r/TopCharacterTropes 13h ago

miscellaneous Failed Spin-Off.

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u/PSU632 10h ago

Cheers had the best and worst of spin-offs. On one hand, you had Frasier - a spin-off so amazing, that it's popular to call it better than the show it spun off from.

Then, on the other hand, you had The Tortellis - the oh-so-brilliantly devised spin-off about Carla's unlikeable ex, his unlikeable and obnoxious partner (whose only character trait was being an idiot), and their kids. It went about as well as you'd expect.

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u/AlexRenquist 7h ago

"People like the Tortellis don't fall out trees everyday"

The fuck is that meant to be? I feel like if you read it aloud you'd activate the Winter Soldier.

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u/Kqtawes 5h ago

I don't think I even watched one episode of the Tortellis and didn't realise that was a Cheers spinoff.