The BEST episodes of Cheers season 9

Every episode of Cheers season 9, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Cheers season 9!

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.

Last Updated: 2/27/2024Network: NBCStatus: Ended
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Veggie-Boyd
star
7.91
171 votes

#1 - Veggie-Boyd

Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1990

Woody gets a big break when he's cast in a commercial for a new vegetable drink but Cliff just feels broken when the new trivia napkins upstage him.

Directors: James Burrows
Norm and Cliff's Excellent Adventure
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7.66
146 votes

#2 - Norm and Cliff's Excellent Adventure

Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1990

Woody gets hooked on a home television-shopping channel while Norm and Cliff start a fight between Sam and Frasier.

Directors: James Burrows
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Woody Interruptus
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7.63
150 votes

#3 - Woody Interruptus

Season 9 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1990

Kelly returns from Europe with a new French boyfriend and Cliff decides to have his head cryogenically frozen before he dies.

Directors: James Burrows
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I'm Getting My Act Together and Sticking it in Your Face
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7.63
151 votes

#4 - I'm Getting My Act Together and Sticking it in Your Face

Season 9 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/7/1991

Rebecca has trouble accepting the fact that she cancelled her wedding with Robin and Frasier translates Dickens' classic prose into Boston vernacular.

Directors: Andy Ackerman
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Breaking in is Hard to Do
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7.61
152 votes

#5 - Breaking in is Hard to Do

Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1990

Lilith and Frasier try to cope with the fact that their son needs more care from them while Rebecca and Carla try to figure out how Rebecca can pay Robin a conjugal visit in jail.

Directors: Andy Ackerman
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Bad Neighbor Sam
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7.60
180 votes

#6 - Bad Neighbor Sam

Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1990

Sam initiates a feud with the new owner of Melville's, the restaurant upstairs when snobbish restaurateur John Hill buys the building.

Directors: James Burrows
The Days of Wine and Neuroses (1)
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7.57
204 votes

#7 - The Days of Wine and Neuroses (1)

Season 9 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/24/1991

Rebecca parties hearty to hide her second thoughts after Robin finally pops the question and Frasier develops a passion for the new sing-along machine.

Directors: James Burrows
Bar Wars IV: Cheers Fouls Out
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7.51
158 votes

#8 - Bar Wars IV: Cheers Fouls Out

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/27/1990

Sam tries to beat Gary at his own game in a grudge basketball game by recruiting Boston Celtics' star Kevin McHale as a substitute bartender at Cheers.

Directors: James Burrows
Uncle Sam Wants You
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7.50
141 votes

#9 - Uncle Sam Wants You

Season 9 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/2/1991

When Sam finds it difficult to back away from Frasier's son, he decides to have one of his own-if only he can find the right mommy.

Directors: James Burrows
Carla Loves Clavin
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7.46
203 votes

#10 - Carla Loves Clavin

Season 9 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/1991

Carla faces the hardest task of her life when she tries to be nice to Cliff after learning he's one of the judges for the Miss Boston Barmaid competition.

Directors: James Burrows
Grease
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7.46
130 votes

#11 - Grease

Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1990

Norm nearly has a cow when he hears that the Hungry Heifer is closing down, and mounts an all-out campaign to keep it going, while Rebecca frets over seeing Robin as he works in the street nearby as part of a road gang.

Directors: James Burrows
Love is a Really, Really, Perfectly Okay Thing
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7.46
167 votes

#12 - Love is a Really, Really, Perfectly Okay Thing

Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1990

In the afterglow of their intimate encounter, Rebecca becomes determined to deny that it ever happened, to the gang at the bar, to Robin and to herself.

Directors: James Burrows
Writer: Phoef Sutton
Home Malone
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7.45
171 votes

#13 - Home Malone

Season 9 - Episode 24 - Aired 4/25/1991

Sam enters a whole new world when he babysits for Frasier and Lilith, and Woody worries about Kelly when she goes to work at Cheers as part of a school project.

Directors: Andy Ackerman
Pitch it Again, Sam
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7.43
148 votes

#14 - Pitch it Again, Sam

Season 9 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/28/1991

Sam's old baseball rival shows up to goad Sam into a final round on the mound, but Sam isn't too sure he wants to go.

Directors: James Burrows
Where Nobody Knows Your Name
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7.42
147 votes

#15 - Where Nobody Knows Your Name

Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/1990

Rebecca is secretly very upset when one of Robin's previous lovers goes public claiming to be his current affair.

Directors: Andy Ackerman
It's a Wonderful Wife
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7.42
178 votes

#16 - It's a Wonderful Wife

Season 9 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/28/1991

Norm develops a rich paranoia and decides to look for another bar when wife Vera gets a job upstairs at Melville's, and Lilith helps the gang celebrate Frasier's birthday.

Directors: James Burrows
Writer: Sue Herring
Wedding Bell Blues (2)
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7.41
180 votes

#17 - Wedding Bell Blues (2)

Season 9 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/31/1991

Rebecca awakens on her wedding morning raring to go, and seems determined to ignore Sam's attempts to remind her of her doubts, and Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield upstages Frasier.

Directors: James Burrows
Rebecca Redux
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7.40
182 votes

#18 - Rebecca Redux

Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1990

Sam hires a new bar manager that everyone seems to like, then learns how low Rebecca has sunk in her pursuit of new employment.

Ma Always Liked You Best
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7.38
151 votes

#19 - Ma Always Liked You Best

Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1990

Cliff gets very hurt and upset when his mother decides that Woody is the son she never had, and Norm gets caught in a window.

Directors: Andy Ackerman
Cheers Has Chili
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7.38
203 votes

#20 - Cheers Has Chili

Season 9 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/14/1991

Rebecca wants to serve Woody's chili in the poolroom despite Sam's heartfelt objections.

Directors: Andy Ackerman
Rat Girl
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7.37
178 votes

#21 - Rat Girl

Season 9 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/4/1991

Lilith grieves over the death of her favorite lab rat while bar support Paul proves an unlikely target for a sexy seduction.

Directors: James Burrows
Sam Time Next Year
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7.36
129 votes

#22 - Sam Time Next Year

Season 9 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/14/1991

On Valentine's Day, Sam winds up laid out due to back trouble on the 20th anniversary of his annual tryst with Lauren.

Directors: James Burrows
Achilles Hill
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7.33
181 votes

#23 - Achilles Hill

Season 9 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/10/1991

Sam decides to settle his feud with John Hill by dating the man's daughter and Carla fears that the foosball table is possessed.

Directors: Andy Ackerman
Crash of the Titans
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7.27
206 votes

#24 - Crash of the Titans

Season 9 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/21/1991

Rebecca decides on a new goal in life and begins by flattering John Hill in an effort to get his lease for the bar.

Directors: James Burrows
Honor Thy Mother
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7.23
172 votes

#25 - Honor Thy Mother

Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/3/1991

Carla's formidable mother demands on her deathbed that Carla name one of her children "Benito Mussolini."

Directors: James Burrows