Where Everybody Knows Your Name the perfect theme song for their upcoming NBC sitcom, "Cheers". Upon learning that "People Like Us" was legally bound to the musical Preppies, the Charles Brothers asked Portnoy and Hart Angelo to take a shot at composing a theme specifically for "Cheers". The song that resulted, "My Kind of People", was somewhat of a reworked version of "People Like Us". It was subsequently rejected. Portnoy and Hart Angelo then wrote and submitted two more potential themes for "Cheers". One of them, entitled "Another Day", contained a lyric line "There are times when it's fun to take the long way home"
Where Everybody Knows Your Name of "TV Guide" magazine named "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" the greatest TV Theme of all time. In the episode "Simon and Marcy" in the animated series "Adventure Time", the Ice King sings the song to himself to maintain his sanity as he wears the crown responsible for his power. He also acted out scenes of the series of the theme song in the episode to cheer up his charge, Marceline. The web series "How It Should Have Ended" parodies the theme song in the intro to their "Villain Pub series". The song appears in a 2017 TV commercial for