I was looking over a "Where are they now?" feature our friends at AOL put together on the cast of Cheers, and a few of the mysteries of the long-running sitcom classic came to mind. These were head-scratchers big and small that made me wonder if the writers are the most clever geniuses ever to man a word processor (it was the '80s, after all) or, like in most sitcoms, consistency of story was the first thing to go if a good joke came up in the writers' room.I guess I should just go over to Ken Levine's blog and ask him, since he wrote for the show for many years. But if I did that, I wouldn't get paid for it. So, after the jump are the biggest Cheers mysteries, starting with the biggest and most obvious one:
(S04E11) ABC brought George Lopez back out of mothballs this week, so there was no 8:00 recap show. Instead, Tom and Samantha ran through the performances quickly at the beginning of the show. The best part of that was seeing Ian's reaction to the judge's comments last night. Much like many of the readers here, Ian didn't really understand where they were coming from. 
A&E is developing a sketch comedy show with actor George Wendt, most famous
for playing the pudgy guy in the movie House. The show, titled A Guy Walks Into a Bar, will feature
Wendt and actor George Gray (Junkyard Wars, Weakest Link) telling jokes in a bar as the jokes
themselves are acted out as sketches. Despite the network, this show sounds neither artsy nor entertaining. It may
be the worst idea for a sketch show since Kelsey Grammer's 
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