One for the Road (Cheers) ladies' man, former baseball player, and bartender, and Diane Chambers (Shelley Long), a college graduate student, and cocktail waitress, had on-and-off relationships throughout first five seasons of the program (1982–1987) until Diane left Boston to pursue a writing career in the season five finale, "I Do, Adieu" (1987). This was Shelley Long's last contracted appearance as Diane Chambers. Six years after the season five finale, the Sam and Diane storyline is resurrected with a special guest appearance by Shelley Long and then concluded in the final episode. During season eleven there are many transformations before the finale. Woody Boyd (Woody
Fear of Flying (The Simpsons) time in the episode for Grammer, who already had a recurring role on "The Simpsons" as Sideshow Bob, to voice Frasier Crane. Ted Danson guest starred as Sam, Woody Harrelson as Woody, Rhea Perlman as Carla, John Ratzenberger as Cliff, and George Wendt as Norm. Homer enters the Cheers bar in a scene which is a parody of a typical episode of the comedy series "Cheers". All of the speaking characters are voiced by the actors who played them in "Cheers". Ironically, Frasier Crane remains silent despite being played by "The Simpsons" veteran Kelsey Grammer, the voice of Sideshow Bob.