Before the series was produced, the creators auditioned three pairings of six actors, three male and three female, for their … See more

Shelley Long said in January 1983, "the core of the show is Sam and Diane ... the relationship has a wonderful chemistry, although they try to resist each other". She said that the producers felt that they did not want the rel… See more

Some contemporaneous reviews of the Sam and Diane relationship were mixed. In May 1984, Mike Boone of the Montreal Gazette wrote that when Sam and Diane's relationship was consummated, their sexual tension eva… See more

In February 2002 Bill Simmons, a former writer for ESPN, appreciated Sam and Diane's sexual tension but called their engagement a "jumping the shark" moment. In November 2002 Mathew Gilbert of … See more

In the novel When Angels Fail to Fly, a female character compares the sexual tension between Sam and Diane to that between David and Maddie of Moonlighting, and the first-person narrator mentions S… See more

• Bierly, Mandi; Fog, Henning (May 8, 2012). "32 Best 'Will They/Won't They?' TV Couples". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
• Carter, Bill (May 9, 1993). "TELEVISION; Why 'Cheers' Proved So Intoxica… See more

• Ariano, Tara, and Sarah D. Bunting. Television without Pity: 752 Things We Love to Hate (and Hate to Love) About TV. Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2006. Print. ISBN 978-1-59474-117-3.
• Bjorklund, Dennis A. Toasting C… See more