“Cheers” star John Ratzenberger recalled an “odd” fan encounter whereas filming the hit TV present.
Ratzenberger, who starred as Cliff Clavin, had observed an viewers member fixated on Shelley Lengthy and Ted Danson throughout a taping of the present.
“Simply wherever [Long and Danson] have been, he was looking at them, however his eyes have been just a bit nuts,” the now 77-year-old actor recalled whereas showing on the podcast “Nonetheless Right here Hollywood.” “And I believed, ‘One thing’s improper there,’ as a result of the motion of the stage play, ‘Cheers’ happening there, and this man’s wanting the place the actors are standing off to the facet.”
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John Ratzenberger recalled a scary fan encounter that concerned a samurai sword. (NBCU Picture Financial institution/NBCUniversal through Getty Photographs through Getty Photographs)
Ratzenberger alerted the top of safety to the fan within the viewers.
“I mentioned, ‘That appear odd to you?'” he mentioned. “So he went and checked it out.”
Safety approached the viewers member and found the fan was concealing a possible weapon.
“He had, underneath his no matter, a samurai sword with – I feel it was Ted and Shelley’s identify written on it,” Ratzenberger mentioned. “It was creepy. So that they removed him.”
John Ratzenberger as Cliff Clavin within the “Cheers” episode “The Inconceivable Dream: Half 2,” which initially aired on Sept. 28, 1989. (CBS through Getty Photographs)
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Regardless of the shut name, Ratzenberger claimed he “by no means heard anything about” the viewers member with the sword.
“However that was nuts as a result of they got here so shut,” the actor recalled. “However he simply did not appear proper. Simply, ‘One thing’s improper there.'”
Ratzenberger starred on “Cheers” with Danson, Lengthy, Woody Harrelson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Pearlman and Kelsey Grammer.
“Cheers” ran from 1982 till 1993.
John Ratzenberger starred as Cliff Clavin in “Cheers.” (Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Photographs)
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“Cheers” ran from 1982 till 1993. (Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Photographs)
Ratzenberger famous that fan interactions may be annoying.
“There’s annoying elements,” he mentioned. “However that is gonna occur. See, it goes together with the territory too. You gotta perceive. That is the jungle you are strolling via. Now you gotta determine it out.”
He added that he had safety in place at his residence, however “no person ever confirmed up on the door.”
“Nothing like that,” he mentioned. “I at all times had canine, anyway, hoping they’d present up.”
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