Watch Cheers Season 1 Episode 16: The Boys in the Bar Online

	IMDB Rating: 8.1/10 from 226 votes
	Release: 1983 / Cheers / Season 1 / Episode 16
	Genre: Comedy \| Drama
	Director: James Burrows
	Stars: Ted Danson, Shelley Long, Nicholas Colasanto
	Synopsis: Tom Kenderson, Sam's old roommate from his Red Sox days, has just written his autobiography and is launching the book at Cheers since Sam is mentioned in it. Despite Tom asking Sam to read it before the book launch, Sam fails to do so. As the book is launched in front of a few reporters, Sam wishes that he had read it since Tom used the book as his way of coming out, which shocks Sam if only because Tom was a bigger womanizer than even him back then. Sam wants to be supportive of his old friend, but he is also deathly afraid of being construed as being gay himself. His support for Tom eventually wins out, which angers the regulars of the bar, who are afraid that Cheers will turn into a gay bar. Those regulars' concerns extend to being surrounded by what they assume will be stereotypically effeminate accoutrement around the establishment. They are also certain that they could spot a gay man a mile away, and as such they vow to scare off anyone who fits that mold. Sam has to decide ...