Norm Peterson

So you folks up there in Michigan, look, this is, you know, as a Husker fan as I am, you know, I mean, this is fall.

Normally in fall, we kind of have a little, you know, detente.

You know, you do your thing and we'll point and laugh.

You know, we'll give you an extra second if you need.

And real quickly to wrap up the leprechaun discussion, I think you mentioned in an interview you did in the past that as soon as you become that, you are instantly one of the most popular people on campus and you meet a whole bunch of people.

I know you've had some photos with some fairly famous people, including George Wendt, who played Norm on Cheers.

I believe you had a photo of Spike Lee.

But what was that experience like to, I guess, be able to go up to anyone who attended a Notre Dame football game and say, be somebody they would be happy to interact with

Now, I have this in low point.

They did indeed just let Norm die.

Like, they were standing, his arse was getting sucked out of the space station.

And they're like, oh my god, he's being

When the insides start coming out, I guess, would be the problem.

I

just had Norm

written down.

Broadway debut.

Norm Peterson wasn't there.

Somebody like

that.

Time's up, Grandad.

Hold up, Cliff from Cheers? Norm was in the last one.

Is that the only thing that connects these two films? Tonally, the first film was very uneven, but amusingly so.

This one has a more obvious comedy vibe, but I feel the script needed to be a lot wittier.

He's the electrician slash adventurer.

You know, I think he's in this movie partially because in the first house, if you haven't seen the first house movie, then you might not know.

But The actor that plays Norm, George Wendt, is in the first house movie, and I think they wanted to have another Cheers actor in this movie.

So I think that's why he's here.

And the original air date was Thursday, November 7th, 1991.

It's Norm's birthday, and the guys at Cheers get him a Boston Celtics jacket hand delivered by returning guest star and hall of fame player, Kevin McHale.

While at the bar, Kevin gets pulled into Norm and Cliff's debate about how many bolts are in the parquet floor at Boston Garden.

Despite Carla's attempt to save him, Kevin becomes obsessed with the inane bit of trivia.

He's so consumed by the floor bolts that it's costing him on the court and at home with his wife.

To save Kevin from himself, Sam, Norm, Cliff, and Woody sneak into the Garden at night to count the bolts themselves.

Woody unscrews some bolts to pull up the floorboard to see the ice underneath the floor where the Bruins skate.

But when security forces the guys to run away, Woody doesn't have time to screw the floorboards back into place.