Cheers 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. After they read the script of the series pilot, they created another song "Another Day". When Portnoy and Hart Angelo heard that NBC had commissioned thirteen episodes, they created an official theme song "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" and rewrote the lyrics. On syndicated airings of "Cheers", the theme song was shortened to make room for commercials. "Cheers" was critically acclaimed in its first season, though it landed a disappointing 74th
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