The Best Worst ep 1: Cheers

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Cheers

1982-1993

270 episodes

Let's start things off with a place where everyone knows your name.

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Hosts are Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Joseph Fink here with a surprise announcement. We have a new podcast made by me
0:05.1	with Make Bashwinner, Voice of the Nightfield Credits, and Deb, the Sentient Patch of Hays.
0:10.3	It is called The Best Worst. In it, we go through some of the most beloved shows in television
0:16.1	history, watching first the IMD be worst-rated and then the best-rated episodes.
0:22.1	What can we learn by watching great television at its best and at its worst?
0:26.4	What you were about to hear is our first episode, which covers the classic sitcom Cheers.
0:31.1	So, join us to explore the golden age of television at its best and at its worst.
0:36.1	The best worst is available wherever you listen to
0:39.0	podcasts.
0:41.7	Taking your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
0:51.3	Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot. Hello, and welcome to the very first episode of The Best Worst, a Celebration of the Best,
0:59.5	a Celebration of the Best and the Worst of the Television we love.
1:03.3	Hi, I'm Meg Bashwinner.
1:04.7	And I'm Joseph Fink.
1:05.7	And we love TV.
1:07.5	So we created the show to explore what we all love about popular TV shows by watching both the IMDB viewer best rated and worst rated episodes of a quintessential series.
1:18.6	We were talking a little bit last night about why we decided to do the show. And since this is the first episode, I thought it might be good to get into that. We have shifted how television works now.
1:29.2	It's all on streamers and everything is seven episodes long. And if it's a huge hit,
1:34.5	it might get as much as three seven episode seasons. And people really don't watch it.
1:39.8	Like we don't have a, we're out of the monoculture, right? So we all are not watching the same
1:44.7	episode of television. Like, the show we're talking about this week is Cheers and at its highest
1:49.6	ratings. It had 33.3, 33.9 million viewers to a show. Which is over 10% of the country
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