Where Everybody Knows Your Name the Charles Brothers gave it their stamp of approval, and once Portnoy and Hart Angelo had complied with a request for a few lyric changes intended to broaden the song's appeal to a more general audience, "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" was officially designated the "Theme from "Cheers"". The original opening verse: was changed to: After several months of mulling over possible outside singers, the producers eventually asked Gary Portnoy to record the vocal for the opening credits of their new series. (The chorus of the song is six of Portnoy’s vocals that he recorded one on top of the
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