Originally posted by Brian Damage
Diane never had a thread like this.

Sure she has.

Members:
Chambers (President)
Slackermonkey
Pirate Jenny
Brian Damage
Petrie Malone

I nominate Chambers president.

And the two clubs can get together and play baseball against each other...


...or...spelling bees.

haha

But I resent "pretty cool." I think the appropriate Dianist style would be "Good Lord, Diane was a fine character."

Diane is what got me started watching Cheers.

Originally posted by Pirate Jenny
I nominate Chambers president.

And the two clubs can get together and play baseball against each other...


...or...spelling bees.

ooh! But...wouldn't that pretty much be us...playing against ourselves?

Originally posted by Chambers
haha

But I resent "pretty cool." I think the appropriate Dianist style would be "Good Lord, Diane was a fine character."

Can one of you bigwigs change the title, then?

Also, look at the last post on bored for another title suggestion.

Originally posted by Chambers
ooh! But...wouldn't that pretty much be us...playing against ourselves?

Well, yes.

But on the plus side, we'd always win.

I would so join if there were a GLISFC for Diane.

Only it would be a GDISFC. Silly me.

Originally posted by Pirate Jenny
Can one of you bigwigs change the title, then?

Also, look at the last post on bored for another title suggestion.

I mixed both. I feel we should have Good Lord...because that's what she'd say.

Anyway, I think people can edit their own titles now.


Ok...so...

Ahem. I will come up with a constitution for this later. For now let's think about why you came to like Diane as a character.

Originally posted by slackermonkey
I would so join if there were a GLISFC for Diane.

Only it would be a GDISFC. Silly me.

actually, it's GLDGDC.

Ask Chambers, she's the president. Cause, well, in my head, at least, I equate her with Diane. Except when I'm equating her to a neurotic Bostonian academic who has a job lugging things from point A to point B.

See?

Originally posted by Pirate Jenny
actually, it's GLDGDC.

Ask Chambers, she's the president. Cause, well, in my head, at least, I equate her with Diane. Except when I'm equating her to a neurotic Bostonian academic who has a job lugging things from point A to point B.

See?

Haha. Oh my God. That's scary. And with you...all you need to do is move to Boston and I'll be officially freaked out, Lilith.

And yes, GLDGDC.

Originally posted by Chambers
For now let's think about why you came to like Diane as a character.

I was young, my hormones were raging, I thought Diane was hot. After awhile(not too long) I thought she was very funny.

Originally posted by Chambers
For now let's think about why you came to like Diane as a character.

I think because she showed how irritating the intellectual elite could be at times, how contradictory their beliefs could be...

...and sometimes, some of us need that.

Also, her character pretty much paved the way for Frasier's character...and can you imagine a world without Frasier?

Originally posted by Pirate Jenny
Ask Chambers, she's the president. Cause, well, in my head, at least, I equate her with Diane. Except when I'm equating her to a neurotic Bostonian academic who has a job lugging things from point A to point B.

See?

Not really, but okay.

Fine then. I request permission to join the GLDGDC.

Originally posted by Brian Damage
I was young, my hormones were raging, I thought Diane was hot. After awhile(not too long) I thought she was very funny.
hahaha

Diane first reminded me of my mother. Which I guess I thought was cool...when I was 6. Over the years I realized what an original and incredibly funny character she was.

Originally posted by Chambers
Haha. Oh my God. That's scary. And with you...all you need to do is move to Boston and I'll be officially freaked out, Lilith.

And yes, GLDGDC.

Hey, I have the same job you have, almost exactly, except I sit more.

So that puts me comfortably not on "Twilight Zone" ground.

I love Diane because she's hilarious, is a great foil for the Cheers gang, and it doesn't hurt that she's not bad to look at.

I miss her facial tic. I think she only did that a few times in season 1 then it showed up again on Frasier. Wonder why they never used that as a running gag?

Originally posted by slackermonkey
I love Diane because she's hilarious, is a great foil for the Cheers gang, and it doesn't hurt that she's not bad to look at.

I miss her facial tic. I think she only did that a few times in season 1 then it showed up again on Frasier. Wonder why they never used that as a running gag?

