Picking up where last season left off -- in Sam's office, on the sofa -- the ninth finds Sam and Rebecca in the afterglow, while Sam fights the urge to dazzle the guys.
Sam scores points with everybody but Gary when he nets the Boston Celtics' Kevin McHale to play in their annual grudge basketball match -- but only if they'll pass their winnings on to charity.
Sam, drowning in work, hires a new manager, who seems to buoy everyone's spirits along with serving them -- until Sam finds out what depths Rebecca's sunk to for work.
Rebecca won't admit it, but she's steamed when Robin's ex-lover goes public, saying she's his current paramour, while Carla is all hot and bothered over Indian summer.
A sniveling rivalry is born when Cliff's visiting mother decides Woody is the son she never had, but it's all relative when Norm gets wedged in a window.
Norm has a cow when he learns the Hungry Heifer is closing its doors, so he takes his beef to the people, while Sam ribs Rebecca about Robin, who's working on a road gang.
Learning their son is no egghead, Frasier and Lilith scramble to decide who'll give up career for full-time parenthood. Meanwhile, Carla and Rebecca hatch a plot to pay Robin a conjugal visit.
Instead of the Hatfields and McCoys, it's the Hills and Malones as Sam feuds with his new neighbor, snooty restauranteur John Hill, in the series' 200th episode.
Woody gets cast in a commercial for a new vegetable drink, while Cliff's self-esteem is squashed when the popularity of the bar's new trivia napkins mushrooms.
Woody gets hooked on a home shopping show, while Norm and Cliff get more than they bargained for when they instigate a fight between Sam and Frasier.
Kelly returns from Europe, avec an amorous Frenchman, while Cliff decides to cheat "il morte" by having his head cryogenically frozen.
Carla refuses to knuckle under to her dictator of a mother's deathbed demand that she name one of her kids Benito Mussolini.
Sam, bedeviled by John Hill, decides to exorcise the demon by dating his daughter; Carla thinks the foosball table is possessed.
Rebecca pops a cork -- several, in fact -- when Robin finally pops the question, while Frasier seems married to the bar's new sing-along machine. Part 1 of two.
Conclusion. Cheers nuptials seldom go off without a hitch, and the wedding of Robin and Rebecca is no exception. Last week, Robin proposed to Rebecca and she confessed to Sam that she was tied in knots over tying the knot. But she doesn't remember any of it the next morning. She's looking for something old, something borrowed and something blue. Carla offers Norm's liver. Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield has a cameo.
It's the worst of times for Rebecca, who's broken up over her breakup, and the best of times for Frasier, who's reading Dickens to the gang.
Sam is where he wants to be on Valentine's Day -- flat on his back -- but it's because he fell down some stairs before his 20th annual tryst with Lauren.
Rebecca isn't shooting from the lip in bidding to buy the bar as she and Sam compete in a kissing- up contest to take over John Hill's lease.
The bar celebrates Frasier's birthday, but the party's over for Norm, who falls off his stool when Vera gets a job upstairs.
Rebecca hopes to earn a few extra beans by serving Woody's chili in the poolroom, but the plan gives Sam indigestion.
Carla has to fill the toughest order of her life -- being nice to Cliff -- when she gets a tip that he's a judge for the Miss Boston Barmaid contest.
Sam's old rival shows up, but Sam balks when he tries to goad him back onto the mound one last time.
Lilith is caught in a maze of grief when her favorite lab rat dies, and Frasier experiments with a way to free her, while Paul is the unlikely cheese to a sexy pursuer.
Sam has an adventure baby-sitting Frederick, and Woody faces Peril when babe-in-the-woods Kelly gets a job at Cheers for a school pRoject.
With Frasier and Sam fighting over emotional custody of Freddie, Sam decides he wants a little Malone of his own, but something's missing -- a mom.