CHEERS: Boys in the Bar

I'd put the first year of CHEERS up against the best year of any sitcom. Here's one David and I wrote for that year called BOYS IN THE BAR. We won a WGA award, a GLAAD award, and were nominated for an Emmy for it. Taken from the headlines when former Dodger player Glenn Burke announced that he was gay, it concerns small minded thinking and stereotypes. When Sam publicly supports his ex-roommate who comes out of the closet the Cheers patrons worry that the bar will go gay. Here's the full behind-the-scenes story of that episode. And here's the episode.