That's a good question. I suppose they were afraid it would get stale. And I can really see that gag getting stale quickly if it were overused.

Originally posted by slackermonkey
I love Diane because she's hilarious, is a great foil for the Cheers gang, and it doesn't hurt that she's not bad to look at.

I miss her facial tic. I think she only did that a few times in season 1 then it showed up again on Frasier. Wonder why they never used that as a running gag?

I think if they used it too much, they would end up exploiting it, and then it wouldn't be as funny anymore.

I'm pretty easily amused, so if it were getting stale, I'd never have noticed.

Who thinks Diane's character was saved by having her leave at the end of season 5?

I personally think that had she stayed on, the character would have morphed into something unrecognizable (perhaps like what happened to Rebecca). In season 5 she was already somewhat different with the marriage obsession and all. And I got the feeling they were trying to make her more unlikeable (maybe a reflection of the reltionship between Shelley and the writers). I think having her end at the altar was perfect. I mean, that's Diane, right? A woman who never actually gets anything done. A student of life who is never able to materialize her dreams, yet who keeps following them anyway. That's how she's ingrained in our minds. Had she married and abandoned that yearning for something bigger, something better, the message behind her character would have been crippled.

Originally posted by Chambers
Who thinks Diane's character was saved by having her leave at the end of season 5?

I personally think that had she stayed on, the character would have morphed into something unrecognizeable (perhaps like what happened to Rebecca). In season 5 she was already somewhat different, with the marriage obsession and all. And I got the feeling they were trying to make her more unlikeable (maybe a reflection of the reltionship between Shelley and the writers). I think having her end at the altar was perfect. I mean, that's Diane, right? A woman who never actually gets anything done. A student of life who was never able to materialize her dreams, yet she would keep following them anyway. That's how she's ingrained in our minds. Had she married and abandoned that yearning for something bigger, something better, the message behind her character would have been crippled.

I think you're right. It was in her absence that we wished for her most, and, juxtaposed against Rebecca, she just seemed so much less irritating. Because we missed Diane, we realised that we enjoyed her while she was there.

I do. Her character was already beginning to jump the shark when she left (but it never did, fortunately).

Favorite Diane scenes?

One of my favorites is the "pen, pencil, pencil, pad" one.

Originally posted by Chambers
Favorite Diane scenes?

One of my favorites is the "pen, pencil, pencil, pad" one.

I think the "We're going to have Frasier's mother with us always...we're going to have her stuffed." is my favorite. Currently.

And in the same episode: "Ok, it's time to take stock here: I'm...not...crazy. Right Diane? Right you are."

I agree with the "pad, pencil, pen, pen, pen" bit.

Especially when she screams when Sam says her pencil's out of place.

She was great in Homicidal Ham.

This thread won't have a constitution because I don't want it to be a club (translation: I'm too lazy to write one). It'll just be an ongoing commentary about the genius of Diane, the character. But we can still have those spelling bee competitions with GLISFC.

Permission to join GLDGDC, please?

Originally posted by Petrie Malone
Permission to join GLDGDC, please?


Granted. Though you don't really need persmission. I mean...what am I going to do? Delete all your posts on this thread? As if I had that sort of pow- oh, wait. I do.
Well let's just say that everybody's welcome.

Ok now.....post a picture of your favorite Diane expression.

here's mine.

http://www.the-shelley-long-asylum.co.uk/cheers/c117_03x.jpg

Originally posted by Chambers
Granted. Though you don't really need persmission. I mean...what am I going to do? Delete all your posts on this thread? As if I had that sort of pow- oh, wait. I do.
Well let's just say that everybody's welcome.

Ok now.....post a picture of your favorite Diane expression.

mine:
http://www.the-shelley-long-asylum.co.uk/cheers/c025_361x.jpg

Originally posted by Chambers
here's mine.

http://www.the-shelley-long-asylum.co.uk/cheers/c117_03x.jpg

Chambers, you totally look like that when you make your eyes all big and crazy. Except you're not blonde. But otherwise...

Originally posted by Pirate Jenny
Chambers, you totally look like that when you make your eyes all big and crazy. Except you're not blonde. But otherwise...

Hm, but people don't tend to laugh. They tend to back away slowly. The bastards.

