Rebecca Howe

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Cheers character
Rebecca Howe in Cheers
Rebecca Howe
Gender	Female
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Blue
Role in Cheers	Manager/Waitress
Portrayed by	Kirstie Alley

Rebecca Howe, a character on the American television show Cheers, was portrayed by Kirstie Alley, introduced after Shelley Long, who played overeducated barmaid Diane Chambers, left to pursue an ill-fated career in movies. Much of the show's humor had been based around the interaction and sexual tension between the womanizing, working-class main character, bartender Sam Malone, and the high-class, snobby Diane. Rebecca was intended to fill the gap as Sam's new female foil.

Rebecca Howe enters Cheers as the manager assigned by the bar's new corporate owner. Rebecca is eager to please her bosses and move up the corporate ladder, although the atmosphere of the Cheers bar is like purgatory to her. She is initially presented as a tough, no-nonsense corporate type, but her façade soon drops, revealing her neurotic and clumsy tendencies.

Rebecca is fired from the Lillian Corporation at the same time Sam gets the bar back from the corporation. Sam keeps Rebecca on staff as a "hired babe," technically as a waitress, though she is practically never seen waiting tables.

Rebecca constantly throws herself at the feet of rich men, first Evan Drake and then Robin Colcord, but eventually dates Sam. In the second-to-last episode, Rebecca meets a plumber, Don. In the show finale, they get married. Later, when Sam visits Frasier in Frasier, he tells him Don left Rebecca after he made a fortune on a plumbing-related invention, and Rebecca was "back at the bar." When Frasier asks if that meant she was waiting tables again, Sam replied, "No, she is just 'back at the bar'."

Cheers characters
Main characters: Woody Boyd | Diane Chambers | Cliff Clavin | Frasier Crane | Rebecca Howe | Sam Malone | "Coach" Pantusso | Norm Peterson | Lilith Sternin | Carla Tortelli Recurring characters: Robin Colcord | Evan Drake | Eddie LeBec | Loretta Tortelli | Nick Tortelli