7.4/10451 votes#1 - Love Is a Really, Really, Perfectly Okay Thing
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1990
In the afterglow of their intimate encounter, Rebecca becomes determined to deny that it ever happened, to the gang at the bar, to Robin and to herself.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Phoef Sutton
7.5/10456 votes#2 - Cheers Fouls Out
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1990
Sam tries to beat Gary at his own game in a grudge basketball game by recruiting Boston Celtics' star Kevin McHale as a substitute bartender at Cheers.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.8/10492 votes#3 - Rebecca Redux
Season 9 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1990
Sam hires a new bar manager that everyone seems to like, then learns how low Rebecca has sunk in her pursuit of new employment.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Phoef Sutton
7.2/10439 votes#4 - Where Nobody Knows Your Name
Season 9 Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1990
Rebecca is secretly very upset when one of Robin's previous lovers goes public claiming to be his current affair.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Dan O'Shannon
7.4/10444 votes#5 - Ma Always Liked You Best
Season 9 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1990
Cliff gets very hurt and upset when his mother decides that Woody is the son she never had, and Norm gets caught in a window.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Dan O'Shannon
7.2/10452 votes#6 - Grease
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1990
Norm nearly has a cow when he hears that the Hungry Heifer is closing down, and mounts an all-out campaign to keep it going, while Rebecca frets over seeing Robin as he works in the street nearby as part of a road gang.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.7/10448 votes#7 - Breaking In Is Hard to Do
Season 9 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1990
Lilith and Frasier try to cope with the fact that their son needs more care from them while Rebecca and Carla try to figure out how Rebecca can pay Robin a conjugal visit in jail.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: Ken Levine, David Isaacs
7.4/10431 votes#8 - Bad Neighbor Sam
Season 9 Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1990
Sam initiates a feud with the new owner of Melville's, the restaurant upstairs when snobbish restaurateur John Hill buys the building.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.9/10462 votes#9 - Veggie-Boyd
Season 9 Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1990
Woody gets a big break when he's cast in a commercial for a new vegetable drink but Cliff just feels broken when the new trivia napkins upstage him.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
8.1/10485 votes#10 - Norm and Cliff's Excellent Adventure
Season 9 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1990
Woody gets hooked on a home television-shopping channel while Norm and Cliff start a fight between Sam and Frasier.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.7/10455 votes#11 - Woody Interruptus
Season 9 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1990
Kelly returns from Europe with a new French boyfriend and Cliff decides to have his head cryogenically frozen before he dies.
Director: James Burrows, Andy Ackerman
Writer: Ken Levine, David Isaacs
7.6/10465 votes#12 - Honor Thy Mother
Season 9 Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/1991
Carla's formidable mother demands on her deathbed that Carla name one of her children "Benito Mussolini."
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
6.9/10451 votes#13 - Achilles Hill
Season 9 Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1991
Sam decides to settle his feud with John Hill by dating the man's daughter and Carla fears that the foosball table is possessed.
Director: James Burrows, Andy Ackerman
Writer: Dan O'Shannon
7.5/10458 votes#14 - The Days of Wine and Neuroses (1)
Season 9 Episode 14 - Aired 1/24/1991
Rebecca parties hearty to hide her second thoughts after Robin finally pops the question and Frasier develops a passion for the new sing-along machine.
Director: James Burrows, Andy Ackerman
Writer: N/A
8.0/10473 votes#15 - Wedding Bell Blues (2)
Season 9 Episode 15 - Aired 1/31/1991
Rebecca awakens on her wedding morning raring to go, and seems determined to ignore Sam's attempts to remind her of her doubts, and Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield upstages Frasier.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.6/10455 votes#16 - I'm Getting My Act Together and Sticking It in Your Face
Season 9 Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/1991
Rebecca has trouble accepting the fact that she cancelled her wedding with Robin and Frasier translates Dickens' classic prose into Boston vernacular.
Director: James Burrows, Andy Ackerman
Writer: N/A
7.8/10457 votes#17 - Sam Time Next Year
Season 9 Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1991
On Valentine's Day, Sam winds up laid out due to back trouble on the 20th anniversary of his annual tryst with Lauren.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.4/10453 votes#18 - Crash of the Titans
Season 9 Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1991
Rebecca decides on a new goal in life and begins by flattering John Hill in an effort to get his lease for the bar.
Director: James Burrows, Andy Ackerman
Writer: Phoef Sutton
7.2/10435 votes#19 - It's a Wonderful Wife
Season 9 Episode 19 - Aired 2/28/1991
Norm develops a rich paranoia and decides to look for another bar when wife Vera gets a job upstairs at Melville's, and Lilith helps the gang celebrate Frasier's birthday.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.6/10434 votes#20 - Cheers Has Chili
Season 9 Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1991
Rebecca wants to serve Woody's chili in the poolroom despite Sam's heartfelt objections.
Director: James Burrows, Andy Ackerman
Writer: N/A
7.2/10438 votes#21 - Carla Loves Clavin
Season 9 Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/1991
Carla faces the hardest task of her life when she tries to be nice to Cliff after learning he's one of the judges for the Miss Boston Barmaid competition.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: Ken Levine, David Isaacs
7.6/10445 votes#22 - Pitch It Again, Sam
Season 9 Episode 22 - Aired 3/28/1991
Sam's old baseball rival shows up to goad Sam into a final round on the mound, but Sam isn't too sure he wants to go.
Director: James Burrows, Andy Ackerman
Writer: Dan O'Shannon
7.3/10436 votes#23 - Rat Girl
Season 9 Episode 23 - Aired 4/4/1991
Lilith grieves over the death of her favorite lab rat while bar support Paul proves an unlikely target for a sexy seduction.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
7.7/10446 votes#24 - Home Malone
Season 9 Episode 24 - Aired 4/25/1991
Sam enters a whole new world when he babysits for Frasier and Lilith, and Woody worries about Kelly when she goes to work at Cheers as part of a school project.
Director: Andy Ackerman
Writer: N/A
7.5/10443 votes#25 - Uncle Sam Wants You
Season 9 Episode 25 - Aired 5/2/1991
When Sam finds it difficult to back away from Frasier's son, he decides to have one of his own-if only he can find the right mommy.
Director: James Burrows
Writer: N/A
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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.
Genre:Comedy
Network:NBC
Season 9 Ratings Summary
"Love Is a Really, Really, Perfectly Okay Thing" is the best rated episode of "Cheers" season 9. It scored 7.4/10 based on 451 votes. Directed by James Burrows and written by Phoef Sutton, it aired on 9/20/1990. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Cheers Fouls Out".