Originally posted by Pirate Jenny
mine:


Ah, yes. The "But, Sam!" look. Otherwise known as the "How dare you imply such a thing!" look. Classic.

Originally posted by Chambers
Hm, but people don't tend to laugh. They tend to back away slowly. The bastards.

I laugh at you all the time.

Originally posted by Chambers
Ah, yes. The "But, Sam!" look. Otherwise known as the "How dare you imply such a thing!" look. Classic.

ah, righteous indignation...what could be finer.

Wow, I can really get into this thread ;).

Diane has to be one of my most favorite characters, ever. She's got so many levels, and Shelley portrays her so well.

I agree, though, season 5 Diane was extermely different from season 1 Diane. The whole marriage obsession was like a switch had been flicked somewhere lol.

Originally posted by Pirate Jenny
I laugh at you all the time.

Awww. Thanks.

Originally posted by ChambersVsMalone

I agree, though, season 5 Diane was extermely different from season 1 Diane. The whole marriage obsession was like a switch had been flicked somewhere lol.

Absolutely. It was only in episodes like "Everyone Imitates Art" that she seemed like her old self again.

Originally posted by Chambers
Awww. Thanks.

I didn't mean that in a complimentary way.

Originally posted by Pirate Jenny
I didn't mean that in a complimentary way.

Oh, don't worry. I totally interpreted it as payback for what I said last night:


Man, you're really sharp tonight. I've laughed at all of your posts. Even the serious ones.

Anyway, give me a cookie.

Originally posted by Chambers
Oh, don't worry. I totally interpreted it as payback for what I said last night:

did I make any serious posts last night?

Originally posted by Pirate Jenny
did I make any serious posts last night?

Shh. Stop contradicting me.

Originally posted by Chambers
Shh. Stop contradicting me.

No. I will never stop contradicting you. Except when I agree with you.

(see, now I'm contradicting myself.)

I don't need permission.

Add me.




Favorite moment:
The final scene in the episode with John Cleese, when he tells Sam and Diane they should never see eachother again and Diane says to Sam, something along the lines of "see, I told you", complete oblivious to what John Cleese just said.

Every time I see it I laugh out loud.

Fine, barwars. You can join.

(I give you my permission.)

Favorite Diane episode: Dance, Diane, Dance :lol:

Originally posted by Petrie Malone
Favorite Diane episode: Dance, Diane, Dance :lol:


I always get a little depressed at the end of that one. My favorite is either "They Called Me Mayday" (her poetry reading is hilarious) or "Diane's Allergy."

Ohh, now it's complete episodes.

Definately: Diane's Allergy (not necessarily the best episode of the Diane years, but definately Diane's best episode)

Diane's Allergy is when Sam changes Frasier's dogs name to Diane, right?

Originally posted by ThirteenInchEscape
Diane's Allergy is when Sam changes Frasier's dogs name to Diane, right?

Yeah.

Originally posted by Chambers
I always get a little depressed at the end of that one.

lol, me too. It's so sad how after Frasier and Sam stop her from making a fool of herself and she leaves the stage and looks back at the dancers. But I do love that episode, it's great.

Ok....what's your favorite Dianism?


Mine: "Wasn't it *insert important name* who said *insert pretentious quote*?

I'm a Diane Chambers fan, what about me?

I love:

Power Play
Diane Chambers Day
Dinner At Eight-ish
Diane's Allergy
Diane's Nightmare
Thanksgiving Orphans
Cliffie's Big Score
Dark Imaginings
I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday



Heck! Everything in Seasons 4 & 5 LOL

Originally posted by Moondance
I'm a Diane Chambers fan, what about me?

It's not actually a club. It's just a thread.

Originally posted by Chambers
It's not actually a club. It's just a thread.


Well, in that case, ok.

Originally posted by Chambers
Ok....what's your favorite Dianism?


Mine: "Wasn't it *insert important name* who said *insert pretentious quote*?

haha

I love the scene where she is ordering drink from the people by the piano, telling them how all these famous authors drank themselves to death. And suddenly asks them "now what can I get ya?"
I think it's in Season 2.

... yeah, I'm responding to this thread a little late....

