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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097361327341
Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: 132734
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Running Time: 629 minutes
Studio: Paramount
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Product Description:
It s the cozy little Boston bar where everybody knows your name welcome to CHEERS the Emmy® award-winning smash-hit television series that kept the laughs uncorked for 11 years.System Requirements:Running Time: 629 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097361327341 Manufacturer No: 132734
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Cheers: The Complete Ninth Season, like every season of the great NBC sitcom, is graced by a number of very funny episodes involving the going-nowhere denizens of a Boston bar. The year begins with Cheers' multi-millionaire owner Robin (Roger Rees) heading to a probable term in jail, selling the bar back to Sam (Ted Danson) and putting its manager, Rebecca (Kirstie Alley), who also happens to be Robin's girlfriend, out of work. But what's really interesting is the onset of Sam and Rebecca's intimate relationship at the same time, which ceases soon after it begins but leaves such a residual level of caring that Sam invites Rebecca to come back and work at Cheers when her fortunes flag. In the wonderful "Rebecca Redux," Sam hires an assistant (Bryan Clark) with a mythic all-American grin and such a good, positive thought for everyone that a near-mutiny develops among Cheers' customers when Rebecca replaces him upon her return. While the Rebecca-Sam-Robin relationship dynamic works itself out over the season, other perennial storylines pick up their threads from previous years. "Cheers Fouls Out" is the latest in a long line of mind games between Sam and the (unfortunately superior) Gary, owner of a rival bar that annually kicks Cheers' behind in a basketball game. This time, Gary comes up with a couple of redwood-tall ringers to go up against the likes of Norm (George Wendt) and Woody (Woody Harrelson), but Sam has a secret weapon: Kevin McHale of the Celtics. Not that Sam's luck can be expected to improve even with the odds seemingly in his favor.
Sam's gullibility rears itself in another episode, "Pitch It Again, Sam," in which failed Red Sox pitcher "Mayday" Malone is goaded into taking the mound once again in a duel with a veteran hitter. Hoping for the redemption of his dim, major league reputation, Sam encounters an unexpected challenge to his decency at the last moment. The hilarious "Rat Girl" finds Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) concerned when his psychiatrist wife, Lilith (Bebe Neuwirth), grieves so deeply following the death of her favorite lab rat that she carries its little corpse around in her purse. "Uncle Sam Wants You" begins an understated story thread about Sam's desire to be a father, while "Carla Loves Clavin" puts cynical barmaid Carla (Rhea Perlman) in the horrifying position of having to be nice to one of her favorite targets, blowhard Cliff (John Ratzenberger). Cliff's mom (Frances Sternhagen), by the way, shows up unexpectedly in the painfully funny "Ma Always Liked You Best," prodding at Cliff's newfound independence and stoking her son's jealousy by lavishing Woody with attention. "Bad Neighbor Sam" initiates Sam's long-running feud (which never works in Sam's favor) with the owner of a restaurant above Cheers. "Woody Interruptus" sees poor Woody upset by girlfriend Kelly (Jackie Swanson) returning from Europe with a boyfriend, while Cliff babbles on about having his head cryogenically frozen. It's life as usual at Cheers, and as always the show's community of misfits is a joy to behold. --Tom Keogh
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
I'm just curious why it took two years to release this season after the 8th was released. I mean know and heard of a whole lot of people including myself who enjoyed this sitcom. I just don't see how it could take 2 years to release any season of this show or any other great classic sitcom.
Rating:  -
I am a huge cheers fan and while the packaging doesnt match the previous seasons it doesnt take away from the show. I would like to have had some bonus features for the season such as outtakes etc. Other than that you can't go wrong buying this.
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While the change in packaging is not a great move, it does take less space in your library. Also the quality of the shows is superb. For someone who did not see the series the first time around, the supposed editing does not distract. Overall this season is better than the last ones.
Rating:  -
I was EXTREMELY disappointed in the cheap packaging of Season Nine and Ten. All of the others were nicely packaged and these two seasons came in a cheap plastic DVD holder! Had I known this in advance I may not have spent the money to buy them. I HOPE the final season is NOT packaged this way because I have pre-ordered it!
Rating: -
"Cheers" is my favorite television show of all time and one of the all-time best shows, but the show was starting to get stale by the ninth season. Still, a lesser season of Cheers is a great season.
Sam is back in charge of Cheers in this season and things feel normal after a few seasons of corporate ownership. It also featured the 200th show (hosted by John McLaughlin) and such classic sub-plots as Frasier reading Dickens to the Cheers gang and the short-term bartender Earl. As far as characters, the ninth season saw the introduction of Henri and John Allen Hill and the increased prominence of Paul Krapence (the same actor had a different name in earlier seasons). It also saw the (temporary) end of Robin Colcord as a featured character.
(One other note: Although many have complained about the new packaging, I prefer the slick and compact packaging of all give discs in one normal-sized DVD case to the large and bulky packaging of the previous seasons.)
Cheers was beginning to lose its luster, partly because Sam and Rebecca's relationship had "matured" to the point where they were true friends, but it still remained a fantastic show with a special cast. Although the overall quality of the show had begun to decline by this season, there are too many great jokes, episodes, and characters to give it any less than five stars.
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