Hillary Norman "Norm" Peterson was a character on the American television show Cheers, portrayed by George Wendt. The shield and spear of the Roman God Mars are often used to represent the male sex In heterogamous species, male is the sex of an organism, or of a part of an organism, which typically produces smaller, mobile gametes (spermatozoa) that are able to fertilise female gametes (ova). ... George Wendt George Robert Wendt (born October 17, 1948) is an American actor best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the long-running television show Cheers (1982-1993). ... Cheers was a long-running American situation comedy produced by Charles-Burrows-Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC. Cheers was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. ... George Wendt George Robert Wendt (born October 17, 1948) is an American actor best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the long-running television show Cheers (1982-1993). ...

Norm enters the show as an accountant, though later becomes unemployed and eventually a housepainter. Ironically, even when unemployed, Norm is the bar's biggest customer. Numerous jokes are made about the enormity of Norm's tab at Cheers (e.g., several large binders are shown as being just a portion of it). His entrance into the bar is a running gag on Cheers, typically beginning with a welcome by the bar crowd followed by a joke from Norm. A typical entrance went: This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Norm enters

Norm: Afternoon, everybody!

Customers: Norm!

Coach: How's life treating you Norm?

Norm: Like it caught me in bed with its wife.

Since Norm is always welcomed when he enters, some believe he is the person the lyric "everybody knows your name" from the Cheers theme song refers to. Image File history File links Norm_quote_sound. ...

Norm has a wife named Vera who is often mentioned but almost never seen. When she is finally shown, her face is covered in a thrown pie. The only other time she is seen, viewers can see only her legs. Vera was played by George Wendt's actual wife, Bernadette Birkette. Television shows and stage plays sometimes include continuing characters — characters who are currently in frequent interaction with the other characters and who influence current story events — who are never seen or heard by the audience and only described by other characters. ...

Norm's best friend is postman and fellow barfly Cliff Clavin. A USPS logo A USPS truck in San Francisco A smaller truck (a Long Life Vehicle or LLV) used in suburban areas The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an independent establishment of the executive branch of the United States government (see 39 USC Â§ 201) responsible for providing postal service... Clifford C. Clavin, Jr. ...

The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine character of Morn was inspired by and anagrammatically named after the Norm Peterson character. Morn was also a patron of Quark's, the bar/casino that served as one of the main sets on that show, though he was not nearly as prominent a character on DS9 as Norm was in Cheers, as he was never heard speaking by the home audience, despite being described as loquacious by the show's other characters. Space station Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 or STDS9 or DS9 for short) is a science fiction television series produced by Paramount and set in the Star Trek universe. ... Morn Morn is a fictional character on the science fiction television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine played by Mark Alan Shepherd. ... An anagram (Greek ana- = back or again, and graphein = to write) is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once. ... Quark, son of Keldar and Ishka, is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by Armin Shimerman. ...

References

• List of Norm quotes