Movie connections for
"Cheers" (1982)

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Spin off

"The Tortellis" (1987)
"Frasier" (1993)

Referenced in

"St. Elsewhere: Cheers (#3.24)" (1985)
 -  Norm, Cliff, Carla, and the bar appear
"Saturday Night Live: George Wendt and Francis Ford Coppola/Philip Glass (#11.13)" (1986)
 -  Mentioned during the monologue
"The Golden Girls: The Housekeeper (#3.4)" (1987)
 -  The show is mentioned by name.
Mickey's 60th Birthday (1988) (TV)
 -  Mickey visits the set of this show
"The Golden Girls: Stan Takes a Wife (#4.10)" (1989)
 -  The show is mentioned by name.
"Saturday Night Live: Robert Wagner/Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville (#15.8)" (1989)
 -  Mentioned on Weekend Update
"Disneyland: Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration (#34.15)" (1990)
 -  Features Characters
"Wings: The Story of Joe (#2.2)" (1990)
 -  Norm and Cliff appear
"Growing Pains: Meet the Seavers (#6.21)" (1991)
 -  When Kirk Cameron and Chelsea Noble are talking to Ben as "themselves" they talk of his part getting smaller on the show and Kirk says he (Ben/Jeremy) doesn't want to go out like Shelley Long, a reference to her being fired from Cheers.
Doc Hollywood (1991)
"Saturday Night Live: Kirstie Alley/Tom Petty (#17.3)" (1991)
 -  Kirstie's cast mates from Cheers drop by
"Wings: Planes, Trains and Visiting Cranes (#3.16)" (1992)
 -  Frasier and Lilith visit Nantucket.
"Seinfeld: The Trip: Part 1 (#4.1)" (1992)
 -  an allusion on this series
"Mystery Science Theater 3000: Bride of the Monster (#5.23)" (1993)
 -  Joel and the bots: Norm!
"Saturday Night Live: Jason Alexander/Peter Gabriel (#18.17)" (1993)
 -  Final episode mentioned on Weekend Update
"Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Atomic Brain (#6.18)" (1993)
 -  Mike: (Five men enter a bar) Norm! Norm! Norm! Norm! Norm!
"Married with Children: The Worst Noel (#8.13)" (1993)
 -  It is announced that the final episode of this show is going to be shown on NBC for the 54th time.
Lunar: Eternal Blue (1994) (VG)
"Mystery Science Theater 3000: Code Name: Diamond Head (#7.8)" (1994)
 -  "Is this a bar where everybody knows your name?"
"The Simpsons: Homer Badman (#6.9)" (1994)
 -  One of Rock Bottom's corrections than flashes on the screen at super-speed reads "The "Cheers" gang is not a real gang."
"The Maxx: Episode #1/Episode #2 (#1.1)" (1995)
 -  The Maxx makes mention of Cheers.
"Frasier: The Show Where Diane Comes Back (#3.14)" (1996)
 -  Diane and Frasier reference events that occured on Cheers.
The Late Shift (1996) (TV)
"Married with Children: Enemies (#10.23)" (1996)
 -  The cook describes his diner as the place where everybody knows your name but is still rude to you.
"NewsRadio: Movie Star (#3.8)" (1996)
 -  Dave says he lost a year's worth of Cheers reading Anna Karenina
The Evening Star (1996)
"Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Pumaman (#10.3)" (1998)
 -  Servo: "Cliff Clavin! Hey, Cliffie!"
"Friends: The One with Ross's Wedding: Part 1 (#4.23)" (1998)
 -  After watching "Cheers", Joey later describes home as the place where everybody knows your name
"Mystery Science Theater 3000: Hobgoblins (#10.7)" (1998)
 -  "Is that Coach's brother?"
The Real Howard Spitz (1998)
 -  Howard Spitz, played by Kelsey Grammer, says, "Writing a sitcom's not hard. You just have a married couple, a bar in Boston or a psychiatrist on the radio." This is a reference to both "Cheers" (1982) and "Frasier" (1993), both of which starred Grammer as Dr Frasier Crane.
"Mystery Science Theater 3000: Quest of the Delta Knights (#10.13)" (1998)
 -  Mike, Crow, Servo: Norm!
A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
"Dawson's Creek: The Kiss (#2.1)" (1998)
 -  Pacey: Sam and Diane didn't get together until at least the 4th Season.
"Saturday Night Live: David Spade/Eagle-Eye Cherry (#24.5)" (1998)
 -  Mentioned on The Hollywood Minute
Superstar (1999)
Behind the Scenes at 'Daria' (2000) (TV)
 -  Brittany Taylor's partial origins are explained here
Coyote Ugly (2000)
"E! True Hollywood Story: Cheers" (2000)
 -  Story tackles the tv series.
Chaos Rising: The Storm Around 'Natural Born Killers' (2001) (V)
 -  Referenced by title
Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002) (TV)
TV Guide 50 Best Shows of All Time: A 50th Anniversary Celebration (2002) (TV)
Lunes al sol, Los (2002)
The Perfect Pitch (2002) (TV)
Behind the Couch: The Making of 'Frasier' (2003) (V)
 -  Referenced by name
Setting the Bar: A Conversation with Ted Danson (2003) (V)
 -  Ted Danson discusses the show
"Saturday Night Live: Jack Black/John Mayer (#29.1)" (2003)
 -  Mentioned in Cat's in the Cradle skit
Frasier: Analyzing the Laughter (2004) (TV)
 -  References the events of the show
The Crane Brothers Remember Season 3 (2004) (V)
 -  Referenced by name
"Will & Grace: One Gay at a Time (#7.3)" (2004)
 -  Mentioned by Grace
"2004 World Series" (2004)
 -  A still from the opening credits of "Cheers" was shown during the closing credits
Red Dwarf: Dwarfing USA (2004) (V)
 -  Referenced by name
How It Began (2004) (V)
 -  mentioned once
World of Warcraft (2004) (VG)
 -  Pusher guy in Stormwind City yells "Come to the Blue Recluse (a bar), where everybody knows your name"; this clearly refers to the opening song of Cheers.
Grizzly Man (2005)
 -  Treadwell apparently became depressed after losing the role of the bartender on Cheers to Woody Harrelson
"Scrubs: My Life in Four Cameras (#4.17)" (2005)
 -  Referenced by name
"Fat Actress: Big Butts (#1.1)" (2005)
 -  The show is mentioned when Kirstie is talking to Jeff Zucker of NBC.
The Breakthrough Season (2005) (V)
 -  mentioned once
Standing Still (2005/II)
 -  Referenced in dialogue.
"Reno 911!: Cop School (#3.3)" (2005)
 -  Title referenced
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost & Found (2005) (TV)
 -  Mentioned by George Wendt (during archive footage)
"Brandy & Mr. Whiskers: Where Everybody Knows Your Shame (#2.8)" (2006)
 -  Episode title is derived from the theme song "Where Everybody Knows Your Name"
"Boston Legal: Desperately Seeking Shirley (#3.3)" (2006)
 -  Ivan Tiggs and Shirley Schmidt go out to dinner at Melville, the restaurant upstairs from Cheers
"Game K N B: (2006-10-12)" (2006)
 -  mentioned in the question.
"The Office: Diwali (#3.6)" (2006)
 -  Mentioned by Andy
"Saturday Night Live: Matthew Fox/Tenacious D (#32.7)" (2006)
 -  mentioned during the monologue
"Family Guy: Road to Rupert (#5.9)" (2007)
 -  Peter watches it on tv and pretends that he is in the show in place of Norm.
"Game K N B: (2007-02-21)" (2007)
 -  Mentioned in the multiple choice question regarding a TV show that stared Candice Bergen.
Café m/f Liebe (2007)
 -  The male character mentions a "John-Ratzenberger-George-Wendt-romance" according to the cafe, which is a reference to the two actors who made famous appereances in "Cheers"
"TMi: (#2.7)" (2007)
 -  Sam and Mark mime-sing the theme song at the piano
"30 Rock: Rosemary's Baby (#2.4)" (2007)
 -  Supposedly a spin off from "Supercomputer" (1975)
"The Apprentice: A Knight on Broadway (#7.4)" (2008)
 -  Marilu mentions this show when talking about David Hyde Pierce
"Howard Stern on Demand: Jay Thomas" (2008)
 -  Jay Thomas talks about his experiences on the show
"The O'Reilly Factor: (2008-02-26)" (2008)
 -  Bill makes reference to this show during a story about actress Kirstie Alley.
"The O'Reilly Factor: (2008-05-08)" (2008)
 -  Bill mentions a behind the scenes look at this sitcom will be show on Fridays 'Factor'.

