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Screaming Vikings...

Season 6 Episode 1: Home is the Sailor
Airdate:
September 24 1987
Sam comes back after selling his bar to a large corporation. He wants a job as a bartender, but Cheers already has a head bartender, Wayne, who knows how to make every drink in existence.

Sam gets the job, but Woody is the one to get fired, till they bet Wayne that someone orders a drink he doesn't know how to make.

Norm enters Cheers and orders a Screaming Viking, followed by every one else in the bar and even though Wayne knows there is no such drink, he quits.

Cliff also orders a Screaming Viking just before starting in on a little rant...


I think I'll have a screaming Viking, although the name itself is a misnomer since the Vikings were not actually the murderous plunderers...
(Carla: "Would you shut up!")


The truth:

Cliff is correct on this one, the Vikings were explorers and traders, not murderous plunders as they have been portrayed.

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Some brutal facts about Vikings:

  • Some of our days of the week come from Viking gods.
    • Tyr's day (Tuesday) is named for Tyr, the god of war.
    • Woden's day (Wednesday) comes from Woden, the chief god.
    • Thor's day (Thursday) comes from Thor, the god of thunder.
    • Frigga's day (Friday) is named for Odin's wife, Frigga, the "mother goddess".
  • Vikings had the first democratic society in the world.
  • Only one Viking helmet has ever been found, in a Viking grave in south Norway. It did not have horns.
  • Viking were the first to discover America, around 1000 A.D.

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