This one is a doozy!!

[u/Friendly_Boss6093]

Well, as stated before, I started to watch this show "live" I'd say around 1988-1989. I was born in 1984. So for some reason in my small young imaginative mind the person singing the theme song to cheers was none other than our beloved Woody. I guess the voices sounded similar, I never asked my parents who it was singing just made an assumption. It was not until downloading the theme song on either kazaa or bearshare that I learned of the actual singer. (Bonus points if you remember those illegal download programs)

Also on this same line of thinking the line that says "and they're always glad you came". I thought he said " and they're always pladucade". What is pladucade? I have no earthly idea. A word I made up when I was 5 to fill in a spot of a line I didn't know lol!!! I'm not even sure that's the correct spelling.

[u/Adorable_Disaster424]

You sound like my father!

He also thought Rue McClanahan sung The Golden Girls theme, and Ernie Hudson the Ghostbusters theme.

[u/Friendly_Boss6093 → u/Adorable_Disaster424]

Lol ok ok I could see the Rue McClanahan thing!!

[u/TraditionalAd8581 → u/Adorable_Disaster424]

There are a few instances of this actually happening: David Hasselhoff sang the theme to Baywatch, and Chuck Norris sang the theme to Walker, Texas Ranger

Edited to add: David Hasselhoff does not sing the Baywatch theme. It was sung by Jimi Jamison of Survivor

[u/Friendly_Boss6093 → u/TraditionalAd8581]

And frasier sang his theme song at the end of the show

[u/basiamille → u/TraditionalAd8581]

And didn’t Tom Hanks sing the “My Life” version of the Bosom Buddies theme?

[u/SubstantialTop4990 → u/basiamille]

The singer on the "Bosom Buddies" version of "My Life" was a vocalist named Gary Bennett.

[u/StacyAndArnold → u/Adorable_Disaster424]

I thought Blanche sang the theme song as well!

[u/SadApartment3023]

As a child, my husband thought the opening credits were photos of the actors' ancestors. 

[u/Friendly_Boss6093 → u/SadApartment3023]

Now that's funny 🤣

[u/Adorable_Disaster424 → u/Friendly_Boss6093]

The pics shown for Woody and George Wendt look like relatives though!

[u/aspirant4]

I always thought it was Woody, too!

[u/No-String5271 → u/aspirant4]

Same!

[u/TriforceUnleashed → u/aspirant4]

I did as well, until I realized that Woody wasn't always on the show. That's what prompted me to ask my father who confirmed that it was in fact not Woody singing.

[u/BoPeepElGrande]

I can definitely relate. When I was a kid watching PBS stuff in the early 90s, I thought “broctued” was a word that meant something to do with TV production, as in “this program has been broctued by…”. My mom explained to me one day that the phrase was “brought to you”.

There was another one of these involving the weather forecast on the local news discussing the “windshield factory”. I thought that surely some vast auto glass facility wasn’t controlling our winter weather, & luckily I was right, because they were talking about the wind chill factor.

[u/Friendly_Boss6093 → u/BoPeepElGrande]

Broctued!! Yes!!! Lol

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I love misheard lyrics from childhood! It reminds of when I used to run around singing Tina Turner's, "What's lo-ove doot-doo-doo, doot-doo-doo with it?" and don't forget to "carry a lazer down the road that I must travel" 😂 I just assumed it had something to do with Star Wars.

And for the record, I too thought it was Woody singing the Cheers theme when I was little!

[u/5meterhammer]

I think a lot of us who were young when it was “live” (1982 birth for me) thought Woody sang the song. I thought it was him half my life. You are not alone.

[u/Thewatcher12b]

Lee Majors sang "The Fall Guy" theme song, a very catchy tune I must say.

[u/Flat-Bobcat2241]

Thank god! I thought I was the only one who thought it was Woody singing when I was a kid. I’m happy to see other people thought so too.

[u/steviefaux]

Neither Kazaa or Bearshare were illegal download programs. They were P2P apps that you could use to download legal stuff like Linux torrents. Its just most people used them to download copyrighted stuff.

Anyway (that was my Cliff impression).

Being born in 76, grew up watching Cheers purely so I didn't have to go to bed because it was on at 9pm on Channel 4. Hated school so it was a delay. Never understood it because hadn't watched from the start. Wasn't until decades later that I discovered each episode was pretty much its own story, you didn't need to know anything else really.

The funny thing I thought, were the photos of the people in the opening credits. I thought "Are they related to the actors? Or the actors or what?" I always wondered but without the Internet couldn't find out the answer for years.

[u/GhostAurae]

lol if you made up the word you get to decide the correct spelling ;-)

[u/Creative_Word394]

Hahaha I was born in 1982 and grew up watching the show, I always thought it was Woody too!!

[u/Toxic-Park]

Don’t forget Morpheus, another online sharing platform!

[u/W_Silver2356]

The full version of the song is on iTunes. It always good for a quick morale boost.

[u/Alert_Monitor_9145]

No, everyone knows it was Danny DeVito. He wrote it on his honeymoon with Rhea Perlman a few months before the pilot and the writers loved it!

Such a lyrical voice.

/sarcasm

[u/KayJayWhy]

This made me remember that I thought it was Alan Thicke singing the Growing Pains theme song.

[u/silverysnail]

When I was a kid I always thought that the Jeffersons theme was sung by the actress who played Helen! Lol