The Tonight Show - "Cheers" Last Call
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- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno celebrates the last episode of Cheers with a live show from the Cheers bar in Boston. Jay does his best to hold the show together as his guests, the cast from Cheers, are all totally wasted. Local celebrities make cameo appearances. Episode aired May 20, 1993. Airs with original commercials.
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i actually appreciate that the commercials were left in :)
I remember seeing this live 😂😂😂😂 The Cheers cast was hammered. So great.
And they fully admit they were! Goin' out with bang! First and last time Leno ever did a live show.
I remember the aftermath of this being a huge deal because Leno couldn’t keep everyone in line and the drunkenness. But what did they expect, it’s late night and they are at a bar celebrating!
Major Trauma - No kidding, I was in my teens, never really watched Cheers, was kind of late to the party as far as nearly every significant pop culture thing from the 90's because I was a HUGE nerd, and the Only Thing I really remember about the Cheers finale was this spectacular fiasco of a Tonight Show. What a time.
1993 - Shock broadcast of drunk actors.
2023 - Your normal podcast.
I'm in the crowd. I was at the start of the red carpet behind the bleachers. Both Woody and Cliff have pictures of me . Woody was a bit of a mess hanging out of the sunroof. High -fives and all. Great time.
This really stuck with Leno over the years because to this day when he does interviews he mentions this episode as the worst Tonight Show they ever did and that they would never make the mistake of doing this sort of thing ever again.
Everyone was having Cheers parties across the country for the finale. I remember my uncles entire street all got together at his basement cinema to watch the finale. That’s how big Cheers was
They should have watched Seinfeld.
My parents let me stay up to watch it.
We did. It was ok. @@michaelb9537
@@michaelb9537The Cheers finale and Seinfeld finale both with monster ratings. Those were the days.
@@LAFancheers is one of my favourite comedies
About a week or so after this episode aired, Ted Danson came on the show to apologize for the cast being drunk.
Really it should have been the network apologizing to the actors since it seems obvious this would happen and they proceeded with it anyways because of the numbers it would pull in.
,,shoulda been Seinfeld
@@harrymarshall Cheers is so much better than that show.
@@bobbyjohns ,, depends, Seinfeld is about private internal cringe,, Cheers is about being today's doofus amongst a crowd of intermittent doofs that have their own private limelight stenches 🍺🥨 golly!! These pretzels, are making me thirsty ‼️🥵
You know what's funny is that if Jay Leno hadn't kept reminding everyone that the cast was drunk every 5min it really wouldn't have been *that* bad. lol 🤷♀️
☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻☝🏻💯💯💯💯💯 For. REAL.
I wish Conan or Letterman would have done this. Granted it was 1993 so not sure if Leno was the better option at the time….
@@creativejeans9983 Letterman was still on Late Night when this show aired. Leno was the only viable option as this was the final months of The Tonight Show's total monopoly of Late Night.
@@VaporCollector1992 NBC was not going to wait for 12:30 AM to give it a sendoff when the show meant so much to the network.
Incredible how big this show was.....this send off is unreal
Dunno how old you are obviously, but you've got to remember that there were only a handful of channels back then. Everything got viewing figures which the vast majority of shows would kill for nowadays. And a show that became a big hit like Cheers: we're talking more than thirty million viewers in the US per episode at its peak. Or around three times what Game of Thrones gets now.
Network television had a lot of great shows in the 90's and very few of them had finales that matched this kind of hype and viewership. Seinfeld and Friends similarly had very highly anticipated send offs but I can't think of any others that were in the same neighborhood as this. A lot of shows from this era clearly diminished and jumped the shark in their final years where a lot of people simply didn't care enough to consider the finale a must see. Cheers was smart to leave on top while they still had strong ratings but I believe this show probably had at least 1 more good year left in them.
It may not be a traditional sitcom, but one could put M*A*S*H up there with it.
Also, the show had an incredible 11 season run and the show started off as the lowest rated TV show during the 1982-83 season and the show rosed to number 1!
NBC in general wasn’t the same after 1993 with a number of hit shows leaving around 1992 and 1993.
@@a.b.s_productions Cheers was pretty much the last one standing from their 80s era generation by 92-93, it felt like a real changing of the guard when they left as the vibes from the 80s/early 90s were starting to be overtaken by the newer flavor of the mid 90s when the 93-94 TV season rolled around without Cheers to keep that old school energy alive.
RIP Kirstie…12-5-2022. Growing up this was my favorite show and still a great relief from the daily world. Hated to see the news about Kirstie passing.
R.I.P. Kirstie Alley (1951-2022)
@@niamhflynnshe'll always be Rebecca Howe to us cheers fans
It is so gratifying to watch all these funny people ignore Jay Leno.
