Need a Break From the Daily Madness? Everybody Knows a Cliff Clavin

I decided to buy into Netflix last week. It was mostly for my wife. She’s the TV-watcher. However, I noticed that Netflix has old and classic TV sitcoms. One of my favorite TV sitcoms was "Cheers," and they have it. So I watched a couple of episodes. It was as fun and funny as I remember. Still top shelf for sitcoms. I remembered one episode with Coach complaining about a guy who got hurt (I think the guy was injured in the bar). Coach was upset that the injured guy was whining about “intense pain.” Coach was mad that the guy wasn’t just gutting through the hurt. Coach explained that he owns the MLB record for “hit by pitch.” He perfected it. He explained how he made an art form of leaning into a pitch and taking the ball in the melon. He might have always been a lovable dummy, but more likely, his clueless mental state was due to being hit in the head so many times.

Another lovable character was Cliff Clavin. He was the know-it-all mailman who was always in the bar wearing his postal uniform. He was constantly adding useless information to a conversation. He was “Google” before Google. His character was mildly annoying because he was also saying something like:

Well, that isn’t entirely accurate, Normie [Norm Peterson, played by George Wendt]. Beer was first fermented around 12,000 years ago by hunter/gatherers.

But the character was also relatable and lovable.

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When "Cheers" ended and most of the actors turned out to be massive leftist scolds, it kind of soured me on watching the reruns, but I was heartened when John Ratzenberger turned out to be a conservative. I recently came across an article about Ratzenberger and his audition for the show.

While reuniting with his former Cheers castmates Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson on the Jan. 6 episode of their podcast, Where Everybody Knows Your Name, Ratzenberger, 77, recalled bombing his audition for the iconic NBC sitcom — and then saving it by pitching the “know-it-all” mailman he would go on to portray.
“So I was walking out the door, literally walking out the door — and I don't know whether this is my fantasy or it happened in reality — but I could have sworn that my 8x10 [headshot] was going like this into the wastebasket,” Ratzenberger recalled of the fateful audition.

Need a feel-good moment? Here’s Ratzenberger discussing his audition:

I’m not generally a fan of actors talking about themselves ( I grew up around actors), but this was a refreshing break from the madness. Thanks Cliffy!

Cheers!

So many Hollywood "stars" seem to have gone off the deep end and devoted themselves to far-left causes that regular Americans have no interest in.

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