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Kelsey Grammer is reflecting on the final episode of Cheers — and the after-hours games he would play with his cast mates.
In a new episode of PEOPLE’s Co-Star Album series, the 70-year-old actor looked at vintage photos from his time on the show, and spoke about his continued relationship with his co-stars.
“John Ratzenberger is a lovely guy. Of course, George is gone now,” the father of eight said of George Wendt, who died May 20, 2025 at age 76.
“I always love Rhea Perlman — we get along great. Still do. Still see her once in a while. Woody [Harrelson] and Ted [Danson], of course. Things haven’t really changed much,” he said.
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Grammer added that shooting the final episode was bittersweet and came with a mix of emotions for the stars.
“What’s funny about this show is I think what happened was people were actually more intoxicated with the idea that we were actually finishing the show,” eh said. “There was kind of a nervousness about it, a sort of sadness about it that everybody was not acknowledging. And so they pretended to be having more fun than they actually were.”
He added: “I actually wasn’t drinking at the time so it was not the festive romp lubricated by alcohol as everybody thought it was.”
“But it was everybody pretending to have a really good time — probably so they wouldn’t be crying,” Grammer said, with a laugh.
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Elsewhere in the video, Grammer said he and his co-stars experienced on another “as family members.”
“With Cheers, we certainly had that. But what was most memorable about our relationship on Cheers was when we would go upstairs and play foosball,” Grammer said. “George, Ted, me and Woody — that was sort of the foursome that ended up playing most of the time, well into the morning hours. Sometimes, we’d finish shooting around 12:30, 1:00 and we’d be there til 4 am, still having a beer and cursing one another and entertaining each other with our sportsmanship.”
Grammer added: “I cherish those days, they were great. I remember it fondly. Always will.”
Grammer portrayed psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers in 1984, earning two Emmy nominations for the role, and later moving on to his ever-popular spinoff Frasier, for which he scored 10 Emmy nominations and four wins.
