‘Cheers’ Actors Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson Reminisce About Skipping Work to Indulge in Mushrooms

The main actors of Cheers have disclosed that they took a day off from filming in order to get stoned together.

On Wednesday, August 14, in the podcast “Where Everybody Knows Your Name,” Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, and George Wendt—who portrayed Sam Malone, Woody Boyd, and Norm Peterson, respectively—reminisced about their time spent on the adored 80s comedy series.

The podcast, which was hosted by Danson, 76, and Harrelson, 63, featured Wendt, 75, as they went down memory lane. This resulted in the group’s humorous recollections of their “hooky day,” as Danson put it, with other Cheers co-stars.

Wendt begins, “John had just bought a boat,” ostensibly referring to Cliff Clavin’s actor John Ratzenberger, the fourth member of the Cheers cast. “And we prepared this small retreat because he was eager to show it off.”

Danson went on to say that he and Harrelson were already “stoned” when everyone got together on the boat.

“So we board the boat,” Danson said in memory. Kelsey (Grammer) walked straight to the lower bunk and dozed off, having spent the entire night playing cards. He was fast sleeping. Woody asks, “Have you ever had mushrooms?” as he turns to face me. And I reply, “No.”

No, I haven’t. And he remarked, “Well, this is going to be fun.” There is nothing for us to do. We’re going to be on a boat. Since we hadn’t had breakfast, I was a little hungry and ate a lot of mushrooms, I believe, before realizing that everything would be okay.

However, things went wrong when the boat was forced into large swells off the coast of Southern California by leftover waves from a hurricane that had made landfall in Mexico.

Danson remarked, “So people not on mushrooms would be pretty much seasick.” But while I was sitting there getting more and more anxious and, whatever it was that happens when you take mushrooms, I noticed that Woody was sprawled out on a bunk.

I thought, ‘Oh, he’s so used to this that he’s just chilling off and relaxing,’ but then I noticed that you were also getting stoned. I’m going crazy. It hurts for me to breathe. I’ll head upstairs.

After 45 minutes of “poking” the Curb Your Enthusiasm star every minute or so to encourage him to breathe, Wendt eventually managed to calm Danson down.

Danson called Wendt his “lifesaver” and credited him for keeping him safe after that. Wendt continued by saying he had never tried mushrooms.

Cheers, which won 28 Emmy Awards over its 11-season run on NBC from 1982 to 1993, is regarded as one of the best TV shows ever.

The Tortellis and Frasier are two of the show’s spinoffs. For the Frasier revival, which debuted in October 2023 onParamount+, Grammer, 68, made a comeback.

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