TV Theme Songs: Where Everybody Knows Your Name

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Starting tomorrow we’ll be singing along (or whistling along) to the top ten of my favorite television theme songs. So much for this alphabetizing thing! Oh, wait, I’m going to do that again next month with more movie songs…ones that weren’t nominated for Oscars. Meanwhile, sing along! Where Everybody Knows Your Name - Gary Portnoy NORM!!!!!!! My all-time favorite Norm-ism: “It’s a dog-eat-dog world and I’m wearing Milk-Bone underwear.” Let’s see…in the 60s we had a talking horse, a Martian, a genie, and a witch. Top that 80s. Cheers: Here, hold my beer. We have a recovering alcoholic owning a bar. The interesting thing about Cheers, to me, was that there were so many unlikeable characters. You usually need an antagonistic character (e.g., Frank Burns or Major Winchester on M*A*S*H), but the toxicity between lead characters Sam and Diane was a little — okay, a lot — too much for me, and there’d be weeks or months when I wouldn’t watch it. Even Carla (Rhea Perlman) and her acid-tongue barbs weren’t as bad as what Sam and Diane came up with. And yet, despite those opposites attracting and repelling simultaneously, we kept tuning in. Cheers is one of the classic television series of the 1980s. You aren’t asking, but I’ll tell you anyway: I think it rang rings around the two shows that preceded it on Thursday night (Cosby and Family Ties). For me, “Must-See TV” didn’t start until 9 PM with this show. And it had a great theme song to boot!!! Where Everybody Knows Your Name Written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo Recorded by Gary Portnoy From Cheers, 1982-93 Wouldn’t you like to get away: