This Drink got Wayne Fired. | How to Drink

Making your way in today's world takes everything you have. You want to go where people know that the problems are all the same. You want to go where everyone knows your name. The lyrics to that song are really, really weird. I think it's good that it's for a musical applause. , man, not like a sitcom that went on forever Earl, I think nine seasons or something, the applause was on for 11 seasons when I was a kid. IRA was on TV all the time that song, that opening sequence with the wood chopping and the slow pushing. I love it, it's like a great nostalgia for me, it's like a pocket full of Werther originals, it was the original of the cross and I was just a child, something about it takes me back in time, to a simpler time in a place when I was young.

Friend Pepperidge Farm remembers where I looked right away in episode one of season six, which is a crazy episode that reinvents the show for the first five seasons. The character named Diane played by Shelley is always a love interest of sorts for Sam Malone. Sam Malone owns the Cheers bar, he's kind of a disgraced baseball player and now he has

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bar. She is introduced to the series as a college student who is being abandoned by her fiancé, an older professor and love interest, at the bar, what's her name? She has such a ridiculous name like Smollett Washburn the Third or something.

I called Sumner Sloane. Yes, Smollett Washburn the third leaves her at the bar. Well, why don't you use your remarkable powers and enlighten me on what the future holds for me? then takes a job as a waitress, so the first five seasons focus heavily on will they won't they, Sam and Diane make it happen, a little song about Sam, me and two American kids living in the land of Boston, that song is also very depressing, so in the season five finale they are going to get married, they don't get married, why Smollett Washburn, the third, come back and listen, no, Diane, although you are an embryonic, juvenile writer and prepubescent, your unfinished novel is fantastic and they're going to publish it and apparently married women can't write books for something because they end up abandoning their wedding to work on their book for six months or something.

Me or maybe, oh,

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is the '80s, this is before we had paper, yeah. so he had to go to where the stones were to carve her book on them. I don't know, it doesn't make any sense and that's how season six begins. Sam sold the bar to a chain like Fridays or something. He is nowhere to be seen, we find out through an expository dialogue, what happened to the old days, everything was better. Sam Stallone, the kid wasn't going around the world, there was Diane sitting with a book, Norman Cliff, they were permanent fixtures in this place.

God, how did I do it. I miss those greetings, well-known colleagues and then Sam also comes in, he is looking for a job because his yacht sank. I'm sure it was a shame, I think he said it sank. They called the place brainless. Very funny. Without brain. all the people at CBS, people at Paramount, whoever owns the rights to Cheers. I'm extremely excited and very willing and eager to restart Cheers with you, where I put in an illegitimate son of Malone who now runs that beach bar over there. He has come to retire my father, whom I understand. of not wanting anything to do with hanging around my bar, you know, there could be some kind of real arc there about me being this kind of woke young man with a father who wasn't around and, like me, trying to connect with my father, my father yes. this old womanizing idiot because my god, Sam Malone is an idiot anyway, get his job back from him.

As you see? Because the thing is, Cheers has all the waiters they need. They have Woody Harrelson. This guy came in for an audition. They said actually I think you. You came to the wrong place, but what's your name? We'll put you on the show, so everyone likes Woody, everyone hates Wayne, the new bartender, who's like a very serious, no-nonsense guy who brags about knowing every

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known to man, oh yeah. I say a customer will come to this bar tonight and order a

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you've never heard of. No way it ever happened. If he does, will you take a hike?

And if I win and you get a salable Sam, it's a deal. I'm on stage the whole thing where Norm comes in and orders How do I feel today? I'm in the mood to say yes, shout Viking and do it, what's wrong with you? Wayne, you heard the man there's no such thing as drinking, there's been a lot of mornings, I wish to God it wasn't like that. I've never heard of that drink and no one else has. You know, this gentleman invented it. Truly excellent hospitality. Man, excuse me, sir, I can prepare it. Do you want the cucumber to be bruised?

Wayne storms out of the bar never to return Sam gets his job back the hero is saved who only knows what the Screaming Viking is well we know it's a bruised cucumber which is an important component and it's called the Screaming Viking that's it everything we know when I think about the Vikings, I think Denmark and Sweden in Norway, you know, obviously, Scandinavia, you got it, that's where the Vikings came from shouting Viking. I'm going to think about aquavit, so that's what I'm basing it on in our film, it's a traditional liquor from Scandinavia. It tastes like caraway seeds, let's choose that, let's do it.

