What if Cheers took place in Fallout 4’s post-apocalyptic Boston?
It’s easy to go where everybody knows your name when most people died 200 years ago.
Fallout 4 has been entertaining local and national audiences alike with its radical reimagining of Boston hundreds of years after nuclear annihilation. The game is particularly entertaining for Boston-area residents, however, thanks to dystopian renderings of Concord, Cambridge, the Boston Public Library, and a fortified Fenway Park that serves as protection for a small group of survivors.
But one of the coolest nods to The Hub has to be this hidden bar set up to look exactly like the bar featured in the 1980s Boston-based sitcom Cheers, complete with the skeletons of Cliff and Norm sitting at the bar, an inseparable pair even after death.
To keep the fun going, nerd culture website Nerdist released a new video imagining what Cheers would look like set in the Fallout 4 universe.
The bar still houses the same old characters — Cliff is still a mailman, Frasier is still snooty, and Carla still brings the sass — but everything else has changed. Poor Woody is slowly turning into a ghoul after wandering into a pool of radiation, and Sam’s attempts to hit on some raider girls turns the bar into a firefight.
Nevertheless, the video is worth checking out if only for the spot-on John Ratzenberger impression.
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Hopefully Nerdist is already hard at work on Frasier: New Vegas.
Photos of Fallout 4’s post-apocalyptic Boston:
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