Writer Mark Twain famously once said, “There is no such thing as a new idea.
We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.
We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations” (viaGoodReads).
As it turns out, the famed television show “Cheers” is no exception.
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Under: Where everybody knows your name?
Well, according to some, the answer is yes.
Under" debuted on a (very) local Massachusetts station (viaBoston magazine).
“It was pretty much a copy,” head writer Arnie Reisman told Boston magazine.
“We called over [local broadcaster] Bob Bennett and showed him the tape.
You watched all the red go to his face.
We thought he was going to burst a blood vessel.”