Leno is such a tightass. Conan hadn't even started his show yet but hed still have handled this like a pro... Conan can do improv. Jay couldnt adlib a fart after a baked bean dinner.
Apparently, according to Ted Danson, George Wendt and Woody Harrelson, it was Jay Leno's first live feature broadcast, and the entire cast got into a lot of trouble the next day for "making Jay look bad", and the three surmised that it was for this reason Leno probably didn't do many live specials after that.
Wendt----"I didn't see our finale, taped Seinfeld instead"
During the first three seasons a gang of us began watching at The Bull and Finch. It started with the summer reruns of season 1. We all worked in the area and would come in eat, have a drink, watch the show then go home. At first it wasn't very crowded but by season three we couldn't get seats anymore. It all ended on a Thursday in October when we were told there was a half hour wait to get in so we all decided to call it quits. I went back a few times and even managed to get a seat on a couple of occasions but it was always so packed you couldn't get decent service.
A bunch of drunk actors in a bar. What could go wrong? Let's put it on national TV!
“Hey a Senator!”
I was 15yrs old in 1993 and I vividly remember watching this live and thinking it was hilarious and a bit shocking. Three decades later it's still funny AF but back in the early 90's seeing celebrities drunk on a late night talk show was rare & exciting. Nowadays it seems like a regular occurrence, especially on the Graham Norton show. lol
Same age as you. Didn’t get into cheers as much as I did with frasier.
For the most part the commercials was the best part of the show... what is amazing is that Leno managed to be so un-funny person for so many years. He was such a dud following the great Carson.
No Kirstie Alley, Shelly Long, or BeBe Neuwirth howver Paul was there and he was never even acknowledged. I saw him in the end when they were all singing.
Paul always gets left out.
Leno was just taking over from Carson after a big fight. I remember watching this. He lost control of the drunken crowd and drunken Cheers stars. 🥴
Leno took over from Carson exactly one year before.
Thanks for posting. I have this on VHS too. What great memories and great time for TV. The early 90s was just great. The last 2 season of Cheers really had this party atmosphere. Syndicated re-runs were awesome too.
I loved the later seasons of Cheers too, it would've been interesting to see what a 12th season would've been like had they returned for 93-94.
Monologue was lacking. But the commercials are bringing back some memories. Thanks!
What a trip! And those early 90’s commercials!
SO many car commercials wow
I've gone through the entire 11 seasons of cheers but the finale because I wanted to watch this first, thank you. And I love the show Cheers. Glad I got to experience this iconic show
Just sat here and watched this whole thing. Man, even the commercials were better back then...
I don’t know how many times I have watched the reruns of Cheers…I mean each and every episode, and it still resonates with me of a place where I would go to see people like these great characters. Oddly the show was wholesome in such a way that you didn’t have drunks in the bar. The foul language was nonexistent, and the atmosphere was inviting.
This was the first time ever for me to see this Tonight Show, where they brought the cast in for what seemed like a huge party send off. And I’m not ashamed to say that when they sang the theme song, and the crowd joined in,I cried. It was so touching.
One day I will try to have a collection of the shows so that I can watch them whenever. May we all have a place like Cheers, where everybody knows your name.
My wife and I where there. Such a fun night.
Did the cast take photos with fans?
@@Lance514 i don't remember them doing that. I remember them up on the balcony completely drunk out of their minds and Jay tring to interview them seemed futile. lol
Awesome!!!!!!!
@@markallendor6237that's awesome
I like how Bob Costas is introducing Jay Leno to Boston sports legends forgetting Jay is a born and bred Bostonian . Bob must think Jay lived on the left coast and this was his first time in Beantown 🤦♂️
I didn't have a ticket, but managed to see Jay Leno lookiing frustrated from the back alley of the Bull and Finch.
I hated Leno with his constant political agenda.
I was in 7th grade and lived in the Boston suburbs when Cheers wrapped and remember watching this and being so confused at how the cast was acting. Looking back, I think that may have been my introduction to intoxication. Lol!
If so, then it was a funny introduction.
Man, poor Jay got his ass handed to him
Wish Bebe would have been there.
55:42 you have one of the greatest theme songs in television history.
This was an abomination.
I've always wanted to watch this, so thank you for posting!
Man this was real tv, this is magic. What a send off
The kirstie alley bit is fucken unreal. So unhinged lol
I was there that night. It's a special memory, for sure.
Jay was not very flexible. Letterman would have handled it much better!
Leno's opening monolog reminds me of how baffled I was by his popularity.
hey Yo,
he sounds nervous and yelling.
Also, he doesn't confidence in his own jokes.....
💯
He’s a mediocre talent at best.
