Cheers (season 1) Super Bowl pre-game segment on January 30, 1983, along with sketches for other NBC shows, including "The A-Team". After efforts to improve the ratings failed, NBC approved production of nine more episodes, and renewed the series for the next season. Before "Where Everybody Knows Your Name", written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo became the show's theme song, "Cheers" producers rejected two of Portnoy's and Hart Angelo's songs. The songwriters had collaborated to provide music for "Preppies" an unsuccessful Broadway musical. When told they could not appropriate "People Like Us", "Preppies"s opening song, the pair wrote "My Kind of
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