Diane was great. And she definately got better with time. I loved that in the fifth season she went completely nuts (not that she wasnt crazy before that, but the fifth season was definately the peak..). She added so much to the show just because she was a contrast to everyone.

I always liked her first fight with Sam.


Sam: And while you're up there floating around, remember the day I said this: you are the nuttiest, the stupidest, the phoniest fruitcake I ever met.
Diane: You, Sam Malone, are the most arrogant, self-centered son of a...
Sam: SHUT UP. Shut your fat mouth.
Diane: Make me.
Sam: Make you? My God, I'm gonna... I'm gonna... I'm gonna bounce you off every wall of this office.
Diane: Try it and you'll be walking funny tomorrow. Or should I say funnier.

"I'm just imagining myself getting the electric chair for killing you"

"There's no death penalty in Massechusets"

"Oh? Really? Well in that case..."

"I'm going to go lobby to get it reinstated."




Well, it went something like that :P

This picture always made me smile...and luagh, it was too funny!

Diane is awesome.

I personally love the quote that's in my signature. "That was the noblest preposition you've ever dangled." I don't even remember why she said it, but I do remember that she said it to Sam in a season one episode.

Originally posted by Kirstie
Diane is awesome.

I personally love the quote that's in my signature. "That was the noblest preposition you've ever dangled." I don't even remember why she said it, but I do remember that she said it to Sam in a season one episode.

Haha I've seen your sig before. I love that one too. And also can't remember to what she was refering.

Originally posted by Kirstie
Diane is awesome.

I personally love the quote that's in my signature. "That was the noblest preposition you've ever dangled." I don't even remember why she said it, but I do remember that she said it to Sam in a season one episode.

Sam: Well it's not going to become the type of bar where I have to through people out of.

Diane: That was the noblest preposition you've ever dangled.


-- straight from memory, "The Boys In The Bar"

Originally posted by barwars
Sam: Well it's not going to become the type of bar where I have to through people out of.

Diane: That was the noblest preposition you've ever dangled.


-- straight from memory, "The Boys In The Bar"

Wasn't that the one where everyone was upset because they thought the bar was going to to turn gay?? And didn't Norm get a kiss at the end??

Originally posted by Bobby F.
Wasn't that the one where everyone was upset because they thought the bar was going to to turn gay?? And didn't Norm get a kiss at the end??

Yeah and then Norm shrugged and said, "Better than Vera."

Which of Diane's dates did you like the best? (Excluding the mains ones, Frasier and Sam.)


Sumner gets my vote. Well, he wasn't technically her date, but still.

After him...I like that guy who counts the number of letters in sentences.

Andy Andy!


I lik the Rebecca episode he is in at the beggining.

Originally posted by ThirteenInchEscape
Andy Andy!


I lik the Rebecca episode he is in at the beggining.

oooh I forgot he was technically one of her dates. He was by far the funniest.

Andy Andy, for sure.

Sumner, however, is a close second. If for some reason, the Frasier character never occured (dont ever quote me for saying that, he was the best thing that ever happened to the show).... I think it would have been interesting for Diane to have returned to Sumner in the third season, and have them be a couple rather than Diane and Frasier.

Originally posted by barwars
Andy Andy, for sure.

Sumner, however, is a close second. If for some reason, the Frasier character never occured (dont ever quote me for saying that, he was the best thing that ever happened to the show).... I think it would have been interesting for Diane to have returned to Sumner in the third season, and have them be a couple rather than Diane and Frasier.

It would have been great seeing their old relationship dynamic change as a result of the bar's influence on Diane.

Diane: Sumner, cut the crap.
Sumner: By God, Diane! What have they done to you here?

Hands down Andy Andy. He was my favorite non regular on the show.

In which season was Diane at her best?

I think I like her the best in season 4 - the tension with Sam and Frasier was great. She was also hilarious in season 1, when her urge to enlighten the masses was at its strongest and most annoying.

Season 4, that's probably why it's my favorite Diane season. (second only to Season 11)

Season 2

Season 5

Challenge: go find the most psychotic picture of Diane ever taken.

http://www.the-shelley-long-asylum.co.uk/cheers/c024_041x.jpg

LMAO, Chambers!


Diane looks pretty psycho here!

