ByRebecca Alter,
a staff writer who covers comedy and pop culture
Photo: Netflix and NBC
The youth on social media are all abuzzabout this new social-media-fluent documentary series about a bunch of middle-aged men drinking and talking in a subterranean Boston bar in the 1980s.
No, wait. That’s the 275-episode legacy sitcom Cheers, a show that is perilously close to Cheer in both title and Netflix listing, but could not be further from the addictive six-episode docuseries following the Navarro College cheerleading team as it prepares for a national competition. We know the difference, but do you?Take our quiz to find out how well you know your Sam Malone from your Monica Aldama.
Who Said It: Cheer or Cheers?
We give you a quote, you tell us which show it’s from!
Yup! We’re starting you off easy before we make you run drills.
Nah, we wouldn’t try to stump you yet. This is Navarro, through and through.
We’re not going to congratulate you for getting an easy one. Go run a lap.
No, this one’s from Cheers, but now that you mention it, we’d love to see George Wendt do a backflip.
Yes! Spoken by stunters Daniel and Alex training at the gym.
Could this have been spoken by or about Kelly’s flirtatious cousin Monika when she was aggressively hitting on Sam in the season-ten finale of Cheers? Sure. But it wasn’t!
That’s right! This is police chief and competitive-cheerleading fan Robert Johnson talking about historic Corsicana, Texas.
Gotcha! Granted, when you think “nice sign” and “brick streets,” the Cheers establishing shots probably come to mind before downtown Corsicana, Texas.
Yep, that’s Monica’s husband.
Nuh-uh. That’s Monica’s husband on Cheer. Sam Malone was a pitcher, not a catcher.
You got it! That’s Diane in the first-ever episode of Cheers, caught in a barroom debate about the sweatiest movie of all time. (Cool Hand Luke, for what it’s worth.)
The fact that this wasn’t said by an out-of-breath Jerry or Sherbs Sherburn in the middle of a grueling training session? Remarkable. No, that’s Diane in the very first episode of Cheers.
Correct! That’s Coach gushing about Sam.
Nope, that’s not one of Lexi or Jerry’s former coaches — it’s Coach from Cheers talking about Sam.
Indeed. The Navarro College bulldogs are nothing if not straight shooters.
You can practically hear the laugh track going off after Cliff says this, but no, this is classic Cheer.
We couldn’t trick you! Yup, that’s just some football talk on Cheers.
This could be La’Darius and Jerry in their dorm room talking cheerleading stats or who got mat. But it’s not. It’s just dudes talking Pats news on Cheers.
Correct. The sad reality at the heart of Cheer:You can’t take it far past Daytona.
No, this isn’t about Sam leaving sports. It’s about the beautiful, brief, shining moment in a young athlete’s life … known as Cheer.
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