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The single most impressive, and lasting legacy of this show is Woody Harrelson's carrier. Can anybody else think of a regular sit-com actor who broke into Hollywood? Bruce Willis is the only other one I can think of, and he never broke type.
Helen Hunt, Michael J. Fox, Ryan Reynolds, Aubrey Plaza, Jennifer Aniston, Will Smith, Danny DeVito, Steve Carell, Jennifer Lawrence, Zendaya.
Other than them, though...
Fuck. It's almost like it was a recognized -- if admittedly challenging -- career path.
I wonder what that Leonardo DiCaprio kid from Growing Pains is up to these days?
John Travolta from Welcome back cotter. Turned that success into Saturday Night Fever and then Grease a year after that. Michael J Fox from Family ties, turned that success into Teen Wolf and back to the future in the same year. And theres a fuck load more that I cant be bothered typing out.
The single most impressive thing about Cheers is that its still funny all these years later, with a great bunch of characters. You can sit down and watch any episode, and have fun. More than that, it spun off a character into a show that is considered by many to be the best sitcom of all time. Frasier. The only TV show with a better spin off record is JAG, which spawned NCIS. Which isnt bad for a tv show that was cancelled after 1 year, picked up by another network, and is still on the air now, racking in millions of viewers. The JAG/NCIS universe is 30 years old this year.
Bryan Cranston kind-of? He had some minor movie roles before television and then larger movie roles after.
Will Ferrell, technically. Plus most of the other SNL actors who started there and did films later (though many of those were based on SNL skits). Tina Fey, though, plays it straight. She started as a writer, joined the cast of SNL, and did TV and movies later. Granted, I wouldn't call any of them "movie stars".
Who carried him, exactly?
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