Block Quote by John Ratzenberger
![“Maybe, I got a sense when [Star Wars] came out, and there were always these lines around the block. We didn't understand the popularity of Cheers until maybe five years into the series.” quote by John Ratzenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/437/john-ratzenberger-11869_block_maybe-i-got-a-sense-when-star-wars-came_151904.jpg)
“Maybe, I got a sense when [Star Wars] came out, and there were always these lines around the block. We didn't understand the popularity of Cheers until maybe five years into the series.”
“Maybe, I got a sense when [Star Wars] came out, and there were always these lines around the block. We didn't understand the popularity of Cheers until maybe five years into the series.”
![“Cheers was one of the first shows where I paid attention to the writers because their [work] was better than everything else I was watching. The writers weren't afraid to let a joke fall slightly flat if it advanced the characters.” quote by Shawn Ryan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/716/shawn-ryan-19332_attention_cheers-was-one-of-the-first-shows-where_1924582.jpg)
![“I mean, Cheers [from the Star Wars] was just a job while we were doing it. All of us were really only hustling to pay the rent, weren't we.” quote by John Ratzenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4ac/john-ratzenberger-11869_cheer_i-mean-cheers-from-the-star-wars-was-jus_1878093.jpg)
![“I don't get a sense that Cheers is revered the way it should be by [younger viewers]. In my mind, it's a show that should always, always, always be in the pantheon. But can it ever mean to future generations what it meant to us?” quote by Ted Danson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/228/ted-danson-6752_cheer_i-don-t-get-a-sense-that-cheers-is-rever_1624794.jpg)
![“It was when Boston invited us to do a parade one November, and I was the only [Star Wars] cast member skeptical of the willingness of people to come out to see us five actors drive by in antique cars in the Boston rain. Well, it was the first time I really understood the show's popularity.” quote by John Ratzenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/098/john-ratzenberger-11869_actors_it-was-when-boston-invited-us-to-do-a-pa_67396.jpg)
![“It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you weren't getting anything that was derivative of I Love Lucy or Happy Days. You were getting real characters [like those] they read in P.G. Wodehouse or Dickens or somewhere along the…” quote by John Ratzenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f18/john-ratzenberger-11869_book_it-was-the-last-generation-of-writers-th_219130.jpg)
![“I was a carpenter in Northern Vermont and got this tax refund check that just about covered a one-way airfare to London. So this I saw as a sign from God. So I went over to see Ray [Hussett] for a couple of weeks and ended up staying 10 years. I got work as a stage carpenter at the Oval House in…” quote by John Ratzenberger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/53c/john-ratzenberger-11869_carpenter_i-was-a-carpenter-in-northern-vermont-an_385033.jpg)