Originally posted by Chambers
http://www.the-shelley-long-asylum.co.uk/cheers/c024_041x.jpg

Haha...was that when Diane was convinced that Carla went into labor because of her "funny" expression?

And here when she was in the car with Cliff!

I suppose all I see are those piercing eyes!

http://www.the-shelley-long-asylum.co.uk/cheers/c043_170x.jpg

Too bad I couldn't find one of her strangling Sam.

Diane is my favorite character from Cheers. I like her especially in Seasons 1 & 2 (and I also agree that in Season 5 she was taken to the extreme by the writers who maybe wanted to make her unlikeable because she was leaving at the end of the season; anyway, her obsession with marriage was very unlike her; at least, very unlike the "early" Diane).

My favorite Dian-ism (and the best line ever written on the show, IMO) is the one I have on my signature:

"Do you know what bothers me? There are women upon whom this (your pickup lines) works, and they’re allowed to vote and drive cars."

It's from Season 1, "Showdown Part 1" (Also, my favorite episode ever). I think that pretty sums up her view on woman's issues and relationships in general, and that's one of the many many reasons why I like her.

GOT ONE!

Originally posted by Moondance
And here when she was in the car with Cliff!

That one is great. :lol:

I love the character of Diane Chamber especially in Seasons 1 through 3. During Season 4 her character was not quite the same from the previous three seasons. Season 5 she became unlikeable, she was obsessed with getting married and the Sam and Diane love/hate relationship was running its course. If the latter would had went on the show would not had lasted 11 seasons and especially if they married them off in season 5.

My favorite Diane moments:
Her and Sam's first showdown and leading into their first kiss. They were like two dogs in a river fighting it out. I love her comment, "Try that you would be walking funnier if not funnier."

Her battles with Carla especially when they had to be restrained when Diane called her hair brillo pad. In turn I love it when Carla said, "You look like a person who is tired of wearing your teeth." A near catfight.

Episode #44, I'll Be Seeing You in Part 2 when Semenko painted a portrait of Diane and she stated about how challenging her relationship with Sam has been. She stated how at times he hurt her and seemed to enjoy it. Her vulnerablilty in talking about moved me to tears.

In that same episode when they were breaking up was a powerful and dramatic moment for Shelley Long and Ted Danson. They turned in powerful performances in that breakup episode. Funny at the same time when they were exchanging face slaps and pulling each other noses.

In the series finale when she accepted her award and it was so funny when she was rambling to a point they had to take her and the podium off because she would not shut up.

Episode #41, Coach Buries A Grudge. Diane breaking into singing Amazing Grace when Coach and his buddies was angry at a friend who recently passed away. It was moving how they went from anger to singing Amazing Grace with Diane.

Originally posted by mstewart
I love the character of Diane Chamber especially in Seasons 1 through 3. During Season 4 her character was not quite the same from the previous three seasons. Season 5 she became unlikeable, she was obsessed with getting married and the Sam and Diane love/hate relationship was running its course. If the latter would had went on the show would not had lasted 11 seasons and especially if they married them off in season 5.

I agree. I often think that they went through everything possible together in those five years, lol, it would've been hard to come up with more for longer without stretching it, especially not for six more years. It would've gotten real old. For example, on Friends Ross and Rachel went from great to old around season 7 or 8, IMO. I've heard they never intended to get them married, so if she had stayed they either wouldn't have done that plot (or at least, they could've done the whole boat proposal but then never gotten them engaged) or they still wouldn't have gone through with the wedding. Which would've been the point of getting old to me. lol.

Originally posted by mstewart
Episode #44, I'll Be Seeing You in Part 2 when Semenko painted a portrait of Diane and she stated about how challenging her relationship with Sam has been. She stated how at times he hurt her and seemed to enjoy it. Her vulnerablilty in talking about moved me to tears.

Yes, I LOVE that moment. It kills me, but I love it.

Originally posted by mstewart
In the series finale when she accepted her award and it was so funny when she was rambling to a point they had to take her and the podium off because she would not shut up.

lol, I love that part, too. And how she excitedly jumps up on to the stage once she gets her name called, so Diane. The first time seeing her in six years and she still feels like the old Diane.