Featured in

Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Cheers: 200th Anniversary Special (1990) (TV)
The 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1991) (TV)
 -  clips
Grand Canyon (1991)
Houseguest (1995)
"Friends: The One with Ross's Wedding: Part 1 (#4.23)" (1998)
 -  The title sequence is shown on a television screen
Behind the Laughs (1998) (TV)
 -  clips from this show are in this special
Influences: From Yesterday to Today (1999) (TV)
 -  clips from this show are in the special
The 'Frasier' Story (1999) (TV)
NBC 75th Anniversary Special (2002) (TV)
TV Guide 50 Best Shows of All Time: A 50th Anniversary Celebration (2002) (TV)
"I Love the '80s" (2002)
 -  Footage from this TV series was edited into this mini- series.
101 Biggest Celebrity Oops (2004) (TV)
 -  Oops called: Shelley Long: Bigger Than "Cheers" (1982)
"Retrosexual: The 80's" (2004)
"TV Land Confidential: Oddballs & Original Characters (#2.1)" (2007)
 -  clips
"The O'Reilly Factor: (2008-05-09)" (2008)
 -  Various clips of this show were featured during the 'American TV Icon' segment.

Spoofed in

"Saturday Night Live: Ted Danson/Luther Vandross (#14.12)" (1989)
 -  Spoofed during cold opening
"The Simpsons: Flaming Moe's (#3.10)" (1991)
 -  The opening credits sequence is spoofed herein. Additionally, Moe's claiming his waitress who left for a movie career would have been better off staying is a reference to Shelley Long leaving Cheers.
Smeers (1992) (V)
 -  adult parody
"The Golden Girls: Journey to the Center of Attention (#7.19)" (1992)
 -  This episode features a direct spoof of the "Norm" call when Blanche walks into the bar.
Bottoms Up (1993) (V)
"The Simpsons: Fear of Flying (#6.11)" (1994)
 -  entire cast of Cheers reprising their roles
Toy Story (1995)
Kingpin (1996)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Pro Skater 2 (2000) (VG)
 -  A replica of the bar ("Jeers") appears in the Boston level of the game
The Jedi Hunter (2002)
The Damn! Show (2005) (V)
 -  a skit titled "Queers" is a parody
The Emperor's New Groove 2: Kronk's New Groove (2005) (V)
 -  04:50: Where everybody knows my name
"How I Met Your Mother: Swarley (#2.7)" (2006)
 -  The ending scene has Barney aka Swarley enter the bar Norm-style. Even credits are altered with music and font.

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