@@thefonzkiss LOL mediocre talents don't last 2 decades at #1 in the ratings. Try again.
He was terrific, very fast and very funny and he was able to take took political swipes at both sides and still be funny.
At the very least, he was better than ANY talk show host we seen in the past 12 years.
The jurassic park commercial brought back some memories.i remember so many of these commercials.
One thing about the commercials;
No web addresses. The Web went online a few months before this show aired.
Kelsey Grammer knowing his series is about to premiere in a few months: 🤐
Frank Viola had started a game that night against the defending World Champion Blue Jays, I’m kind of surprised he just went over to the bar and hung out there after the game. Wade Boggs was with the Yankees in 1993 and they had a day off before starting a weekend three game series against the Red Sox at Fenway the next night.
What a show, brilliant. What a nightmare for Jay!
I was in high school when this aired in 1993. I am now older than the cast of Cheers, THAT is.....sobering. Sigh. Also a wake up call to real life bars and pubs as I started to frequent them in the late 90s and 2000s, and shockingly found out they are nothing like Cheers. The writing of Cheers was razor sharp, but the middle aged patrons were off the mark, granted I know the actors were younger when the show started in 1982, but it's rare to see a middle aged guy like Cliff Clavin or Norm Peterson in a business suit in there, it's more the 20 something/early 30s party crowd, mostly an under 27 singles crowd. Three's Company's Regal Beagle got the customers of a bar setting more accurate, true to life, yeah sure Mr. Furley or Mr. Roper could show up at a bar, but they stuck out like a sore thumb.
Lol, they’re all fucking tanked.... and with Jay being so bad, it’s such a bad interview.
I got crazy nostalgia during that Jurassic Park commercial, though... even though they kind of spoil the most special part - the reveal of the brachiosaurus.
40:40 - Boy, did they get Frasier's After-Cheers life very wrong. We all know what happened to him after the show ended.
This is something that Johnny Carson would've NEVER done... first, while he did the shows "live to tape", doing them actually live, he would've NEVER done. Carson was fond of the drink, but he would hate being surrounded by all these people. Johnny did the 10th anniversary show on a different set with oversized chairs and small tables. It was the first anniversary special he ever did, and there were no clips, because at that time, it was believed that the Tonight Show episodes from those last 10 years were all destroyed, which upset Carson. In any case, Johnny didn't like doing the show on a different set, where he had no desk, and he kind of looked like Edith Ann sitting in the oversized chair. Thankfully, someone happened to find a large number of old Tonight Shows stored away... someone was saving some of the funnier moments and those got played again and again in future specials.
Talk about digression lol
Johnny would've been right. This show was a train wreck and wasn't particularly good unless you're a huge fan of cheers.
Thanks for keeping the commercials!
I miss both Cheers and The Tonight Show.
With Johnny!!!!!!!
TV used to be BIG! 😄
I like how Jay totally blew off Ratzenberger when he first walked in.
still have the cheers trivia game. This show ending was a huge deal, dont think weve seen the likes of it since, outside of seinfeld possibly.
I hate Jay Leno. Yuck . Lol. I wish anybody else could have done this
Oxbow Incident - a Henry Fonda western about the lynching of a group of innocent men.
This interview is a perfect representation of what it’s like being a teacher when kids don’t listen 😂
Norm and Woody were the most bombed and could care less... they almost seemed ready to get a room together... and Sam was just NOT interested in Leno...
couldN'T care less...
Unless you mean they DO care some.
I miss better times in the world.
Well it wasn't. I can get nostalgic too but things just weren't better in the old days. They were simpler yes. But people also got away with murder back then. Just think of how many serial killers there were Vs now. And how it was hard to get a creative job or being able to live as an artist. Weed was illegal. Racism among cops. USA invading Kuwait starting the whole middle East debacle that lead up to 9/11. Russia in chaos. We were just less informed about what was going on and lived more in our small bubbles. So simpler times doesn't make them better.
@@eltoro969 Oh. Ok.
@@eltoro969 Being less informed isn't necessarily a bad thing, perception vs reality. Nothing you could of done to change any events from the past, so why dwell on them ?
Wow this monologue is lamer than I remembered!
I listened and hear Cheers Theme Song on The Tonight Show for Last Call. Rest in Peace, Kirstie Alley
This was one of my favorite shows on Thursday nights....
Right at the end of the cheers and after Cheers, that was a poke at Letterman
Is that your wife or your daughter? Lol
What a finale party ! What a great send off seriously. Never see this happen again sadly
Wow. Video evidence that Jay Leno was a dreadful mistake.
