Greatest TV Hangouts
With How I Met Your Mother premiering this week, I got to thinking about other shows that feature hangouts such as MacLaren’s as a key component. In most shows it’s a bar, but others opt for less booze or more nudity.
Hangout: MacLaren’s
Show: How I Met Your Mother
MacLaren’s is the site of most of Barney’s antics and where the slap bet and “haaave you met Ted?” were started. It’s the type of local bar most people wish they had right down the street.
Hangout: Cheers
Show: Cheers
Rather than being an afterthought whose name only serious viewers would know, this bar nabbed the show’s title, forever cementing it in TV Bar history.
Hangout: The Max
Show: Saved By The Bell
The Max provided so many Saved By The Bell memories, like AC Slater’s reverse-chair-sit and Lisa Turtle’s dance “The Sprain”. I’d forgotten that Max looked like Screech’s dad.
Hangout: Central Perk
Show: Friends
Central Perk was the adult version of The Max and likely took some inspiration from it. You know the story of the hangout that was in nearly every episode.
Hangout: Moe’s
Show: The Simpsons
Moe’s Tavern is the pinnacle of local regular’s-only hole-in-the-wall type bars. It seemed every time Homer went, his degenerate buddies were always there. Also, can’t forget when Bart would have some fun and prank call Moe. Good stuff.
Hangout: The Drunken Clam
Show: Family Guy
Known as “The Clam” to the regulars, it was once taken over by British people, but Peter and friends managed to reclaim it. That neon sign would rank in the top 5 of a Top Neon Signs list.
Hangout: Bada Bing!
Show: The Sopranos
Leave it to a mob boss to have his office at a strip club. Bada Bing was the setting for plenty of intense moments, such as Paulie seeing the Virgin Mary, Silvio getting shot, and Tony showing he’s still got it by beating up his bad ass driver.
Hangout: Enterprise D’s Ten-Forward
Show: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Even traveling through space in search of new worlds and civilizations makes you want to take a break and have a drink once in awhile. Ten-Forward was the place where the crew of the Enterprise would kick back and crack Klingon jokes.
UPDATE: Thanks to the commenters for suggesting a few I missed. Those are below.
Hangout: Monk’s Cafe
Show: Seinfeld
Hangout: Peach Pit
Show: Beverly Hills 90210
Comment below which Hangouts you think should have made the list…
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September 22nd, 2008 at 9:02 am
How about Crowley’s in “My Boys”?
Oh, I mean, uh, I don’t watch “My Boys”. Nevermind.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:54 am
Mother is a great show, can’t wait for it to get going tonight.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:03 am
how about the Officer’s Club or the Swamp on M*A*S*H*?
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September 22nd, 2008 at 10:24 am
How about the Regal Beagle from Three’s Company? Larry picked up so many chicks with feathered hair and bell bottoms there it was not even funny.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:42 am
Garry and Tailgating Dave you’re right, both of those would be a good fit.
I should have put in this list a disclaimer that says it’s written by an 80’s baby.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:45 am
the regal beagle one hundred percent.
the peach pit 90210
the biggest one missing though has got to be monks in seinfeld.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:07 am
I cannot believe you left the Peach Pit (90210) or the Bronze (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) off the list. But happy to see you remembered “The Max.”
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:09 am
The Max totally wins. Jailbait, magic tricks, and hamburgers. How could that be topped?
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:20 am
What about Helen’s lunch counter in Wings? Yeah, yeah, it was IN the airport, but they spent more time sitting there than flying anyway…i thought Antonio was like glued to one of the barstools.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:21 am
Tony S. beat up the driver in the back at Satriale’s, I believe, not the Bing.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:59 am
yea you are right madstork. tony did beat the hell out of the bartender at the bing though and made him quit
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:59 am
Ummmm….Monk’s from Seinfeld? Did everybody really miss this one?
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September 22nd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
You probably missed the biggest one other then Monks & Reagle Beagle. Arthurs from Happy Days!
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September 23rd, 2008 at 3:43 pm
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September 24th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Moe’s?
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October 14th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Thank god you added the peach pit… phew. How you almost forgot 90210 but remembered the Star Trek hangout makes me to re-evaluate our friendship.