The producers original concept of the series female lead was that of a high powered corporate businesswoman who's company owned the bar never ever truly came to fruition. In the beginning of the series that approach was dropped when the idea of developing a Tracey/Hepburn love/hate relationship between Sam and Diane was with Sam owning the bar and Diane working in it. Producers thought of that storyline as a better angle for the couple. When Long left the series in 1987 and Kirstie Alley was brought in the producers revisited their original concept with Sam selling the bar and Rebecca's company buying it thus making Sam her subordinate. Producers wrote Alley's character in that vain. However, during season six audience members hated the character and it got to a point where the writers found themselves finding ways to get Rebecca out of a scene as quickly as possible. The writers, however, soon discovered that Alley's character was better suited to be a neurotic emotional mess. That characterization clicked with the audience. The writers established that Rebecca is really on the lowest rung of the corporate world by running Cheers and that eventually her subpar work at the bar leads to her corporation firing her and making Sam the manger of the bar, eventually selling it back to him in season nine. These events make Rebecca even more neurotic which audiences found hysterical. Thus the producers and writers original concept of the show never proved to be the right fit for the series.
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