I think this is a really great drink. I'm really excited to share it with you, so the first thing I want to do is take a cucumber and I'm just going to cut the butt but cut it and I'm going to take, you know, like five or six thin slices of cucumber and the cucumber is really going to have ancestry here we're going to go with a lot of cucumber, put that my glass and now I want to add half an ounce or up to three quarters of an ounce, the choice of the simple syrup distributor, you can use as much as you want here.

I prefer my Vikings to shout a little drier. I go with half an ounce to prepare my cucumber. It sounds like an understatement, hey baby, you really bruised the old cucumber last night, it's not mentioned on the show, but I think a great addition to this drink is a little mint. In fact, I think that's what will make this drink really work. You've seen it on the show. before you see it again this is what i used to keep my mint fresh. I love it. It is available for sale on Amazon. Now act as you wish.

I think there are probably supplies available for that one, but I'm saying this for myself. Act immediately. I'm going to add one, two, three, four, ten, mint, see more, eleven, twelve, thirteen, you know, I think 10 to 15 mint leaves are good. I want to add half an ounce of paper and two ounces of my octave. to eat and then I'm going to mix all that up let's shake this drink in our shaker the ice goes in the shaker make a broken one make a long solid people ask me sometimes how are you so good at breaking that ice well first I have really good ice, my face is super dense and I keep it very very cold, it comes off and immediately cracks so it's very brittle which helps.

The other thing I would say is that I have a lot of ice. Practice at it and you can get good at it too. I'll tell you a little secret about ice. It's basically free. You need a little water and a little cold. You can make it and break it and you can just stand in front of it. sink, make a batch of ice, try it, try it, you'll get better before you pour that and grab my glass now, I'm going to have my koo kumba, it rises good, some thin slices of cucumber that's probably fine and I'm going to use it. six here, get a good sized ice cube, put it in the glass and then I like to place the cucumbers around it for the record, you can serve it unstrained and drink it like that, but there is a little more refined here so I would double strain it , I would lengthen it with a couple ounces of club soda, stir it a little to incorporate it, and finish the garnish with some fresh mint, gently bruise your mint.

Some people like to do this, they use mint. I drink. I'd like to fan it over the top to make sure the oils really express themselves over the top, but we've already mixed the mint and everything in here anyway, a little bouquet, you could drink this with a straw, I think that's better. without oh, it's a delicious drink, it's very spicy, it's vegetal, it's easy to drink, it's not very good, it's a nice long evolution, oh, that's wonderful, let me try this again. I love it, it has a sweet flavor and you get that kind of caraway rye. of the things that are happening, I mean, that's pretty ubiquitous and it's tempered by a little bit of bitterness on top.

There is no citrus in this, which is fine. I think a lime or lemon juice would probably overpower this drink. We make it something different. It wouldn't be bad, it would just be a different drink. You can try it with something like this with half an ounce or an ounce of lemon and lime juice. I don't think I need it. I think this is a delicious drink for lunch in the morning. -after a drink that you can enjoy slowly with your own breakfast at your favorite bar like Cheers, the cucumber is definitely there, you get that cucumber everywhere, that's that vegetal aspect, it's like a garden and glass environment in a very atmosphere It's a very nice shape, it looks beautiful and sophisticated and it's something Diane would enjoy if she weren't in Los Angeles writing a television series.

That's what they do with her character. She becomes a television scriptwriter. It is a wonderful combination of mint, cucumber and caraway. I love this drink. Think it is so. Honestly, I made this up because I needed to because there was a show that said this drink like this would exist, but I'm so glad I did. It came out incredibly great, very, very tasty. like the seltzer, I like it to be a slightly longer drink, but I could definitely see this as more of a cocktail without the seltzer, it kind of takes it from brunch to evening by dropping the seltzer right.

Seltzer brunch not brunch. without seltzer make it a night time drink presented a little differently but this formulation is the same how the drink is filmed in front of a live studio audience and I'm on Twitter and how to drink and I'm on Instagram and how to drink and I'm on patreon at patreon.com bar how to drink thank you all so much for watching. I'll be back on Friday with another episode of the regular show and I'll be back early next week with another episode like this. based on a tv show or a movie yearbook or something like that my catchphrase if it was i had a drink it was a three camera sitcom what would be my catchphrase what would that be that's my dream are you making my mess?

No, I just want to leave you at this. I am available, willing and represented by no one to take the reins of Cheers and guide Cheers into the new millennium. I think it's time for a renewal, we have to act fast because Ted Danson is just getting older and he's going to croak, so if we're going to get him in there we have to move you have to get on with this okay, see you next week in another episode of how to drink you want to go where people don't have the same problems you want to go where everyone knows your name keep going to these parts hoodie likes the apartment in the sky ah you know what we have to do, let's do some episodes of everything in the family