Actor Ted Danson admitted to having many beloved moments when making sitcom Cheers, but one in particular stood out to him.
The TV legend starred as publican Sam Malone on the long-running comedy in a role that propeled him to international stardom. Set in a Boston bar, Cheers aired on NBC for 11 seasons from 1982 and is considered one of the best TV comedies of all time.
Danson recently opened up about some memorable times making the sitcom on the January 8 episode of his podcast, Where Everybody Knows Your Name.
His guest, comedian John Ratzenberger, quizzed Danson about Cheers and asked him to recall some standout moments.
"I can't think of a time that wasn't my favorite it just seemed like it just got better and better," Danson admitted.
He explained how looked forward to the "the read through of the scripts," every Monday where the cast and crew would come together to go over that week's episode.
"They would send us the script on Friday or the weekend [but] I never opened it. I would go in to work not having read the script," Danson explained.
The actor described "it was like a little Christmas present" reading the script with everyone else and cherished what the show's writers created for them.
"I loved the way of the writing, you never saw it coming. Whereas most sitcoms, you could see it a mile away, you know it's going to happen. But with Cheers, you didn't, and so I just thought I got kicked outta that," Danson told the comedian.
Danson then shared another favorite time making Cheers, where he directed an episode that aired in 1988.
Titled And God Created Woodman, one of the subplots had bar regular Cliff selling the other customers and staff at the bar very fashionable shoes. But the problem was that the chic shoes made irritating squeaking noises every time they moved.
"It was an entire bar walking around looking at their feet with little hand held squeakers to make the shoes squeak," Danson began. "I had the prop guy, cut the squeakers [we used] out of toys, so that each actor had his own octave."
"Because I knew if they did it [squeaking noise] in postproduction, it'd be the same octave, the same sound which is not funny," Danson added. "You would have the actors in charge. If you look at the right hands of all the guys [in the episode], you'll see some people squeezing it."
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