It's the annual St. Patrick's Day battle of sales between Cheers and Gary's Olde Towne Tavern. Not only does Cheers lose the battle of the hi-jinx with an unsuspecting Woody taking the brunt of the battle, Cheers also loses the sales bet. Sam has finally had as much as he can take not only with the loss once again to Gary's but performing the most humiliating task he and the guys have had to endure due to the loss. Sam threatens Gary and decides to pull out one of the biggest guns he knows: Harry the Hat. Sam asks Harry to devise and execute the ultimate plan to beat Gary. Harry refuses. Despite Carla's assertion to take matters into her own hands, Sam finally gives up permanently to Gary. When Sam goes over to Gary's to wave the final white flag, he witnesses in horror what he believes is Carla's master plan. But what he witnesses is part of a deal Gary made with Rutherford Cunningham, who Sam knows better by another name.

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  17. Background image for Endless Slumper
    8.2/10(1.0k votes)

    #16 - Endless Slumper

    S1:E10

    Rick Walker, a friend of Sam, seeks his advice on how to end a losing streak.

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    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Sam Simon
  18. Background image for Showdown (2)
    8.2/10(907 votes)

    #17 - Showdown (2)

    S1:E22

    Diane's fascination with Sam's older brother brings their long simmering relationship to a boil when the sibling asks Diane to go to Paris with him.

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  19. Background image for Fairy Tales Can Come True
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #18 - Fairy Tales Can Come True

    S3:E4

    Cliff meets a woman during a costume party at Cheers that he likes very much, but he's afraid to see her again as himself.

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    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Sam Simon
  20. Background image for I Do, Adieu
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #19 - I Do, Adieu

    S5:E26

    Dr. Sumner Sloane returns to Cheers on Diane and Sam's wedding day to tell her that a publisher is interested in one of her class manuscripts if she can go to work immediately on rewrites.

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  21. Background image for The Big Kiss-Off
    8.2/10(549 votes)

    #20 - The Big Kiss-Off

    S6:E24

    Sam and Woody wager over who can be the first to plant a three-second kiss on Rebecca.

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  22. Background image for How to Win Friends and Electrocute People
    8.2/10(6 votes)

    #21 - How to Win Friends and Electrocute People

    S7:E7

    Cliff drastically alters his personality after no one from the bar comes to visit him during his hospital stay with appendicitis.

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  23. Background image for Golden Boyd
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #22 - Golden Boyd

    S7:E13

    Woody decides to steal Kelly, a rich snob's girl, away when the man humiliates him.

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    Director:James Burrows
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Sisterly Love
    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #23 - Sisterly Love

    S7:E21

    Sam tries to reconcile Rebecca and her sister.

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    Director:James Burrows
  25. Background image for The Two Faces of Norm
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #24 - The Two Faces of Norm

    S8:E5

    Norm invents a strict curmudgeon of a partner to boss around his easygoing paint crew while Sam goes crazy with concern after selling his precious 'Vette.

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  26. Background image for The Little Match Girl
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #25 - The Little Match Girl

    S11:E1

    Rebecca's smoking gets her into big trouble when she accidentally starts a fire in the bar, and blames it on faulty wiring.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Dinner at Eight-ish" is the best rated episode of "Cheers". It scored 9.1/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by James Burrows and written by Phoef Sutton, it aired on 2/26/1987. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Abnormal Psychology".