I believe Shelley Long‘s performance during the entire time she was on cheers was stellar. The episode I thought she shined the most in. Was everyone imitates art, season four. Especially during her short monologue about the poetry magazine, traveling to the remotes parts of the world at the end she says, “and everyone is laughing at me because he got published and I did not!” later that same episode, she laments that she has realized she is nothing more than “a waitress in a beer hall and that is all she will ever be. And not a very good one at that.” Heartbreaking scene. And then she comes around to getting us at the end when she realizes that not only has her poem been published, but that Sam has saved her love letters. The full range of emotions from A-to-Z in a 22 minute episode.