2 decades at #1 in the ratings. That is proof he was the right choice and that you have no clue what you are talking about.
what were the patriots back then? kinda like they are today ;)
It's scary how much John Ratzenberger resembles my friend's dad
Because he is their dad?
Leno’s monologue was bad but they didn’t give him anything and he seemed nervous
Leno's worst stand up ever and it too bad it happened on the Cheers finally season special Tonight Show. Boo Leno Booooooooooo!!!!!!
Richard Monaghan
Leno was always crap
I remember watching this on a NBC affiliate I was my Grandma's House in Atlanta, Georgia from January through July 1993
DeAngelo Stevens I think we all watched it at grandmas house lol
That would have been WXIA-TV 11 Alive.
@@michaelglickman1300 You're right
COMBOS still going strong!
Amazing show. No Diane, No Rebecca... come on! good stuff though. Time machine this.
I noticed Paul there in the end
In 1991. the company I worked for got the gig to paint the interior. It was a bitch of a job.
When you look up "train wreck" in the dictionary, they just refer you this show.
Amazing how much more poised & polished of a broadcaster Bob Costas is than Jay Leno.
Might be because Bob Costa is a broadcaster, and Jay Leno is a stand up comedian.
Letterman shot at the end of Cheers/After Cheers
This was a trip. Loved it.
The Clinton stuff was out of place for this.
The jurassic park commercial brought back some memories.i remember so many of these commercials.
My god, Leno was awful.
I take it they REALLY didn't like Kirstie Alley, just flat out chanting "STUPID!" and her for that Bizarro Cheers Gang gag. I could see them doing that to Shelley Long, but not her.
Started watching for the first time in many years since hearing of Kirstie's passing. Every episode brings back great memories.
all sooo drunk..... LOL ; )
'Cheers Davidians'. Almost forgot about that thing.
WACO reference iykyk
That camaro still looks sweet! thanks for uploading the special.
41:35 - "Hey, at least we didn't lose them to CBS!"
Or ABC either. I just can't imagine "Cheers" being on any other network besides NBC.
NBC had no other sitcoms anyone watched except *Gimme A Break, Diff’rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, Silver Spoons,* and *Family Ties.* Those were still overshadowed by dramas and action shows, namely *Dallas, Hill Street Blues, Magnum PI,* and *Dynasty,* and by CBS’s remaining 1970s sitcom holdovers like *MASH, One Day at a Time, Alice,* and *The Jeffersons* plus what was left of *Happy Days* (which managed to outlive all its spinoffs) and *Three’s Company* on ABC with *Taxi* jumping networks to avoid competing with Gary Coleman. Thus NBC was more inclined to take a chance on a show that they knew would thrive if given enough time to build an audience. The other two networks would have gotten impatient and demanded instant success. Even NBC now seems to have forgotten the lesson of this show’s slow-and-steady journey to the top of the ratings.
The same year the show premiered, NBC’s top rated show was *The A-Team.* That show was gone before Shelley Long was gone from this one.
Actually, that's a shot at Letterman who just left NBC at the same time for CBS to do the Late Show.
Sitcoms will never be that big again.
So I was only a kid when the show was on but I have been there and it is really cool
Hard to believe this was nearly a year after Jay Leno succeeded Johnny Carson on _The Tonight Show._
Aaron Handy III you could see Leno’s frustration
And a year after Johnny Carson was guested on “Cheers” in an episode called “Here’s Cliffy”.
Hard to believe that this was the Thursday before Jurassic Park
Why is that hard to believe?
@@mikew12261I thought the same thing.
What’s so hard to believe about it??
I wasn’t even born yet when this happened, but looking at this looks to be like the drunkest event in the history of television. Great stuff.
You should see New Year’s Eve.
It was so great seeing this LIVE. Great memories. 😂
Gosh how much of Boston was shut down for this? 😂
Kirstie was not there because she was filming “look who’s talking now.” That was quite an abysmal movie, and I’m sure she regrets it.
Advertisements have come a long way since the early nineties.
Yeah, straight into the dumper.
All I come away with after watching all that is: Shelley Long is a dope.
❤ wow! I had never seen this!! Amazing. The commercials are the BEST!
I don't know about anyone else but the first movie I went to as a kid was Jurassic Park, what an introduction to movies at the theater, my goodness
Jay Leno is so annoying. He might be funny, but I can't get past how annoying his voice and delivery is.
Kids today will never know...
Wtf is wrong with American tv. There’s more commercials than actual show
Because corperations own the airwaves...air time costs money unfortunatly but to keep the entertainers employed it needs to be done
Nah. It's only in US TV was like that. In Europe commercials usually came every 30 minutes.
I'm just here 4 the mustard filled pretzels,, 😏
"It's all we've got!" Um, Seinfeld?
Loved cheers