The BEST episodes of Cheers season 2

Every episode of Cheers season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cheers season 2!

Sam, a former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, owns and runs Cheers, a cozy bar in Boston. Somewhat snobby, beautiful and intelligent Diane -- forced to become a waitress when her fiance jilts her -- constantly bickers with Sam. Eventually, they fall in love. Several wacky characters make the bar their home-away-from-home, including sarcastic waitress Carla, beer-loving Norm and Boston letter carrier Cliff.

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Old Flames
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7.59
360 votes

#1 - Old Flames

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1983

Sam's old buddy Dave Richards bets Sam he can break up his romance with Diane within 24 hours and it looks like a sure thing when Diane learns he still has his little black book.

Directors: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
Sumner's Return
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7.57
418 votes

#2 - Sumner's Return

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1983

Diane's intellectual former fiance returns to reclaim her and puts Sam into an anxiety attack when he tries to measure up by reading Tolstoy.

Directors: James Burrows
Homicidal Ham
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7.53
374 votes

#3 - Homicidal Ham

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1983

Andy, the ex-con Sam arranged as a blind date for Diane, returns to Cheers to show off his acting ability.

Directors: James Burrows
Writer: David Lloyd
Affairs of the Heart
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7.49
378 votes

#4 - Affairs of the Heart

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1983

Carla rejects a man interested in her romantically, convinced that he must have some "fatal flaw" to find her attractive.

Directors: James Burrows
Manager Coach
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7.35
386 votes

#5 - Manager Coach

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1983

Coach becomes a slave driver when he's put in charge of Little League team.

Directors: James Burrows
How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Call You Back
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7.31
385 votes

#6 - How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Call You Back

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1983

Sam casually tells Diane he loves her and sends her deep into an introspective analysis of their relationship.

Directors: James Burrows
Little Sister Don't Cha
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7.31
439 votes

#7 - Little Sister Don't Cha

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/1983

Carla goes on a maternity leave and is replaced by her supposedly shy and innocent sister.

Directors: James Burrows
Snow Job
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7.28
337 votes

#8 - Snow Job

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/9/1984

Sam lies to Diane about the weekend he has planned chasing snow bunnies in Vermont.

Directors: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
Power Play
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7.24
434 votes

#9 - Power Play

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1983

The regular gang finds Sam and Diane's romance hard to believe, a view apparently shared by Diane, who throws Sam out of her apartment after only five minutes.

Directors: James Burrows
Fortune and Men's Weight
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7.23
320 votes

#10 - Fortune and Men's Weight

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/2/1984

Coach is conned into buying an old scale which also prints out fortunes, and the Cheers gang each see their fortunes - except for Diane, who thinks it is all a load of rubbish. Meanwhile, Norm and Vera make progress in their relationship.

Directors: James Burrows
Personal Business
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7.21
384 votes

#11 - Personal Business

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1983

Diane, angry at the implication that she couldn't hold a job anywhere but Cheers, leaves for better position and Norm leaves Vera.

Directors: James Burrows
Writer: Tom Reeder
Battle of the Exes
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7.21
351 votes

#12 - Battle of the Exes

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/5/1984

Not wanting to appear lonely and dateless whilst going to her ex-husband Nick's wedding ceremony to blonde bimbo Loretta, Carla asks Sam to accompany her.

Directors: James Burrows
And Coachie Makes Three
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7.20
377 votes

#13 - And Coachie Makes Three

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/19/1984

Sam and Diane want to spend some time alone together, but the lonely Coach keeps joining them, not realising he is spoiling things for them. Rather than hurt his feelings by asking him not to bother them, Sam and Diane decide to set him up with a woman so they will be left in peace.

Directors: James Burrows
No Help Wanted
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7.17
354 votes

#14 - No Help Wanted

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/12/1984

Sam regrets asking Norm to do his taxes when the out of work accountant comes up with a five figure refund.

Directors: James Burrows
Writer: Max Tash
Just Three Friends
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7.16
350 votes

#15 - Just Three Friends

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1983

Diane is at first incredulous then furious when it becomes apparent that Sam and her old school chum find each other very attractive.

Directors: James Burrows
Writer: David Lloyd
Cliff's Rocky Moment
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7.13
379 votes

#16 - Cliff's Rocky Moment

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/26/1984

Cliff's know-it-all attitude finally gets him into a fight with another patron.

Directors: James Burrows
Writer: David Lloyd
They Called Me Mayday
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7.07
348 votes

#17 - They Called Me Mayday

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1983

Sam and Diane go to work after Dick Cavett suggests that Sam's autobiography might sell and Norm confronts an old flame of Vera's who's interested in her again.

Directors: James Burrows
Writer: David Angell
Norman's Conquest
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7.03
335 votes

#18 - Norman's Conquest

Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/23/1984

The regulars push Norm into pursuing an attractive new client who seems to be interested in him.

Directors: James Burrows
Writer: Lissa Levin
I'll Be Seeing You (2)
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7.01
344 votes

#19 - I'll Be Seeing You (2)

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/1984

Directors: James Burrows
Where There's a Will...
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6.98
411 votes

#20 - Where There's a Will...

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/1983

Sam lets a dying man tend bar just for fun, but the man leaves the bar patrons $100,000 in a paper napkin will.

Directors: James Burrows
Writer: Nick Arnold
Coach Buries a Grudge
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6.89
330 votes

#21 - Coach Buries a Grudge

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/16/1984

An old friend of Coach has died and Coach decides to hold a memorial to him in the bar, inviting all their old friends. But then Coach discovers his late friend made a pass at his late wife.

Directors: James Burrows
Writer: David Lloyd
I'll Be Seeing You (1)
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6.82
343 votes

#22 - I'll Be Seeing You (1)

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/3/1984

Sam commissions a portrait of Diane from an artist so obnoxious that he soon forbids Diane to continue posing for him, an order Diane won't accept.

Directors: James Burrows