Red Mosquito

If you really want want to nitpick two bartenders, a waitress, and a bar manager for six years probably isn’t a realistic staffing scenario.

Yes it is

Just finished a rewatch of the series. It had been quite some time since I had seen a lot of it. I’m sad it’s over. Now I miss it all over again. Really hoping they end up on the Frasier reboot at some point. I mean, he’s back in Boston now…

I never knew that this was apparently why Eddie LeBec (played by Jay Thomas) was killed off the show:
https://decider.com/2017/08/24/jay-thom ... illed-off/

…as Carla Tortelli’s hockey-playing husband Eddie LeBec. Thomas popped up 9 times between 1987 and 1989.

Eddie showed up a few more times in Season Six and Seven, but then something major happened off-camera in between April and November of 1989.

As Cheers scribe Ken Levine–the guy that added Eddie to the show–explained on his blog, Thomas got caught saying something on the radio that didn’t sit right with Rhea or the writer. Thomas, who also worked as a radio host while doing his guest roles on sitcoms, answered a caller’s question about being on Cheers. As Levine recalled, Thomas basically said, “It’s brutal. I have to kiss Rhea Perlman.” Legend has it that Rhea Perlman was listening at the time.

Yikes!

That was it for Eddie LeBec. When Cheers came back for Season Eight, Eddie was nowhere to be seen. The episode “Death Takes a Holiday on Ice” got rid of Eddie for good… Levine and his writing partner David Isaacs killed Eddie off-screen in a freak Zamboni accident.

Diane is one of the great villains in television history.