George Wendt (Re-Release)

Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week we’re revisiting the time George Wendt dropped in on Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson to talk his casting as Norm Peterson on “Cheers,” on-set hijinks, their infamous boat ride, and more. To help those affected by the Southern California wildfires, make a donation to World Central Kitchen today. Like watching your podcasts? Visit http://youtube.com/teamcoco to see full episodes.

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0:00.0	But so, like, in the first year, people are starting to recognize you.
0:05.5	Not really.
0:06.9	More like America caught on second, third year, sort of.
0:12.1	Pretty much when you started.
0:13.8	Yeah.
0:15.4	Ha!
0:15.6	Yeah.
0:16.0	Yeah. Welcome back to where everybody knows your name.
0:28.7	For the next few weeks, we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from last year,
0:33.4	before we come back with all new interviews in a few weeks.
0:37.4	We know you've been loving all the cheers nostalgia,
0:39.9	so we thought, what the heck, let's revisit our conversation with George Went.
0:43.8	It was the first one we ever recorded,
0:46.7	which I think will become blatantly clear.
0:49.0	We were both so nervous.
0:50.2	Anyway, we talked about how George got cast as Norm Peterson, and the infamous time we all played hooky.
0:58.5	So here he is.
0:59.8	George Went.
1:04.9	The incredible George Went, who we, who did all 275 episodes of Cheers did anyone else do that all of them or was it
1:15.0	just you i can't think so it was you guys rhea had a couple of babies babies you ria and teddy but on
1:22.1	the night we had to shoot around teddy when he went to africa for a movie That's... Oh, so he didn't really do.
1:29.4	No, and nor did Ria because she had a couple of kids.
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