Why Wasn't Danny DeVito on Cheers?

[Dr. Thong]

The first time I saw Rhea Perlman was on Taxi, when she played Louie's (Danny DeVito) girlfriend, Zena.

Since they were married back then, how come DeVito never appeared on Cheers? He could have played an ex-boyfriend of Carla's. Hell, he could have played Nick!

Just seems weird that he didn't appear even once.

Anybody know why it never happened?

[Chocolate Moose]

NEVER THOUGHT OF IT

[SarahBellum]

Maybe he was too busy doing movies during that timeframe.

[opus]

Someone asked Ken Levine that question, back in 2011. His reply……

Q: I'm doing a caricature of Danny Devito tonight and it got me to wondering: Was there ever any discussion of having Danny guest star on Cheers? Considering that he's Rhea Perlman's husband in real life, it seems kind of strange that he never even did a cameo in all the years that the show was on.

A: There was some talk about it the first season but nothing really serious. At one point we thought of including Danny in the Superbowl scene as a lark but ultimately it was decided the objective of the scene was to promote CHEERS and it would just confuse people with TAXI. Were they watching Louie & Zena?

But if you listen carefully, you can hear Danny laughing offstage. He was there when we filmed it.

The first season of CHEERS proved to be the final season of TAXI, and Danny went off to have a hugely successful feature career. I once said to him, “Now that you’re a big star, I hope you won’t forget us little people.”


http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2011/0...ny-devito.html

[Dr. Thong]

Originally Posted by opus

Someone asked Ken Levine that question, back in 2011. His reply……

Q: I'm doing a caricature of Danny Devito tonight and it got me to wondering: Was there ever any discussion of having Danny guest star on Cheers? Considering that he's Rhea Perlman's husband in real life, it seems kind of strange that he never even did a cameo in all the years that the show was on.

A: There was some talk about it the first season but nothing really serious. At one point we thought of including Danny in the Superbowl scene as a lark but ultimately it was decided the objective of the scene was to promote CHEERS and it would just confuse people with TAXI. Were they watching Louie & Zena?

But if you listen carefully, you can hear Danny laughing offstage. He was there when we filmed it.

The first season of CHEERS proved to be the final season of TAXI, and Danny went off to have a hugely successful feature career. I once said to him, “Now that you’re a big star, I hope you won’t forget us little people.”


http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2011/0...ny-devito.html

Thanks for posting that.

Still, I think it was a missed opportunity not to have had him on at least once.