The Cheers strong set young newcomer Woody Harrelson to the examination when he arrived on board but uncovered he was just also difficult and sensible for it.

When Woody Harrelson arrived onto Cheers, he seasoned significant footwear to fill, serving as a replacement for Nicholas Colasanto and his character Coach following the actor’s loss of life prior to time 4. And his fellow bartenders and patrons didn’t decide on it quick on him, challenging him to tasks equally physically and mentally.

As Ted Danson (Sam Malone) not extended ago recalled on Conan O’Brien’s podcast (via EW), acquiring these sorts of a young man on the established authorized for some of his fellow forged associates to place him to the take a appear at. “Thirty-7 is when you understand you’re no more time 25 or 24. So it was far more not like hazing him, we just required to kick his ass in everything we could come across. We commenced with basketball and as you afterwards observed out in everyday living, he’s a truly excellent basketball player, so he kicked our asses there.” In other words, the white particular person could soar! Following that, John Ratzenberg (Cheers barfly Cliff Calvin) had his private actual physical trouble for Woody Harrelson…which he also dropped.

From there, the Cheers boys opted to give chess a shot, which it turned out Woody Harrelson was also specialist in. “To heck with this bodily stuff, we’re gonna beat him mentally. Killed us at chess. So this is all in the very first 7 days definitely. So from then on it was like, if you experienced some dreadful suggest prank to pull, you would not squander it on anybody else apart from Woody.”

In addition to beating down his forged, Woody Harrelson fared unbelievably nicely on Cheers, proving a purely all-natural in great shape for the sitcom and generating his mark on his quite 1st visual appeal. He later on received an Emmy for his function, the only a single in the cast to get the Supporting Actor honor throughout the show’s 11-season operate, a single specific a lot extra victory for Woody.

But even with all the hazing — and Woody Harrelson skipping the Cheers reunion at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards — there is no unfavorable blood in amongst the key strong. Danson and Harrelson will even hop back once more on the barstools for a new podcast titled Exactly exactly where Every particular person Is conscious Your Identify.

Were becoming you a admirer of Woody Harrelson on Cheers? How do you think about he did as a option character?