Where Everybody Knows Your Name "Cheers: Music From The TV Series" which also includes Portnoy's original demo version, as well as several earlier attempts by Portnoy and Angelo at composing the theme. By 1981, New York songwriter Gary Portnoy had already written songs for the likes of Air Supply ("I’ll Never Get Enough") and Dolly Parton ("Say Goodnight"). One night in the summer of that same year, his friend Judy Hart happened to be seated next to a Broadway producer at dinner. Upon finding out that Hart was working for a music publisher, he asked her if she could recommend someone to compose the score
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