Which is a comment that there will never be another Norm Peterson not just because George Wendt played him so perfectly. More optimistically, there will never be another Norm because the Norms of the past are more likely to be found happily working than escaping it at the bar.

Like Wendt, Norm was a Chicago native. (The character’s name was initially George.) But Wendt was on a CBS show called “Making the Grade,” which, thankfully — given how heavily “Cheers ...