CHEERS Edit on Hallmark Channel

CHEERS has always been one of my favorite sitcoms. In the 80's and 90's, it was popular enough that, in my area, you could watch it sometimes seven times a day. My local NBC affiliate on Thursday nights, after a new episode, would air a rerun at 9:30 instead of a new episode of WINGS.

So, I've seen each episode at least twenty times over the years.

In recent years however, I haven't seen it as often. My stations aren't showing it as much. And, while the series is out on DVD, I've been holding off waiting for a Complete Series set (but may have to give up on that as Paramount has yet to release one, and the series has been completed for over a year).

I happened to notice that the Hallmark Channel airs the show in marathons in the overnight hours. I've been setting my DVR to tape some of the better episodes.

I just watched the episode where Woody gets hooked on the Home Shopping Network. He begins to give Rebecca things that he has bought, like a plastic cow.

They then have this exchange.

REBECCA - "Oh Woody, I can't take this from you. What would people think?"

WOODY - "That I have a little crush on you?"

REBECCA - "No. That I like crap."

WOODY - "So, you think this is crap?"

REBECCA - "I'm sorry, Woody. It is crap."

WOODY - "That's okay. I was just looking for the right word. Yes, it is crap."

On the Hallmark Channel, each time they said "Crap", they dropped the audio!!

Now I have seen this episode many, many times. In syndication, my local channel would air the episode in the 4-5 PM timeslot. They never had a problem with it, and let it air the way it is.

Somehow, almost twenty years later, times are different, and you can no longer say "crap" on an episode that aired, on Hallmark, at 3 in the morning.

Kind of funny.