Cheers (season 1) People", intended to satirize "the lifestyle of old decadent old-money WASPs," but, to meet producers' demands, they rewrote the lyrics to be about "likeable losers" in a Boston bar. The show's producers rejected this song, as well as later songs that Portnoy and Angelo wrote. When Portnoy and Hart Angelo heard that NBC had commissioned thirteen episodes, they created "Where Everybody Knows Your Name", and rewrote the lyrics. "Cheers" was first broadcast at 9:00pm (Eastern) / 8:00pm (Central) on Thursday during fall 1982, which later became NBC's Must See TV, which followed the hour-long musical series "Fame" and preceded another
Michael Portnoy event was parodied on "Saturday Night Live", where he was portrayed by Will Ferrell, and on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". In 2005, the band Eels included the track "Whatever Happened to Soy Bomb" on the double-disc album "Blinking Lights and Other Revelations". In 2016, the TV show Broad City parodied Soy Bomb with a performance artist character played by musician Har Mar Superstar. Portnoy expanded his practice to include choreography, video, installation, sculpture, painting, participatory works and curation. His projects have included Google Office 0.2, a project for the 2010 Taipei Biennial that involved the formation of a