One For The Road (Cheers) - Aftermath

Aftermath

Before and after production of Cheers had ended, the whole cast of Cheers had moved on to other priorities in their careers. Shelley Long (Diane) appeared on CBS's then-newer show, Good Advice, before this episode and had resumed her work there. Ted Danson (Sam) appeared on Made in America, which opened in theatres soon after this episode aired. Kirstie Alley (Rebecca) participated in Look Who's Talking Now while it was filmed.

Woody Harrelson (Woody) appeared in Indecent Proposal, which also starred Demi Moore and Robert Redford and already hit theatres, and participated in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers while filmed. George Wendt (Norm) appeared in an off-broadway play. John Ratzenberger (Cliff) appeared in Fox's newer show, Locals. Rhea Perlman (Carla) semi-retired from acting. Kelsey Grammer soon reprised his role as Frasier Crane in his spinoff Frasier, set in Seattle, Washington, with an addition to Frasier's job as a host of his new radio show and domestic life without Lilith Sternin and their son Frederick.

On the first airing of this series finale, over 500 people, including the whole cast of Cheers (except Shelley Long, Kirstie Alley, and Bebe Neuwirth) and politicians like William M. Bulger and past State Governor William Weld, participated on the afternoon at the Beacon Street near the Bull & Finch Pub in Boston, Massachusetts, to celebrate the ending of this series. After the episode aired, the remaining cast appeared live on the East Coast (tape delay on the West) in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to be interviewed by Leno, set in the Pub. According to host Jay Leno, the cast was too intoxicated to be aware that they were interviewed onscreen.

In 1997, one copy of this episode's script was donated by George Wendt to the Handel and Haydn Society, an institution of music in Boston, Massachusetts. It contained the autographs of eight cast members, including of Shelley Long, Woody Harrelson, and George Wendt. On February 15, 1997, the script was stolen from the Four Seasons Hotel of Boston; meanwhile, the high bid was $1,000 before theft. About one week later, the stolen script in a manila envelope was left behind at a church; the Society then retrieved it. On March 1997, the autographed copy of the finale script was sold to the Bull and Finch Pub (now Cheers Beacon Hill) for $10,000.