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"
Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen song) 2015 movie "The Program". Don Henley's version is heard in episode 219 of the television series "Judging Amy", which aired in 2001. Later, the Concrete Blonde version was featured in the third episode of the first season of "Dirty Sexy Money" entitled the "Italian Banker". "Everybody Knows" has also been used in a June 2008 anti-smoking advertisement commissioned by the New South Wales government in Australia with the theme "everybody knows smoking causes these diseases ... yet you still do it". A cover of the song by Sigrid plays during the opening credits of "Justice League". Cohen's version plays at