hit the button too soon...

Your experience in pubs is fine... to be honest, dad never spent time in bars. There are plenty of other ways to get booze cheaper.

I rarely find sitcoms funny... MASH was an exception. Cosby, Seinfeld had their moments... and watching Christopher LLoyd in Taxi or Tony Shaloub in Wings was a blast.

The thing about Cheers is that there wasn't a single character that I would want as a friend. I have more in common with my Amish neighbors than I did with the type of folks written in that show or in Seinfeld.

The Cagney film The Time of Their Lives was more interesting; I never saw the Jackie Gleeson version.